A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

2.18GB | 2h 10mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4185200BBD081BF/Faces.1968.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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In a small town, Roy Seeley and his girlfriend Mandy Pullman are camping by the lake. Out of the blue, they are attacked and Roy is murdered while Mandy is violently raped. Dr. Sam Cordell is impressed with the violence and realizes that Mandy has had the uterus ruptured. Then the librarian Carolyn Davies is also violently raped and murdered. Lieutenant Drivas believes that the women have been raped by a gang while Sam and Sheriff Hank Walden believe that only one man did. The snoopy reporter Laura Kincaid is always interfering with the investigation and Sam has a love affair with her. Meanwhile the young Tim Galen, who dates Sam’s daughter Jenny Cordell, discloses that he has premonitory visions of the deaths, but his grandmother Agatha Galen tries to convince him that he has nothing to do with the murders. But when Jenny learns about his dreams, she summons her father, Laura and they discover a supernatural secret about the Galen’s family.

3.32GB | 1h 32mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/293C0399EC6FF3D/John_Hough_-_(1982)_The_Incubus.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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The killing of a Chinese Bookie was released in 1976 after what Cassavetes
described as a very rushed editing period. The film was a commercial failure
and was pulled from the theaters after seven days. Two years later after the
completion of Opening Night, Cassavets re-edited the film-cutting nearly
thirty minutes-and re-released it in the version presented here.

True to Cassavetes’ form, the 108-minute version is not just a simple edit of the 135-minute version. The order of several scenes has been changed, there are different edits of a few scenes, and there are a few segments unique to the 108-minute version. The bulk of the cutting in the 1978 version removed many of the nightclub routines that were in the 1976 version.

2.86GB | 1h 48m | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D277DDD0ED079EA/The.Killing.of.a.Chinese.Bookie.1976.(1978.cut).576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English HOH

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A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is a love story of a troubled marriage between a working class man, Nick (played movingly by Peter Falk), and his wife Mabel (played with brilliant attention to emotional nuance by Gena Rowlands). Mabel appears to be experiencing a breakdown, though there is not much difference between her normal and abnormal behaviour. The film explores the impact of her fragility, neediness, and shifts of feeling on Nick, their three children, relatives, and friends.

3.79GB | 2h 27mn | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9114C260876D829/A_Woman_Under_the_Influence__(1974)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English

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Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Clark’s stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

2.53GB | 1 h 44 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D48AEB8B5917EBE/A_Child_Is_Waiting_(1963)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/80e5228e25c54ee0b0725b73d8e1358d/A_Child_Is_Waiting_(1963)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:None

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In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail.

9.67GB | 1 h 46 min | 1920×1036 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/74B6A0F7BF307E6/Mikey.and.Nicky.1976.1080p.BluRay.x264.DTS-FGT.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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This is a raw-footage version of a group interview for some unspecified TV station at a restaurant from 1978 with Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassell and Paul Stewart on the occasion of Opening Night being released. It starts out with some general career-spanning questions to Cassavetes and then eventually gets into Opening Night with Cassavetes exhorting people to go see it in his own inimitable way. Mostly we hear from Cassavetes, Rowlands, Gazzara and Paul Stewart, with just a few reactions from Seymour Cassell who is sitting by listening and smoking.

The audio is a bit ‘hot’ which is how it is on the copy-of-a-copy VHS I was privileged enough to get my hands on. It also notably has a ‘watermark’ text of “MacDonald CASSAVETES” across the screen, presumably this tape was the property at one point of a Mr. Macdonald. However, you can still make out most of the important facial features and expressions on the speakers. Around the 30 minute mark there’s a brief section where it seems they rolled film but no audio, so you just see Cassavetes talking without hearing him for about 20 seconds. It also ends by cutting out in the middle of an anecdote by Mr. Stewart about being directed by Cassavetes on A Child is Waiting, as it appears the film reel runs out and does not resume (presumably the press or whoever originally shot this felt they ‘had enough’ and didn’t need all of Mr. Stewart’s story). I am making it available simply out of a desire for the history of Cassavetes the man and the artist to come out in his own mostly unmediated (except by him!) words. In the face of so much smoke being blown his way, I think its important to see the man in all his unedited glory, warts and all. This interview I think shows much of what he was capable of – generosity, anger, insight, competitiveness, sweetness, combativeness, showmanship, maturity, and immaturity. Its simply a fascinating historical document for anyone interested in his work.

https://nitro.download/view/6428975FF603E3E/Cassavetes_Gazzara_Rowlands_1978_Interview.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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