An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre.

Swan.Song.1992.Opus.2.0.H.264.mkv

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English 2.0ch Opus

https://nitro.download/view/5C8E3FB846BFBB6/Swan.Song.1992.Opus.2.0.H.264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Italian [Hardcoded]

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Harold Pinter’s 1975 play, adapted for television by Granada in 1978.

A legendary pairing for John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, No Man’s Land is Pinter at his most ethereal and individual. Pinter’s obsession with memory making victims of us all is the starting point for this tale of Hirst, a wealthy writer haunted by his past, and Spooner, the man without a past who tries to rescue him. Spooner’s personality is built on a bundle of self-inventions that are likely to topple at any moment. It is a play of despair, of emptiness, vague in its diction and purveying an air of loneliness and waste. As a hypnotic treatise on the pipe dream of a past made good, it is a spellbinding, haunting cautionary tale.

No Man's Land (Peter Hall & Julian Amyes 1978).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/6FA723743DE20FE/No_Man’s_Land_(Peter_Hall_&_Julian_Amyes_1978).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgment and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.

The.Charge.of.the.Light.Brigade.1968.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/5FD6F5BCF026E28/The.Charge.of.the.Light.Brigade.1968.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv https://nitro.download/view/4A5EA4EE4162EDA/The.Charge.of.the.Light.Brigade.1968.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.srt

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.

This film is based on a novel by Agatha Christie.

Seven Dials Mystery (1981).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/341B2DC1C4A702D/Seven_Dials_Mystery_(1981).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Polish, Czech

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The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical book by Albert Speer. Played herein by Rutger Hauer, Speer is a young man of privilege in pre-Hitler Germany who happens to be a brilliant architect. Becoming a member of Hitler’s inner circle, Speer is appointed the Nazi regime’s master builder. According to this film, Speer is egomaniacal and ambitious, but somewhat blinded to the inherent evils of Nazism. Though he’d later claim to be ignorant of Hitler’s horrific policies aimed at the Jews, he was certainly aware of the use of Jewish prisoners as slave labor: as Germany’s armaments minister during World War II, Speer exploited these enslaved unfortunates as much as anyone, if not more so. The cast includes Derek Jacobi as Hitler, Blythe Danner as Speer’s wife Margarethe, John Gielgud as Speer’s father, Ian Holm as Goebbels, Maurice Roeves as Hess, and George Murcell as Goering. Originally running 5 hours, Inside the Third Reich was filmed in Munich; it was first telecast on May 9 and 10, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

	
Inside the Third Reich Part 1.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/560EEB27C53FC24/Inside_the_Third_Reich_Part_1.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5F45191E48C091E/Inside_the_Third_Reich_Part_2.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Peter Greenaway’s “Prospero’s Books” is not a movie in the sense that we usually employ the word. It’s an experiment in form and content. It is likely to bore most audiences, but will enchant others — especially those able to free themselves from the notion that movies must tell stories. This film should be approached like a record album or an art book. Each “page” is there to be studied in its complexity and richness, while on the soundtrack we hear one of the great voices in theater history, John Gielgud’s.

Greenaway begins with a crucial piece of information from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, that final and most symmetrically perfect of the playwright’s works. Prospero, once duke of Milan, has been tossed by a storm onto a lost island, along with his daughter, Miranda, various crew members and such resident sprites and monsters as Ariel and Caliban. But he has managed to save his books from the tempest – books he prizes more than his dukedom – and Greenaway wonders about that water-soaked library. What books did he have, and how did he use them?

The books, their typography, calligraphy and illustrations, are photographed in voluptuous detail. As Gielgud takes center screen in a narrative adapted from Shakespeare, Greenaway overlays those basic images of Prospero with a series of transparencies. Pages of books appear over the central image or slide in from the sides, sometimes two or three deep, pausing for our consideration, and then vanishing to be replaced by still other images and words. The effect is something like those high school biology texts in which succeeding sheets of transparent plastic revealed the depths of the human body, one layer after another.

The human images in the film center around the idea of nudity. Here, as in such earlier films as “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover,” the form and fleshiness of the nude is Greenaway’s visual obsession. There are, at various times, dozens or even hundreds of unclothed bodies on the screen, seen by the director in terms of Renaissance painting, and by the philistines at the Motion Picture Association of America as, needless to say, cause for an R rating. Gielgud presides over all of these images — printed and fleshy — as a sorcerer who alone understands their master purpose.

This is not the film to see if you want to witness a performance of The Tempest. It is,however, a fascinating film if you are interested in the play, in Shakespeare or in the breathtaking era when manuscripts and the printed word began to pull Europe out of the Dark Ages and into what we congratulate ourselves is a more enlightened time. “Prospero’s Books” would be an ideal film to watch on laserdisc, where with a hand-held remote you could freeze any frame and study its subtleties. It is also a wonderful film to listen to; Gielgud does a great many of the speaking roles, and, at 86, seems in full and sonorous command of his vocal instrument.

“Prospero’s Books” really exists outside criticism. All I can do is describe it. Most of the reviews of this film have missed the point; this is not a narrative, it need not make sense, and it is not “too difficult” because it could not have been any less so. It is simply a work of original art, which Greenaway asks us to accept or reject on his own terms.

2.67GB | 2h 06m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1D6299DD6CC9C95/Peter_Greenaway_-_(1991)_Prospero’s_Books.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Brutus is convinced by a scheming band of Roman senators, led by Caius Cassius, that his dear friend Julius Caesar intends to dissolve the republic and install himself as monarch, and he joins a conspiracy to assassinate him. Brutus stirringly defends his actions, but when Mark Antony responds with a speech that plays upon the crowd’s love for their fallen leader, a battle between the two factions is assured.

3.17GB | 2h 01m | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/68639F4D7C0F80E/Julius_Caesar_(1953)_–_Joseph_L._Mankiewicz.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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