An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman, voiced by Edward Norton, and Elia Kazan, voiced by John Turturro.

High.Noon.on.the.Waterfront.2022.1080p.HULU.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-PLiSSKEN.mkv

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Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Gene for this copy

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Primo Levi’s modern day odyssey from the concentration camp to his home in Italy. The Truce is a film about homecoming.

The horror and the suffering of the concentration camps has been well documented. What interested the director, Francesco Rosi, was to bring to the screen what Levi succeeded in doing so extraordinarily well in his book: recounting, through the tales of his remarkable adventures, the process of reawakening, of coming back to life, and of the re-acquisition of hope, through the experience of daily events, small and large, natural and joyous, the cumulative effect of which is to constantly affirm the superiority of love over death.

I would like to believe in something,
something beyond the death that undid you.
I would like to describe the intensity
with which, already overwhelmed,
we longed in those days to be able
to walk together again
free beneath the sun.
[Primo Levi, 9 January 1946]

The.Truce.1997.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Set in 1958. On an NBC game show, “Twenty-One”, a working-class Jewish student remains king of the show for weeks. The show’s producers decide to create a new champion by feeding a new contestant, middle-class Charles Van Doren, with the right answers. He becomes a symbol of intellect to students and the nation. Based on a real life incident.

Robert Redford - (1994) Quiz Show.mkv

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From The New york Times
Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through “Fear X” like a toxic mist. The movie’s ominous mood is deepened by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm’s ambient background score, which haunts the movie with faraway groans and rattles.

If “Fear X,” the American filmmaking debut of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, promises far more drama than it finally delivers, its glumness never abates. Whether contemplating the shabby cottages in a snow-swept Wisconsin suburb or scanning the flatlands of Montana, the camera, which stealthily follows the protagonist’s suspicious eyes wherever he looks, imagines danger crouching in every shadow.

That protagonist, Harry Cain (John Turturro), works as a security guard at a Wisconsin shopping mall. Not long before the story begins, Harry’s wife, Claire (Jacqueline Ramel), was mysteriously shot to death at the mall, along with a police officer. The double murder remains unsolved and its details cloudy. Racking his mind for reasons Claire might have been killed, Harry obsessively tries to piece together whatever clues he can scrounge from the mall’s surveillance videotapes. Blurry still photographs from those tapes along with news clippings of the killings fill up a wall of his living room.

Harry entertains fleeting hallucinations of Claire’s presence in the house and he has a recurrent memory (fantasy) of her walking up the driveway of the bungalow across the street. His intuition drives him to sneak into the deserted cottage, where he discovers some scraps of film on a bedroom floor. The house, he learns, has been rented by a local real estate agency to an unidentified corporate client.

When the photos are developed they show a snapshot of a mother and child in front of a restaurant in Montana. After making some phone calls, Harry determines its exact location and drives there to investigate. Breakfasting at a diner, he shows the photo around and learns that the woman, Kate (Deborah Kara Unger), is the wife of a local policeman, Peter Northrup (James Remar). The news of Harry’s appearance in town sets off alarms in the inner circle of its police department, which is about to cite Peter for distinguished service.

At various times, “Fear X” suggests a metaphysical mystery like “Blow-Up,” a vigilante portrait like “Taxi Driver” and a study of an obsessed loner like “One Hour Photo,” but it is really none of the above. The elliptical screenplay written by the director with Hubert Selby Jr. (the author of “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and “Requiem for a Dream”), who died last April, is an essay in minimalist gloom colored with paranoia, conspiracy and guilt.

In conversation, the unsmiling characters express themselves in the fewest words possible, their exchanges punctuated by awkward silences. The verbal sparseness contributes to the air of enveloping desolation. “Fear X” evokes an unsparing view of people as isolated, frightened, potentially violent creatures, whirling unsteadily in their solitary orbits.

The doubts and suspicions they refuse to put into words register on their faces like storm clouds, and the stony Mountain State machismo of the Montana police quickly comes to feel like a boot pressed against your throat. Peter’s agitation at Harry’s appearance in town and his refusal to tell his wife what’s happening leads Kate to assume infidelity. It all builds to an enigmatic confrontation between Harry and Peter that answers some questions but raises many others.

For Mr. Turturro, “Fear X” is an impressive exercise in restraint. The hot-wired volatility for which he is famous remains bottled up in a performance that goes out of its way to avoid grandstanding. The only moment he springs into action comes early in the film when, still at the mall, he spots an elderly shoplifter stealing a sweater and confronts the thief and his embarrassed wife. Otherwise, there are no tears, no explosions, no indications of dementia, just the sullen downcast expression and the twitch of a sunken lower lip to indicate a soul shut down in grief and despair.

Fear X - 2003 - Nicolas Winding Refn_576p.mkv

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From IMDb:
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac’s death, and Ginsberg’s politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage’s music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats’ meaning and impact.

810MB | 1h 28m | 712×437 | mkv

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From IMDB:
A highly styled ‘genre’ film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart.

It’s Prohibition era 1930s as gang wars tear apart the city of gang lord Leo and his lieutenant Tom Regan. Tom is upset when Leo declines underling Johnny Caspar’s request to kill the crooked Bernie. Despite Tom’s objections, Leo thinks he made the right decision because Bernie is Verna’s brother and Verna is Leo’s girl. Unfortunately, Caspar seems to be growing in power and just when Leo needs Tom’s help most Tom admits he’s been fooling around with Verna. Tom is thrown out of Leo’s mob and with nothing else to do he decides to join Caspar. But Tom is also talking to Bernie and Verna, and Caspar’s ruthless henchman Eddie Dane starts to get suspicious. His suspicions rise when Tom is ordered to kill Bernie himself, but no one knows whether or not Tom carried out the order. Leaving Caspar searching for his desired power, Dane searching for answers, Verna searching for her brother and Tom searching for his own heart… if he has one anymore.

Tom Regan is an advisor to Leo, a crime boss in an unnamed Prohibition-era town. When Leo and rival boss Johnny Caspar feud over a bookie who’s been cheating Caspar, Tom tries to keep the peace. Instead he finds himself caught in the middle of a war of ambushes and shifting allegiances where nothing is ever quite what it seems.

5.51GB | 1h 54mn | 1280×692 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B1B07360A750460/Millers.Crossing.1990.BluRay.720p.DTS.X264.-CHD.mkv

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Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

3.74GB | 1h 47mn | 1280×692 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/FF94F497D1847A5/Mia.madre.2015.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-HDS.mkv

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http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6257671/mia-madre-en

Language(s):Italian, English
Subtitles:English

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