Loving cult film and idiosyncratic musical portrait of summer festivities in the Catalan village of Crespià, with early performances by the well-known faces from the work of Serra.

Crespia,The Film Not The Village - 2003 -Albert Serra - DVDrip Eng subt.avi

General
Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 20mn
Size:	701 MiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	528x304
Aspect ratio:	1.737
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 089 Kbps
Audio
2.0ch MP3 @ 111 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/546A9773AF69BB7/Crespia,The_Film_Not_The_Village_-_2003_-Albert_Serra_-__DVDrip_Eng_subt.avi

Language(s):Catalan
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Albert Serra – Crespià, the Film not the Village (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Matt Zoller Seitz (The New York Times) wrote:
Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. The “Don Quixote” adaptation “Quxiotic/Honor de Cavalleria” is composed of little else.

In adapting Miguel de Cervantes’s novel about the senile would-be knight, Don Quixote (Lluís Carbó), and his sidekick, Sancho Panza (Lluís Serrat), the film’s writer and director, Albert Serra, favors landscape imagery and natural sounds over dialogue and music.

Quixote meanders in fields of tall grass, inspects trees, ignores flies crawling on his armor or stares off into the distance while Sancho sits patiently, awaiting orders. This film’s opening section observes Quixote waiting for Sancho to fix a piece of his armor, then asking Sancho to make him a laurel wreath.

This film is a virtual definition of the phrase “acquired taste.” But if you invest yourself in Mr. Serra’s vision, the film’s emotional payoffs are devastating. They include a moment in which Quixote advises Sancho to renew his strength through prayer, a scene in which the two stare up at the sky accompanied by a rare burst of mournful acoustic guitar music, and Quixote’s near-final summation of his beliefs, which could double as Mr. Serra’s artistic philosophy: “Chivalry is the reasoning of action.”

1.84GB | 1h 47mn | 1016×572 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/C57DDB171E89AAB/Honor_de_cavalleria_-_Albert_Serra_%282006%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/1FE202C78244DE1/Honor_de_cavalleria_-_Albert_Serra_%282006%29.part2.rar

Language(s):Catalan
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French

The post Albert Serra – Honor de cavalleria aka Honour of the knights (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Filmmaker Albert Serra specifically conceived the series The Names of Christ (2010) for the exhibition Are You Ready for TV? It consists of 14 episodes, with a total duration of 193 minutes, and is based on the book The Names of Christ (1572-1586), by Friar Luis de León. Serra constructs a narrative based on a free, poetic structure, which ironically deconstructs the conventions and grammars of the film, art and television worlds.

Catalonian Albert Serra’s career has been a curious one. He studied literature, but ended up becoming a film director – reluctantly, he once said, as he considers literature a higher form of art. This may explain why his films Honour of the Knights and Birdsong (IFFR 2009) were based on the literary classic Don Quichotte and the biblical story of the Three Wise Men respectively, but rendered in an unconventional manner. Serra pays more attention to cinematic atmosphere than to plot, thereby underlining the problems facing film adaptations of books.
In this sense, this experimental 14-part series sums up his entire oeuvre. The Names of Christ deals with the challenges of the translation process, from literature to film and from film to museum and from museum to television. The majority of the series, shot in Serra’s unfettered, slow style and over three hours in length, has been incorporated into the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art’s collection.

2.84GB | 3h 13mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/982C418A51ED6B6/The_Names_of_Christ.mkv

Language:Catalan
Subtitles:Spanish (or catalan),English

The post Albert Serra – Els noms de Crist AKA The Names of Christ (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

246MB | 18 min 11 s | 1280×720 | mkv
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Albert Serra – Cuba Libre (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The original dvdr announce wrote:
This filmic exchange is based on two works that reflect on the way each director films, on the crew and the actors, on the way they see and make cinema. Albert Serra took the characters of Honor de Cavalleria and his regular team of collaborators to follow in the steps of Quixote. Lisandro Alonso returned to La Pampa province to film his work, for which he recalls Misael Saavedra, the lead of his first film, La Libertad.

Quote:
As part of a project for the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Albert Serra and Lisandro Alonso agree to exchange filmed letters where both engage with characters and conceits from their previous works. Serra revisits Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (LFF 2006), moving the cast and crew of the original film to the arid landscape of La Mancha, the original setting for Don Quixote’s adventures and misadventures. Between takes, Serra’s cast and crew watch, bicker, argue, eat and wait for Albert. There are echoes of Truffaut’s Day for Night in the appealing simplicity of Serra’s approach. The Lord Worked Wonders in Me, however, is more than just a film about filmmaking. Lyrical absurdism, an uncompromising cinematic vision and the attention to composition evidenced in his earlier features all combine to provide a commentary on 21st-century quest with earlier antecedents.

2.31GiB | 2h 26min | 720×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/193B3A952940518/El_Senyor_ha_fet_en_mi_meravelles.mkv

Language(s):Catalan
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish

The post Albert Serra – El Senyor ha fet en mi meravelles AKA The Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.