To the priest in a small Italian town, the Splendor cinema (now sold for redevelopment) is a ‘dark grotto of sin’; to owner Jordan (Mastroianni), it’s a shrine. But writer/director Scola is more concerned with the grey areas between such views: the patrons who desert cinema in droves when TV offers cheap, undemanding entertainment. Using flashback and clips, he conveys something of the medium’s superiority over the box, at the same time beautifully unravelling a tale of life-long devotion and hard graft from Jordan, his long-term lover/usherette (Vlady), and the projectionist (Troisi). Their temperamental relationships over two decades are conveyed with great affection by the accomplished cast; and the film is full of wonderful moments – such as the homage to Capra at the climax – which manage to be both magical and unsentimental.

Splendor.1989.1080p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
Size: 	7.95 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1792x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	8 788 kb/s
BPP: 	0.189
Audio
#1:  	Italian 2.0ch DTS @ 1 509 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C834F9861A3CDF6/Splendor.1989.1080p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) has worked hard all his life to achieve a certain standing and success as a lawyer in Rome. He is pleased to be able to offer the fruits of his success to his son Michele (Massimo Troisi), and is perplexed and distressed that his unambitious son has no interest in any of these things. Michele is serving a term in the Italian military in the port town of Civitavecchia, and Marcello is visiting him there. Here he meets Michele’s salty girlfriend Loredana (Anne Parillaud). The father and son share some meals and explore their differences.

2.27GB | 1h 37m | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D96CCD3C7EBF87A/What_Time_is_it_(1989)_–_Ettore_Scola.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/da4dfaf310d96/What_Time_is_it_%281989%29_–_Ettore_Scola.mp4

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

The post Ettore Scola – Che ora è? aka What Time is it? (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Set in the year 1950, Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. His wife accompanies him. On the island, a local, Mario Ruoppolo, is dissatisfied with being a fisherman, like his father. Mario looks for other work and is hired as a temporary postman, with Neruda as his only customer. He uses his bicycle to hand deliver Neruda’s mail. Though poorly educated, the postman eventually befriends Neruda and becomes further influenced by Neruda’s political views and poetry.

Meanwhile, Mario falls in love with a beautiful young lady, Beatrice Russo, who works in her aunt’s village cafe. He is shy with her, but he enlists Neruda’s help. Mario constantly asks Neruda if particular metaphors that he uses are suitable for his poems. Mario is able to better communicate with Beatrice and express his love through poetry. Despite the aunt’s strong disapproval of Mario, because of his sensual poetry (which turns out to be largely stolen from Neruda), Beatrice responds favourably.

The two are married. The priest refuses to allow Mario to have Neruda as his best man because of politics; however, this is soon resolved. This was because Di Cosimo was the politician in office in the area with the Christian Democrats. At the wedding, Neruda receives the welcome news that there is no longer a Chilean warrant for his arrest so he returns to Chile.

Mario writes a letter but never gets any reply. Several months later, he receives a letter from Neruda. However, to his dismay, it is actually from his secretary, asking Mario to send Neruda’s old belongings back to Chile. While there Mario comes upon an old phonograph and listens to the song he first heard when he met Neruda. Moved, he makes recordings of all the beautiful sounds on the island onto a cassette including the heartbeat of his soon-to-be-born child.

Five years later, Neruda finds Beatrice and her son, Pablito (named in honour of Neruda) in the same old inn. From her, he discovers that Mario had been killed before their son was born. Mario had been scheduled to recite a poem he had composed at a large communist gathering in Naples; the demonstration was violently broken up by the police. She gives Neruda recordings of village sounds that Mario had made for him. The film ends with Neruda walking in the beach he used to talk with Mario, showing at the same time the communist gathering in which Mario was killed.

2.96GB | 1 h 54 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/66ADA045C006804/Il.Postino.1994.BDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/FFF1C256527E280/Il.Postino.1994.BDRip.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/58992B69185C307/Il.Postino.1994.BDRip.x264.part3.rar

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Michael Radford & Massimo Troisi – Il postino AKA The Postman (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity’s mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda’s help and guidance more than ever.

Extras included:
1. English commentary by the Director.
2. Poetry, Passion, The Postman – The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda (with hardcoded English subs for the Italian parts).
3. Soundtrack Featurette.
1.80GB | 1h 48mn | 960×576 | mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/1BC55A1978B7E5B/Il_Postino_%281994%29_–_Michael_Radford.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/74B3410624D98ED/Il_Postino_%281994%29_–_Michael_Radford.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/B801D6EBE0CFF68/Il_Postino_%281994%29_–_Michael_Radford.part3.rar

Language(s):Italian, Spanish
Subtitles:English (muxed,srt)

The post Michael Radford – Il Postino [+Extras] (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.