Alain Resnais° wrote:
It remains, I think, the single overwhelming experience I’ve ever had in a cinema. When I first came out of the theater, I remember I just had to sit on the edge of the pavement. I sat there for about five minutes and then I walked the streets of Paris for a couple of hours. For me, every thing had been turned upside down. All my ideas about the cinema had been changed. While I was actually watching the film, my impressions were so strong physically that I thought that if this or that sequence would to go for one more shot, I would either burst into tears or scream or something. Since then, of course, I’ve seen it at least fifteen times like most filmmakers of my generation. I even recorded the whole soundtrack on my tape recorder and it’s amazing how well it stands up well on its own.

	
La regle du jeu - Jean Renoir (1939) [BFI 4K 576p].mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 47 min
Size: 	3.20 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	788x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 750 kb/s
BPP: 	0.344
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch FLAC @ 217 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch FLAC @ 286 kb/s (Commentary by film writers David Jenkins and Trevor Johnston)

https://nitro.download/view/64D2EDB452FB75F/La_regle_du_jeu_-_Jean_Renoir_(1939)__BFI_4K_576p_.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Renoir – La règle du jeu aka The Rules of the Game (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Based on Herman Bang’s 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer’s film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a “decadent” elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or “intimate theatre”, foreshadows Dreyer’s magnificent final film Gertrud, by forty years with its “Now I may die content, for I have seen great love” epigraph.

Michael was scripted by Dreyer with Fritz Lang’s wife, Thea von Harbou (Metropolis, M, etc). It stars the director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan); Walter Slezak (Hitchcock’s Lifeboat); Nora Gregor (Renoir’s The Rules of the Game); Mady Christians (Ophüls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman); and Karl Freund (who also shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed most of Michael too, but left to work on Murnau’s The Last Laugh, and Rudolph Maté (The Passion of Joan of Arc) took over.

Extras (in English):
Audio commentary as a secondary audio track
Audio interview with Carl Dreyer
David Cairns’ Video Essay

1.93GB | 1h 34m | 766×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/535B6A8F2C6EB12/Michael.(Carl.Theodor.Dreyer.1924).BDRip.576p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/323A7F06D115278/Audio_Interview_with_Carl_Dreyer.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/9ACB7539088F04C/David_Cairns_Video_Essay.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/qIs9U1IXmr/Michael.(Carl.Theodor.Dreyer.1924).BDRip.576p.mkv
https://fikper.com/6aQCh8zaV3/Audio_Interview_with_Carl_Dreyer.mkv
https://fikper.com/mbFB4zZBLR/David_Cairns_Video_Essay.mkv

Language(s):German intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Carl Theodor Dreyer – Mikaël (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.