Synopsis:
Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias “Scorpio”, a gifted free-lance operative. One day, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross — and leaves him no choice but to obey. Scorpio is cold-blooded and very systematic; however, as a veteran agent, Cross knows many tricks. He can also rely upon a network of unusual personal contacts, some dating back to the troubled years preceding WWII. A lethal game of hide-and-seek is programmed, but what are the true motives of every single player?

Scorpio.1973.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 54mn
Size: 	3.14 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x554 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 638 Kbps
BPP: 	0.267
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AAC @ 192 Kbps
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC @ 93.4 Kbps (Commentary by Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman)

https://nitro.download/view/9B50C20B29BAFA7/Scorpio.1973.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language:English+commentary
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Michael Winner – Scorpio (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face to the world. Her husband, Tobias, is both retired and retiring, a man who cannot quite face up to life. Living with the couple is Agnes’ sister, Claire, an alcoholic who sees through and scoffs at the insincerity and pretensions around her. Clare’s outrageous comments are meant as much to reflect her own bitterness as to shake Tobias out of his mute acceptance of Agnes’ dominance. They are soon joined by Harry and Edna, a married couple who are Agnes and Tobias’ best friends and Agnes and Tobias’ spoiled 36-year old daughter, Julia, who returns home from her fourth broken marriage.

2.92GB | 2 h 13 min | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5B1BE7E4DFE1BB4/Tony_Richardson_-_(1973)_A_Delicate_Balance.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Tony Richardson – A Delicate Balance (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The story takes place in sixteenth century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of the English Chancellor’s life, the struggle between More and King Henry VIII hinges on Henry’s determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More’s inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as Chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.

2.35GB | 2 h 0 min | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/45907C4E356B094/A.Man.for.All.Seasons.1966.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:None

The post Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.

NY Times wrote:
The city of London is not a hospitable-looking place in Patrick Keiller’s exceedingly arch cinematic meditation on England’s largest city. Filmed during Prime Minister John Major’s 1992 re-election campaign, “London” examines a metropolis whose stately old architecture is increasingly dwarfed by hideous post-modern skyscrapers and mocked by garish billboards.

A gray pall of air pollution hangs over the Thames. Members of the English royal family, shown discharging their ceremonial duties, look like wind-up dolls surrounded by toy soldiers. And terrorist bombings by the I.R.A. inflict staggering property losses in the heart of the city. Because the film has no live soundtrack apart from the narration and some faraway sound effects, it has the feel of an examination conducted through thick one-way glass.

Although “London,” which opened today at the Film Forum, has the appearance of a documentary, this eccentric movie is really a sly combination of fact and fantasy. Paul Scofield, who narrates, plays a man who has returned to London after a seven-year absence and tours the city with his former lover, an unseen, unheard character named Robinson. His narration is largely an account of Robinson’s observations on the decline of the city, as the two of them visit historical sites associated with famous authors and painters.

The tours they undertake are part of a vague research project whose purpose is never stated. The first of three trips takes them from Strawberry Hill to Twickenham (where Horace Walpole wrote “The Castle of Otranto”) to Vauxhall (the area associated with Sherlock Holmes). The second expedition begins at a house once occupied by a woman who rejected Guillaume Apollinaire’s offer of marriage and ends at a school where Edgar Allan Poe was once a pupil. The final jaunt, in the city’s outer suburbs, follows the River Brent.

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Along the way there is a lot of prattle about the French poets Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud’s impressions of London. The narration is heavily seasoned with lofty quotations on the character of the city and on urban life in general. One of the most resonant comes from the 19th-century Russian socialist Aleksandr Herzen, who observed: “There is no town in the world which is more adapted for training one away from people and training one into solitude than London.”

Although the film makes a token attempt to celebrate the vitality of neighorhoods where immigration has created a multi-ethnic swirl, it is at heart an extended cranky complaint against modernism and the decline of civility. The unrelieved hauteur of Mr. Scofield’s character eventually becomes tedious, and “London” takes on the tone of a dry, circuitously worded editorial.

“Can’t Go Wrong Without You,” the three-minute music video by the Brothers Quay that opens the program, is a typically eerie visual nightmare by the experimental film makers. In this black and white film for the underground rock band His Name Is Alive, a stuffed rabbit battles devilish forces for the possession of an elusive Easter egg.

1.82GB | 1 h 25 min | 810×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/835D39CE4996B4A/London.1994.576p.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/EF8ABCA258463A8/London.1994.576p.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Patrick Keiller – London (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

2.32GB | 2h 13mn | 953×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D7BD870C273C7B8/The_Train_1964_576p_BluRay_DD1.0_x264-EA.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/G3mjoQMdrA/The_Train_1964_576p_BluRay_DD1.0_x264-EA.mkv.html

Language:English, German
Subtitles:English

The post John Frankenheimer & Arthur Penn – The Train (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis (possible spoilers):
‘Adapted from Herman Melville’s short story, Bartleby features John McEnery in the title role. A secretive, solitary lad, Bartleby works as a clerk in the accounting office of Paul Scofield. Unable to deal with Bartleby’s eccentricities, Scofield fires the clerk. But Bartleby refuses to leave, and shows up each day for work at the proper time. Only when the young man is carted away to hospital does Scofield find any peace of mind-but even then, the spectre of Bartleby looms large over the proceedings. Some find this British adaptation of the Melville original exasperatingly slow and mannered, but given the curious nature of the protagonist, how could the story have been told otherwise?’
– Hal Erickson (allmovie)

https://nitro.download/view/E2308135CF7D5DB/Bartleby.1970.DVDRip.XviD.AC3-WEIMAR.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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