Synopsis from Cinémathèque québécoise:
À Tokyo, Paulo Rocha rencontre Shohei Imamura qu’il considère comme ” la parfaite illustration de l’espoir et du désespoir des anarchistes “. Rocha observe et écoute attentivement Imamura, s’intéressant particulièrement au regard qu’il porte sur ses oeuvres de jeunesse. Que ce soit à travers une conversation avec l’acteur Kazuo Kitamura, ou une rencontre avec une coiffeuse, Imamura se révèle comme le véritable artisan de la contre-histoire du Japon.

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https://nitro.download/view/14FE92645B702B1/Cinema,_De_Notre_Temps_-_Shohei_Imamura,_Le_Libre_Penseur_(Paulo_Rocha,1995).avi
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https://nitro.download/view/9403790F60C1140/Cinema,_De_Notre_Temps_-_Shohei_Imamura,_Le_Libre_Penseur_(Paulo_Rocha,1995).sub

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Spanish (idx+sub)

The post Paulo Rocha – Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura, Le libre penseur (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.

A.Raiz.do.Coracao.2000.TVRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 53mn
Size: 	1.59 GiB
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Resolution: 	720x408 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/4CBEDDC1E12DC9E/A.Raiz.do.Coracao.2000.TVRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/61387FD07827E2D/A.Raiz.do.Coracao.2000.TVRip.x264-MaZ.srt

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Paulo Rocha – A Raiz do Coração AKA The Heart’s Root (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A documentary about Wenceslau de Morais, in Japan. A Portuguese writer from the beginning of the 20th century.

Sr. Portugal em Tokushima 1993.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 10 min
Size: 	832 MiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	720x576 
Aspect ratio:  	5:4
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#1:  	Serbian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 160 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/EE323299B91061B/Sr._Portugal_em_Tokushima_1993.mkv

Language(s):Portugal, Japanesse
Subtitles:None

The post Paulo Rocha – Portugaru San – O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director’s world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.

Vanity.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	1.23 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x576 ~> 1024x576
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.151
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#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/17B6EBD55795DAE/Vanity.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Paulo Rocha – Vanitas AKA Vanity (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A film by Paulo Rocha about Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

“I tried to film that period of his paintings in a different style, as if the camera was a brush in Amadeo’s hand with his colors and shapes”, Paulo Rocha

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does a surprising “collage” about the Portuguese modernism, centered in Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Between the reproduction of the Orpheu years and the Futuristic Manifest, the installation of a exhibition in Gulbenkian and a juggling onirism, Paulo Rocha offers one of the most singular and fascinating visions of that world of colors and metals, so longing as anarchist, so soaring as insecure.

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 3 min
Size: 	2.36 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 031 kb/s
BPP: 	0.101
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/31CF36FE378595E/Mascara.de.Aco.Contra.Abismo.Azul.1989.1080p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6B829B9EFAA5C97/Mascara.de.Aco.Contra.Abismo.Azul.1989.1080p.ENG_02_.srt

Language(s):Portuguese, French
Subtitles:English, Hardcoded portuguese for french parts

The post Paulo Rocha – Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
This film, made as a “twin” of “A Ilha dos Amores”, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes’ time are set side by side with “A Ilha dos Amores” and with de Moraes’ writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.

A.Ilha.de.Moraes.1984.WEB-DL.1080p.x264.AAC.2.0-CRVLX.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	4.35 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 760 kb/s
BPP: 	0.116
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#1:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch AAC LC @ 317 kb/s (AAC Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/7D58181BF01867E/A.Ilha.de.Moraes.1984.WEB-DL.1080p.x264.AAC.2.0-CRVLX.mkv

Language(s):Japanese and Portuguese
Subtitles:English, Portuguese and Spanish (remuxed)

The post Paulo Rocha – A Ilha de Moraes AKA Moraes’ Island (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat operator Antonio. Not long after their union, she becomes intensely jealous of Antonio’s fondness for their winsome goddaughter, Joana, and insinuates herself into a relationship brewing between Joana and a mystical gypsy gold salesman. Soon, tempers are flaring, mystical secrets are being revealed and death is hovering over the central characters.

O.Rio.do.Ouro.1998.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC.2.0-CRVLX.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
Size: 	4.31 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1998x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 772 kb/s
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#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 317 kb/s (AAC Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/87DE6193362C1DF/O.Rio.do.Ouro.1998.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC.2.0-CRVLX.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English and Spanish (remuxed)

The post Paulo Rocha – O Rio do Ouro AKA River of Gold (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.