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Alan Bridges – Brief Encounter (1974)

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On one of their usual weekly commutes into the city, two perfect strangers–Dr Alec Harvey, an esteemed suburban doctor, and Anna Jesson, a middle-class housewife–will inadvertently find love, when a bit of dirt enters Anna’s eye and the good doctor comes to her rescue. Despite both being married to others, this fleeting but powerful interaction will prepare the ground for an unforeseen erotic but unconsummated love affair, as one clandestine rendezvous leads to another. Where is this intense emotional infidelity heading?

Brief.Encounter.1974.576p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
Size: 	1.42 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 800 kb/s
BPP: 	0.170
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 160 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/EF3FAD55335AE46/Brief.Encounter.1974.576p.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Tony Richardson – Look Back in Anger (1959)

admin — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:01:00 +0000

Jimmy Porter, a disillusioned, angry university graduate has a wife from an upper-middle class background, Alison, and runs a sweet stall. He mistreats Alison and she leaves. Jimmy will have to come to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values…

Look.Back.in.Anger.1959.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC.1.0-dps.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	2.37 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	960x576 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 279 kb/s
BPP: 	0.247
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#1:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 135 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6FFB243FB83CC76/Look.Back.in.Anger.1959.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC.1.0-dps.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English (SDH)

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George Schaefer – The Tempest (1960)

admin — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 22:25:00 +0000

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Prospero, the deposed King of Milan who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.

The.Tempest.1960.DVDRip.x264-RB2K.mkv
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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	1.26 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	674x562 ~> 718x562
Aspect ratio:  	1.279
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 882 kb/s
BPP: 	0.199
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8FA790ABFDA5B58/The.Tempest.1960.DVDRip.x264-RB2K.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/7C23666AC5745C6/The.Tempest.1960.DVDRip.x264-RB2K.env2.srt

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Jirí Trnka – Sen noci svatojánské AKA Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959)

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The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.

A.Midsummer.Nights.Dream.1959.480p.DVD.x264.AC3-Llama.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 15 min
Size: 	1.10 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x334 ~> 849x334
Aspect ratio:  	2.542
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 702 kb/s
BPP: 	0.297
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3D330BBACED5E1A/A.Midsummer.Nights.Dream.1959.480p.DVD.x264.AC3-Llama.mkv

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English, Japanese

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Tony Palmer – Wagner (1983)

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Wagner is a giant, unwieldy beast. Eight hours devoted to the German composer, from the age of 35 to his death. Its sheer length allows the screen to play house to his politics, his person and his loves all within the frame of his music. Yet is enacts a precarious balance between the epic and the personal, between reverence and irreverence and between high art and high camp. Indeed, at its centre is not Wagner, nor Richard Burton who portrays the composer, but director Tony Palmer who grapples with the material throughout, sometimes succeeding and sometimes falling flat on his face.

Palmer’s best known works prior to making in Wagner in 1983 were two music related pieces from the late sixties and early seventies. The first was All My Loving, an Omnibus documentary on the then current rock ‘n’ roll scene complete with interviews from the likes of Pete Townshend and Pink Floyd. The second was a co-directed effort entitled 200 Motels, the co-director being one Frank Zappa, also the subject of this video-shot psychedelic “recreation” of life on the road. Both are idiosyncratic delights, the former a genuine classic, the latter only deserving the cult equivalent of that title. Yet whilst neither seemingly has a great connection with Wagner – certainly not thematically – it is possible to detect identical directorial impulses in all three works. Indeed, given the composer subject and general irreverence, it’s hard not to detect an element of Ken Russell in this television work (Russell likewise being the strongest factor in all of his films, no matter who the subject), though in many ways Wagner seems odder if a little less bold.

Consider the casting, for example: on the one hand we have such British greats as Burton, Laurence Oliver and John Gielgud, yet on the other there’s Ronald Pickup, Arthur Lowe and, bizarrely, Liza Goddard. It’s a pattern repeated throughout, veering wildly from one end of the spectrum to other. One scene plays as comedy, the next as drama. Another is heavily stylised (sometimes embarrassingly so), and then followed by one shot in straightest of manners. The are obvious references to Hitler and then the wonderful subtlety of the soundtrack recording courtesy of the great conductor Sir Georg Solti. Indeed, the both the film and screenplay play like a first cut and first draft respectively, complete with longuers and non sequitors and as such it’s near impossible to get a complete handle on it.

So is it any good? Of this I’m not entirely certain. The PR which accompanied this review disc proclaims various snippets of hyperbole from 1983, yet there are many who hate it. It’s a work that left me both stunned and befuddled in equal measure, but never bored. Everything about it is so variable (except for the music and Vittorio Storaro’s photography) that little truly impresses save for the brief, fleeting moments and the occasional cameo (Gabriel Byrne, here making his debut, deserves a mention). Yet for all its messiness, it is a quite remarkable cumulative achievement, whilst the flaws only make me want to go back and give it another consideration. I may grow to utterly dislike it, but then I may also absolutely love it, either way it’s a fascinating eight hours.

4.08GB | 7h 50m | 544×400 | avi

Language:English
Subtitles:English for hard-of-hearing, .sub format

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Joseph Losey – Boom! (1968)

admin — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:25:00 +0000

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Movie version of playwright Tennessee Williams’ “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” involves very wealthy Flora “Sissy” Goforth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), supposedly dying, and living in a large mansion on a secluded island with her servants and nurses. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, a.k.a. “Angelo Del Morte” (Richard) and The Witch of Capri (Noël Coward). The mysterious man may or may not be “The Angel of Death”.

1.75GB | 1h 52m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8A284E58E844CFD/Joseph_Losey_-_(1968)_Boom!.mkv

Language(s):English,Italian
Subtitles:English

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Michael Tuchner – Villain (1971)

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“Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped, afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic, who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe, plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmailing of Members of Parliament with a taste for unorthodox sex. Scotland Yard Police Inspector Matthews, playing Javert to Vic’s Jean Valjean, is moving in on him and the gang. Gang-member Frank is hospitalized for an ulcer, and Inspector Matthews might be able to make him sing. Will Frank spill the beans to the coppers before Vic can silence him?” – Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb)

1.83GB | 1h 37m | 1024×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5DFB4EB0ECC49B1/Michael_Tuchner_-_(1971)_Villain.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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