Peter Greenaway - The Early Films of Peter Greenaway Volume 2. (1978 - 1980) (DVD)

Vertical Features Remake (1978), a playful parody of avant-garde theorising, academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best known and recurring fictional character, who is also featured in his new trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003), screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival.



The Falls (1980) is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the VUE, the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying.



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SYSTEM: Pal
SCREEN:1.33:1
COLOUR: Colour / Black & White
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital Stereo
SUBTITLES: None
RUNTIME (TOTAL):224 mins (Vol.2)
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Werner Herzog - Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker AKA Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

A humorous short about paranoid people at a Munich racetrack trying to prevent “fanatics” from assaulting the horses.

Werner Herzog wrote:
For Precautions Against Fanatics I went to the racecourse on the outskirts of Munich because prominent media figures and actors were taking part in an annual race. When I saw them in training I immediately decided I would do a film.





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159MB
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Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, Eugene Green - Jeonju Digital Project 2007 (2007)

Quote:
Respite (39min)
Respite is set in Westerbork, a transit camp for the deportees to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Powerful images are captured after the SS officer Gemmeker ordered production of a film about the camp. An inmate, the German-born Jew Breslauer, filmed scenes of work, leisure and a train leaving for the death camps with a 16mm camera.
Harun Farocki



Quote:
The Rabbit Hunters (22min)
Pedro Costa brings Ventura who is the main character of his previous film, Colossal Youth to this film again and telling about being divested and being alienated of the people who don't have anything. Alfredo is dumped by his wife after losing his job. Ventura is just comforting him with words. Jose is ordered to quit the country. These three men just have a mean reality seeing the high buildings outside and thinking about their happy days.
Pedro Costa




Quote:
Correspondences (39min)
Virgile and Blanche, exchange emails in their rooms. Virgile likes Blanche, but Blanche likes a boy named Eustache. However, they don't know each other. Virgile talks about life and death, and Blanche accepts it. Eustache, wearing a blue hat, first goes to Virgile, and then to Blanche. At that moment, Blanche remembers that she had danced with Virgile, and goes out of her room to meet him.
Eugene Green




Quote:
Every year since the first Jeonju International Film Festival back in 2000, JIFF selects three filmmakers who are given 50 million KRW to create a thirty-minute digital movie. No restrictions are given to the topic or type of film to be made and many of the results have been outstanding. Now, gathered together for the first time, these 27 films from 2000-2008 have been made available in a 915 minutes, 9-disk set.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/61135669/Correspondences.avi
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http://www.filesonic.com/file/61136797/The_Rabbit_Hunters.avi

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Jeonju Digital Project 2004
Jeonju Digital Project 2005

Kenneth Anger - My Surfing Lucifer (2009)

from imdb:
Using found footage, we're introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable's stepson and surfing legend.









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100mb
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René Clair - La tour (1928)

Quote:
This is a documentary about the famous tower which was built for the 1889 World Fair and should have been destroyed afterward but the people in Paris were wise enough to change their minds.it was made between two movies and the music was composed and added in 2003 by Arnaud Gauthier; Generally I do not go much for Clair who is the only famous French director of the thirties I have no interest in. This 14 min short will not make me change my mind.It's all the more pointless since in "Le Mystere De La Tour Eiffel",a contemporary movie, Julien Duvivier had already given exciting shooting of the tower in the last twenty minutes. And at least to these eyes, Duvivier is a much more inventive director than the director of "14 Juillet ".










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138mb
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Bill Melendez - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Synopsis
One of the most endearing of all Peanuts' specials finds Charlie Brown nurturing the thinnest, scraggliest Christmas tree ever. At first the gang makes fun of Charlie for choosing such an ugly tree for the holiday but a timely assist from Linus makes the true message of the season come shining through. Everyone realizes in the end that a little affection can make all the difference in the world... even to a tree.

Review
Charlie Brown discovers the true meaning of Christmas when he buys a forlorn little tree.
Charlie Brown is depressed by the Christmas season because it's so commercial. He cheers up when Lucy asks him to direct the holiday pageant. But the bossy Lucy doesn't allow him to do much directing and sends Charlie off to buy an aluminum Christmas tree. Instead, he's drawn to a sad little fir tree, which everyone mocks. Linus makes a speech about the true meaning of Christmas, and the Peanuts are moved by his words. The gang then transforms the little tree by adding beautiful decorations, and Charlie Brown finally celebrates a merry Christmas.
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS communicates a timeless message brimming with holiday spirit. The first of Charles Schultz's television specials based on his long-running comic strip, this episode set the standard for those that followed. Simple drawings, a gently meandering story, Schultz's beloved characters, and Vince Guaraldi's lively musical score combine to make this something the entire family will want to watch every year. The image of the pathetic but endearing Christmas tree, unable to support even one decoration, cleverly parallels the Charlie Brown character. That sad fir springing to life at the end, as Charlie's melancholy dissipates, resonates with young and old alike.
Filled with humor, A Charlie Brown Christmas, is a wonderful antidote to the holiday blues.







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Larisa Shepitko - Rodina Electrichestva aka The Homeland of Electricity (1967)

Shepitko graduated from VGIK, where she had studied in the workshop of Alexander Dovzhenko (whom she always referred to as her mentor) and Mikhail Romm in 1963. Her diploma work was Znoi / Heat (1963), made for Kirgizfilm from "The Camel's Eye", a story by the Kirgiz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, about a clash of generations in which a middle-aged woman, director of a civil engineering school, yearns for her days as a pilot during World War II and struggles to understand her daughter's generation. Shepitko's next project was the short film Rodina elektrichestva / Homeland of Electricity (1967), from the story by Andrei Platonov about the coming of electricity to a Russian village after the Revolution. Frequently compared to the work of her master Dovzhenko, this film, like Andrei Smirnov's Angel, was shot as part of a portmanteau film, Nachalo nevedomogo veka / The Beginning of an Unknown Century, made to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution. But the films were banned for twenty years, and Rodina elektrichestva surfaced only in 1987, long after Shepitko's death. In Ty i ya / You and I (1971), a brain surgeon suddenly experiences an identity crisis and goes to Siberia to sort out his life. Shepitko's greatest achievement is Voskhozhdenie / The Ascent (1976), taken from Vasil Bykau's story "Sotnikov" and set in German-occupied Belorussia in 1942. This story of the tragic fate of a group of partisans is replete with spiritual strength and religious symbolism. It won the Golden Bear at Berlin in 1977. Shepitko died in a car crash in 1979, after beginning work on a version of Valentin Rasputin's lament for a Siberian village, "Farewell to Matyora". The film was completed by her husband, Elem Klimov, as Proschchanie / Farewell (1983). He also directed a short film made in her memory, Larisa (1980).

For more info on her work check this link.

the new york times wrote:

''Homeland of Electricity,'' also has an inspirational ending that does not much ease a depressing story. Bolshevik headquarters sends a young engineering student to the drought-stricken village of Verchovka for the job of building a generator that can pump water into the parched fields. The peasants, evidently selected for their harshly weathered faces, look on longingly as he goes about his work. They contribute the family samovars and telescopes to the cause, not useful but a sign of comradeship.

The gush of water, when it finally comes, to the accompaniment of clanging church bells, makes a rousing scene. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, the makeshift pump blows up. As everyone is standing around despondently, a voice is heard expressing hope in the future. Could it be the engine driver's daughter?

Despite the simplicity of the story, ''Homeland of Electricity'' keeps fighting against the rules of Socialist Realism. Through Dimitri Korzhikhin's camera, the peasants in a religious procession or in their fields become white-on-white mirages. At times, we seem to be in the middle of somebody's dream. Roman Ledenev's dissonant score battles reality all the way. The director, Larisa Shepitko, may have invented a new film form: Socialist Unrealism.









http://www.filesonic.com/file/50128277/larissa_shepitko_-_rodina_electrichestva_aka_la_patria_dell'elettricita.avi
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/WnW42M9/larissa shepitko - rodina electrichestva aka la patria dell'elettricita.avi
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No English subs. Only Italian hardsubs.
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