Il Presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)

In 1970 the football sports industry was nothing new, but a comedy/comical film about it definitely was. Alberto Sordi plays the part of Benito Fornaciari, a pale, religiously devout Catholic Upper Middle class Italian, who inherits from a long lost uncle a minor league football club, of all things!. He decides to visit the club so as to sell it. But the local population have other ideas, through an almost armed uprising they “force” him not to sell the club, but rather, lead it to other glories on the football field. Gradually his initial reservations about football slowly erode away to be replaced by an almost fanatical devotion to “his” football club, to the point that he abandons his family, friends and home town.

Director: Luigi Filippo D’Amico.

Writers: Sergio Amidei, Alberto Sordi, Adriano Zecca.

Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Accatino, Rino Cavalcanti, Dante Cleri, Teodoro Corrà, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Tina Lattanzi, Margarita Lozano, Carla Mancini, Elena Pedemonte, Omar Sivori, Francesco Sormano, Carlo Taranto, Giuliano Todeschini, Rosita Torosh.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

VIDEO LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://files.fm/f/bffbs7funy

Elizabeth R - 1971 TV Mini series - Episode 3

As England reels after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France,  Elizabeth meets her most eligible suitor yet: François, Duke of Alençon, the younger brother of the French king. A marriage will cement France's sought-for alliance with England. Despite the Puritans' rousing opposition in the country (of which her zealously anti-Catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François. As her duties as queen clash with her feelings as a woman, Elizabeth faces her toughest decision.

The marriage would have cemented an alliance between England and France. However, Elizabeth eventually abandoned the proposal in 1581. 

Elizabeth is charmed by François, but her advisors are cautious and anti-Catholic. 

The Puritans in England are also strongly opposed to the marriage. 

Elizabeth's xenophobic subjects are also discontent with the proposal. 

Elizabeth may have been aware that Anjou was her last realistic chance of marriage and of having an heir. 

Director

Richard Martin

Writer

Julian Mitchell

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines and Michael Williams as Duke of Alençon.

Subtitles: English and Portuguese.

English subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eppVBSQQ#XLX8ufJv0f1ghSKAtz6y4K20G2RLk5elgVV9Wge9XJY

Portuguese subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/ShoAnRzK#NGwOvv-PX2JahEkLGQ9hArdwF0TwiMX2FTq4UQgxcYU

Video link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eoBhWDob#Zar3yx2i6LJxM6A12k5LwKxOERdxxi15NiF7ngE_1xk

Link for costume movie review: https://frockflicks.com/tbt-elizabeth-r-1971/

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 2

At last crowned queen, Elizabeth, 25 yeras old,  finds herself under immense pressure to marry, while her relationship with Robert Dudley prompts widespread scrutiny, threatening a scandal.

Now on the throne. Queen Elizabeth is a young monarch with plenty of suitors.

The King of Spain expresses an interest, but to Elizabeth  his Catholicism and interest in her half sister gets in the way.

Elizabeth is attracted to Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse.

Unfortunately, Dudley is married, his ancestors had a penchant for betrayal and when his wife is suddenly found dead, Dudley is accused.

Director

Herbert Wise

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines

Subs in English and Portuguese for download:

• English: https://mega.nz/file/PkBkhaAa#XQtY6-nKgH39aiijPMfcQGzl-KvhCBYqQnjO3PvuZxs
• Portuguese: https://mega.nz/file/PlIlkSTI#xg5Gc8Hggz7o41iCJe7TW1dHpEs9T1mXA5Js6RfXKcA

Video for download: https://mega.nz/file/e5xDjILD#m5FhrhPy_GWSGqhJK1QFfvAko8NVVWycWBFcOV_HZoU

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 1

 

After the death of her half-brother King Edward VI, the young Princess Elizabeth is dragged into an ongoing battle with her half-sister, the newly crowned Queen Mary.

Jason Kemp later played King Edward VI's uncle Arthur, Prince of Wales in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), which is a prequel to this miniseries.

Bernard Hepton (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer), Rosalie Crutchley (Catherine Parr), Basil Dignam (Bishop Stephen Gardiner) and John Ronane (Thomas Seymour) all reprise their roles from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. The series has been repeated several times, most recently from 15 March 2023, by BBC Four.

Elizabeth R was filmed at a variety of locations including Penshurst Place which doubled as the queen's castle grounds and Chiddingstone in Kent, though all the interiors were recorded at the BBC Television Centre.

The first episode was broadcast on 17 February 1971, beginning on screen with the year 1549 as the setting, with Princess Elizabeth's difficult ascent to the throne of England nine years later. The final episode was shown on 24 March 1971, the 368th anniversary of the Queen's death on March 24, 1603. It was repeated almost immediately in response to audience demand

This is not a YouTube video. Find the link for the 1st episode and two subs (English, Portuguese). Download to watch.

Portuguese subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/7l4WQDTQ#Lu86qUqv8U-YrH9NstNvcNiBqx7GbwgJ8ARByqaHcvk

English subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/ulRBjYwD#8at5IaBqhbfHjB3qcrMnwCzkrNoT3ILEr-VGFr5TYJU

Video: https://mega.nz/file/z94WgK5B#xCy4eLrRB6Em-1tuRXMl4fRtgNkNkl1DGC0eJPaooY0

Tonight or Never - Heute nacht oder nie - (1972)

Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?

Director: Daniel Schmid. 

Stars: Ingrid Caven, Voli Gelier, Peter Chatel, Igor Josza, Peter Kern, Béatrice Stoll, Rosemarie Heinikel, Harry Baer, Viktor Latscha, Irene Olgiatti, Peter-Christian Berner, Anna Fadda, Léonie Küng, Angelika Prosa, Liz Panama, Bohoumil Octabecz, Silvio Pasquarelli, Peter Hartmann.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3454162242214

The Gorgon Case - Sprawa Gorgonowej - (1977)

On December 30, 1931 a 17-year-old daughter of engineer Henryk Zaremba is murdered. Rita Gorgonowa, a housekeeper, nanny of Zaremba\’s children, and his lover is accused of the murder. It was the most sensational murder of those times, followed with interest by the general public in Poland. The film is a reconstruction of the events, in particular of the trial itself. Majewski\’s picture raises the issues related to the functioning of the judiciary system, stressing the fundamental principle of law that in order to sentence an accused person indisputable evidence of guilt is required.

Director: Janusz Majewski. 

Stars: Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski, Andrzej Lapicki, Roman Wilhelmi, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Jan Englert, Wojciech Pszoniak, Stanislaw Zaczyk, Wiktor.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/4602424527526

Jacob, the Liar - Jakob der Lügner - (1975)

Trapped in a Polish Ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still-a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people. 

Director: Frank Beyer. 

Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Dersö Garas, Zsuzsa Gordon, Friedrich Richter, Margit Bara, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 

1975 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.

1977 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/2610668505766

Brainwashed - Schachnovelle - (1960)

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.

Director: Gerd Oswald. AKA Brainwashed

Writers: Stefan Zweig (novel), Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald, Herbert Reinecker.

Stars: Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Albert Bessler, Rudolf Forster, Alan Gifford, Jan Hendriks, Albert Lieven, Harald Maresch, Dietmar Schönherr, Karel Stepanek, Wolfgang Wahl, Hans Söhnker.

1960 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Curd Jurgens is one of my favorite German actors. Here is Werner von Basil. Later he would portrait Werner von Braun.

Another curious thing is that this movie is based on a novel by the celebrated writer Stefan Zweig.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/3800131963558

Bástyasétány hetvennégy - Singing on the Treadmill (1974)

Singing on the Treadmill is a surreal operetta parody about the realities of day-to-day socialism. The film is set in a vast garbage dump where, in the depths of a quarry, next to a derelict factory building, two librettists are penning a frothy operetta about the paternalism of Kadarism, its lies, reality perceived through rose tinted glasses and squabbles over a housing allocation. However, their lacquered players are not prepared to bend to their will, they take offence and start demanding independence, rejecting ‘orders from above’ about partners and housing. Gyula Gazdag’s grotesque parody that works on several levels is amusing and dream-like, full of free-flowing associations and remarkable solutions. Citing its “disheartening existentialism”, the authorities banned the film for 10 years.

Director: Gyula Gazdag.

Writers: Gyula Gazdag, Miklós Györffy.

Stars: Evald Schorm, István Iglódi, Lili Monori, Róbert Koltai, Judit Pogány, Sándor Halmágyi, Mari Kiss, Zoltán Papp, Eszter Csákányi, László Helyey, Hédi Temessy, Lajos Öze, Hanna Honthy.

A movie from Hungary

Movie Link with English Subs: https://ok.ru/video/3837588605606

Marcel Proust's Time Regained - Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre - (1999)

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

Stars

Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, Chiara Mastroianni and John Malkovich as Le Baron de Charlus.

Subs: English, Portuguese

LINK : https://youtu.be/FXx04uFCEts

Tokyo Heaven - Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase- (1990)

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Director

Shinji Sômai

Writer

Yuhei Enoki

Stars

Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shôfukutei

Subs: English.

LINK: https://youtu.be/_xOiKs116bM