Sunday, December 31, 2023

Dreams (1990) - Akira Kurosawa & Ishirô Honda

This is essentially eight separate short films, though with some overlaps in terms of characters and thematic material - chiefly that of man's relationship with his environment. 'Sunshine Through The Rain': a young boy is told not to go out on the day when both weather conditions occur, because that's when the foxes hold their wedding procession, which could have fatal consequences for those who witness it. 'The Peach Orchard': the same young boy encounters the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by heartless humans. 'The Blizzard': a team of mountaineers are saved from a blizzard by spiritual intervention. 'The Tunnel': a man encounters the ghosts of an army platoon, whose deaths he was responsible for. 'Crows': an art student encounters 'Vincent Van Gogh' and enters the world of his paintings. 'Mount Fuji in Red': nuclear meltdown threatens the devastation of Japan. 'The Weeping Demon': a portrait of a post-nuclear world populated by human mutations. 'Village of the Watermills': a sunny portrait of a village whose population is entirely at one with nature.


Directors

Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda

Writers

Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda

Stars

Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi


Subs: English, Portuguese

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/RITrxTsBpcQ

Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

Friday, December 29, 2023

Goin' Down The Road (1970)

Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. Their previous life is looking better all the time. This movie is a time capsule of Toronto's Yonge Street - record stores (defunct A&A's), bars, and old neighbourhood side streets.


Director

Donald Shebib


Stars

Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood


Subs:: English, Spanish


Video Link: https://youtu.be/P67jcU2X96M

Guns At Batasi (1964)

Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British commonwealth. Ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate N.C.O.s, he must play host to a liberal women M.P. making a tour of the base. However, after an ambitious African officer, who happens to be a protégé of the M.P., initiates a coup d'état against Captain Abraham (Earl Cameron), the lawful African commandant, the resourceful Sergeant Major uses all of his military training to save his men from a certain firing squad.


Director

John Guillermin


Stars

Richard Attenborough. Jack Hawkins. Flora Robson. Mia Farrow.


Subs: English, Portuguese


Link:  https://youtu.be/TQkzfeT2c4E


Eden and After (L'Eden et après) - 1970

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.


Directed & Written by 

Alain Robbe-Grillet


Stars

Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc


Subs: English.


Movie link on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DjgdLV8FzME

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Demons - Shura - (1971)

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Directed by

Toshio Matsumoto

Stars

Katsuo Nakamura, Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo

Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/z35Pacdqo80


AFTER SOME DAYS OFF, I AM BACK. THE YOUTUBE LINK GOES TO MY NEW CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE (AS MY TWO OTHERS ARE TEMPORARILY FROZEN BY ME, AFTER THE STRIKES EXPIRE).  THE NEW CHANNEL IS REVISTA CINETV ROSEBUD. THE FILM IS NOT PUBLIC, ONLY THROUGH THE LINK ABOVE.

ANY COMMENTS, PLEASE DO SO TO VALDEMIR.FERNANDES@GMAIL.COM

Sunday, December 17, 2023

REVISTA CINETV - TROY VIDEOS - WILL BE FROZEN TEMPORARILY

Hi, people!

My channel on Youtube, REVISTA CINETV TROY VIDEOS, by which you are watching rhe most recent movies will be frozen temporarily by me because I have 2 strikes from the Big Dictator and I don´t want to lose all the movies and videos just because of three strikes.

I will be opening another channels to add the next movies. Maybe three or four new channels on YouTube, just to be the storage of the videos. They will be on UNLISTED mode, perhaps a way to hide from the Youtube killing robot.

The blog here will be the channel of communication.

I hope you are able to make some money contributions to the blog and channels.

My e-mail address is the same: valdemir.fernandes@gmail.com


Saturday, December 16, 2023

ENJOY THE MOVIES AS SOON AS YOU CAN - Veja os filmes antes que sumam

Youtube is a great platform for sharing videos and movies. Unfortunately there is no competitior who could challenge them.

YoiuTube is fine but it is also a great dictator, when stalking your channel, removindo movies and giving strikes.

I took so long to build an alternative channel for movies and series/miniseries, always with the permission of the copyright holder, but YouTube does respect rules and does not respect what they state,

Example: a movie that I post and YT states that the film is copyrighted, mas the copyright owner allows that his content be on the platform. It is good for him for reaping some money with the ads. So the thing is good for everybody involved.

However, after some time and mostly when the video has a lot of views, YT removes the video according to a claim from the copyright owner. With the removal, my channel receives a strike. After 3 strikes, my channel is killed instantaneously, with no mercy and no time to save all the other films in the channel.

I don´t dispute that the video can be removed by the copyright owner, but the strike is undue and unfair.

I try to discuss this with YT but it is no use. I believe they put a robot to answer and say that I don´t have the copyright.

If YT ends up deleting my channel I will continue with the blog and opening a new channel on YT just to save the file and put it on UNLISTED.  The films posted on the blog will have the linbks broken if YT removes the channel. 

Continue to visit my blog WWW.REVISTACINETV.COM.BR and make contributions to help this humble streamer.


 O YOUTUBE, é uma ótima plataforma para compartilhar vídeos e filmes.

Mas é um grande ditador quando ele persegue seu canal, removendo filmes e dando strikes no seu canl. 

A gente demora bastante tempo construindo um canal alternativo de filmes e de algumas séries/minisséries com a devida anuência do detentor dos direitos, mas o YouTube não respeita regras e não respeito o que ele mesmo afirma.

Exemplo: um filme que posto e o YouTube informa que o filme tem Copyright, mas o detentor dos direitos permite que o conteúdo esteja no YouTube, onde ele irá ganhar alguma receita com anúncios.

Mas depois de  pouco e geralmente quando o filme tem muitas visualizações, o YouTube remove o filme (segundo diz ser a pedido do detentor) e lhe dá um strike. Com 3 strikes, você perde todo o seu conteúdo publicado, que demorou tanto para se construído.

Não disputo que o filme possa ser removido, pois o detentor pensou melhor e quer o filme retirada da plataforma, mas o Stike não é devido.

Você tenta argumentar isso com o YouTube, mas eles dizem que eu não tenho o copyright e ponto final.

Se por acaso o YouTube acabar eliminando meu humilde canal, ainda vamos continuar com o blog. Mas ois links dos filmes já publicados por mim na plataforma e também colocados no blog estarão quebrados.

Continue a prestigiar e contribuir para o blog WWW.REVISTACINETV.COM.BR

Thursday, December 14, 2023

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)

A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.


Director

Abel Ferrara


Stars

Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco.


Subs: English, Portuguese, Spanish.


MOVIE LINK:  https://youtu.be/CUM6tGx2hnQ


Movie copyright-blocked in several countries, including US and UK, but not in Brazil.

Monday, December 11, 2023

Je t'aime, Je t'aime (1968)

After a failed suicide, a young man (Claude Ridder, played by Claude Rich) is recruited as a volunteer in a time travel experiment that appears to leave him temporally disconnected and re-experiencing moments from his past. While clearly a 'science fiction' movie (the actual time machine is an odd organic tent-like structure with a form fitting couch from which the subject disappears and reappears), the time travel element serves only as a biographical framing device as Ridder flicks back and forth in his personal history and the story of his troubled love for depressed Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot) and the events leading to her death and his subsequent suicide attempt unwind in an non-linear, and sometimes repetitive, fashion.


Director

Alain Resnais


Stars

Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac


MOVIE LINK: https://youtu.be/zBomnCPijUE


Subs: English, Portuguese, Spanish.

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Il Postino - The Postman - (1994)

Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.

Directors

Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi


Stars

Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta


Music by Luis Bacalov


Subs: English, Portuguese


MOVIE LINK: https://youtu.be/AaP7BWChZGQ


Copyright owner is blocking in Italy

Saturday, December 9, 2023

The Fugitive (1947)

Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. A priest who is The Fugitive is trying to getaway from the authorities who have denounced Christianity and want anyone linked to it dead. The Fugitive finds shelter with an Indian Woman (The Woman), a faithful parishioner, who gives the priest directions to Puerto Grande, where he could then board a ship and sail to freedom in America. On his journey to Puerto Grande, he meets up with a man who says he will protect him. In reality, he is the Police Informer and once The Fugitive realizes this, he is back on the run, but the Police Informer is never far behind along with the authorities.

Director

John Ford

Stars

Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio,  Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, Leo Carrillo and Mel Ferrer (his first film).

Subs: English, Portuguese.


YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/G7dDO4gE85Y

 

Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

Friday, December 8, 2023

Mr Vampire - Geung see sin sang - (1985)

The planned reburial of a town elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, targeting everyone responsible for digging the grave. A Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.

Director

Ricky Lau

Stars

Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-Ho Chin, Ricky Hui


Subs: English, Portuguese


YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/RkXtdNLKKzw


Copyright-protected content. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Danny Deckchair (2003)

"Danny Deckchair" tells of the adventures of a young concrete truck driver who decides to tie a bunch of helium filled balloons to his deck chair to soar aloft. His plan is to take shears with him to cut away one balloon at a time thereby making his descent. Instead, he leaves the shears behind and the balloons carry him to a new life and a new love. 

Inspired by the antics of "Lawnchair" Larry Walters who flew over San Pedro, California in a lawn chair rigged with 42 weather balloons on July 2, 1982.

Director

Jeff Balsmeyer

Stars

Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke

Subs: English, Portuguese.

MOVIE LINK: https://youtu.be/YN7c4vDvRtA

Movie copyrighted blocked in several countriies including Brazil, but not the U.S.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Letters from Marusia - Actas de Marusia (1975)

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

This is only film who shows how terrible was life during "The saltpetre age" (1880-1929) for working class in Chile. All the attempts to create worker unions were crushed by violence. Maybe the script show too bad the baddies and too good the good guys, but all these terrible carnages actually took place in some mines. Recommended for those who want to learn about a dark side of our History.

Director

Miguel Littin

Stars

Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón

English Subtittles

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2666854025894

The Scopone Game ( Lo scopone scientifico) - 1972

Bette Davis plays a wealthy American with an addiction to card playing and to winning. She has become an expert on the local card games of different countries around the world where she owns houses. Bound to a wheelchair, the card games are her only close connection with the world of the living. In Rome, the card game is called "scopone" and she summons a married couple to be her adversaries. 

The couple, a magnificent Alberto Sordi and an unrecognizable Silvana Mangano, are the poorest of the poor, with a family of five children.

Director

Luigi Comencini

Producer

Dino de Laurentiis

Music 

Piero Piccioni

Stars

Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Domenico Modugno.

Alberto Sordi refused to communicate with Bette Davis in English on the set and made her very angry. Of her co-star she said, "My name for Albert Sordi was Albert Sordid. It was unforgivable of him to refuse to speak English with me, especially as he spoke very good English."

Bette Davis was in the middle of a three-week vacation at the health spa La Costa in Carlsbad, California when she received the script. On twenty-four-hour notice she flew to Rome for filming. It wasn't until the first day of shooting she learned the dialogue was to be recorded in Italian.

The card game in the film is called Scopa. Scopa is an Italian noun meaning "broom" since taking a scopa means "to sweep" all the cards from the table. Scopa is an Italian card game and one of the two major national card games in Italy. It is also popular in Brazil, brought in by Italian immigrants, mostly in the Scopa di Quindici variation. Scopa is also played in countries like Libya and Somalia. It is played with a standard Italian 40-card deck, mostly between two players or four in two partnerships, but it can also be played by 3, 5, or 6 players.

English Subtitles.


MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2607482473126

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The Rocket - Maurice Richard - (2005)

A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

Director

Charles Binamé

Stars

Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton

Subtitles: English.

YOUTUBE LIINK:  https://youtu.be/Brnm9IvhUpI

Copyright

Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

Monday, December 4, 2023

Niet Schieten (2018)

In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.

The film is based on the book 'Don't shoot, that is my dad' ("Niet schieten, dat is mijn papa") by David van de Steen, one of the wounded survivors of the assault on the Delhaize department store in Aalst (Belgium), November 9, 1985, which is depicted in the film. The title of the book was what his sister cried during the assault.


Director

Stijn Coninx

Stars

Jan Decleir, Viviane de Muynck, Mo Bakker

Subtittles: English


YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/iry-noI3fRI


Blocked in some territories

Copyright owner is blocking in these territories

Afghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Heard & McDonald Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Barthélemy, St. Helena, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Pierre & Miquelon, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, U.S. Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Georgia (1995)

The toughest act to follow was their dreams.". Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.

Directed by: Ulu Grosbard

Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh - Mare Winningham - Ted Levine - Max Perlich - John Doe

Subs: English.

LINK: https://youtu.be/FzkyWxReN8A

Copyright owner is blocking in these territories

American Samoa, Canada, Guam, Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States

Thursday, November 30, 2023

In Search of A Midnight Kiss (2007)

Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.

Director & Writer

Alex Holdridge

Stars

Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuir.

Subs: English, Portuguese

LINK: https://youtu.be/y0t8nCJoZDk

Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Forsyte Saga - BBC TV Series - 1967 - The First 10 Episodes.

The Forsyte Saga' was a landmark in the history of television, not just in the UK, but globally. It was apparently the first miniseries to be produced anywhere. It was produced in part to start up the BBC's highbrow BBC2 channel. It was the BBC's most ambitious and expensive series up to that time. It was also the BBC's last major production in black and white, although plenty of color publicity stills were shot for it and BBC2 was intended to inaugurate color television in Britain. The series was originally aired in early 1967 on BBC2, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of author John Galsworthy's birth. It was so popular that it was quickly repeated on the more popular BBC1 channel. The series' popularity was phenomenal. The entire country seemed to rearrange its collective schedule around the show and the streets were empty when it was on.

The Forsyte Saga' had a profound influence on the careers of its cast. It greatly boosted the fortunes of Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, and Margaret Tyzack, made Susan Hampshire the uncrowned queen of BBC2, and gave Michael York and Martin Jarvis their big breaks. The series gave Kenneth More his best role during the long and inexplicable twilight of his career. On the other hand, June Barry, Dalia Penn, and Nicholas Pennell all had prominent parts in the series, but were little seen in subsequent years.

Watch this original b/w 1967 British version of The Forsyte Saga instead of the 2002 mini-series. You cannot compare the two; the modern version has terrible casting, lacks charm, and has a terrible script. The actors in that version try but do not reflect the authenticity of the characters in this Galsworthy classic. A total of 26 episodes that will be posted here on this blog with the links to YouTube, with English subtitles available.

I will post the fist ten episodes now and the others to follow.

The links are below:

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/r4tBC1CTXvw

Episode 2: https://youtu.be/JwrjA68FG4s

Episode 3: https://youtu.be/jQvm92BtoCs

Episode 4: https://youtu.be/-NzsZFwwASo

Episode 5: https://youtu.be/uE2iqXVtoUU

Epsiode 6: https://youtu.be/4Yu-QjFwPdw

Episode 7: https://youtu.be/IE2zbOI6Axs

Episode 8: https://youtu.be/CNqwHV-MbLU

Episode 9: https://youtu.be/T6jAYro4_ww

Episode 10: https://youtu.be/T6jAYro4_ww


Série épica que narra a saga de uma família de classe média inglesa ao longo de três gerações, sendo carregada de suspense, drama e paixão. Baseada na obra do Nobel da literatura, John Galsworthy.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Resurrection (1980)

A woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives - and finds herself possessing strange powers.

(Uma mulher entra no pós vida brevemente apósm um desastre de carro que mata seu marido. Mas ela sobrevive e se vê com poderes estranhos.)

Director
Daniel Petrie

Writer
Lewis John Carlino

Stars
Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth

Music by Maurice Jarre

Subs: English 

(Legendas apenas em Inglês disponíveis)

MOVIE LINK: https://youtu.be/coJPeOxztTc

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The Last Adventure - Les aventuriers - (Roberto Enrico, 1967)

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot. Going with them is Laetitia, an artistic young woman who treats them like brothers, plays along with their schemes, makes sculptures of found objects, and dreams of buying an old fort at the mouth of the Charente. The Congo tip turns out to be a double cross, and the adventurers must pick up the pieces. A trip to Fort Boyard completes the circle


Direção

Robert Enrico

Stars

Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus

Subs: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Video link:  https://youtu.be/XEKMBwi3qZY


Music by François de Roubaix


Copyright owner is blocking in these territories

France, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, St. Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna

Monday, September 25, 2023

Executive Action (1973) with Burt Lancaster & Robert Ryan

A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned and plotted the assassination based on the data and facts of the case. It posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra-conservative politicians, unscrupulously greedy business interests, and free-lance assassins become increasingly alarmed at President Kennedy's policies, including his views on race relations, winding down the Vietnam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. They decide to terminate him through an "executive action" utilizing three teams of well-trained snipers during JFK's visit to Dallas and place the blame on supposed CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin.

Director

David Miller

Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo

Produced by Edward Lewis

Stars

Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer

Music by Randy Edelman


Video link: https://youtu.be/C5UwQ6356cA


Subtitles - English

Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

This film brings together John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk as actors on one screen.


Director & Writer

John Cassavetes

Stars

Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk John Cassavetes

Subtitles: English

Video Link:  https://youtu.be/-zsn83weo64

David McCallum Dies: Beloved ‘NCIS’ Actor Was 90

NCIS veteran David McCallum passed away peacefully this morning, Sept. 25, of natural causes at New York Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by family. He was 90, having celebrated his birthday less than a week ago.

A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast members on CBS’ NCIS, in which he played Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard, an eccentric but highly efficient investigator with a knack for psychological profiling, for two decades.

“For over twenty years, David McCallum endeared himself to audiences around the world playing the wise, quirky, and sometimes enigmatic, Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard,” said NCIS executive producers Steven D. Binder and David North. “But as much as his fans may have loved him, those who worked side by side with David loved him that much more. He was a scholar and a gentleman, always gracious, a consummate professional, and never one to pass up a joke. From day one, it was an honor to work with him and he never let us down. He was, quite simply, a legend. He was also family and will be deeply missed.”

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of David McCallum and privileged that CBS was his home for so many years,” the network and NCIS studio CBS Studios said in a joint statement. “David was a gifted actor and author, and beloved by many around the world. He led an incredible life, and his legacy will forever live on through his family and the countless hours on film and television that will never go away. We will miss his warmth and endearing sense of humor that lit up any room or soundstage he stepped onto, as well as the brilliant stories he often shared from a life well-lived. Our hearts go out to his wife Katherine and his entire family, and all those who knew and loved David.”

Born in Glasgow, Scotland on Sept. 19, 1933 in a prominent musical family, McCallum studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Following a well received performance from Shakespeare’s King John at a local theater group, he switched his focus to acting while keeping music as a secondary interest. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined Actors’ Equity in 1946 where he began working on BBC Radio and made his debut in a 1946 production of Whom the Gods Love, Die Young. That was followed by several years in repertory theater. His many theater productions include Amadeus, Communicating Doors, The Hunting of the Snark, Comedians, The Lion in Winter and Julius Caesar.

After moving to America in 1961, McCallum was cast in the role of Illya Kuryakin in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Initially a minor character with two lines. But that was enough for producers to see that McCallum and star Robert Vaughn had considerable chemistry together, and McCallum was boosted to co-star status, with the role earning him two Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe nod. He went on to appear in the movies The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Great Escape, Mosquito Squadron, Billy Budd, Freud and A Night to Remember.

McCallum found his next hit with NCIS. A close confidante to Mark Harmon’s Jethro Gibbs, his “Ducky” Mallard served as father confessor and paternal figure for the show’s offbeat cast of characters. He remained on the show til the end, working a lighter schedule over the last several years. He showcased his signature sense humor in announcing his return to the show in 2018.

McCallum’s extensive TV series credits also include The Invisible Man, The Education of Max Bickford, Sapphire and Steel, Colditz, Motherlove, Kidnapped, and episodes of The Outer Limits, Law & Order and Sex and the City. He also voiced characters in the animated series The Replacements and Ben 10 and narrated more than 30 books on tape and CD.

In addition to acting, McCallum also orchestrated and conducted a trio of records that put unique spins on some of the period’s more popular songs. In 2016 McCallum published his first novel, Once a Crooked Man.

Callum is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine McCallum, his sons Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum and Peter McCallum, his daughter Sophie McCallum and his eight grandchildren: Julia McCallum, Luca de Sanctis, Iain de Sanctis, Stella McCallum, Gavin McCallum, George McCallum, Alessandro de Sanctis and Whit McCallum.

“He was the kindest, coolest, most patient and loving father,” Peter McCallum said in a statement on behalf of the family. “He always put family before self. He looked forward to any chance to connect with his grandchildren, and had a unique bond with each of them. He and his youngest grandson, Whit, 9, could often be found in the corner of a room at family parties having deep philosophical conversations.

“He was a true renaissance man — he was fascinated by science and culture and would turn those passions into knowledge. For example, he was capable of conducting a symphony orchestra and (if needed) could actually perform an autopsy, based on his decades-long studies for his role on NCIS.

“After returning from the hospital to their apartment, I asked my mother if she was OK before she went to sleep. Her answer was simply, ‘Yes. But I do wish we had had a chance to grow old together.’ She is 79, and dad just turned 90. The honesty in that emotion shows how vibrant their beautiful relationship and daily lives were, and that somehow, even at 90, Daddy never grew old.”

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Farewell My Queen (Benoît Jacquot, 2012)

In July 1789, the French Revolution is rumbling. Far from the turmoil, at the Château de Versailles, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers keep on living their usual carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and most of the aristocrats and their servants desert the sinking ship, leaving the Royal Family practically alone. Which is not the case of Sidonie Laborde, the Queen's reader, a young woman, entirely devoted to her mistress; she will not give her up under any circumstances. What Sidonie does not know yet is that these are the last three days she will spend in the company of her beloved Queen.


Director

Benoît Jacquot


Stars

Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen


Based on novel by Chantal Thomas.


Video Link:  https://youtu.be/R5xdobVv28w


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Monday, September 18, 2023

Rough Treatment (Bez znieczulenia) - Andrzej Wajda - 1978

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Stars

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn


Alternate title (Without Anesthesia). Subtitles in English.

Video Link:  https://youtu.be/bvIq4cCGBr8


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Thursday, September 14, 2023

The House on Carroll Street (Peter Yates, 1988)

Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighboring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran, who was initially detailed to check her out; just as well when things turn nasty.

Director

Peter Yates

Stars

Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy.

Subtitles: English, Portuguese.

Video Link:  https://youtu.be/AAiNYjMZfNU

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Giovanni´s Island - Jobanni no shima - (Mizuho Nishikubo , 2014)

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.

Director

Mizuho Nishikubo

Stars

Tatsuya Nakadai,Yukie Nakama, Yûsuke Santamaria

Subs: English

Video Link:  https://youtu.be/_u_5vtmJdMc

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

The Comedy Man , with Kenneth More (1964)

Charles Byrd, known as "Chick", has spent his adult life acting in small repertory companies all over the UK, and he's never had much luck. All too aware that he's no longer young, Chick makes one last stab at finding success in London.

Director
Alvin Rakoff

Stars
Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Edmund Purdom

Subs: English, Portuguese.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/JgJfCWGF2O4

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Monday, September 11, 2023

Back To Back,, Face To Face - Bei kao bei, lian dui lian - (1994)

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.

Directors
Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang

Stars
Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li

Substitles: English

Video Link: https://youtu.be/jsnSv_IVJuw

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Facing Windows ( La finestra di fronte) - 2003

Giovanna has been married to her devoted husband for nine years. She carries the responsibility for the whole family. The strain of this begins to show when her overly considerate husband adds another burden by bringing home an elderly amnesiac, a man with a painful past.

Director
Ferzan Özpetek

Stars
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova

Subs: English & Portuguese

Video Link: https://youtu.be/FAxJOnE-dBM

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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Tepepa (Giulio Petroni, 1967)

A Mexican revolutionary contends with a tenacious police chief, a corrupt President he put in power, and an English doctor who wants him dead for personal reasons.

Italian Spaghetti Western with Tomas Milian and Orson Welles.

Music by the great, great, Ennio Morricone.

Director
Giulio Petroni

Stars
Tomas Milian, Orson Welles, John Steiner

Subs: English & Portuguese

Video Link:  https://youtu.be/PYAHvEtfABw

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Black Magic (Orson Welles, 1949)

Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged and he himself was tortured by the order of Viscount de Montagne. Years later, the man, a carnival charlatan, attracts the attention of Dr. Mesmer, a pioneer in the study of hypnotism. Balsamo rejects Mesmer's plea that he use his power for healing and, instead, decides to use it to seek wealth and fame. He changes his name to Count Cagliostro, and achieves fame throughout Europe by mixing hypnotism with mysticism and showmanship. He is called to cure a girl, Lorenza, held by De Montagne, because she resembles Marie Antoinette, wife of the heir to the throne of France. Cagliostro decides to join De Montagne and Madame du Barry in a plot to seize the power by discrediting the future Queen.

Directors
Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles (uncredited)

Based on book by Alexander Dumas

Stars
Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Raymont Burr and Silvana Mangano (uncredited)

Subs: English & Portuguese


YouTube movie link: https://youtu.be/ei4Us5YmYiY

Friday, September 8, 2023

Sunshine (István Szabó, 1999)

The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss, and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.

Director
István Szabó

Writers
István Szabó, Israel Horovitz

Stars
Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, William Hurt, Mark Strong and John Neville as General Sors.

Music by Maurice Jarre

Subs: English & Portuguese

YouTube link:  https://youtu.be/yQ_VxX41ZqQ

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Sorcercer (William Friedkin, 1977) Remastered Version

A gangster, a crooked banker, a hit man and an Arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable dynamite (leaking nitroglycerin) up a long and rocky mountain road in order to plug an escalating oil refinery blaze. With their deadly cargo likely to explode at the slightest bump, the four men must put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Director
William Friedkin

Stars
Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

Subs: English and Portuguese

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/WMio1A_ncOQ

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The Inn of The Sixth Happiness (Mark Robson, 1958)

A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

Director
Mark Robson

Writers
Isobel Lennart, based on book by Alan Burgess

Stars
Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens, Burt Kwouk

This is the final film of the great Robert Donat, who died during its making. In the scene in which he is saying goodbye to Gladys as the elders prepare to take their leave of the city, he says, as though he was prophesying his death, "I fear we shall never see each other again."


Curd Jurgens, one of my favorite German actors.

Burt Kwouk would later be Cato, Peter Sellers´ friend in the Pink Panther series of movies.

Link for the movie: https://youtu.be/goKt-Uo_NsI

Subs: English & Portuguese
 

John Rabe (Florian Gallenberger, 2009)

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.


Director
Florian Gallenberger

Stars
Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi
 

Ulrich Tukur would live as Rommel in a 2012 TV Movie, which is also posted here in my YouTube channel.

Several Japanese actors when approached immediately turned down any suggestion about appearing in the film. The Nanking massacre still touches a raw nerve in Japan today and for some Japanese actors the thought of appearing in a film about it was beyond comprehension.

Subs: Engiish & Portugueses
Link for the movie: https://youtu.be/02UHNyUhulw

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The Mattei Affair - Il Caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi, 1972)

Portrait of Italian tycoon, Enrico Mattei, who headed a state-combined industrial concern for natural resources from the early post-war year...