During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay (Paul Guers). He is, however, hiding his true identity as a member of the French aristocratic Evrémonde family, whom he has denounced in private. The Marquis St. Evrémonde (Sir Christopher Lee) in particular was a cruel man. Those he wronged have vowed to see the end of the family line at any cost. Lucie's father Dr. Alexandre Manette (Stephen Murray) was imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years because of actions of the Marquis. Into their lives comes English barrister Sydney Carton (Sir Dirk Bogarde), who enjoys his alcohol to excess.
THIS IS THE SECOND VERSION OF THE CLASSIC BOOK BY CHARLES DICKENS, AFTER THE 1935 ONE WITH RONALD COLMAN.
Director
Ralph Thomas
Stars
Dirk Bogarde,Dorothy Tutin,Cecil Parker, Leo McKern, Christopher Lee, Ian Bannen, Donald Pleasence.
Subs: English and Spanish.
Link for the entire movie: https://youtu.be/MKOrBKcSxF4
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
A Tale of Two Cities (1958 Version with Dirk Bogarde)
Friday, August 25, 2023
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
Director
Kon Ichikawa
Stars
Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
Oscar Nominated for Foreign Language Film in 1957
Subs: English, Spanish
YouTube channel link: https://youtu.be/lyrRH-b9r5E
Thursday, August 24, 2023
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 Version)
THIS IS ANOTHER VERSION OF THE CLASSIC MADE BY HITCHCOCK. SOME SAY THIS IS THE SECOND BEST VERSION.
The year is 1914, and Richard Hannay (Robert Powell), a mining engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbors, Colonel Scudder (Sir John Mills), bursts into his room one night and tells him a story that Prussian sleeper Agents are planning to start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign Minister. However, Scudder is murdered, and Hannay is framed for the death by the sleepers. Fleeing to Scotland, Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents, with the aid of Alex Mackenzie (Karen Dotrice), but not only is he is chased by Chief Superintendent Lomas (Eric Porter) for Scudder's death, but by the agents, who are headed by Appleton (David Warner), who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government.
Director
Don Sharp
Stars
Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, John Mills
Subs: English. Resolution Quality: DVD Rip.
YouTube Link to my channel: https://youtu.be/18JupqR8Aoo
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
The 39 Steps (2008) - TV Movie
Director
James Hawes
Stars
Rupert Penry-Jones, Lydia Leonard, David Haig
Subtititles: English
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/FZ7hIEE1k_k
No copyright restrictions according to YouTube.
Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990)
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Writers
Based on book by Edmond Rostand, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Jean-Claude Carrière
Stars
Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez
Subs: English & Portuguese
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/qg-TQE1AKbY
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Sunday, August 20, 2023
Eyes Without A Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
Original title - Les yeux sans visage
Director
Georges Franju
Stars
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Subs: English & Portuguese
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/YoLSMqhc3MA
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United Kingdom
Thursday, August 17, 2023
We Still Kill the Old Way (Elio Petri, 1967)
Original title: A ciascuno il suo
Director
Elio Petri
Stars
Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Subs: English
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/75UgDWZ0S2Q
It is the second film posted this week with Gian Maria Volontè and also with soundtrack by Luis Bacalov.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
A Bullet For The General (Damiano Damiani, 1967)
Director
Damiano Damiani
Stars
Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick and director Damiano Damiani doing a cameo as a journalist.
Beautiful soundtrack by Luis Bacalov.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/k2ic_L7CBCQ
Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish.
Partially blocked for viewers living in Brazil and United States.
If I Were You (Joan Carr-Wiggin, 2012)
Two women who meet by chance make a pact to fix their unhappy lives: they will each do what the other one says. But one has a secret: She knows her husband is sleeping with the younger woman. Madelyn's plan backfires when aspiring actress Lucy orders her to play King Lear in a very amateur production, with Lucy playing the Fool. Madelyn's life is transformed in unexpected ways as, like Lear, she struggles with matters of mortality and betrayal, loyalty, and love
Director & Writer Joan Carr-Wiggin
Stars
Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling, Joseph Kell, Aidan Quinn.
Subtitles: English, Portuguese
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/3BCjnQxFLZs
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Amigo (John Sayles, 2010)
Director & Writer
John Sayles
Stars
Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt
Subtitles: English only.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/dlEy0MQVV64
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About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writers
Asghar Farhadi, Azad Jafarian
Stars
Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
A France-Iran Production.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/0QbuLiN4boU
Subtitles: English & Portuguese
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982)
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars
Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiri Stanislav.
Music by Stanley Myers.
Subs: English & Portuguese
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/I7A5yu8B32g
Copyrighted & blocked in several countries, such as United Kindom and Brazil, but visible in the U.S.
Friday, August 11, 2023
Ulysses' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1995)
Having spent 35 years making films in the United States, Greek-American director 'A' returns to his homeland of Greece to attend a screening of his latest controversial film. From there, he sets out in search of three undeveloped film reels made at the turn of the century by a pair of pioneering Greek filmmakers, the Manaki Brothers. As 'A' embarks on a long Balkan quest to unearth the fabled footage and find his lost innocence, a dangerous, emotional journey from Athens to war-ravaged Sarajevo begins, unfolding the director's odyssey.
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars
Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson.
Subs: English & Portuguese
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/_0Zs399JRjA
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (Leonid Gaidai, 1973)
In early 1970's Moscow, scientist Shurik toils in his apartment trying to create a working time-machine. He is dedicated to the task, so dedicated he barely registers it when his wife leaves him. One day, Shurik successfully transports himself back to the time of Ivan The Terrible, taking with him a burglar and the superintendent of his building. While Shurik makes it back to the present, there is one problem: the other two are left in the 1500's and Ivan the Terrible has come home with him. So begins a raucous tale combining science-fiction, comedy and history: Leonid Gaidai 's 'Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession.' Director Leonid Gaidai Stars Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko. Subs: English & Portuguese YouTube link: https://youtu.be/DECBMVjwcg4 Copyright-protected content. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Quartet (James Ivory, 1981)
Director
James Ivory
Stars
Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Anthony Higgins.
Subs: English only available.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/4aoHDsHcr50
This film was posted some time ago on this blog but as YouTube removed my channel, the link was broken. This is a new link.
James Ivory´s movies are always charming.
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Medicine For Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 2008)
Approximately twenty-four hours in Jo' and Micah's lives are presented. This phase of their story starts the morning after in the San Francisco loft apartment where they met at a party, they having embarked in what, if they both thought about it, was meant to be a one night stand, the non-thought as they were both drunk not even knowing each other's name at the time. Micah's obvious want to continue some sort of interaction with Jo' is met with a non-stated rebuff by Jo' in return in she finally admitting the sex a mistake on her part in she already being in a live-in relationship, her boyfriend currently out of town. Micah's continual pursuit of her eventually breaks down her defenses as they end up spending the day together getting to know each other. If there is a continuation of their story after this time may not only depend on her current relationship status, but their differing views of what it means, if anything at all, to be black living in San Francisco.
Barry Jenkins
Stars
Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins, John Thurgood
Subs: English.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/D2F6PrwU2F0
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Murder In Coweta County (Gary Nelson, 1983), a TV Movie
Director
Gary Nelson
Stars
Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Earl Hindman, Brent Jennings.
Subtitles: English.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/O4UVF1B6DnY
Voyeur (Alex van Warmerdam, 1986)
Director
Alex van Warmerdam
Writers
Otakar Votocek, Frans Weisz, Alex van Warmerdam
Stars
Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek
Subs: English and Spanish.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/9RoeiPs6jxM
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Willful Murder (Ken Kumai, 1981)
Original title: Nihon no atsui hibi bôsatsu: Shimoyama jiken
Director
Kei Kumai
Writers
Kimio Yada, Ryûzô Kikushima
Stars
Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Yôko Asaji
Subs: English
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/iksiIZ0NAt4
Blind Spot - Die Reise nach Lyon - (Claudia von Alemann, 1981)
Elisabeth, a young German historian, goes to Lyon, France, to study the life of Flora Tristan, a feminist writer of the 19th century.
Director & Writer
Claudia von Alemann
Stars
Rebecca Pauly, Denise Péron, Jean Badin
The first feature by the German director Claudia von Alemann, from 1981, is an intimate drama with a vast purview. It’s the story of a young West German scholar named Elisabeth (Rebecca Pauly), who, leaving her husband and her daughter behind, visits the French city of Lyon to do research about Flora Tristan, a feminist, a socialist activist, and a writer who organized workers there in 1844. Elisabeth’s project has an existential edge—she records sound at sites where Tristan worked and lived, in an effort to re-create her subject’s inner experience—as well as an intimate twist, involving her own romantic complications. Meanwhile, Elisabeth’s chance encounters, as with a café owner and an antiquarian bookseller, take a historical turn as she also inquires into the massacre of Jews in Lyon by Nazi occupiers during the Second World War. Elisabeth’s fascination with the embodiment of history is matched by von Alemann’s documentary-like vision, which makes daily life amid the city’s ancient buildings, tall stone staircases, and celebrated secret passageways reverberate with the passions and the horrors of the past.
Subs: Portuguese, Spanish and English.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/Q4P0_Dgmqww
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Larisa 1980 - A Short Film
Director
Elem Klimov
Stars
Elem Klimov, Valentin Rasputin, Stefaniya Stanyuta
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/9aLlWnSYIb8
Subtitles: English
Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh, 1980)
Director & Writer
Mike Leigh
Stars:
Phil Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn
Episode 5 of Season 7 of BBC Playhouse TV
Subs: English.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/zAUVOfPoSj0
Copyright owner is blocking in the United Kingdom
The Fencing Master - El maestro de esgrima - (1992)
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