Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco’s best friend and the son of a leftist leader. Paco runs away from home taking a gun from his father. While the Commander initiates the search of his son accompanied by the father of Urko, he begins to discover an unknown world and little by little important changes take place in him.
El.Pico.1983.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264-KG.mkv
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Paco, son of the commander of the Guardia Civil Evaristo Torrecuadrada, has been involved in Bilbao in the murder of a drug dealer couple. His fathers’ efforts in suppressing evidence have nothing to do when the crime appears in the press. Paco is arrested and goes to prison, where he return to do drugs.
El.Pico.2.1984.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264-KG.mkv
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Quote: An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.
Piggy.2022.SPANISH.1080p.WEBRip.DDP5.1.x264-NOGRP.mkv
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A heady mix of classic noir, blood-chilling horror and high suspense, this film is a thriller following a detective who searches for a corpse that has gone missing from a morgue. The film keeps viewers guessing about both the strange circumstances surrounding the victim’s death and the reasons her body has disappeared.
Synopsis (Toronto International Film Festival): Luis (Luis Bermejo) is desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter’s last wish: to own the prohibitively expensive “Magical Girl Yukiko” dress from her favourite Japanese cartoon. Unemployed, with no prospects, and blinded with grief, Luis turns to extortion when he crosses paths with the beautiful, mentally disturbed Bárbara (Bárbara Lennie). Her marriage threatened by the blackmail, Barbara reluctantly complies with his scheme, even as it sends her spiralling into a world of danger and degradation. Seeking revenge on Luis, she turns for help to the only person who truly knows how damaged she is: retired math teacher Damián (José Sacristán), who has dark secrets of his own. The trio descends into an infernal cycle of deception and double-crosses, in which the struggle between reason and instinct plays out to nerve-jangling effect.
Luis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted to him.
La.muchacha.de.las.bragas.de.oro.1980.1080p.FO.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-CREATiVE.mkv
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Runtime: 1 h 37 min
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imdb: An emotive story that touches the heart! A Cuban family leaves the island on a homemade rubber dingy and decides to bravely cross the dangerous stretch from Cuba to Florida in search of freedom. This is a beautiful illustration of a family’s struggle to survive with the support of each other! Una pelicula emotiva que llega al corazon! Una familia Cubana decide escaparse de la isla en una balsa casera y cruzar el estrecho peligroso entre Cuba y la Florida en nombre de la libertad. Esta historia es un ejemplo maravilloso de la lucha para sobrevivir apoyado por el amor de una familia.
Synopsis: In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Belle.epoque.AKA.The.Age.of.Beauty.1992.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
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Experimental film made by painting directly onto the film strip using ink, pens, sand, etc., with no camera. A film that decisively renews the tradition of painting on film. It is an abstract, silent film, with no unifying plot line, in which the only characters are forms and colours.
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Quote: The film’s strange title, …ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren…, has no meaning, it is made up merely of syllables that sound something like Basque. In order to ensure that the only lead character in the film was the painting itself, J.A. Sistiaga did not even want to give the work a title, but given the political situation of the time (the film was made when Franco’s regime was still in power), censorship left him no choice.
So, he rang his friend and fellow artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, and asked him to invent a title that had no meaning but that would sound like something said in the Basque language. The name that Balerdi came up with on the spot became the definitive title of the work.
Ere.erera.baleibu.izik.subua.aruaren.1970.PAL.DVDRip.x264.AC-3.2.0.24p-micro.mkv
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Martín is a tormented and solitary man who hides a shameful and unspeakable secret: he lives with a life-size doll which he treats as if it were his wife. This idyliic, loving existence will be gravely threatened when a prostitute, her daughter, and a pimp enter his life.
Its.No.Good.for.a.Man.to.Be.Alone.1973.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv
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Runtime: 1 h 26 min
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Synopsis: ‘In the village of Fuentecilla, there is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but that now has been forgotten by the public. In order to bring back the tourists, the “prominent men” of the village organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas, the local patron saint, which will take place every Thursday night. At first it works, but trouble begins when a stranger appears, claiming that he knows what’s going on and making peculiar demands in exchange for his silence.’ – Pablo Montoya
Quote: Who is Sycorax? The first of all characters in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” to set foot on the island of the play. The problem is that Sycorax has no voice. She is barely mentioned by Prospero as a crooked, old, wicked witch who vilely locked Ariel, the spirit of the air, in a tree.
Sycorax.2021.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv
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The sublime and the mundane run hand-in-hand in Birdsong, Albert Serra’s stunningly photographed, intensely contemplative re-telling of the biblical journey of the Magi. Much of the sublimity derives from the film’s visuals, superbly tactile black-and-white images alive to the textures of the rocky landscape, which, along with the precise gradations of lighting (each scene seems shot at the one exact moment of day when its creation was possible) and the rustling of wind on the soundtrack, imbues the barren land with a richness of meaning commensurate with the Magi’s divine mission.
As the three men make their way across the terrain, Serra devotes huge chunks of time to the simple act of walking, fixing his camera at a distance from the men, turning their routine movements into acts worth contemplating. Much of the film’s sense of the mundane derives from the men themselves, three markedly unglamorous individuals (two are quite fat, one is very old) who bicker calmly, but these inelegant creatures also speak with wonder of angels and, like Serra’s camera, express their admiration for the latent mysteries of the everyday.
Critical comparisons between the Magi and Beckett’s tramps are not inapt, but Serra’s men evince a more subdued clownishness. In one scene, they bed down under a shade three, then complain unemphatically about the discomforts of their relative positioning, all the while barely moving. The scene’s funny, but the humor derives from such minute visual details – deliberately unemphasized in the fixed, overhead shot – as the way one of the men’s faces puffs up as he breathes. Earlier, a mesmerizing bit of underwater photography shot from below the Magi as they pull a boat out into the water starts as a bit of low comedy when one of the overweight men flops around uncouthly in front of the camera before the scene gives way to an unmixed beauty and the exact physicality of the bodies no longer marks the principal point of emphasis.
Finally, the film’s sublime spiritual climax – the men arrive in a Bethlehem so abstracted that it’s constituted by a single stone structure, then prostrate themselves at Mary’s feet, the scene becoming a virtual still while the film’s one bit of non-diegetic music, the piercing strings of the title song (“El Cant del Ocells”) rip through the soundtrack – is immediately followed by the movie’s most deflationary image – an overhead shot of the Magi, stripped to the waist, bathing in a fetid water trough. Birdsong rises to the divine on the quality of its imagery, but it always grounds its spiritual aspirations in an acceptance of the resolutely mundane. Through its long static takes and, with a sole exception, its lack of significant event, the film gives the audience ample freedom to register both sides of the equation, the striving for sublimity and the embrace of the everyday, each of which derive their power from the presence of the other.
An interview with Albert Serra
First Don Quichotte in Catalan, and now a peculiar version of the Adoration of the Three Kings. How do you describe your cinema?
I would say that its form is lyrical and sophisticated, but its heart is very down to earth.
Why do you twist myths in such a way? Is it through non- conformism? Revolt? Research?
I don’t twist anything. The myths are just starting points for making films which are independent from them. The faithfulness of the relationship that the images maintain with the myth as we know it in our imaginations matters little to me.
Apart from its subjects, your cinema presents other particularities, notably technical: filming in video or with non-professional actors. Why these choices?
Because it’s easier and more amusing: we shoot in remote exteriors, with actor friends and Catalan-speaking technicians, like me, without undergoing hours of waiting, without the limits of a script. Saying it briefly, without obligations…
Do you consider yourself as a cinephile? What are your inspirations?
Yes, I consider myself as a cinephile, even if I’ve been more influenced by life itself, literature, and film criticism. I find cinema superficial.
Are you already thinking of your next film?
Yes, unfortunately… It’s my job, I don’t have a choice. Of course, if one day I have enough money to keep afloat without working, I will leave cinema, immediately
El cant des ocells - A. Serra (2008).mkv
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Why are we still able to watch moving images captured over 125 years ago?
As we move ever further into the digital age, our audiovisual heritage seems to be taken increasingly for granted. However, much of our filmed history and cinema has already been lost forever.
Film archivists, curators, technicians and filmmakers from around the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed. Our narrators are custodians of film whose work behind the scenes safeguards the survival of motion pictures. It is a task they undertake based on their closely held belief in the artistic and cultural value of the moving image, in tune with a shared mantra that a film might one day transform someone’s life. This documentary pays homage to them all and sheds some light on their critical undertaking.
Much of our audiovisual heritage has been lost forever, but film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers from around the world are hard at work preserving what they can. In this entertaining and celebratory documentary that will delight cinephiles and beginners alike, we learn what film preservation is and why it is needed. Wim Wenders, Jonas Mekas, Ken Loach, Patricio Guzmán, and George A. Romero are some of the makers that infuse this expansive film with anecdotes, memories, and historical truths..
Film,.the.Living.Record.of.our.Memory.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+5.1.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv
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Quote: Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida García Morales, which deepens the director’s fascination with childhood, fantasy, and the legacy of his country’s civil war. In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers—and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets haunt Estrella more and more as time goes on. Though Erice’s original vision also encompassed a section set in the South itself, scenes that were never shot, El Sur remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction, drawing on painterly cinematography by José Luis Alcaine to evoke the enchantments of memory and the inaccessible, inescapable mysteries of the past.
El.sur.AKA.The.South.1983.576p.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv
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