Chantal Akerman in the Seventies (Criterion Eclipse Series) [2 DVD9s & 1 DVD5]
Art-House | OAR | Colour/B&W | French Dolby Digital | English Subtitles
3 Full Original DVD Image (.ISO) + 400dpi Scans = 19.1GBs | 400MB RARs | NL/FSe/FSo/HF
Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.
The New York Films
La Chambre (1972, 11 mins)
In Chantal Akerman’s early short film La chambre, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
Hotel Monterey (1972, 62 mins)
Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.
News From Home (1976, 86 mins)
Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.
Je tu il elle (1975, 86 mins)
In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, Je tu il elle is Akerman’s most sexually audacious film.
Les rendez-vous d’Anna (1978, 126 mins)
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers—we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.
DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2009
STUDIO: Criterion Eclipse Series
CATALOG: 19
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1 (d'Anna - 1.66:1)
COLOUR: Colour (Je tu… B&W)
AUDIO: French Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English (soft)
EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 2 Full Dual-Layer DVDs & 1 Single-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
FILE SIZE: 7.54/4.06/7.51GBs
SCANS FILE SIZE (400 DPI): 8MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 19.1GBs
Scans
http://www.fileserve.com/file/n3CcEWf
http://www.filesonic.com/file/23009237/ChanAk70.rar
http://hotfile.com/dl/73776385/ea90eb4/ChanAk70.rar.html
Discs
The New York Films
http://netfolder.in/J7g4wwG/AK.NYF
http://www.filesonic.com/folder/325871
http://www.fileserve.com/list/YUMsnPF
http://hotfile.com/list/880015/feafe36
Je tu il elle
http://netfolder.in/CEy5iiF/AK.JTIE
http://www.filesonic.com/folder/325869
http://www.fileserve.com/list/WJdcpVj
http://hotfile.com/list/891193/6da7861
Les rendex-vous d'Anna
http://netfolder.in/xoxONPi/AK.LRVDA
http://www.filesonic.com/folder/325873
http://www.fileserve.com/list/mUkAHNv
http://hotfile.com/list/894402/c7940c6
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