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It is a British, French, and Italian co-production. Set in 1840, the film follows a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, who is torn between the love of a beautiful German pastry-shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, and a Russian seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna. The film competed for the Golden Palm Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors only intended the software to be used for playback purposes, [2] it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost DVD ...
The Torrent (French: Le torrent) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. [1] An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, [2] the film centres on the life of François (played by Anthony Therrien as a child and Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon as an adult), a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine (Dominique Quesnel). [3]
Torrents with multiple trackers can decrease the time it takes to download a file, but also have a few consequences: Poorly implemented [59] clients may contact multiple trackers, leading to more overhead-traffic. Torrents from closed trackers suddenly become downloadable by non-members, as they can connect to a seed via an open tracker.
Jamie Babbit; Héctor Babenco; Frédéric Back; Emir Baigazin; Bruce Baillie; Sean Baker; Ralph Bakshi [2]; Aleksei Balabanov; Roman Balayan; Robert Banks; Scott Barley
Film d'art (French for "art film") was an influential film movement or genre that developed in France prior to World War I and began with the release of L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (1908), directed by Charles Le Bargy and André Calmettes of the Comédie Française for the Société Film d'Art, a company formed to adapt prestigious theatre plays starring famous performers to the screen. [1]
The film was featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival and Stockholm International Film Festival. [5] It had a wider opening in Norway in August 2011, performing well in the national box office. [5] In the U.S., it opened in New York City on 30 March 2012. [6] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.K. in 2013, with a 15 ...
The Art of Negative Thinking (Norwegian: Kunsten å tenke negativt) is a 2006 Norwegian black comedy film directed and written by Bård Breien. [1] The storyline revolves around a man (played by Fridtjov Såheim) who is adjusting to life in a wheelchair, and the socializing group he is made to join. The film was Breien's directorial debut. [2]