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Blackbeard With A Broadband Connection: Films I Own Digital Copies of Via Torrent, Download or Handbrake Rip

By: Judicia​l Joe

I would just like to say, before starting this list, that 99 times out of 100 I refuse to download a film easily available on DVD, like The Master, Les Miserables, or Rust and Bone, unless I need to see it for a personal project like a best-of-the-year poll or MUBI forum cup. The more mainstream films on this list are all DVD-R rips I got off DVDs I rented or borrowed from a friend or the library. I would also like to say that the massive expansion this list has undergone in the period from February to September 2013 is due to the fact that I’m buying a second hard drive for a ladyfriend to hold onto as a birthday gift/backup of all my films. ALWAYS support the artist, I plan to buy DVDs or (preferably) blu-rays of all these films eventually. RIP Demonoid and long live the information revolution!@!

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Extended editions:
Cremaster 3 (the 182 minute original cut)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (the 271 minute restored version)
Underground (the 300 minute TV version)

Not in database:
7×7 Facts About the Life of the Poet Tohm di Roes in Present Climes (Tohm di Roes)
Absurda (David Lynch)
The Anchorite (Juan Estelrich)
Animation Masks (Jordan Wolfson)
At the Club (Alice Guy)
At the Floral Ball (Alice Guy)
At the Hypnotist’s (Alice Guy)
At the Photographer’s (Alice Guy)
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (Alice Guy)
Avenue de l’Opera (Alice Guy)
Bathing in a Stream (Alice Guy)
The Bazaar Years (unknown)
The Beiderbecke Affair (David Reynolds)
Blood on the Beach (Sonic Youth)
Botched Eyeball Operation (Clint Enns/Denys Gareau)
Boys Beware (Sid Davis)
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Keiichi Tanaami)
Brimstone and Treacle (Barry Davis)
The Burglars (Alice Guy)
Chicken (Patrick Smith)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Michael Winterbottom/Kevin Brownlow)
Conversations in the Arts: Interview with Hollis Frampton (Esther Harriott)
Dance of the Seasons – Winter, Snow Dance (Alice Guy)
Disappearing Act (Alice Guy)
Double Blind (Sophie Calle/Greg Shepard)
Draped in White (Cornelia Schleime)
The Fisherman at the Stream (Alice Guy)
Fractions of Temporary Periods (Piero Bargellini)
Good-By Elvis and USA (Keiichi Tanaami)
Good-By Marilyn (Keiichi Tanaami)
Granny (Tatu Pohjavirta)
The Great Society (Fred Mogubgub)
The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow (Marin Malesevic)
Hello Berlin (Thomas Werner)
Home Movies (Man Ray)
Hommage a La Sarraz (Lutz Dammbeck)
Iran (Claude Lelouch)
Ivan the Idiot (Alexander Doulerain/Sergei Koryagin)
Keeping an Eye on Stan (Ken Jacobs/Nisi Jacobs)
Konrad! The Mother Said (Ramona Koeppel-Welsh)
Kubasa in a Glass (L’Atelier National du Manitoba)
The Landlady (Alice Guy)
Lapins Du Soir (Pierre Alferi)
Little Angel (Thomas Frydetzki)
Long Jeanne Silver (Alex de Rezny)
Love and Magnets (Yves Pelletier)
Mario Movie (Cory Arcangel)
Moment (Stephen Dwoskin)
Morte all’orecchio di Van Gogh (Piero Bargellini)
Murnau’s 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film (Janet Bergstrom)
My Josephine (Barry Jenkins)
Naval Point (Tatu Pohjavirta)
Necrology (Claus Loser)
Nelda (Piero Bargellini)
Pierrette’s Escapades (Alice Guy)
The Pig’s Eclipse (Tatu Pohjavirta)
Report — A Comment on a Comment (Volker Lewandowsky)
Samuel (Cornelia Klauss)
The Samurai of Ayothaya (Nopporn Watin)
Sculpture Mouvante – Jean Tinguely (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
September, September (Gino Hahnemann)
Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard (Alice Guy)
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter (Alice Guy)
Sign of Rome (Guido Brignone/Michelangelo Antonioni/Riccardo Freda/Vittorio Musy Giori)
Sing, Cowboy, Sing (Robert N. Bradbury)
Something to Think About (Cecil B. DeMille)
Stricnina (Piero Bargellini)
Sukkubus – den Teufel Im Leib (Georg Tressler)
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak (Alice Guy)
Teenage Lontano (Marina Rosenfeld)
Torso (Tatu Pohjavirta)
Transferimento di Modulazione (Piero Bargellini)
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man (Alice Guy)
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (Alice Guy)
Vi Prego di Accettare Questo Semplice… (Piero Bargellini)
Virtavalta (Tatu Pohjavirta)
Vladimir 70 (Walter Carvalho)
Walk for Walk (Amy Lockhart)
What Is a Rhizome? Kluge and Vogl on Deleuze and Guattari (Alexander Kluge)
Where Adam Stood (Brian Gibson)
William Buys a Parrot (Antony Balch/William S. Burroughs)
Wonderful Absinthe (Alice Guy)

The list will get longer as I discover new titles. Don’t be surprised if films disappear as I clear hard drive space, only to reappear on this list or on my DVD or blu-ray lists.

 

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chanandre

5Oct12

i fucking loathe torrents but i wish i'd see some of these films tho. pretty rare, i should say. i'll never see them tho. choices man. out of print out of mind.

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    Judicial Joe

    6Oct12

    I love torrents because of the ability to find rarities via them, but I will always prefer a hard copy. I love the ability to find things no one else in town has seen or owns, which is the case with many of the films on this list.

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    chanandre

    8Oct12

    I hate torrents to be honest. hate that they trivialize cinema and make people treat films as a commodity you just download without second-guessing. not the moral thing, it's more like they empty the theatres and then people recede into their living rooms and laptops. that is cold and uninteresting. for me. a hard copy? meaning a dvd? or a film print?

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    Judicial Joe

    9Oct12

    A DVD or blu-ray.

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    chanandre

    9Oct12

    hum. i thought so. i feel numb regarding dvd's. i just can't stand them anymore. money down the drain if you ask me. 20 bucks for a film i can see for 1,35 ? no. and then i kill it with re-watches. Kael was kinda right. how much is a BD stateside anyways?

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    Judicial Joe

    10Oct12

    Anywhere from $4 to $25 depending on how new the release is and whether it's released by a studio or a boutique label like Criterion or Olive.

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Paddy Fairfax

30Sep12

Love the title!

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    Judicial Joe

    3Oct12

    Yeah, we're switching plans soon so I hope this new one has a faster connection (mine tops out at 350 kb/s)

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