Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) [RePoPo] (Movie & OST F

This release contains both the movie and the soundtrack (EAC-CUE-FLAC) ******************************************************************************* Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) ******************************************************************************* Type..................: Movie Container file........: MKV Audio Languages.......: English 2.0 (Untouched) Subtitles Ripped......: English, Spanish (Enclosed in the .mkv file) Subtitles in Subpack..: English, French, Spanish Resolution............: 704x304 Aspect Ratio..........: 2.31:1 (as on DVD) Original Aspect Ratio.: 2.35:1 Color.................: Color Source................: NTSC Anamorphic DVD Genre.................: Musical IMDb Rating...........: 5.4 Movie Information.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090585/ Full MediaInfo report below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's 1958 and pop culture is transforming from 1950s jazz and early rock to a new generation on the verge of the 1960s. London is post-World War II, but pre- Beatles and the Stones. The storyline incorporates elements of 1958 London racial riots. Young hip photographer Colin falls in love with aspiring fashion designer Crepe Suzette, but she's only interested in her career. Colin tries to win her affections by taking a crack at the big time himself; meanwhile racial tensions heat up in Colin's neighbourhood of London. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main CAST Patsy Kensit - Suzette Eddie O'Connell - Colin, Photographer / Narrator David Bowie - Vendice Partners James Fox - Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen Ray Davies - Arthur, Colin's Dad Mandy Rice-Davies - Flora Eve Ferret - Big Jill Tony Hippolyte - Mr. Cool Graham Fletcher-Cook - Wizard Joe McKenna - Fabulous Hoplite Steven Berkoff - The Fanatic Sade - Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu) Edward Tudor-Pole - Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor) Bruce Payne - Flikker Alan Freeman - Call-Me-Cobber Main CREW Julien Temple - Director / Songwriter Chris Brown - Producer Stephen Woolley - Producer Richard Burridge - Screenwriter Colin MacInnes - Book Author Don MacPherson - Screenwriter Christopher Wicking - Screenwriter Oliver Stapleton - Cinematographer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review by VARIETY STAFF Absolute Beginners is a terrifically inventive original musical for the screen. Daring attempt to portray the birth of teenagedom in London, 1958, almost exclusively through song is based upon Colin MacInnes' cult novel about teen life and pop fashion in the percolating moments just before the youth cultural explosion in the early 1960s. Tenuous storyline is a typical one of teen love achieved, lost and regained, and is used as a mere string to which a constant parade of musical numbers and flights of fancy are attached. Aspiring photographer Colin (Eddie O'Connell) and tyro fashion designer Suzette (Patsy Kensit) seem a perfect match, but when the latter begins getting ahead and becomes engaged to a snooty couturier played by James Fox, Colin decides to sell out and make the most of his connections in a last-ditch effort to win back his lady love. In creating a stylized view of 1950s culture, director Julien Temple and lenser Oliver Stapleton have made great use of fabulous sets fashioned by production designer John Beard. An astonishing moving camera take throughout the Soho set in the early going represents a fully worthy homage to the opening shot of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MediaInfo: General Format : Matroska File size : 1.30 GiB Duration : 1h 47mn Overall bit rate : 1 733 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2009-02-03 23:58:45 Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26 Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1 Video Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : [email protected] /* */ Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames Muxing mode : Container profile=[email protected] /* */ Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1h 47mn Bit rate : 1 462 Kbps Nominal bit rate : 1 538 Kbps Width : 704 pixels Height : 304 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.35 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.300 Title : Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) Writing library : x264 core 58 svn-736bm Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=5 / brdo=0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=8 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=2 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=1538 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1- qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 Language : English Audio Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1h 47mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Title : English 2.0 Language : English Text #1 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Title : Español Language : Spanish Text #2 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Title : English Language : English ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* Original Soundtrack - Absolute Beginners ******************************************************************************* Tracklist 01.- David Bowie / Absolute Beginners [08:03] 02.- Sade / Killer Blow [04:37] 03.- The Style Council / Have You Ever Had It Blue? [05:37] 04.- Ray Davis / Quiet Life [02:56] 05.- Gil Evans / Va Va Voom [03:26] 06.- David Bowie/ That's Motivation [04:14] 07.- Eighth Wonder ft. Patsy Kensit / Having It All [03:08] 08.- Rodrigo Bay / Working Week [03:32] 09.- Slim Gaillard / Selling Out [03:36] 10.- Jerry Dammers / Riot City [08:29] 11.- Gil Evans / Boogies Stop Shuffle (Rough and The Smooth) [03:00] 12.- Tenpole Tudor / Ted Ain't Ded [02:35] 13.- David Bowie / Volare [03:13] 14.- Clive Langer / Napoli [04:08] 15.- Jonas / Little Cat (You Never Had It So Good) [02:19] 16.- Gil Evans / Better Git It In Your Soul (The Hot and The Cool) [01:49] 17.- Smiley Culture / So What? (Lyric Version) [04:18] 18.- Gil Evans / Absolute Beginners (Refrain) [01:41] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review (From allmusicguide.com) by Dan LeRoy Most of the music here bears only a coincidental resemblance to the sort of 45s that the Wiz, Dean Swift, and the rest of Colin MacInnes' absolute beginners were buying from department-store gramophone sections in 1950s Britain. But MacInnes' fictional mods certainly appreciated style, and the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his classic novel was, first and foremost, a stunningly cool showcase for the jazz currents that flowed freely through the U.K. pop scene in the mid-'80s, via artists like Sade, Working Week, Eighth Wonder (featuring Patsy Kensit, who also starred in the film as Crepe Suzette), and of, course, Paul Weller's Style Council. (Weller, according to legend, turned down the chance to play Swift; he'd already used the title of MacInnes' book for one of his last hits with the Jam.) The remainder of the collection, meanwhile, is perfectly complementary, instead of odds and sods. The two numbers with the strongest connections to the music of MacInnes' era are both delights; Slim Gaillard's "Selling Out" reprises the hipster jive of his '50s hits, and Ray Davies recommends the "Quiet Life" over a charming trad jazz arrangement. A pair of instrumentals contributed by legendary arranger Gil Evans and ex-Specials leader Jerry Dammers are also memorable -- Evans' playful "Va Va Voom" morphs from straight-up swing to Afro-Cuban sass with ease, while "Riot City" sounds like the jazz counterpart to the Specials' spooky ska smash, "Ghost Town." And the coup de grâce comes from a first-generation mod: David Bowie's title track is the gem of his post-"Let's Dance" '80s output, a big, breathtaking ballad allowing him to indulge the Sinatra croon that's driven many of his best performances. Whatever Absolute Beginners lacks in historical accuracy, it makes up for with great songs and savoir faire, and it stands as one of the finest soundtracks from a decade filled with good ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review on the "Absolute Beginners" track, by Dave Thompson One of the finest of all David Bowie's 1980s compositions -- indeed, one of his best songs of all time -- "Absolute Beginners" was written and recorded for the soundtrack of director Julien Temple's equally brilliant movie of the same name. Recorded with session men borrowed from Thomas Dolby's latest sessions, plus Hunky Dory veteran Rick Wakeman on piano, "Absolute Beginners" was produced by Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer. The song's arrangement owes much to the late -'50s doo wop sound of the movie's own time frame, but is underpinned by some of Bowie's best-ever sax playing and one of his most emotional lyrical and vocal performances. An instant U.K. hit (a far cry from the sad fate of the film), a 7" edit of the song soared to number two -- the full version was issued on 12", while two further edits were included on the official movie soundtrack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rip has been done using EAC to extract a .wav file, and dBPowerAmp to convert that into a Level-8 FLAC file. Log files are enclosed. The CD is presented as ONE SINGLE LONG AUDIO FILE. There's also a .cue file which marks the track points. If you need to extract a single song from this, you must download the whole album, and use a tool like Medieval Cue Splitter for Windows, or X Lossless Decoder (XLD) for Mac Users. Under Linux the ripping software "abcde" (A better CD encoder) can split CUE/FLAC files. Also, you can use Burrrn (on Windows) to burn it directly to a CD, where the tracks will be seperated. Attention: Single .cue/FLAC files. That's simply my personal choice for releasing it, don't argue about it, thanks. IF you don't like it, you've been clearly told, so look somewehere else and don't come crying. It's free, ok? Take it as it comes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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marufa (2009-02-18)

I've just started downloading and don't know if it'll work properly, but I wanna thank you in advance. It's a good job you uploaded it. I've been looking for this movie practically since I started surfing the web. Tnanx a million!

phineasEnRetard (2009-08-16)

you are gOD! i truly, truly don't know how to thank you for this upload. couldn't find the ST as a stand-alone, but then to find a torrent of one of my all time fave movies just about called for a change of undies. but wait...i read on: the ST IS included - no shit? - and i'm inside-out right now!!! that people are complaining here and elsewhere about the singularity of the tracks is utter piss. i would and do bow at your alter. i know this took work on your part, and some of us here DO appreciate that. you've bloody well made my day...kudos!!

piotrekz (2009-12-30)

Thank you for the cult film!
Please can you continue seeding - I am jus a few megs away from the complete file!

ioannisarc (2010-06-11)

Thank you very much.

JaffusWarus (2010-10-17)

Hi, Ive downloaded the files but do not know how to play the video or audio on my machine - It's a Mac. How can I run the film?

lavoula (2011-01-20)

thank you so much!!! love bowie...

boondoddle (2012-02-11)

Thank you

dreamyblu (2012-02-28)

thank you!!!!!