Nina Menkes – RareFilm

Magdalena Viraga (1986) Nina Menkes, Claire Aguilar, Nora Bendich, Dave Gist

rarefilm — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:19:37 +0000

Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.

IMDB

File Name : Magdalena.Viraga.1986.mkv
File Size : 1.83 GB / 1872.17 MB
Resolution : 770×576
Duration : 01:30:49

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United States
Genres: Documentary

Magdalena.Viraga.1986.mkv

Queen of Diamonds (1991) Nina Menkes, Emmellda Beech, Tinka Menkes, Drama

rarefilm — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:18:55 +0000

Filmed on location in Las Vegas, Queen of Diamonds revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer. Starring Tinka Menkes as the intense, damaged dealer, the film examines the desolation of daytime Vegas.

Also Known As (AKA): I vasilissa ton diamantion

IMDB

File Name : Queen of Diamonds.mkv
File Size : 959.11 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:15:09
Video : AVC (AVC), 1 650 Kbps, 23.976 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 128 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Queen_of_Diamonds.mkv

Phantom Love (2007) Nina Menkes, Allison Bell, Lena Bubenechik, Michael Joseph Carr, Drama

rarefilm — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 23:59:20 +0000

PHANTOM LOVE is a surreal, highly visual drama about an enmeshed family, in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating, just beneath the surface.

The lead character is LULU (Marina Shoif): a very beautiful, but angry and isolated woman, who lives alone, and works in a casino in Korea-town, Los Angeles. Lulu’s lover is much younger than herself-the relationship is charged but emotionally disconnected. Lulu’s younger sister, NITZAN (Juliette Marquis), is in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, caused in part by prescription medication. Lulu feels emotionally invaded by her mother, who wants to come to town and stay in Lulu’s apartment in order to try and help the younger sister-but this feels like a further intense invasion, and Lulu refuses.

PHANTOM LOVE weaves these various elements together into a strange but archetypal story, revealing the interior processes by which Lulu manages to see, and therefore begin to release herself, from the violence which surrounds her.

Like all Nina Menkes’s work, PHANTOM LOVE positions an alienated woman against a harsh, inhospitable landscape-this time, within a family. Stylistically, the film combines fairy-tale elements and a dreamy, mystical quality with a gritty, hyper-real, and sometimes almost documentary style, shooting everything on location and often using non-actors (“real” people) in the non-major roles.

Structured like Chinese boxes, with each scene opening onto another, still deeper inside, PHANTOM LOVE is a powerful document about one woman’s descent into self.

IMDB

Phantom.Love.2007.mkv