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Andy Warhol – The Nude Restaurant (1967)
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude”...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Suna no onna AKA Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city,...
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Apotheosis (1970)
Quote: What a perfect film…..short and simple, Ono takes a camera and a boom mike onto a hot air balloon, kicks the rope, and starts the camera and lets us watch as it goes above the clouds for a 17...
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Kjell Grede – Harry Munter (1969)
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He’s an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He’s offered work in the U.S....
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Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Quote: In an Academy Award -nominated performance for Best Actor, Jack Nicholson is outstanding in Five Easy Pieces, the acclaimed drama from director Bob Rafelson. Although a brilliant, classical...
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Ingmar Bergman – För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor aka All These Women...
“All These Women (Swedish: För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor), originally released as Now About These Women in the UK, is a 1964 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It is a parody of...
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King Vidor – Truth And Illusion: An Introduction To Metaphysics (1965)
Quote: “It started when I simply wrote a narration that interested me and challenged myself to fit it to a film, using existing objects in nature, without animation techniques of any kind. I did the...
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Walter Hugo Khouri – O Palácio dos Anjos aka The Palace of Angels (1970)
Synopsis: In São Paulo, the greedy Bárbara is not happy with her work in a loan and investment company. When her boss Ricardo invites Bárbara for a meeting at his apartment, he harasses her first and...
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Brian de Palma – The Wedding Party (1969)
This independent film was a joint effort by Sarah Lawrence theatre professor Wilford Leach and two of his students, protégé Brian De Palma and wealthy Cynthia Monroe, who bankrolled the project. The...
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Lee Frost – The Defilers (1965)
Quote: When it came to 1960s schlocky drive-in exploitation fare, there was no more prolific purveyor than producer David F. Friedman. This new Something Weird disc marries two of his seminal...
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John Boorman – Hell in the Pacific (1968)
A shot-down American pilot finds his way to a small, unpopulated island where he hopes to find provisions. He soon discovers that he is not alone; there is a Japanese officer marooned on the island...
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Servando González – El escapulario AKA The Scapular (1968)
Synopsis: A woman who is about to die calls the town’s priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead. In the times...
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Lindsay Anderson – If…. (1968)
“A modern classic in which Anderson minutely captures both the particular ethos of a public school and the general flavour of any structured community, thus achieving a clear allegorical force without...
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Stan Brakhage – Dog Star Man (1962-1964)
Quote: Finally reunited, Stan Brakhage’s masterpiece Dog Star Man is an experimental movie without sound. A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence....
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Tanin no kao AKA The Face of Another (1966)
Acquarello @ Strictly Film School wrote: An off-camera psychiatrist (Mikijiro Hira) overseeing a processed batch of prosthetic appendages describes his fragile role of diplomatically treating – not a...
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Jordan Belson – Samadhi (1967)
Quote: Notable film theorist Gene Youngblood has this to say about the “Cosmic Cinema” of Jordan Belson in his classic book “Expanded Cinema”: “Certain phenomena manage to touch a realm of our...
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Vera Chytilová – Sedmikrásky AKA Daisies (1966) (HD)
Description: Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume...
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Don Levy – Herostratus (1967) (HD)
Quote: In British director Don Levy’s Herostratus, a young poet, Max (Michael Gothard, The Devils), decides to commit suicide in public as a form of protest. He hires a prestigious marketing company...
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Richard Rush – Psych-Out (1968)
Quote: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney...
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Bob Rafelson – Head (1968)
Running in from seemingly nowhere, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith & Peter Tork – better known collectively as The Monkees – disrupt a bridge opening ceremony. From where and why did...
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