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Eric Rohmer – Cinéastes de notre temps: Carl Th. Dreyer (1965)
Interview in Copenhagen with Dreyer (speaking French). Also features Anna Karina, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Henrik Malberg, Lisbeth Movin, Jørgen Roos, and Bendt Rothe. First aired 8 April 1965 on ORTF’s...
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Seijun Suzuki – Tantei jimusho 23: Kutabare akuto-domo aka Detective bureau...
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu’s crime novel. Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a...
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Kostas Manoussakis – O fovos AKA The fear (1966)
Plot: A socially isolated young man (Anestis Vlachos) attacks the family’s deaf-mute adopted daughter, whom he abuses sexually and then kills. His parents, even though they discover his crime and are...
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Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban – La musica (1967)
Synopsis: ‘Marguerite Duras’s La musica, which she adapted from her own short two-character play, is about a husband and wife who meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to...
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Jerzy Stefan Stawinski – Pingwin (1965)
A story about love and the life of the youth of the sixties. A film saturated with insightful psychological observations and the warm, affectionate relationship of the central character. Storyline: A...
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Giorgi Shengelaia – Pirosmani (1969)
Description: This film is about the great Georgian painter – primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili (1862-1918). An unknown, self-taught painter roams the streets of a city, painting his pictures. The local...
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Richard Fleischer – Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their...
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Lev Kulidzhanov – Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969)
Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event from the mammoth novel into its 200 minute running time. Georgi Taratorkin stars as...
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Paulino Viota – Contactos (1970)
Una pareja se hospeda en una misma pensión en habitaciones separadas y mantienen contacto a espaldas de la dueña. Metáfora de una sociedad reprimida en la etapa del franquismo, Contactos es una cinta...
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Chris Marker – Si j’avais quatre dromadaires AKA If I Had Four Dromedaries...
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I had four camels stages a probing, at times agitated, search for...
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Grigori Kozintsev – Gamlet AKA Hamlet [+extras] (1964)
Synopsis: A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is looming over the rocky coastline. Prince Hamlet once again puts the...
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Robert Ellis Miller – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady’s sensitive 16-year-old daughter....
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Seijun Suzuki – Tôkyô nagaremono AKA Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Quote: Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. A colorful riot of an action...
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Doris Wishman – Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls (1962)
Synopsis: Anne and Tom, a married nudist couple, work in a real estate office. When the agency’s owner discovers that Tom is a nudist, he fires him. Unfortunately, Tom was just ready to close a big...
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Roland Lethem – Le sexe enragé aka The Red Cunt (1970)
Quote: This film was made in the 70’s, with Jean-Pierre Bouyxou. The superimpositions at the end are in some ways influenced by Etienne O’Leary’ stuff : Lethem didn’t saw the films, but Bouyxou was...
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Ken Russell – French Dressing (1964)
Synopsis: ‘Gormleigh-by-the-Sea is a holiday community besotted with dullness. But things liven up when Jim, a young deck-chair attendant, convinces the local entertainment director and mayor into...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu AKA Eros Plus Massacre (1969)
Synopsis: In the 20’s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. He spends his time doing nothing but philosophizing about political...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Rengoku eroica AKA Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Quote: Little exists, critically speaking, on the subject of Yoshishige Yoshida’s “Heroic Purgatory”. It is a singular experience in that it has never been the subject of much acclaim or criticism....
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Mauro Bolognini – La viaccia (1961)
Quote: At the end of the nineteenth century, the young peasant Amerigo falls in love with Bianca, whom he met in a brothel in Florence, and in order to keep meeting her, steals from his uncle. Wounded...
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Zivojin Pavlovic – Kad budem mrtav i beo AKA When I Am Dead and Gone (1967)
Plot: Janko Bugarski “Džimi Barka” is a small time wallet snatcher, and an aspiring singer, who wants to make it big with as little effort as he can, traveling through industrial areas and looking for...
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