Russ Meyer – Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn’t having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky...
View ArticleJerzy Kawalerowicz – Faraon AKA Pharaoh (1966) (HD)
Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s long gestated film adaptation of Bolesław Prus’ historical novel PHARAOH is an ambitious endeavor, dazzles in its epic scale and formalist gravitas with an...
View ArticleJean Rouch – La goumbe des jeunes noceurs (1967)
Quote:À Abidjan, dans le quartier de Treichville, la Goumbé des jeunes noceurs se réunit dans la rue pour de spectaculaires exhibitions de chants et de danses modernes. Les goumbés regroupent de...
View ArticleEdgar Reitz – Mahlzeiten (1967)
Quote:The story of Elisabeth and Paul who get married and drift apart. They have a very different take on life, hers rather bohemian and his disillusioned. Repeatedly the film moves away from the pure...
View ArticleJosé Bénazéraf – Joë Caligula – Du suif chez les dabes (1966)
A group of aspiring young thugs from Marseilles move in on established gangsters. They spend the time torturing, killing and intimidating the gangsters until they either pay up or die. One punk with a...
View ArticleJosé Bénazéraf – Le Concerto de la peur AKA Night of lust [Uncut] (1963)
Kidnappings, murders and gang war for the control of a drug traffic… There’s really a unique touch in those early Bénazéraf movies. You’re a bit somewhere between thriller, exploitation and Nouvelle...
View ArticleSergei Parajanov – Sayat Nova aka Tsvet granata aka The Color of Pomegranates...
Quote:Soviet censors and Communist Party officials objected to Parajanov’s stylized, poetic treatment of Sayat-Nova’s life and complained that it failed to educate the public about the poet. As a...
View ArticleMiklós Jancsó – Indiántörténet AKA An Indian Story (1962)
Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian. The Indian Story is the kind of newsreel short subjects that Jancso made early in his career, and while it...
View ArticleGualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi – Africa addio AKA Farewell Africa (1966)
“What the camera sees it films pitilessly, without sympathy, without taking sides,” it begins. “This film only says farewell to the old Africa and gives the world a picture of its agony.” As...
View ArticleJosé Bénazéraf – Nuit la plus longue AKA Sexus (1965)
Quote:As we all often learn in life, it’s the little, simple things that can have a big impact. Bénazéraf doesn’t go for complexity here, and his plot is pretty simple for the most part. Yet Sexus...
View ArticleBostjan Hladnik – Pesceni grad AKA The Castle of Sand (1962)
Plot:The film opens with a scene of Milena (Millie) running in a panic towards a wire fence. She slips through a hole in the fence and runs on. This is followed by a road-movie style odyssey of two...
View ArticleFrank Tashlin – Caprice (1967)
Industrial spy Patricia Fowler (Day) is hot on the trail of a secret formula with the power to change the world…by keeping ladies’ hair dry in the water! So important is this miracle hair spray that...
View ArticleJames Neilson – Return of the Gunfighter (1966)
Robert Taylor gives one of his best performances in this action-packed Western adventure costarring Chad Everett. Ben Wyatt (Taylor) has had a belly full of guns. Released from prison five years after...
View ArticleJulien Duvivier – Diaboliquement vôtre AKA Diabolically Yours (1967)
A provocative French thriller places a wealthy man (Delon) at the center of an extraordinary plot after a car crash leaves him unable to remember who he is. With his wife (Senta Berger) convinced he...
View ArticlePete Walker – School for Sex (1969)
Plot:British Sexploitation/Sex Comedy. Lord Wingate, aquitted after appearing in court for fraud, starts up a ‘finishing school’ to teach girls how to extract money from rich men, in return for a...
View ArticleTakaharu Saeki – Doro inu AKA The Desperate (1964)
Quote:A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Sugai (Oki Minoru), who is said to be a demon detective, indulges in lust with Chiyo (Hara...
View ArticleHoward Alk & Mike Gray – American Revolution 2 (1969)
Quote:A gritty but essential documentary charting social turbulence in late 1960’s Chicago. American Revolution 2 includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of the...
View ArticleKôji Wakamatsu – Sei no horo AKA Vagabond of Sex (1967)
Quote:Vagabond of Sex (性の放浪 Sei no Hōrō?, 1967) was a parody of Imamura’s A Man Vanishes (1967). In Wakamatsu’s film, a man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades....
View ArticleNanni Loy – Made in Italy (1965)
The ’60s for Italian cinema were the decade of the film a episodi, with 3-4 segments that may almost reach the feature-film length and were directed by celebrated directors such as Fellini, Visconti,...
View ArticleFranklin J. Schaffner – Planet of the Apes (1968)
Synopsis:In the year 3978A.D. a spaceship with a crew of 4 crashes down on a distant planet. One of the crew members had died in space and the other 3 head out to explore the planet. They soon learn...
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