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André Farwagi – Le temps de mourir AKA The Time to Die (1970)
Synopsis: ‘Max Topfer is a successful businessman who lives alone, surrounded by bodyguards. One day, he receives a film which shows him his brutal death at the hands of an unknown assassin.’ – MUBI...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Un film comme les autres AKA A Film Like Any Other (1968)
Quote: In the aftermath of the student demonstrations and worker strikes that swept across France in May 1968 and after, Jean-Luc Godard — who had already declared the end of cinema, at least for him,...
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Lütfi Akad – Hudutlarin Kanunu AKA The Law of the Border (1966)
Quote: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape brought together two giants of Turkish cinema. Director Lütfi Ö. Akad...
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Claude Jutra – Wow (1970)
Quote: Three girls and six boys from the Montreal middle class give of the universe of a certain youth a true, different image from the one we might have imagined. Drugs, love, sex, freedom,...
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Frederick Wiseman – High School (1969)
Quote: Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students. The principle of editing in...
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Joe Dante – The Movie Orgy (1968)
A compilation film designed to evoke nostalgia for the shared entertainment experiences of early baby boomers, “The Movie Orgy” includes clips from television programs and B-movies of the 1950s and...
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Larry Jordan – Big Sur: The Ladies (1966)
Quote: In describing the process of BIG SUR, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, “As with RODIA-ESTUDIANTINA only one shot, which probably was the result of lapse in concentration, was deleted from the...
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Thomas White & Allan Zion – Who’s Crazy? (1966)
Qoute: The story behind the rediscovery of “Who’s Crazy?,” a 1965 film directed by Thomas White that’s screening at Anthology Film Archives tonight through Sunday, is so unusual that it raised my...
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Q-bec My Love, ou Un succès commercial (1970)
Quote: This film, a kind of sketch, is directed with total freedom, without any concession to any kind of censorship. It seeks to remind the viewer that voyeurism stems from the way we look at things...
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Masao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969)
Midnight Eye wrote: A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing...
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John Cassavetes –“The Lloyd Bridges Show” My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy (1963)
The second of two episodes of the Lloyd Bridges show directed by Cassavetes. Again featuring familiar faces from his stable of actors – this time its Lelia Goldani from Shadows and Fred Draper from...
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John Cassavetes –“The Lloyd Bridges Show” A Pair of Boots (1962)
The first of two episodes of the Lloyd Bridges show directed by Cassavetes. Featuring familiar faces from his stable of actors – this time its John Marley and Seymour Cassel from Faces (among other...
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Denis Héroux – Jusqu’au cou AKA Treading Water (1964)
Quote: The adventure of a young university student confronted with love and the Quebec separatist movement of the 60s. Denis Héroux, who directed this film while in university, says, ”I realized my...
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Irina Poplavskaya & Sergei Yutkevich – Dzhamilya AKA Jamilya (1969)
The film is based on the story of the same name by Soviet writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It is set in a remote Kirghiz village during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). A young wife of a soldier,...
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Can – Rockpalast From The Archives (1970)
The First Filmed Live Performance Of Can Rockpalast From The Archives: Can Live from the “Karussell Der Jugend” club in the German city of Soest. The first filmed live performance of the German...
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Jean Rouch – Jaguar (1967)
“Plot Synopsis by Dan Pavlides Three people from the country travel to the big city to seek employment in this documentary that contrasts primitive and modern life in Nigeria. After they have money,...
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Gabriel Axel – Den røde kappe AKA Hagbard and Signe AKA The Red Mantle (1967)
Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle By Roger Ebert / October 30, 1968 Prentoulis films presents an ASA Film Movie Art Europe co-production, directed by Gabriel Axel from a screenplay by himself and...
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Roberto Faenza – Escalation (1968)
Synopsis: ‘1968, London. Luca, the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business...
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Zbynek Brynych – Die Weibchen AKA Femmine carnivore AKA The Females (1970)
Synopsis: ‘Eve is an overworked secretary who has been sent to take a cure in the institution of Doctor Barbara in the remote town of Bad Marein. Upon her arrival and during the following days Eve...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu AKA The Elegant Life Of...
Quote: Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a...
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