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Frantisek Vlácil – Udoli vcel AKA Valley of the Bees (1968)
Udoli vcel (1968) The partnership between director František Vláčil and screenwriter Vladimír Körner yielded films including Adelheid (Adelheid, 1969), Pověst o stříbrné jedli (The Legend of the...
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John Sebert – The Scribe (1966)
The Scribe (1966) Quote:The Scribe is a 1966 short comedy film directed by John Sebert and produced by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario, Canada. It demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of...
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Bruce Baillie – All My Life (1966)
All My Life (1966) Quote:The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a delapitated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald’s “All My Life” plays on the...
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Gordon Flemyng – Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Accidentally thrown together, Dr. Who (Peter Cushing), his granddaughters, and their friend Ian cross the universe in Who’s new invention, the space and time machine known as “Tardis”. When they land...
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Frantisek Vlácil – Adelheid (1969)
Adelheid (1969) PLOT: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is...
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Gordon Flemyng – Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Accidentally thrown together, Dr. Who (Peter Cushing), his granddaughters, and their friend Ian cross the universe in Who’s new invention, the space and time machine known as “Tardis”. When they land...
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Jean Eustache – La rosière de Pessac AKA The Virgin of Pessac (1968) (HD)
La rosière de Pessac (1968) As political and social tumult rocked France in May and June of 1968, Jean Eustache used his first documentary to focus on persistent tradition, in the form of a...
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Susumu Hani – Kanojo to kare AKA She and He (1963)
Kanojo to kare (1963) In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband’s disapproval. Quote:One of Hani’s...
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Susumu Hani – Furyô shônen AKA Bad Boys (1961)
Furyô shônen (1961) An improvisational film depicting life in a boys’ reform school. Quote:Susumu Hani’s first feature was this gritty pseudo docudrama of juvenile delinquency based upon a collection...
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Susumu Hani – Bwana Toshi no uta AKA The Song of Bwana Toshi (1965)
Bwana Toshi no uta (1965) Quote:On the border of Kenya and Tangoniga in East Africa, a Japanese, Toshio Kataoka, finally arrived here. A Japanese academic survey team came to build a comprehensive...
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Katsu Kanai – Mujin rettô AKA The Desert Archipelago (1969)
Mujin rettô (1969) KatsuKanai wrote:The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered...
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Peter Plummer – The Owl Service (1969)
The Owl Service (1969) All eight episodes of the late-sixties TV series about a girl, holidaying with her family in a remote Welsh valley, who stumbles upon ancient magical forces. Alison (Gillian...
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Sébastien Kamba – Kaka Yo AKA Rien que toi (1965)
Kaka Yo (1965) Vibrant love story, which means “Just You” in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation,...
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William Castle – Homicidal (1961)
Homicidal (1961) Gimmicky B-movie fright master William Castle (THE TINGLER, STRAIT JACKET) enters the adventurous (for 1961!) world of gender psychology in this effective suspense picture. Bombshell...
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Jean-Pierre Melville – L’aîné des Ferchaux AKA Magnet of Doom (1963)
L’aîné des Ferchaux (1963) One of the frequent themes in the films of Melville is loyalty between men, so it should come as no surprise to Melville fans that Michel and Ferchaux develop an usual, and...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Quote:Godard’s documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news...
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Jacques Deray – La piscine AKA The Swimming Pool (1969)
La piscine (1969) Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she...
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Curtis Bernhardt – Il tiranno di Siracusa AKA Damon and Pythias (1962)
Il tiranno di Siracusa (1962) Plot:Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers, is condemned to death by Dionysus, the tyrant of Syracuse, who finds this view dangerous. However,...
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André Delvaux – De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen AKA The Man Who Had...
De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966) Govert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran’s graduation, Govert decides that he...
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Grigoriy Kozintsev & Iosif Shapiro – Korol Lir AKA King Lear (1970)
Korol Lir (1970) King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to...
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