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Kihachi Okamoto – Nikudan aka The Human Bullet (1968)
Quote: The summer of 1945. As a “human bullet” of the Kamikaze Unit, 21-year-old “he” is inside a drum with a torpedo. While he waits, he looks back on a short adolescence, reminiscing on the harsh...
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Ron Kelly – King of the Grizzlies (1970)
Quote: Moki (John Yesno) is the Indian foreman at a ranch owned by The Colonel (Chris Higgins). He watches as a baby grizzly bear becomes his playful friend before going off on his own. Years later,...
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Paul Verhoeven – Niets bijzonders AKA Nothing Special (1961)
Quote: A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar. http://nitroflare.com/view/BE795B88D47A8BF/Niets_bijzonders_%281961%29.mkv...
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Claude de Givray – Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry (1965)
This episode of the French program ‘Cinéastes de notre temps” takes a closer look at the image and legacy of Sacha Guitry. Included in it are archival interviews with producer and director André...
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Robert Bresson – Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Jim Ridley wrote: With exquisite, heartrending calm, Bresson’s 1966 masterpiece Au Hasard Balthazar lays out the life of a donkey, from first brays to final rest. Baptized Balthazar, the donkey goes...
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Jacques Demy – Model Shop (1969)
While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a “model shop” (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models...
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Bert Williams – The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
An undercover agent is sent to infiltrate bootleggers in the Florida Everglades, but winds up lost in the swamps and stuck in a decrepit hotel with a few of peculiar inhabitants. What starts off like...
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Abraham Polonsky – Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Quote: After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. The title character, played by Robert Blake, is...
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Helmut Käutner – Schwarzer Kies AKA Black Gravel (1961)
Quote: In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Now, 6000 soldiers are living in the region, and although no one really...
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François Truffaut – Baisers volés aka Stolen Kisses [+Extras] (1968)
SYNOPSIS: Stolen Kisses is the third installment of the ‘Antoine Doinel Series’, tracing the life of Truffaut’s filmic alter ego, Jean-Pierre Léaud. It is now 1968 and Antoine is 20. Having received...
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Harun Farocki – White Christmas (1968)
Quote: One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a...
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Luchino Visconti – La Caduta Degli Dei (Götterdämmerung) aka The Damned (1969)
The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti’s films described as “The German Trilogy”, followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). Henry Bacon (1998) specifically categorizes...
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Milos Forman – Konkurs AKA Talent Competition (1964)
Quote: Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her...
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Donald Richie – Boy with Cat (1966)
A cat’s inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating. http://nitroflare.com/view/39AC2D85B2C60F7/Boy_with_Cat.mkv...
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Donald Richie – Atami Blues (1962)
A young man and a woman meet in the bath of a resort in Atami one evening. The young man then attempts to swoon the woman while in the meantime enjoying the city sights of the vacation town, all...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part aka Band of Outsiders (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: To gauge the historical significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964) — getting a week’s run in a lovely new print at the Music Box — it helps to know that it...
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Paul Verhoeven – De lifters AKA The Hitchhikers (1962)
Quote: A road movie about three men (one driver, two hitchhikers) and one woman. A short film inspired by Verhoeven’s own youth trips as a hitchhiker. + commentary track...
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Dale Berry – Hot-Blooded Woman (1965)
A ravishing blond newlywed is raped by a hobo gang after she dances for them, so her husband sends her to a psychiatrist who has her put into a mental hospital in order to cure her exhibitionist...
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Paul Verhoeven – Het korps Mariniers AKA The Marine Corps (1965)
Quote: Het korps Mariniers is a documentary about the Royal Dutch Navy, which Paul Verhoeven made while being assigned to the Marine Film Service as a documentary filmmaker....
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Jean-Pierre Melville – Quand tu liras cette lettre AKA When You Read This...
Wikipedia wrote: After their parents die in a road accident, a strongly moral young woman named Thérèse Voise leaves a convent shortly before taking her vows in order to care for her younger sister...
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