Jacques Rivette –“Cinéastes de notre temps” Portrait de Michel Simon par Jean...
Second film in the Renoir documentary trilogy directed by Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon. A quote from “Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism,...
View ArticleAntonio Drove – La caza de brujas AKA The Witch Hunt (1967)
Quote: In The Witch Hunt a national-Catholic religious college whose mission is to train militants and future leaders of society. Their “lifestyle” is explained by the Spiritual Father: “God, by...
View ArticleNobuhiko Ôbayashi –Émotion AKA Emotion (1966)
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a...
View ArticleKamran Shirdel – Tehran, Payetakht-e Iran Ast AKA Tehran is the Capital of...
“Tehran is the Capital of Iran” (1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran. The images of destitution in Tehran’s poor areas is accompanied by a variety of spoken accounts:...
View ArticleJørgen Leth & Ole John – Nær himlen, nær jorden AKA Near the Sky, Near the...
Det Danske Filminstitut wrote: This film was shot in the autumn of 1967 among European and American hippies in Nepal. We observe the way of life these hippies have chosen to live »outside of society«...
View ArticleJerome Hill – Death in the Forenoon (1966)
Quote:An experimental short by Jerome Hill in which footage of a bullfight is painted on the film. Footage of the bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later....
View ArticleJohan van der Keuken – Even Stilte AKA A Moment’s Silence (1963)
In his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set out taking just his camera, without any pre-defined concept. The...
View ArticleJørgen Leth, Ole John & Jens Jørgen Thorsen – Stopforbud AKA Stop for Bud (1963)
Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:An experimental portrait of American jazz pianist Bud Powell. In most of the film, Powell walks the streets of Copenhagen, but there are also excerpts from ‘… a concert...
View ArticleFereydoun Rahnema – Takht-e Jamshid AKA Persepolis (1962)
A short documentary about Persepolis by Iranian filmmaker and poet Fereydoun Rahnema. Persepolis.1960.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 20 min 17 sSize: 319 MiBVideoCodec:...
View ArticleJoseph W. Sarno – Sin in the Suburbs (1964)
After discovering that her mother is involved in an adulterous affair, a pretty high school student seeks help from a neighbor. While their trusting bond grows into a deep relationship, a secret sex...
View ArticleTokuzô Tanaka – Kaidan yukijorô AKA The Snow Woman (1968)
Based on the same Lafcadio Hearn “Yuki Onna” story told in Masaki Kobayashi’s classic film “Kwaidan”, but otherwise unrelated (despite Tom Weisser’s typically misinformed and erroneous write-up in...
View ArticleJacques Rozier – Adieu Philippine (1962)
Paris, summer 1960. Michel is about to leave for Algeria for military service. He meets Liliane and Juliette, two inseparable friends. Michel goes on vacation to Corsica, where the two girls decide to...
View ArticleZivojin Pavlovic – Budjenje pacova AKA The Rats Woke Up (1967)
A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present. Budjenje pacova (1967).mkvGeneralContainer:...
View ArticleBud Yorkin – Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution....
View ArticleKôji Shima – Shojo jutai (1966)
Shojo Jutai (1966) is a 1966 movie directed by Koji Shima, with notable stars Ayako Wakao, Takao Ito, and Sanae Nakahara. Koji Shima - Shojo Jutai [1966].mkvGeneral Container: MatroskaRuntime: 1 min...
View ArticleJuraj Jakubisko – Strieborny vietor AKA Silvery Wind (1961)
This is one of the earliest Jakubiskos work, student short movie. Catechist forces his student Ratkin to confess. Strieborny.vietor.1961.1080p.WEB.AAC.x264-LYCANTROPE.mkvGeneralContainer:...
View ArticleRobert Siodmak – Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes AKA Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country...
View ArticleJoseph P. Mawra – White Slaves of Chinatown (1964)
Quote:The beautiful, brutal Olga procures prostitutes and pushes heroin for the syndicate, confining and torturing her pretty victims in a private dungeon located in New York City’s sinister...
View ArticleJean Eustache – Du côté de Robinson aka Robinson’s Way (1964)
Quote:Eustache’s debut film follows two young men near the place de Clichy, looking for fun and whatever trouble comes with it. Unsurprisingly, their attention ultimately falls on a girl. They go to a...
View ArticleJun’ya Satô – Soshiki bôryoku (1967)
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans. Organized Violence 1967 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 JPTVclub.tsGeneralContainer: MPEG-TSRuntime: 2h 0mnSize: 7.04 GiBVideoCodec:...
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