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Robert Altman – Brewster McCloud (1970)
Quote: Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings...
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Yôji Yamada – Baka marudashi AKA The Honest Fool (1964)
Quote: Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest’s daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her,...
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Ermanno Olmi – Il posto (1961)
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism....
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Christopher Morahan & Dennis Potter – ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Lay Down...
As with LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR, the later re-working of this play, most of the action is set within the 1956 War Office in the midst of the Cold War and just prior to and contemporaneous with the...
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Maury Dexter – Air Patrol (1962)
L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter....
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Masaki Dômoto & Yukio Mishima – Yûkoku AKA Patriotism AKA Rite of Love &...
Quote: After participating in the Ni Ni Roku Incident of February 1936, Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama has been given orders to execute some of his fellow mutineers. He decides to commit seppuku, and his...
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Anatole Litvak – Le couteau dans la plaie AKA Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Quote: Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again....
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Norman Cohen – The London Nobody Knows (1968)
Quote: In stark contrast to the colourful, “swinging” imagery of 1960’s London we are all too familiar with, The London Nobody Knows, displays the dying, decaying underbelly of old Victorian values,...
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Marko Babac & Zivojin Pavlovic & Vojislav ‘Kokan’ Rakonjac – Kapi, vode,...
Quote: A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs’ work: Zivojin Pavlovic’s dialogue-free “Live Waters” set in 1943, Marko Babac’s “Warriors” about psychological look at the two patients in...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Onna no issho AKA A Woman’s Life (1962)
Synopsis: Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family. One of many adaptations of “Onna no isshō”, this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring...
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Serge Bourguignon – Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray AKA Sundays and Cybèle (1962)
Quote: After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl...
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Akira Kurosawa – Tengoku to jigoku AKA High and Low (1963)
Quote: In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake....
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Tai Katô – Tange Sazen: Kenun Unkon no maki aka Tange Sazen: Scroll of Dragon...
Tange Sazen was at first, the character in Fubo Hayashi’s novel. Director Ito Daisuke made this one-armed, one-eyed man an nihilistic, alienated hero, representing the anarchic energy and rebellious...
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Ali Hatami – Toughi AKA The Ring-necked Dove (1970)
There is an old saying in Farsi, “if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family”. …And that’s what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is caught for...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Ningen no jôken AKA The Human Condition: III. A Soldier’s...
Quote: Masaki Kobayashi’s six-part magnum opus, The Human Condition, based on Junpei Gomikawa’s postwar novel, bears the imprint of Kobayashi’s tutelage under legendary filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita at...
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Akira Kurosawa – Uma no uta AKA Song of the Horse (1970)
Kurosawa’s lost masterpiece has finally come to light. Filmed in 1970 and aired on Japanese television “Song Of The Horse” is his visual poem for the horse, the creature that he loved the most. Told...
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Peter Schamoni & Herbert Vesely – Deine Zärtlichkeiten (1969)
Synopsis Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other. The siblings Christine and Stefan grew up separated from each other due to their parents’ divorce and have no...
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Salvatore Samperi – Cuore di mamma AKA Mother’s Heart (1969)
Italian oddity on violent influences in society, at times somewhat Godardesque. A strangely apathetic and mute mother watches on as her children develop disturbing behaviour. They torture the nanny,...
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Agnieszka Holland – Hrich Boha AKA Sin of God (1969)
Sin of God was made as a studio exercise by the world-famous Polish-born director Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) during her studies at FAMU in Prague. The plot is based on Isaac Babel’s short story The...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Dobunezumi sakusen aka Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by...
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