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Emile de Antonio – In the Year of the Pig [+Extras] (1968)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Documentary filmmaker Emil DeAntonio’s In the Year of the Pig was financed by New York society matron Mrs. Orville Schell; her fund-raising dinners earned her an executive producer...
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Jacques Rozier – Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: Jacques Rozier is perhaps the least known of the most talented French New Wave directors, if only because his output is so limited—about one feature per decade. His subject...
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Nagisa Oshima – Amakusa shiro tokisada aka The Rebel (1962)
In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the Christian population was particularly...
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Vera Chytilová – Ovoce stromu rajskych jime aka Fruit of Paradise [+Extras]...
Quote: “The Fruit of Paradise” is a breathtaking experimental film from Vera Chytilova. Well known for her surreal feminist comedy “Daisies” (1966), Chytlova uses many of the same hallucinatory camera...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution AKA...
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard, the unabashed enfant terrible of French cinema, creates a lighthearted, bizarre and atmospheric utopia in Alphaville. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an Outland agent,...
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Yôji Yamada – Kiri no hata AKA Flag in the Mist (1965)
Synopsis: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get...
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Gillo Pontecorvo – La battaglia di Algeri AKA The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Quote: A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians...
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Alexandre Astruc –Éducation sentimentale AKA Sentimental Education (1962)
Synopsis: Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in...
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Various – Swissmade (1968)
In 1968, the Popular Swiss Bank asked to three directors to give their vision about the future of Switzerland. This is their answer....
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Jean-Luc Godard – Made in U.S.A (1966)
Quote: With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies....
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Jean-Luc Godard – Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux AKA My Life to Live...
Quote: Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard’s...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Kaidan AKA Kwaidan [uncut] [+commentary] (1964)
Quote: For a film so widely and indelibly remembered, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan has confounded a surprising number of critics over the years. Ever since its release in 1965, there have been those who...
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John Ford – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Review: There are arguably no bigger cinematic icons of America than John Wayne – the right wing side of America steeped in violence and guns, and James Stewart – the left wing side of America rooted...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Kawaita hana AKA Pale Flower (1964)
Quote: Like Imamura and Oshima, Shinoda Masahiro was a university-educated intellectual who was employed by Shochiku as an assistant director in the early 1950s and felt stifled by the company’s...
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Luis Buñuel – Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Moved purely by a sense of obligation, she does so. Her uncle is moved by her...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Une Femme Est Une Femme AKA A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
“Director Jean-Luc Godard’s deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to...
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Werner Schroeter – Eika Katappa (1969)
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Une femme mariée AKA A Married Woman (1964)
Quote: With A Married Woman, Jean-Luc Godard leeches a story of a bored, attractive, unfaithful housewife of much of its escapist luridness, favoring ennui over sex, symbols and signifiers over...
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Marcel Carné – Trois chambres à Manhattan AKA Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Quote: When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar. She is...
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Andrei Konchalovsky – Pervyy Uchitel AKA The First Teacher (1966)
From imdb: Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the...
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