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Michael Wadleigh – Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (director’s cut) (1970)
from rottentomatoes: Michael Wadleigh’s WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC finds the best rock stars of the 1960s performing at the historic Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most celebrated...
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François Truffaut – La Sirène du Mississipi AKA Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Mississippi Mermaid is a rich and tropical amalgam of the post-war French fascination with the great American tradition of gritty urban thrillers and Francois Truffaut’s growing yearnings for settings...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – To homa vaftike kokkino aka Blood on the Land (1966)
from the back cover: In 1907, in the parts of Greece that are liberated, not all Greeks feel free and the biggest ranges of the Thessalian valley are owned by a few big landowners. The farmers who are...
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Dusan Makavejev – Nevinost bez zastite aka Innocence Unprotected (1968)
Quote: Innocence Unprotected was originally filmed in 1941 under the title Nevinoz bez Zastite; it was meant to be the first all-talking feature ever made in Serbia. Yugoslav gymnast Dragolijub...
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Werner Nekes – Kelek (1969)
Quote: “A long setting of a basement window to the street. Slower and stopping down the street brothers in Hamburg (where Nekes lives). A stand of the belly of a girl on her legs and her dress. Then,...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Shiroi Kyotô AKA The Great White Tower AKA The Ivory Tower...
Synopsis: Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds...
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Henri Verneuil – Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan [+Extras] (1969)
Plot Outline : With the help of the Malanese family (a.k.a. the Sicilian Clan), a convicted crook and murderer, Roger Sartet, escapes from a police van which is transporting him to prison. When he...
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Vidas Secas aka Barren Lives [+Extras] (1963)
Filmed with a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice which forces them into the lives they must live, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Das Kleine Chaos AKA The Little Chaos (1966)
Description: Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery....
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Lindsay Anderson – If…. (1968)
“A modern classic in which Anderson minutely captures both the particular ethos of a public school and the general flavour of any structured community, thus achieving a clear allegorical force without...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Comizi d’amore AKA Love Meetings (1964)
Pasolini doesn’t so much ‘meet’ with people of all regions of his country as interrogate them, trying to investigate the sexual mores of his time in a typical melding of politics and sex, of Marx and...
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Richard Myers – Akran (1969)
B&W, SOUND. Electronic music by Fred Coulter. With Bob Ohlrich, Pat Myers, Jake Leed, Mary Leed. “… a work of ambition and great technical virtuosity … there is enough going on in AKRAN to command...
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Chantal Akerman – Saute ma ville AKA Blow up my town (1968)
Quote: A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment. Quote: I saw this first film by Ackerman on french...
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Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker (1962)
You’d have to be a hard-assed bastard indeed not to be touched in some way by The Miracle Worker, the film version of Helen Keller’s story — the blind, deaf, and mute girl we all tragically made jokes...
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Pere Portabella – Nocturno 29 AKA Nocturne 29 (1968)
Synopsis Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an...
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Glauber Rocha – Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol AKA Black God White Devi (1964)
Black God, White Devil (Portuguese: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol, literally, “God and the Devil in the Land of Sun”) is a 1964 Brazilian film directed and written by Glauber Rocha. The film stars...
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Risto Jarva – Ruusujen aika AKA A Time of Roses (1969)
Synopsis: Taking place in the year 2012, the film is a fantasy of a “utopian” time when all class conflicts have been erased, at least superficially. A history researcher Raimo Lappalainen becomes...
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Seijun Suzuki – Sandanju no otoko AKA The Man With A Shotgun (1961)
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town’s mill....
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrey Rublyov (1966) DVD
Presented as a tableaux of seven sections in black and white, with a final montage of Rublev’s painted icons in color, the film takes an unflinching gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of...
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Jaromil Jires – Valerie a týden divu AKA Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up...
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