Roger Vadim – Barbarella (1968)
Sexy Barbarella roams 41st-century space with her blind guardian angel, Pygar. Directed by Roger Vadim; actors Jane Fonda, John Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, David Hemmings, Marcel Marceau,...
View ArticleDoris Wishman – Diary of a Nudist (1961)
From Imdb: Quite honestly, this film is crap. It’s laughably written, woodenly acted, badly filmed and dubbed, and contains only a wisp of a plot. It’s also pretty boring. And yet, I couldn’t look...
View ArticleRobin Spry – Prologue (1970)
One critic described this film as an “immensely appealing and articulate exploration of the world of the drop-out, which makes almost everything else in the recent spate of films about hippydom seem...
View ArticleChristian Marquand – Candy (1968)
Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry. The film satirizes pornographic stories...
View ArticleJoe Massot – Wonderwall (1968)
Quote: An eccentric, lovable scientist falls in love with the girl next door – in an unusual way. Set in 1960’s London (aka Swinging London), WONDERWALL tells the story of a reclusive professor who...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen AKA Even Dwarfs Started...
Synopsis: The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature...
View ArticleTinto Brass – Nerosubianco AKA Black on White (1968)
IMDB: Before directing “Salon Kitty” and moving into the erotic style of film making that he is more known for director Tinto Brass made a series of movies that can only be called “pop art” (these...
View ArticleNagisa Ôshima – Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa AKA The Man Who Left His Will on Film...
Quote: Aesthetic and political rebel, Oshima is one of the most original directors now working in Japan. This is a metaphysical tale of a radical student filmmaker who succumbs to the illusion that he...
View ArticleGeorg Lhotzky – Moos auf den Steinen aka Moss on the Stones (1968)
Description Engaged to the daughter of an aging baron, an ambitious advertising executive wishes to renovate the baron’s crumbling castle into a holiday getaway for the social elite. In his zeal to...
View ArticleRoy Andersson – En kärlekshistoria aka A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Fifteen year-old Pär and fourteen year-old Annika fall in love… Quote: Summer with Annika: A Swedish Love Story (1970) Jean A. Gili Author of very few works – four films in thirty-seven years,...
View ArticleGeorges Franju – Judex [+Extras] (1963)
There’s a world of difference between the natural, “found” surrealism of Louis Feuillade’s lighthearted French serial (1914) and the darker, studied surrealism and campy piety of this 1964 remake by...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – Marnie (1964)
Quote: Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at...
View ArticleTony Conrad – The Flicker (1965)
Quote: The film starts with a warning message, which reads: WARNING. The producer, distributor, and exhibitors waive all liability for physical or mental injury possibly caused by the motion picture...
View ArticleIra Cohen – The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda [+Extras] (1968)
Quote: J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part ‘Dr. Strange,’ part ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,’ [‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’ is] so High ’60s that you emerge from its...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Pravda (1969)
Quote: English dubbed – Jean-Luc Godard (Dziga Vertov Group) film Pravda was filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It’s one of those films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov – a...
View ArticleKoji Wakamatsu – Okasareta hakui aka Violated Angels (1967)
A voyeur, invited into a dormitory for nurses, remains behind to violate and murder close to a dozen of them. Some of the nurses attempt to talk him out of ending their lives and much of the film is...
View ArticleAndrei Tarkovsky – Andrey Rublyov AKA Andrei Rublev (1969) 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...
View ArticleTomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyo aka The Straight of Hunger (1965)
IMDb user chaosrampant wrote: We’re beating a dead horse if we begin to lament another lost treasure, another overlooked Japanese director who’s yet to receive his dues. Uchida will have to queue up...
View ArticleUbu films – Ubu Films – Sydney Underground Movies 1965-1970 [Volume 1 & 2]
Quote: UBU Films was a Sydney-based independent film-making co-operative which operated from 1965 to around 1970. Its members produced many of the most important experimental and underground films...
View ArticlePere Portabella – Nocturno 29 (1968)
Synopsis: Nocturno 29 begins where “Don’t Count on your Fingers” left off: facing a blank screen and the materialness of the projection. It goes in depth into the future Eisenstein-like structure of...
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