Hugo Santiago – Invasión (1969)
nvasion is the legend of a city, real or imagined, under attack by powerful enemies and defended by a handful of men who may not be heroes. They will carry on their struggle to the finish, unaware...
View ArticleYves Allégret – Germinal (1963)
Synopsis Adaptation of Zola’s novel about 18th-century French coal miners going on strike to fight for better conditions. http://nitroflare.com/view/34342B907931553/Germinal.1963.DVDRip.XviD.part1.rar...
View ArticleMetin Erksan – Sevmek zamani aka Time To Love [Enhanced Quality] (1965)
An obscure gem, a hidden treasure to international cinema lovers; “Sevmek Zamani” is one of the best movies in Turkish cinema history. This cult film still remains as a cinematic enigma for the new...
View ArticleHenrikas Sablevicius – Atspindziai AKA Reflections [Restored] (1968)
“Reflections” is a film created by Henrikas Šablevičius and the national television. Back then, the movie was seen as unconventional in the context of Lithuanian cinema: it employs a surrealistic...
View ArticleBo Widerberg – Kärlek 65 AKA Love 65 (1965)
Foreword: Love 65 shares common elements from director Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard. Especially Fellini’s “8½” and Godards “Contempt” (both from 1963) which also deals...
View ArticleVicente Aranda – Fata Morgana (1965)
“Gim is a beautiful fashion model whose life is in peril. There is a homicidal killer who seek to murder her only Gim is totally unaware of her danger. The only person who seems to be sure that the...
View ArticleFederico Fellini – Giulietta degli spiriti AKA Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Quote: Fellini lore has it that the master made “Juliet of the Spirits” as a gift for his wife. Like many husbands, he gave her the gift he really wanted for himself. The movie, starring a sad-eyed...
View ArticleLucio Fulci – I Maniaci aka The Maniacs (1964)
Plot Synopsis by Robert Firsching A minor comedy from Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2; L’Aldila), this anthology is of interest primarily to cult devotees for marking the notorious director’s...
View ArticleEric Rohmer – Cinéastes de notre temps: Carl Th. Dreyer (1965)
Interview in Copenhagen with Dreyer (speaking French). Also features Anna Karina, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Henrik Malberg, Lisbeth Movin, Jørgen Roos, and Bendt Rothe. First aired 8 April 1965 on ORTF...
View ArticleFrançois Reichenbach & Frédéric Rossif – Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
A famous French documentary director has chosen to match his talents with those of a powerful subject who talks on his youth, his formative years, his life and work. Reichenbach on Welles on Welles,...
View ArticleRoland Klick – Bübchen AKA Little Boy [+Extras] (1968)
“Buebchen” is the german word for “Little Boy”. The film was also released under the title “Little Vampire” which doesn’t make any sense at all. Synopsis In a german suburb a babysitter is too busy...
View ArticleTokuzô Tanaka – Daisatsujin orochi aka The Betrayal (1966)
Synopsis: An absolutely fabulous film, featuring an extended fight scene (~10minutes!) that is the best since SWORD OF DOOM! Far and away Raizo Ichikawa’s best fighting ever!!! He plays an honorable...
View ArticleVatroslav Mimica – Ponedjeljak ili utorak AKA Monday or Tuesday (1966)
Quote: Monday or Tuesday (Serbo-Croatian: Ponedjeljak ili utorak) is an acclaimed 1966 Yugoslav drama film directed by Vatroslav Mimica starring Slobodan Dimitrijević. The film’s title is a famous...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – The Cardinal [+Extras] (1963)
From DVD Verdict.com: The Charge “Look at him now, will you? Stiff as a board, he is, in that fine Eye-talian suit.”—Dennis Fermoyle (Cameron Prud’Homme) Opening Statement As World War I reaches its...
View ArticleVarious – Boris Karloff’s Thriller [Season 2] (1962)
Director: Various Thriller (aka. Boris Karloff’s Thriller) was an hour-long TV Horror anthology series that originally aired on NBC from 1960 to 1962. Horror fans who grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s...
View ArticleVera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm –...
One of the defining works of the Czech New Wave was the portmanteau film Pearls from the Deep (Perlicky na dne, 1965). Not only did it bring five key directors of the Wave (Chytilova, Jires, Menzel,...
View ArticleFrançois Truffaut – La Mariée était en noir AKA The Bride wore Black (1968)
This Francois Truffaut thriller is based on a novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman...
View ArticleSidney Hayers & Orson Welles – L’Etoile Du Sud aka The Southern Star (1969)
Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan In this comic adventure, an impoverished Yankee geologist and his cohorts band together with a group of fortune hunters to search for the priceless “Southern Star,” an...
View ArticleStefan Jarl – Dom kallar oss mods AKA They Call Us Misfits (1968)
Description: They Call Us Misfits follows a group of teenagers as they become recipients, then victims, of Sweden’s welfare-state economy. The group eschews traditional social values, engaging in...
View ArticleBernardo Bertolucci – La via del petrolio (1967)
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before...
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