Roland Klick – Jimmy Orpheus (1966)
After three short films, Roland Klick finally wanted to shoot a real feature-length film in 1966. It almost worked out with that. But then the production company Atlas Film went bankrupt during the...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – Hurry Sundown (1967)
Synopsis from allmovie.com: Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden’s novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a...
View ArticleElem Klimov – Pokhozhdeniya zubnogo vracha AKA Adventures of a Dentist (1965)
Description: A comedy about a young dentist, who becomes well-known in his town but suddenly loses faith in himself. — (imdb review) A masterful, pro-elitist, Tatiesque film from Elem Klimov, 22 April...
View ArticleTengiz Abuladze – Vedreba AKA The Plea (1967)
comment from imdb A masterpiece that demands detailed study It’s like Bergman and Kurosawa went to Georgia and decided to do Shakespeare together in the mountains. I’ve seen this film several times...
View ArticleJohn Ford – Donovan’s Reef (1963)
‘Guns’ Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and ‘Boats’ Gilhooley, until Dedham’s high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise. Excitement on Haleakoloha:’Donovan’s...
View ArticleMary Ellen Bute – Finnegans Wake (1966)
Quote: A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Mocky – Les vierges aka The Virgins (1962)
The story of five girls who are looking for their first love and first lovemaking. Some will get their heart’s desire, and some will get their hearts broken… at least for a while. 885MB | 1:24:37 |...
View ArticleFrançois Villiers – Le puits aux trois vérités AKA Three Faces of Sin (1961)
Synopsis Midnight in Paris, Faubourg St Honoré. In one house, a woman suddenly screams and the sound of a gunshot is heard. A short time later, Laurent Lénaud, a young painter, is running away with a...
View ArticleRobert Breer – Fist Fight (1964)
Breer’s extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally presented as part of Karlheinz Sotckhausen’s 1964...
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 ArticleDesmond Davis – Smashing Time (1967)
Quote: SMASHING TIME is a 1967 comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. It is a satire on the 1960s media-influenced phenomenon of Swinging London. It was written by George Melly and...
View ArticleSergei Parajanov – Tsvetok na kamne AKA A Little Flower on a Stone (1962)
Quote: The overtly propagandistic, anti-religious plot of The Flower on the Stone (Tsvetok na kamne, Dovzhenko Film Studio 1960–1962) does not look like promising Parajanov material: when a new...
View ArticleSergei Parajanov – Ukrainskaya rapsodiya aka Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
Quote: “Ukrainskaya Rapsodiya” (the USSR, 1961) of Sergueï Paradjanov is a film saga of oceanic proportion with many rivers flowing into it. The characters are the affluents which mix in and...
View ArticleMike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This...
View ArticleJirí Menzel – Zlocin v santanu aka Crime in a Music Hall [+Extras] (1968)
Description: Black detective comedy Crime in the Cabaret is set in a cabaret Tartaros, where one evening lost a pearl necklace singer Regina Clara gave her devoted admirer of the minister of justice,...
View ArticleJoris Ivens & Marceline Loridan Ivens – Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple...
On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs fall like clockwork. Joris Ivens and Marceline...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Diaries Notes and Sketches AKA Walden (1969) (HD)
Quote: Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening...
View ArticleGilles Grangier – Maigret voit rouge AKA Maigret Sees Red [+Extras] (1963)
Synopsis: “A man is shot dead in the centre of Paris and the witness to the murder finds himself the next target in a vendetta between American gangsters. Inspector Maigret is charged with protecting...
View ArticleStanley Donen – Charade (1963)
Plot: Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust? Review: Stanley Donen’s Charade occupies a special...
View ArticleValentino Orsini & Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – I fuorilegge del...
Studies of various married couples, who under Italian law as it stands, are unable to be freed from a painful and unhappy marriage. 770MB | 1h 34mn | 720×540 | avi...
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