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Nicholas Ray – 55 Days at Peking (1963)
from rottentomatoes: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray...
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Yuliya Solntseva – Zacharovannaya Desna AKA The Enchanted Desna (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s comments on first seeing the film: May 26, 1972: A screening of Julia Solntseva’s THE ENCHANTED DESNA (1964) at the Cinémathèque. Here is another Russian masterpiece that, like...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Drawings (1961)
Рисунки. Dessins. Drawings. by Sergei M. Eisenstein Hardcover: 228 pages Publisher: Publishing House “Iskustvo” (Art) (May 30, 1961) Language: Russian, English, French Product Dimensions: 62 x 94.8...
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Miklós Jancsó – Szegénylegények AKA The Round-Up (1966)
SUMMARY A profound influence on filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema. Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of...
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Marko Babac, Zivojin Pavlovic & Vojislav ‘Kokan’ Rakonjac – Grad AKA City (1963)
The first film of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Quote: Grad is a psychological drama about the thin line that separates depression and melancholy. It gives us the opportunity to understand that the...
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Dusan Makavejev – Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. AKA Love...
An early (1967) film by Dusan Makavejev, the master of the eastern European dirty joke (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Montenegro). The passionate affair of a telephone operator and a Marxist rodent...
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Antonio Pietrangeli – La visita AKA The Visitor [+Extras] (1964)
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan In this drama, a single woman approaching 40 grows bored of her affair with a married trucker and writes to a singles column. She ends up paired with an outwardly...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962)
An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord’s home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an...
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Robert Gordon – Black Zoo (1963)
This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends —...
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David Cronenberg – Transfer (1966)
A 1966 short film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg. Quote: Cronenberg: Transfer, my first film, was a surreal sketch for two people – a psychiatrist and his patient – at a table...
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Jan Troell – Här har du ditt liv AKA Here’s Your Life (1966)
jwarthen-3 on IMDb wrote: A beautiful bildungsroman– a young man goes wandering through the world, making his way as he goes and meeting vivid people. The material isn’t romantic– poverty is general,...
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Robert Dhery and Pierre Tchernia – La belle Americaine AKA The American...
Synopsis: ‘The life of an ordinary factory worker Marcel is completely transformed when he manages to acquire an expensive new American car, a Cadillac convertible, for the price of a second-hand...
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David Cronenberg – From The Drain (1967)
Quote: The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict but revealed that they are currently in a mental institution. The first man is paranoid...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kuro bara no yakata AKA Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Synopsis: A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer “Black Rose” to perform in his exclusive men’s club, he gets more...
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Carlos Saura – Peppermint Frappé (1967)
Synopsis: ‘Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with...
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Vittorio De Sica – Matrimonio all’italiana aka Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Synopsis : Sophia Loren stars in this comedy about a successful businessman (Marcello Mastroianni) who kept a woman as his mistress for several years and now plans to marry another woman until his...
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Michele Lupo – Concerto per pistola solista aka The Weekend Murders (1970)
The atmosphere is ripe for murder at the estate of the recently dead Henry Carter. His heirs are a typically suspicious lot. There’s daughter Isabelle (Evelyn Stewart aka Ida Galli, CASE OF THE...
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Carlos Saura – Stress-es tres-tres AKA Stress Is Three (1968)
Synopsis: ‘Fernando, with his wife and life-long friend, Antonio, set out on a weekend together. Fernando begins to suspect his wife and Antonio of being in love, and his jealousy grows as he observes...
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Eric Rohmer – La collectionneuse aka The Collector[+Extra] (1967)
Synopsis A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the...
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David Cronenberg – Crimes of the Future (1970)
Quote: A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth … Tripod discovers the deaths may be caused by poisonous cosmetics manufactured by a...
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