Marcel Hanoun – L’hiver (1969)
Synopsis:Julien et son preneur de son, Michel, tournent à Bruges un documentaire de commande. Julien rêve au film qu’il pourrait tourner dans cette ville mystérieuse: une adaptation de Shakespeare ou...
View ArticleMarcel Hanoun – L’été (1968)
Quote:After the event of May1968, a young woman shelters in the country, in a house where she waits for her partner. Quote:“…‘Who creates? And for whom?’ What is important is that Hanoun does not...
View ArticleRobert Day – Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Plot:Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. The Lord of the Jungle is accompanied on his quest by a...
View ArticleJørgen Leth – Det Perfekte menneske AKA The Perfect Human (1967)
An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights “The Perfect Human,” a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking. 100MB | 00:13:00 | 608*416 |...
View ArticleRichard Irving – Istanbul Express (1968)
Art expert Gene Barry finds himself involved in international intrigue aboard the Istanbul Express as several agencies vie for a scientist’s papers. Who can he trust?...
View ArticleJanusz Majewski – Czarna suknia aka Black Dress (1967)
Two handed chamber piece about a middle aged woman who returns from the camps after WWII and meets the mother of her deceased husband. Unable to explain the truth about her husband’s death, Joanna...
View ArticleDaniel Mann – Five Finger Exercise (1962)
Plot Synopsis by Mark DemingA distinguished cast highlights this film adaptation of a stage drama by Peter Shaffer. Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins) is a self-made businessman incapable of expressing...
View ArticleGrigori Kromanov – Viimne reliikvia AKA The Last Relic (1969)
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled – there’s a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman...
View ArticleKamran Shirdel – Nedamatgah AKA Women’s Prison (1965)
“Women’s Prison” recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The...
View ArticleVictor Erice, Claudio Guerín & José Luis Egea – Los Desafíos aka The...
Synopsis:Dean Selmier plays an expatriate American in each story of this trilogy. Francisco Rabal and his family star in the first feature filmed at the Rabal family home in Madrid. An over aggressive...
View ArticleAgnès Varda – Le bonheur AKA Happiness (1965)
Quote: Even with the landscape bathed in warm hues and verdant fields on a summer day, accompanied by the lushness of a textured Mozart adagio, clad with airy wispiness of draped muslin, and...
View ArticleKeisuke Kinoshita – Utae wakado-tachi AKA Sing, Young People (1963)
Quote:A college student receives a surprising offer to be a movie star in this unlikely Kinoshita film, sort of college film by the veteran director including even semi nude scene, but eventually the...
View ArticleErmanno Olmi – Il posto [+Extras] (1961)
“Criterion” wrote:When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a...
View ArticleAndy Warhol – Sleep (Full Version) (1963)
BW/Silent/5 Hrs 21 Mins at 16fps/4 hrs 45 mins at 18fpsJohn Giorno Andy Warhol: “I could never finally figure out if more things happened in the sixties because there was more awake time for them to...
View ArticleKamran Shirdel – Teheran, payetakht-e Iran ast AKA Tehran is the Capital of...
“Tehran is the Capital of Iran” (1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran. The images of destitution in Tehran’s poor areas is accompanied by a variety of spoken accounts:...
View ArticleMarcel Hanoun – Octobre à Madrid (1967
“OCTOBRE A MADRID” 1964, 70 min, 16 mm Octobre à Madrid, de Marcel Hanoun (1964), est certainement le film qui m’a le plus hanté et nourri depuis près de quarante ans. Je l’ai vu, pour la première...
View ArticleKamran Shirdel – Nedamatgah AKA Women’s Prison (1965)
“Women’s Prison” recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The...
View ArticleYilmaz Atadeniz – Kilink soy ve öldür aka Kilink: Strip And Kill (1967)
Kilink turns one gang against another rival gang in order to get a precious microfilm and a big foreign treasure. This Turkish super villain film is absolutely wonderful. Starring: Yildirim Gencer,...
View ArticleNagisa Ôshima – Etsuraku AKA Pleasure of the Flesh (1965)
After killing a man that raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself embroiled in a plot being blackmailed into looking after a huge amount of cash. With tensions mounting and anxiety...
View ArticleMasao Adachi – Sain aka The Closed Vagina (1963)
Sain (The Closed Vagina) 57min, 16mm The Nihon University Cinema Club (Nichidai Eiken) was an organization formed in 1957 by Hirano Katsumi, Kanbara Hiroshi, Ko Hiro, and Jonouchi Motoharu. Employing...
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