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Giovanni Fago – O’Cangaçeiro AKA The Magnificent Bandits (1970)
IMDB:Espidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As “Redeemer” Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – The Passion according to Andrei AKA Andrei Rublev (1966)
SynopsisAn expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually...
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Bo Widerberg – Kvarteret Korpen aka Raven’s End (1963)
By Roger Ebert / March 20, 1972The young man looks at the empty lives of the people living on his block, and writes an angry book about the way they’ve been treated. A publisher invites him to...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Sex-Business – Made in Pasing (1969)
Quote:The topic of the film is Alois Brummer, a likeable and inoffensive man from Lower Bavaria, a sex film producer. A man, small and round in stature, unusually active, with a nose for the market,...
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Jonas Mekas – Cassis (1966)
Max Goldberg wrote:Cassis collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats...
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Gregory J. Markopoulos – Ming Green (1966)
Quote:In early spring of 1966, in anticipation of his eventual departure from the Greenwich Village apartment in which he had been living for a number of years, [Markopoulos] filmed the revelatory...
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Jonas Mekas – Report from Millbrook (1966)
Max Goldberg wrote:Jonas Mekas’ elegant report on a Poughkeepsie police department’s raid of Timothy Leary’s base-of-operations amply demonstrates the political potential of his diary filmmaking. The...
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Herschell Gordon Lewis – Boin-n-g (1963)
Quote:What could be better than Dave Friedman and Herschell Gordon Lewis lampooning themselves and the sexploitation industry? Well…OK, fine.. a lot of things, but it’s fun to watch just the same. Two...
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Jonas Mekas – Hare Krishna (1966)
Max Goldberg wrote:Jonas Mekas’s freewheeling camerawork leaves itself open to the possibility of a second Great Awakening in this impressionistic sketch of a Hare Krishna troupe taking to the...
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Shigehiro Ozawa – Tosei-nin retsuden AKA Yakuza’s Tale (1969)
SynopsisA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible...
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Jan Nemec – O slavnosti a hostech AKA The Party and the Guests (1966)
Distinguished as being ‘banned forever’ in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec’s film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of governmental and institutional power and with...
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Henrikas Sablevicius – Musu vasara (1963)
Synopsis:A children’s short film about the summer adventures of a schoolboy and his dog. The protagonist of the film seeks to get on TV to demonstrate the “extraordinary talent” of his four-legged...
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Robert Aldrich – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Quote:In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and ‘Baby’ Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville...
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Daisuke Itô – Hangyakuji AKA The Conspirator (1961)
Synopsis:During an era of civil wars, in the 7th year of Tenso, Yoshimoto Imagawa was overthrown by Oda Nobunaga with the help of Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu’s wife, Lady Tsukiyama, was of the ruined...
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Jean-Denis Bonan – Tristesse des anthropophages (1966)
Quote:A Christ is sentenced by his peers to return to his mother’s womb. Rejected by the censorship commitee on the grounds of “scenes of extreme eroticism and dialogs of the scatological and obscene...
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Robin 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...
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Richard Rush – Psych-Out (1968)
Quote:Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney...
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Christian 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...
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John Frankenheimer – Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
AMG:Burt Lancaster sits comfortably in his manly yet sensitive mode as Robert Stroud, and director John Frankenheimer gives him an easy road to absolution. The film manages to stay interesting despite...
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Barbara Loden – Wanda (1970) (HD)
Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on...
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