Vittorio Cottafavi – Il taglio del bosco AKA Woodcutting (1963)
Quote:Il taglio del bosco is a film for television of 1963 , directed by Vittorio Cottafavi , taken from eponymous book by Carlo Cassola . The film, produced by RAI, was broadcast on September 19,...
View ArticleVittorio Cottafavi – Operazione Vega (1962)
Quote: A TV movie (aired on Rai on July 2, 1962) that seems to come from a remote galaxy. We are no longer used to anything like this. It is an alienating charm, consciously cooled to the extreme,...
View ArticleBahrudin ‘Bato’ Cengic – Mali vojnici AKA Playing Soldiers (1967) (HD)
Quote:After the end of WW2 a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of Partizans or people being killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy’s parents were Nazis but...
View ArticleYuriy Ozerov – Osvobozhdenie AKA Liberation (1969)
The five films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union’s territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front...
View ArticleJean Harlez – Le chantier des gosses AKA The Children’s Building Site (1956)
Quote:LE CHANTIER DES GOSSES THE CHILDREN’S BUILDING SITE JEAN HARLEZ, 1956-1970, BE, 35MM, OV FR ST ANG & NL, 83′ The narrow streets of the Marolles are full with kids. Their paradise is a...
View ArticleRaoul Servais – Goldframe (1970)
Synopsis:‘Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It’s his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants...
View ArticleRaoul Servais – De valse noot AKA La fausse note AKA The False Note (1963)
Synopsis:‘A little beggar tries in vain to get an alms in a big city where everything is organised, efficient and lucrative. His barrel organ’s tune always ends with an impressive false note,...
View ArticleChris Marker – Si j’avais quatre dromadaires AKA If I Had Four Dromedaries...
Quote:Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated,...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Chiriyakhana AKA The Zoo (1967)
Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana (Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা; English: The Zoo) is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film, based on the story of the same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, directed...
View ArticleTakashi Tsuboshima – Ai no kizuna AKA Bonds of Love (1969)
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story “Tazutazushi”. Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior’s daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance...
View ArticleRenato Castellani & Luigi Comencini & Franco Rossi – 3 notti d’amore AKA...
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as “out of place” women, longing for love, in a...
View ArticleÉric Rohmer – Nadja à Paris AKA Nadja in Paris (1964)
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety...
View ArticleRaoul Servais – Chromophobia (1966)
Synopsis:‘The grey legions invade the world of colour to establish their colourless dominance. Resistance appears in the shape of a scarlet jester, who restores the reign of colour using his chromatic...
View ArticleÉric Rohmer – La boulangère de Monceau AKA The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee. 539MB | 23 min 2 s | 790×576 | mkv...
View ArticleJohn Sturges – The Great Escape (1963)
Summary:Based on a true story by Paul Brickhill, this epic adventure about a mass escape planned by Allied officers being kept in an elite German P.O.W. camp, especially designed to prevent it, is a...
View ArticleJean-Claude Brisseau – Dimanche après-midi (1966-1967)
Quote: Lisa Heredia, la veuve et la monteuse de Jean-Claude Brisseau, nous a confié ces films. Ce sont ses tout premiers essais, qu’il a montrés quelques années plus tard à Eric Rohmer, qui en fut...
View ArticleJean-Daniel Pollet – Le maître du temps AKA The Master of Time (1970)
Quote:An alien, master of the time from a distant star who travels centuries to centuries, explores our planet. He finds himself on a Brazilian beach with his magic ring. Quote:Endowed with the...
View ArticleChadi Abdel Salam – Al-mummia AKA The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
In the late 1800s, an isolated Egyptian mountain clan sustains itself by exploiting Egypt’s ancient heritage, secretly raiding the tombs of the Pharaohs in Thebes. “One of the greatest Egyptian films...
View ArticleZivojin Pavlovic – Neprijatelj (1965)
Quote:At the time when Sovražnik (1965) was filmed , Živojin Pavlović had only two omnibuses that he made with colleagues from the Belgrade Cinema Club, Kapi, vode, ratnici and Grad . The latter was...
View ArticleRollan Sergiyenko – Belye tuchi AKA Bili Khmary AKA White Clouds (1968)
Quote:THE LOST MASTERPIECE OF SOVIET CINEMA Belye Tuchi – or as it should be called, Bili Khmary – is a movie that has somehow got lost and is now all but forgotten. The title is usually translated...
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