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Miyoji Ieki – Robo no Ishi AKA The Wayside Pebble (1964)
Synopsis: The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small...
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François Truffaut – Domicile conjugal AKA Bed and Board (1970)
Quote: So here he is for the last time, Antoine Doinel, who has grown up like the rest of us and has finally, apparently, found conjugal peace. He has changed a lot along the way. Francois Truffaut...
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Aleksandr Gintsburg – Giperboloid inzhenera Garina AKA Engineer Garin’s...
Synopsis: The year is 1925. Professor Mantsev invents a weapon of a formidable destructive force never seen before – a hyperboloid that strikes dead with a beam… Engineer Garin steals this prototype...
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Miklós Jancsó – Oldás és kötés AKA Cantata (1963)
Quote: Jancsó’s second feature film, received the Hungarian Critics’ Prize. In this work, influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni, Jancsó created the unique visual style by which he became known – the...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin – Le vent d’est AKA Wind From the East...
“Wind From the East” (“Le Vent D’Est”) is a very deep and highly political discussion about communism, capitalism, art, revolution, intellectualism, Maoism, USSR, tradition, paradigms, poetry… It’s...
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Georgiy Daneliya – Ne goryuy! AKA Don’t Grieve (1969)
Synopsis: After graduating from St. Petersburg University, full of hopes and grand plans, returned to his native town of the young doctor Benjamin Glonti. But life as before his departure, is running...
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Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu – Seiyûgi AKA Sex Game (1969)
Quote: The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a ‘play“ rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. As they loaf around, reading...
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Alain Resnais – Je t’aime je t’aime AKA I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Quote: “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,” which opened yesterday at the New Yorker Theater, was shown at the eighth New York Film Festival. The following is from Roger Greenspun’s review, which appeared Sept....
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Michael Haneke – Die Rebellion (1993)
Quote: Die Rebellion (The Rebellion). 1993. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy,...
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Gene Saks – The Odd Couple [+Extras] (1968)
by Bill Gibron: There was a time, a little less than four decades ago, when Neil Simon was the literary benchmark of both Broadway and the Silver Screen. After a successful stint as a TV scribe on Sid...
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Manoel de Oliveira – A Caça AKA The Hunt (1964)
Quote: “A caça” is one Oliveira’s most distressing and mysterious films. Two boys, Roberto and José, enter a hunting ground, flooded with marshes. José falls into a quagmire and Roberto runs to the...
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Giuseppe Patroni Griffi – Il mare (1963)
Quote: Tourist season has not yet begun. Capri is deserted and the sky is sadly grey. An actor arrives. He’s waiting for a woman who won’t come. In the meanwhile he’s having a strange relationship...
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Martin Scorsese – It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Synopsis: Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success...
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Luchino Visconti – Il gattopardo AKA The Leopard (1963)
Luchino Visconti’s “Il Gattopardo” is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento, when the...
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Frank Perry – Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Review by Michael Costello Frank Perry’s bleak study of the lot of a beleaguered Manhattan housewife features three excellent performances. Carrie Snodgress stars as the wife of a lawyer (Richard...
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Horst E. Brandt & Heinz Thiel – Heroin (1968)
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot...
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António da Cunha Telles – O Cerco AKA Besieged AKA The Circle (1970)
Quote: A young woman leaves her abusive husband to become the mistress of a married American living in Lisbon. He pays for her apartment, and she becomes a model. After an affair with a photographer...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Le départ AKA The Departure [+Extras] (1967)
Synopsis: A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser’s apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race. —...
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Risto Jarva – Työmiehen päiväkirja aka The Diary of a Worker (1967)
Following passages selectively translated from Risto Jarva Society’s website: Risto Jarva was a central director in the Finnish New Wave. His career is one of the most extensive and important in the...
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Bo Widerberg – Elvira Madigan (1967)
“Exquisite” is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description of Elvira Madigan, a Swedish film by Bo Widerberg that was put on at the late show in Philharmonic Hall last...
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