Masaki Kobayashi – Seppuku AKA Harakiri (1962)
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray editionFollowing the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
Quote:Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger. 343MB | 10min 58s | 790×576...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Scorpio Rising (1963)
Quote:Scorpio Rising is a 1964 experimental film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, starring Bruce Byron as the biker Scorpio. It features themes of leather-clad bikers, the...
View ArticleGillo Pontecorvo – La battaglia di Algeri AKA The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Quote:The most electrifyingly timely movie playing in New York was made in 1965. Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is famous, but for some time it’s been available only in washed-out prints...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Satsujin kyo jidai AKA The Age of Assassins (1967)
Synopsis:The film begins with exposition as a lunatic asylum “mad scientist” ex-Nazi played by Amamoto Eisei (he and his pals switch back and forth between menacing Japanese and scary German the whole...
View ArticleRonald Neame – Gambit (1966)
Synopsis:Cockney cat burglar Harry Dean needs Hong Kong dancer Nicole Chang’s help to pull off the perfect heist. With a simple makeover and a new wardrobe; Nicole’s resemblance to wealthy recluse Mr....
View ArticleJúlio Bressane & Eduardo Escorel – Bethânia Bem de Perto – A Propósito de um...
Documentary about Brazilian pop diva Maria Bethânia, in one of her first shows in Rio de Janeiro. The film also show scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians. 540MB | 33 min 4 s |...
View ArticleLucio Fulci – Operazione San Pietro (1967)
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with...
View ArticleDelmer Daves – Spencer’s Mountain (1963)
SYNOPSIS:Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps...
View ArticleDon Levy – Herostratus (1967)
When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and...
View ArticleMilos Forman – Horí, má panenko AKA The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Quote:A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Aa bakudan AKA Oh, Bomb! (1964) (HD)
Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. With the help of his former cell mate he decides to assassinate the...
View ArticleTorbjörn Axelman – Lejonsommar AKA Vibration (1968)
“As the 1960s drew to a close, European erotica really had its work cut out for it. In particular, Sweden, the country known for crashing American art houses with racy dramas, found itself competing...
View ArticleSusan Sontag – Duett för kannibaler AKA Duet for Cannibals (1969)
The directorial debut of famed American writer, philosopher, and political activist Susan Sontag is an intriguing tale of two couples involved in academia and politics. Artur is a professor living in...
View ArticleVarious – L’amour à vingt ans AKA Love at Twenty (1962)
IMDB says:“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne AKA The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha...
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, directed by the late Satyajit Ray and based on a story by Upendra Kishore Ray, is a popular Bengali children’s film. It is sometimes released in the English-speaking world as...
View ArticlePier Paolo Pasolini – Comizi d’amore AKA Love Meetings (1964)
Quote:Pasolini doesn’t so much ‘meet’ with people of all regions of his country as interrogate them, trying to investigate the sexual mores of his time in a typical melding of politics and sex, of...
View ArticleKôji Wakamatsu – Zoku Nihon bôkô ankokushi: Bôgyakuma AKA Dark Story Of A...
Synopsis:Fresh off the box-office success of Violated Angels, an eroticized dramatization of the Richard Speck case, director Koji Wakamatsu turned his attention to another real-life criminal, Yoshio...
View ArticleHans W. Geissendörfer – Jonathan (1970)
In a apocalyptic 19th century landscape where wealthy vampires have taken over the world, a group of humans prepare an uprising, and select an adventurous young man to track down the leader of the...
View ArticleVladimir Denisenko – Sovist AKA Conscience (1968)
Quote:The story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the...
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