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Larisa Shepitko – Znoy (1963)
Quote:Heat was Shepitko’s diploma feature, her extraordinary talent underlined by its unprecedented success, winning prizes at the Leningrad and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals. It was also made in...
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Lance Comfort – The Breaking Point (1961)
Quote:Based on a novel by Laurence Meynell, this film tells of a young businessman from England who who gets involved in a scheme to inundate a small communist country in the Middle East with...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Aa bakudan AKA Oh, Bomb! (1964)
Synopsis:The sixth generation boss of the Ona yakuza, Daisaku Ona, attempts to return to his old gang after three years in prison, only to discover that it has transformed into a corporation and that...
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Tinto Brass – Yankee (1966)
Synopsis:Yankee, (Philippe Leroy in his first western) is a bounty killer who decides to take on a bandit chief and his henchmen when he realises the prices on all their heads adds up to a tidy sum....
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – Mort dans l’après-midi (1968)
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...
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Armand Gatti – El otro Cristóbal (1963)
Using satire, encoded in symbolism and surrealism, the French director Armand Gatti tells the story of an imaginary country in Latin America governed by Admiral Anastasio. In this setting, Cristóbal,...
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Giuliano Carnimeo – Una nuvola di polvere… un grido di morte… arriva Sartana...
Synopsis:Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of...
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – La muerte de un burócrata AKA Death of a Bureaucrat...
SYNOPSISA worker dies in an accident at his work and is buried with his union card, essential for the widow to receive a pension. To recover it, the family is forced to carry out a clandestine...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Samurai aka Samurai Assassin (1965)
Synopsis:February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962)
Quote:Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on the property. Iyi’s clansmen,...
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Boris Barnet – Alyonka (1961)
Quote:Kazakhstan, the 50s. The main heroine of the film is a nine-year-old girl Alyonka, who is sent to town by her parents to study. The girl meets various companions on her long way. Some of them...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Katzelmacher (1969)
Quote:Katzelmacher was a revelation. One of only a handful of Fassbinder films which I had not seen before, it seems among his best, and most challenging, works. Fassbinder’s second feature film,...
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Karel Reisz – Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Quote:From Karel Reisz, the renowned director of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Night Must Fall, Isadora, The Gambler, Who’ll Stop the Rain, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Sweet Dreams, comes...
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Richard Leacock & Mark Woodcock – Two American Audiences: La Chinoise – A...
Two American Audiences (Richard Leacock, Mark Woodcock, 1968, 40 min., 16mm): Announcing itself as “a typical Pennebaker production of a typical Godard visit,” JLG speaks with grad students and Serge...
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Francesco Rosi – Salvatore Giuliano [+Extras] (1962)
SynopsisIn 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and...
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Sydney Pollack – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Quote:They Shoot Horses Don’t They? is set in the dark years of the l930s, when dance marathons became popular as a way for desperate people to compete for prize money. Sometimes the events would drag...
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Tony Richardson – Ned Kelly (1970)
Quote:The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming one of the most notorious bushrangers in Australia’s history. 2.41GB | 1h 43mn | 1022×576 | mkv...
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Andy Warhol & Chuck Wein – My Hustler (1965)
Filmed on Fire Island, this two reel, 70 minute Warhol film covers the activities of the “Dial A Hustler” service, as an older man seeks a young hustler for a companion. 1.29GB | 1h 03mn | 664×498 |...
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Júlio Bressane – Cara a Cara (1967)
Quote:A man, sort of penpusher living in the darkness of books or in a ruined house with his dying mother, watches out for of a radiant, rich young girl. Her father meanwhile seems to organize some...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Nihon bôkô ankokushi: Ijôsha no chi AKA Abnormal Blood (1967)
Synopsis: A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that...
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