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Satyajit Ray – Aranyer Din Ratri AKA Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Quote: Widely regarded as one of Satyajit Ray’s most magnificent films, “Days and Nights in the Forest” is a beautiful and touching story about four young middle class men who leave Calcutta to spend...
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Mauro Bolognini – Madamigella di Maupin AKA Mademoiselle de Maupin (1966)
Maddalena (the radiant Catherine Spaak) is obliged to dress as a young cleric to escape an invading army, which gets her into hot water as she is forcibly drafted to fight on the other side under the...
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Juraj Jakubisko – Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni AKA Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Quote: Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is often described as the Fellini of Eastern Europe. After the 1968 film The Deserter and the Nomads, he was put in exile in Czechoslovakia after the soviet...
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Elio Petri – L’assassino AKA The Ladykiller of Rome (1961)
Quote: The film is a frequently clever examination of a cynical social climber who finds himself in trouble. Arrested at his home and complete with a phoney alibi to cover his infidelity, our...
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Basu Chatterjee – Sara Akash AKA The Whole Sky (1969)
from IMDb: Agra-based collegian Samar Thakur, lives in a joint family consisting of his dad, mom; brother Amar and his wife; as well as a married sister, Munni, who has been estranged from her...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Honô to onna AKA Flame and Women (1967)
Quote: Honoo to onma (lmpasse; the title translates as the more poetic ” Flame and Woman” neatly rendered in the French title, La Femme et la Flamme) made the same year as The Affair (whose Japanese...
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Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Quote: Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Fve Easy Pieces....
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Hans Richter – Dadascope (1961)
Dadascope is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement with its specific techniques of sound and visual clash, word puns, chess, dice and other games of chance. Richter stated, “There is no story,...
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Yilmaz Güney – Seyyit Han: Topragin Gelini AKA Bride of the Earth (1968)
Synopsis: Seyyit Han is a man with many foes. One day he falls in love with Mürsit’s sister, Keje. Mürsit is fine with them marrying, only on one condition: Seyyit Han has to get rid of his enemies to...
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Oldrich Lipský – Happy End (1967)
Quote: Delightfully witty and with a Kafkaesque spin, Oldřich Lipský‘s brilliant film Happy End (1967) is a quirky little gem from the archives of cinematic history. Crafted with unrelenting precision...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – Ta kokkina fanaria AKA The Red Lanterns (1963)
Quote: … It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival…. The residents of a poor neighbourhood in Piraeus are asked to...
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Yilmaz Güney – Aç kurtlar AKA The Hungry Wolves (1969)
Synopsis: Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains. When a rich landowner wants to avenge the death of his father, he hires Memed as a bounty hunter....
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Vittorio De Sica – Il boom (1963)
Written by John Parrot On 20th April 2012, By the release of Il Boom in 1963, the Italian economy had seen spectacular growth since 1951 in a growth spurt christened ‘il boom’. The country had left...
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Tan Oral – Sansür AKA Censorship (1970)
Quote: A cameraman chases a white rabbit and comes upon police brutality. Recording it and screening the footage will result in immediate censorship. A murder of flying censorship scissors will cut...
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Joseph-Marie Lo Duca & Kenneth Anger – A History of Eroticism (1966)
Joseph-Marie Lo Duca was an Italian-born journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian best known as the co-founder in 1951 of the influential French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma with André...
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Allan King – Warrendale (1967)
Quote: King’s feature debut, Warrendale, about a collection of volatile children from the titular Toronto-based rehabilitation center, has been compared to the works of Pennebaker, Maysles, and Rouch...
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Russ Meyer – Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [+Extras] (1970)
This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of...
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Robert Houston – Shogun Assassin (1980)
A sort of remake of Lone Wolf and Cub for the western market condensing the series in one film. In 1980, Americans David Weisman (producer) and Robert Houston (director) stumbled upon the Japanese...
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Otakar Vávra – Kladivo na carodejnice AKA Witches’ Hammer AKA Witchhammer (1970)
Synopsis: The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the...
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Edwin Zbonek – Der Henker von London AKA The Mad Executioners (1963)
Synopsis: ‘A band of hooded men have formed a court and they are exacting justice upon the criminals who have escaped the reach of the law. The sentence they exact is death by hanging. Using the...
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