Marcel Camus – L’oiseau de paradis AKA Bird of Paradise AKA Dragon Sky (1962)
One of the rare Western films to take advantage of the spectacular setting of the temples at Angkor in Cambodia, L’Oiseau de Paradis is directed by Marcel Camus. The tale itself is relatively simple....
View ArticleJonas Mekas – The Brig (1964)
Quote:Jonas Mekas’ The Brig is a fake documentary about ten confined soldiers in a U.S. Navy ship and the three guards who beat and humiliate them. After the title of the film, “The Brig”, the next...
View ArticleCarmine Gallone – Don Camillo monsignore… ma non troppo AKA Don Camillo:...
With both Don Camillo and his communist archenemy Peppone away in Rome, the little Italian village of Brescello is at last a haven of peace. But this happy state of affairs doesn’t last long… The news...
View ArticleKimio Yabuki & Fred Ladd – Nagagutsu o haita neko AKA The Wonderful World of...
Quote:Puss in Boots is one of the great slapstick cartoons, a freewheeling joyride that stays in your head and sticks to your bones. It’s probably the best animated comedy ever made in Japan (although...
View ArticleEugenio Martín – Réquiem para el gringo AKA Duel in the Eclipse (1968)
Gringo is a notorious gunfighter. After his brother is tortured and killed by bandits, Gringo joins the group to eliminate them one by one from the inside! A nice looking and somewhat offbeat movie...
View ArticleFons Rademakers – Als twee druppels water AKA The Spitting Image (1963)
Quote:Transformation under duress is at the nexus of this excellent wartime drama by noted Dutch filmmaker Fons Rademakers. The setting is Holland under German occupation and young Ducker (Lex...
View ArticleLino Del Fra & Cecilia Mangini & Lino Miccichè – All’armi siam fascisti! AKA...
Quote:A compelling documentary that analyzes the origins and the events that characterized the phenomenon of fascism in Italy. The film offers a record of historical, political and social events, from...
View ArticleJan Troell – Uppehåll i myrlandet AKA Interlude in the Marshland (1965)
Quote:It’s the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find...
View ArticleBill Reid – Occupation (1970)
In this documentary, striking political science students concerned with the democratization of their university occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The issue:...
View ArticleKô Nakahira – Ryojin nikki AKA Hunter’s Diary (1964)
Quote:A complex and far from straight-forward Nakahira film about a womanizer suspected to be a serial killer. 1.21GB | 2h 02m | 712×296 | mkv...
View ArticleAleksander Ford – Pierwszy dzien wolnosci AKA The First Day of Freedom (1964)
The First Day of Freedom (Polish: Pierwszy dzień wolności) is a 1964 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. Quote:Freed Polish soldiers are...
View ArticleFabien Collin & François Moreuil – La récréation AKA Playtime (1961)
Synopsis:‘Kate, an American at a Parisian boarding school, faces the moral and ethical choices of adulthood. Looking over the wall of her school, she becomes fascinated with a sculptor next door, and...
View ArticleKarel Kachyna – Kocár do Vídne AKA Coach to Vienna (1966)
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.Review by More_Badass ★★★★½:Steely revenge and humanity...
View ArticleLev Kulidzhanov – Kogda derevya byli bolshimi AKA When the Trees Were Tall...
Plot:World War II veteran Kuzma Kuzmich Iordanov has become a heavy drinker with no interest in finding employment of any kind. He joins a collective farm, claiming to be the father of Natasha, a...
View ArticleJoseph Losey – Boom! (1968)
Quote:Movie version of playwright Tennessee Williams’ “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” involves very wealthy Flora “Sissy” Goforth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), supposedly dying, and living in a...
View ArticleShakti Samanta – An Evening in Paris (1967)
In romantic Paris, two Parisians of Indian origin are in love namely Shyam or Sam and Roopa. Mystery and intrigue surround this romance, as Roopa is abducted and held by criminal mastermind Jack and...
View ArticleYoshiyuki Kuroda & Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Tôkaidô obake dôchû AKA Yokai Monsters:...
The murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai. 1.78GB | 1h 18m | 1024×436 | mkv...
View ArticleYoshiyuki Kuroda – Yôkai daisensô AKA Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare AKA The...
Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. 1.80GB | 1h 18m |...
View ArticleBarney Platts-Mills – Bronco Bullfrog (1970)
Quote:British working-class youth are realistically portrayed in this rare, mod film. A group of delinquent teenagers in London’s East End circa 1969 roam the streets “bored as usual” because “there’s...
View ArticleShûsaku Arakawa – Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (1970)
Quote:Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre...
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