In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gentle into this good night.Read More »
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Qiu Yang – Xiao cheng er yue AKA A Gentle Night (2017)
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Basil Dearden – The Mind Benders (1963)
1961-1970Basil DeardenDramaThrillerUnited KingdomQuote:
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist, Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman (Sir Dirk Bogarde) decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife Oonagh (Mary Ure).Read More » -
Philippe Garrel – Actua I (1968)
1961-1970DocumentaryFrancePhilippe GarrelShort FilmThe Films of May '68May 68 events seen through various 16 & 35mm shots, anonymous images made by young protesters who were filming during the night.Read More »
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Antonio Giménez Rico – Vestida de azul AKA Dressed in Blue (1983)
Antonio Giménez RicoDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)SpainQuote:
This is a documentary about drag queens and transsexuals in Madrid.
This is the story of real people: Lorenzo, Rene, Jose Antonio, Paco, Juan and Jose, told by themselves. Sometimes funny, other dramatic, often pathetic, and how and why they became Lorena, Renee, Mayte, Eve, Tamara and Jhosette.Read More » -
Chia-Liang Liu – Chang men jen aka The Lady is the Boss (1983)
Chia-Liang Liu1981-1990AsianHong KongMartial ArtsLiu Chia-Liang plays Wang Hsieh Yun, a teacher of a martial arts school teacher who has just reopened the school after having to move due to the government building a road where the school once stood. The school’s original master was to come and help open the school, but sends his Americanized daughter Mei Ling (Kara Hui) in his place, hence making her the senior and boss. Mei Ling feels Master Wang’s techniques are old fashioned and take to long to learn, boasting that her father has changed the way he teaches and that she is the authority on how it should be done. Read More »
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Frank Perry – Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
1961-1970DramaFrank PerryUSAquote:
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the civil defense alarm sirens go off, warning them of an imminent nuclear attack. The children are separated into groups, with one teacher leading each squad. Mrs. Andrews, the 6th grade teacher with a slowly building sense of doom, leads her group of students through the countryside to one of the children’s family’s bomb shelter. When they arrive at the shelter, they divide the rations and assume various duties, not knowing if they are in the middle of a nuclear holocaust—or if it was a false alarm.Read More » -
Atsushi Yamatoya – Ke no haeta kenjû AKA The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)
1961-1970Atsushi YamatoyaCrimeExploitationJapanShirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target…Read More »
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Jacques Doillon – Comédie! (1987)
1981-1990ComedyDramaFranceJacques DoillonIn this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow’s summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different lovers. Time passes and things become increasingly tense between them and they begin verbally attacking each other. Finally they make peace and love.Read More »
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Atsushi Yamatoya – Uragiri no kisetsu AKA Season of Treason (1966)
Atsushi YamatoyaExperimentalExploitationJapanA press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.Read More »









