1960s

Following a mysterious stay in a psychiatric hospital, Ernie Turner (The Prisoner’s Alexis Kanner) decides to pursue his destiny as a writer. Hungry for inspiration and human contact, he ventures into the vibrant streets of ’60s Montreal, establishes a conflicted romance with Donna (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz’s Judith Gault), and reunites with his frustrated ex, Gail (The Dead Zone’s Jackie Burroughs). Unable to reconcile the pieces of his fragmented existence or make any progress on the literary front, Ernie begins a new descent into madness – with shocking results.Read More »

The archive consists of the following experimental short films:

Souvenir (1967, 10′)
Film (1967, 15′)
Ferreri (1967, 13′)
Vietnam (1967, 3′)
Fotografo (1967, 2′)Read More »

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss
– basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths –
whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie,
are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori.Read More »

Eye Film Player wrote:
War film about a raid on a prison in Leeuwarden in 1944.

On 8 December 1944, a number of Frisian resistance fighters raided a prison in Leeuwarden and, without loss of blood, freed dozens of prisoners, among them several leaders of the Leeuwarden resistance and a police inspector. For some of the prisoners, severely weakened by torture, the raid came just in time. “The Silent Raid” paints a sober and unromantic picture of this heroic deed.Read More »

During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people–a girl and two guys–become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.Read More »

Quote:
A film about learning for blind children. Despite their illness, they are full of passion for discovery. Being able to describe an ordinary egg arouses in them a sense of happiness, wonder and curiosity. The real experiential experience comes only after the chicken hatches.Read More »

Quote:
The auction of things found in Warsaw buses and trams is a pretext for the director to show a gallery of faces of Warsaw smarties and other respected representatives of the consumer society. The film proves that the Christmas “run for carp”, in various forms, is a traditional national sport of Poles.

A lovely gesture – a bouquet of roses – from husband to wife becomes the catalyst for a clash of long-repressed emotion in the movie adaptation of the Tony – and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage hit The Subject Was Roses. Martin Sheen, as the son home from war, and Jack Albertson, Academy Award winner as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the distant father, both appeared in the Broadway version, where Albertson had already captured a Tony Award for his powerful work. Patricia Neal plays the third side of the family triangle in a moving performance that earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and marked her triumphant return to the screen after a debilitating series of strokes.Read More »

Quote:
Five men have been business partners for decades. After years of working on the streets they pooled their money and purchased a night club that attracted a decent clientele. But their best days came after they remodeled the club into a gambling house. They kept the tiny dancing hall, but worked diligently to earn a reputation as a safe destination for seasoned gamblers. Their profits were small but steady and over time all of them were able to increase their savings.Read More »