1960s

  • Kan Mukai – Esa AKA The Bite AKA The Pimp (1966)

    Drama1961-1970EroticaJapanKan Mukai

    Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn’t like what he’s doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day he’s given the assignment to seduce a pretty waitress and they wind up falling in love. Koichi tells his madame that is going to quit, but she has other plans for him.Read More »

  • Keisuke Kinoshita – Kotoshi no koi AKA This Year’s Love (1962)

    1961-1970AsianClassicsJapanKeisuke Kinoshita

    Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.Read More »

  • Michel Soutter – La lune avec les dents AKA The Moon with Teeth (1967)

    Drama1961-1970ArthouseMichel SoutterSwitzerland

    The international cinematic new wave came bursting into the Swiss cinema through the work of Michel Soutter, whose La lune avec les dents (The Moon with Teeth) became practically a manifesto of the movement. Michel Soutter was one of the first directors of New Swiss Cinema who has made fiction films and he cofounded the Groupe 5 with Tanner and Goretta. The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness – until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William’s life – a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction.Read More »

  • Jonas Mekas – Cassis (1966)

    USA1961-1970ExperimentalJonas MekasShort Film

    Max Goldberg wrote:
    Cassis collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats and sailboats sweeping across the bay like wind-up toys. The sudden flare of a lighthouse marks the end of the day (and, with it, Jonas Mekas’s gorgeous film)Read More »

  • Nick Millard – Sappho ’68 (1968)

    1961-1970EroticaNick MillardUSA

    Small town girl Jennifer Bradley moves to San Francisco to eke out a successful career as a photographer. Jennifer soon finds herself caught up in the sexual revolution that’s going on around her and becomes involved with lesbian model Belinda Frazier after her relationships with men prove to be dissatisfying.Read More »

  • Alberto Dubois – Acosada AKA The Pink Pussy: Where Sin Lives (1964)

    1961-1970Alberto DuboisArgentinaDramaExploitation

    An attractive songstress lands herself a performing contract and leaves her home in Buenos Aires. She travels to Venezuela, and when arriving in Caracas, she soon discovers that her contract is a hoax made by a major drug baron.Read More »

  • Stephen C. Apostolof – Orgy of the Dead [+extras] (1965)

    1961-1970CultExploitationStephen C. ApostolofUSA

    Synopsis:
    John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. Before long the couple is spotted and taken prisoner. Tied to stakes and forced to watch the dancing, they await their fate.Read More »

  • Michael Findlay – The Ultimate Degenerate (1969)

    1961-1970ExploitationHorrorMichael FindlayQueer Cinema(s)USA

    From imdb:
    Starts out as if this is going to be one of Findlay’s better efforts and certainly the performances are bright enough and the voice over/lip sync works well enough, this just loses it about two thirds through. I don’t know whether it was the umpteenth use of whipped cream or the over enthusiastic use of corn on the cob, but after being fairly well paced and well shot with decent sexy action, this treads water as if everyone had run out of ideas or possibly a certain someone had a penchant for the aforementioned activities and wanted nothing else. It’s a shame because the first use of the cream being spurted over the nude psychedelic dancers is most effective as was the initial dealings with the phallic vegetable. Lots of oddities and some really good moments just spoiled by the over indulgent final quarter or so.Read More »

  • Jacques Scandelari – La philosophie dans le boudoir AKA Beyond Love and Evil (89 mins French version) (1969)

    France1961-1970EroticaExperimentalJacques Scandelari

    Zenoff enters a heavily guarded country mansion. He finds a vast orgy occurring within, presided over by Yald, a debauched libertine seeking to orchestrate an atmosphere of unbridled sensual pleasure with no concessions to conventional morality. Zenoff is quite shocked, particularly when Yald announces he’s about to be married and that he expects all his guests to have their way with his wife-to-be Xenia-who it just so happens is also Zenoff’s true love.Read More »

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