1960s

Anna Maria, a girl from a small provincial town, runs away with her boyfriend to Rome because her parents are opposed to their marriage and asks her brother Roberto for protection. At Rome Anna Maria gets acquainted with Diana, her brother’s complicated lover, full of impetus, rebellion and disorder, and Paolo, a friend Roberto shares not only the flat but also concerns and hopes with. The absolute freedom which the two friends use to live with leads Anna Maria to discover a new way to conceive human relationships, hence she decides to shrug her moral prejudiges offRead More »

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Our Trip to Africa (German: Unsere Afrikareise) is a 1966 Austrian avant-garde short film by Peter Kubelka, originally commissioned as a travel diary documenting a wild game hunt. Kubelka used intricate editing strategies to produce a work about anti-colonialism.Read More »

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Lovely granny in Paris, potted string bean plant with a tender devotion akin to love and plants it in a row of blossoming white shrubs in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.Read More »

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Arnulf Rainer’s images are the most ´reducedª of all — this is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 seconds and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker effect is produced, which is as close as Kubelka can come to the somewhat more rapid flicker of motion-picture projection; during the long sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely which form it will take. But Arnulf Rainer is not merely a study of film rhythm and flicker.Read More »

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Peppermint Frappé opens to the image of a pair of hands meticulously cropping images from a fashion magazine for a personal scrapbook. The hands belong to an unassuming and conservative physician named Julian (José Luis López Vázquez) who runs a radiology clinic from his personal residence, assisted by a shy, mild mannered nurse named Ana (Geraldine Chaplin). One afternoon, Julian pays a visit to his childhood friend, Pablo (Alfredo Mayo), a charismatic and sophisticated adventurer who has recently returned from Africa with the unexpected news that he has married a beautiful and carefree young woman named Elena (Geraldine Chaplin). Read More »

In the streets of Paris, men and women walk, meet, discuss, avoid each other in the midst of eager traffic.
A film composed with the rushes of Joli Mai unused today destroyed.Read More »

A Marine platoon led by Captain Stern (Richard Harrison) has 36 hours to scout the island of Rabaul and make sure all of the Japanese resistance has been wiped out before the Allies launch one massive, final bombing mission. This is an Italian response to the excellent “Beach Red” by Cornel Wilde.Read More »

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Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream “Unterhaltungskino” (“entertainment cinema”) and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.Read More »

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A couple is pursued by the police and citizens of the city for the crime of having invented love. “In every corner of the city on the walls of the bars on the doors of public buildings in the windows of the bus even that wall ruined through radios ads and detergents in the small shop window where no one enters the lobby of the railway station which was the home of our hope of escape a poster denounces our love …Read More »