1960s

Fourth installment of Shintaro Katsu’s Hoodlum Soldier hit series. Private Omiya (Shintaro Katsu) and Private First Class Arita (Takahiro Tamura) are sent to the border of the Soviet Union.Read More »

The camera follows newly-elected President John F. Kennedy around the White House as he conducts his daily business, meeting with various people in the Oval Office to discuss matters of government. Flashbacks to the 1960 campaign and footage from his 1961 Inauguration show how Kennedy rose to take on “the free world’s most awesome responsibility”. To supplement the President’s discussions on policy, the camera shows viewers the economic hardships of a West Virginia mining town and takes them along on a diplomatic trip to Ethiopia.Read More »

Synopsis: Stefano is the younger son in a family who lives in the outskirts of Rome. He’s been expelled at school, and is starting to work at a newsstand. A poetic look at the life and responsibilities of a poor kid in late-60s Italy.Read More »

Walter Ungerer wrote:
From “Introduction to Oobieland, Part Two of Oobieland moves to a television studio in New York City where the Princess of Oobieland is being interviewed and asked to describe this place called “Oobieland”. She says you can’t locate it on any maps. “There are no maps of it”. She is then asked her opinion about the American landscape, American women, American men and the climate in America. Her answers though insightful, are not altogether flattering.Read More »

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Daniel Schmid’s actual first feature, made during his (later abandoned) studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), is an attempt at an unusual horror film: A little girl asks an older lady to buy her a cinema ticket. They discover that their names are both Miriam. The precocious girl forces her way into the lady’s flat at night and demands a snack and presents. When the impudent child wants to move in with her the next day, the lady asks her neighbours for help.Read More »

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Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father’s properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.Read More »

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Released in 1964 and directed by Fernando Lopes, “Belarmino” charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is considered one of the first films of the Novo Cinema Português, itself part of a wave of New Cinema movements sweeping the world in the 196os, and one of the key markers of a break from the previous traditions of Portuguese cinema.Read More »

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Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is widowed after marrying into a wealthy family, and becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener. Kurahara’s atmospheric style is a perfect match for Mishima’s brooding sensuality.Read More »

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.Read More »