1960s

‘Carmen from Kawachi brings the nihilist Suzuki universe to a woman’s life in the decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, Tsuyuko, whose rape by two fellow villagers starts her on the road to sexual awareness and finally, independence. It is a long, picaresque road indeed, meandering from Osaka’s Club Dada, through liaisons with a millionaire, a dominatrix, and an action painter–all the while cohabiting with a degenerate if loving roué. The determining encounter is with a corrupt monk, whose sordid affair with her mother had been for Tsuyuko a primal introduction to sexual hypocrisy and male brutality.’Read More »

The movie follows Henry, a cynic, and Loribella, a romantic, as they try to get through this thing called life together. The movie features very little spoken dialog and instead relies primarily on an interplay between the great visuals and the voice over narration performed by Burgess Meredith. It is sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but in the end it stands as a great humanist work that I think serves as a very sober view of the lives that many of us live. While the film is rather short at just over 70 minutes you feel at the end as if you have witnessed their entire existence.Read More »

A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.Read More »

Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) is an average guy whose face is disfigured by a falling electrical power line in which he somehow acquires the gift/curse of strange psychic powers. After withdrawing from public life, ‘Mitch’ makes a living as a fortune teller when he’s approached by an ugly hag who offers to restore his good looks if he becomes her lover. Mitch reluctantly agrees, and although his face is restored, people around him see his lover as an attractive young woman named Ellen (Elizabeth Lee). When news of Mitch’s psychic powers leak out, he goes on the road with Ellen from city to city and town to town helping people solve crimes. After expelling a ghost from a funeral home, Mitch and Ellen are sent to a small Illinois town to find the identity of a serial killer. But the government sends along a crackpot psychiatrist/playboy, named Dr. Alex Jordan (William Brooker), to oversee the case and possibly debunk Mitch’s psychic abilities. When Dr. Jordan turns his sights on Ellen and plots to steal her away from Mitch, she goes to great efforts to prevent that from happening while helping Mitch try to find the serial killer.Read More »

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.Read More »

Nicol Williamson takes the lead role in this star-studded 1969 version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. Prince Hamlet (Williamson) mourns his father’s death and his mother’s (Judy Parfitt’s) marriage to Claudius (Sir Anthony Hopkins). When the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to him and tells him that Claudius has poisoned him, Hamlet swears revenge.Read More »

Pierre, a young pianist, goes to Munich for the funeral of his father, the great Alberto, a famous illusionist. Everything surprises and shocks him in this fairground world where he feels like a foreigner. He is however very attracted by a beautiful young girl who is part of the troop, Hildegret. Pierre discovers that under this identity, for the needs of the show, are actually hiding two twin sisters Greta and Hilda. And the illusion has only just begun.Read More »

During a thunderstorm, Greek alcoholic Maria, her English husband, Paul, their small daughter Judith, and traveling companion Claire seek refuge overnight in a small Spanish hotel. While drinking Maria observes Paul and Claire embracing on a balcony and is strangely excited.Read More »

Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.Read More »