1960s

  • Masashige Narusawa – Yojôhan monogatari: Shôfu Shino AKA Four and A Half Mats (1966)

    1961-1970DramaJapanMasashige Narusawa

    Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold.
    One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who came as a customer.

    Based on a novel by Kafū Nagai.Read More »

  • Jan Curík & Antonín Mása – Bloudení AKA Searching (1966)

    1961-1970Antonín MásaCzech RepublicDramaJan Curík

    NFA.cz:
    Michal’s father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father’s hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.Read More »

  • Stefan Uher – Organ (1965)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaSlovakiaStefan Uher

    A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values.Read More »

  • Péter Bacsó – Fejlövés AKA The Fatal Shot (1968)

    1961-1970DramaHungaryPéter Bacsó

    The plot of the film takes place in a single day. Four men on the same night, the same night club ends up independently of each other, at the end of a busy day. The four men four separate history of sexuality is the focus.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Don Juan (1965)

    1961-1970Ingmar BergmanPerformanceSweden

    A play that premiered 24 February 1965 on China stage, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm and was performed 19 times. It was shown in four parts on TV in November that same year.

    The parts are between 29 & 37 minutes each. Every part begins with approximately 10 minutes from “behind the stage”. First part is from the repetitions about the directing and character developements, second part is about the stage, set- & costume design, in the third part the actors explain the prepatations and makeup, and finally in the fourh part there is bit more makeup, a short description of how it was when the plays were put up in Molieres time and a scene from when the cast are having coffee break.Read More »

  • Edoardo Mulargia – La taglia è tua… l’uomo l’ammazzo io AKA El Puro AKA The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine (1969)

    1961-1970ActionEdoardo MulargiaEuro WesternsItalyWestern

    Edoardo Mulargia’s El Puro (1969; a.k.a. The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine), western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives arguably his greatest performance as a legendary gunfighter forced to emerge from hiding after the bounty hunters on his tail murder the tender-hearted barmaid (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life.Read More »

  • Hiromichi Horikawa – Saigô no shinpan AKA The Last Judgment (1965)

    1961-1970DramaHiromichi HorikawaJapan

    Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern.Read More »

  • Peter Perry Jr. – Mondo Mod (1967)

    1961-1970DocumentaryMusicalPeter Perry Jr.USA

    Beginning with the title song, “It’s a Mod Mod World” by the Gretschmen, “Mondo Mod” explores West Hollywood, California’s famous Sunset Strip in 1966. We journey from discotheques to dirt bike competitions, taking in surfing, karate, go-carting, the Hell’s Angels, political protests, pot parties and all the other trappings of the Now Generation. Along the way, we’re treated to priceless footage of Pandora’s Box, Gazzarri’s, the Whisky A Go-Go, the Fifth Estate, and countless other forgotten haunts of “the neon Neverland that the mod set calls home.” Starring, according to the credits, “The Youth of the World,” “Mondo Mod” features a pot-smoking, bongo-blasting finale during which these hipsters and flipsters start to strip down. Both the film’s cinematographers became world-famous: Laszlo Kovacks for “Easy Rider,” and Vilmos Szigmond for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”Read More »

  • Henry Barakat – Safar Barlek (1966)

    1961-1970DramaHenry BarakatLebanonPolitics

    The Plot:
    The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he’s arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping the resistance get the wheat to the people. When they accomplish their mission, Abou Ahmed, freed Abdou and others escape because now they’re wanted, but on a promise to return and to continue fighting.Read More »

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