1960s

  • Orson Welles – Le Procès AKA The Trial (1962) (HD)

    Drama1961-1970ClassicsOrson WellesUSA
    Le Procès (1962) (HD)
    Le Procès (1962) (HD)

    An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.Read More »

  • William Rotsler – Like It Is AKA Psychedelic Fever AKA The Enormous Midnight (1968)

    William Rotsler1961-1970DocumentaryExploitationUSA
    Like It Is (1968)
    Like It Is (1968)

    Synopsis: This documentary on the “youth movement” of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area. Included are discussions of the drug scene with some of the kids themselves and, naturally, several examples of the hippie philosophy of peace, love and gratuitous nudity.Read More »

  • Georges Lautner – Le monocle noir AKA The Black Monocle (1961)

    Georges Lautner1961-1970ComedyCrimeFrance

    Synopsis:
    The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Tudzhi AKA Cast Iron (1964)

    Otar Iosseliani1961-1970DocumentaryGeorgiaShort Film
    Tudzhi (1964)
    Tudzhi (1964)

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    Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.Read More »

  • Yasuzô Masumura – Kuro no chôtokkyu AKA The Black Express (1964)

    Yasuzô Masumura1961-1970CrimeJapanThriller
    Kuro no chôtokkyu (1964)
    Kuro no chôtokkyu (1964)

    Quote:
    Basically the plot revolves around an endebted entreprenor who sell his fields to a business-man who plan to build an car-factory. Instead of this factory, the fields will prove to be used for the Shinkansen line. Then, the endebted entreprenor will seek back the business-man for get much more money he deserved in this real trade.

    Another not-so subtle critic of capitalism, but some good dark thriller moments and a great&painful strangulation sequence!Read More »

  • Basil Dearden – All Night Long (1962)

    Basil Dearden1961-1970DramaUnited Kingdom
    All Night Long (1962)
    All Night Long (1962)

    Quote:
    Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough star in this powerful psychological drama which deftly re-interprets Shakespeare’s Othello via the beating, syncopated heart of East London’s early-sixties jazz scene. Directed by Basil Dearden, All Night Long features outstanding performances from jazz legends Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth and Tubby Hayes. It is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original, as-exhibited aspect ratio.

    Wealthy music promoter Rod Hamilton throws an anniversary party for a famous jazzman, Aurelius Rex, and his wife and musical partner, Delia. Music and goodwill flow freely until the arrival of an ambitious musical rival, Johnny Cousin, who – intent on poaching Delia to join his own band – plans to destroy the couple’s relationship over the course of a single night…Read More »

  • Karel Kachyna – Závrat AKA Vertigo (1963)

    Karel Kachyna1961-1970Czech RepublicDrama
    Závrat (1963)
    Závrat (1963)

    Psychological study of Jitka, daughter of a widower. The girl helps her father run a small hotel. A group of geologists is staying at the hotel and Jitka falls in love with one of them, Gaba. However he regards her as only a child, goes out on the town every night and doesn’t think about her. She intercepts the phone calls of the women with whom Gaba has been involved and plays power games with him. His adventurous life means that Gaba also gets into trouble with his boss. It becomes increasingly clear to Gaba that Jitka’s feelings for him are true love. At first he rejects her – she is after all only a child – but gradually starts to feel more for her. However it is too late: Jitka goes to study in Prague and leaves the hotel. The power of the film is in its visual aesthetics. The emptiness of the landscape, accentuated by impressive drilling rigs, is beautifully expressed by the cinemascope format and the high-contrast black & white. This serves to make the loneliness of the characters overwhelming.Read More »

  • Grigoris Grigoriou – Amfivolies (1964)

    Grigoris Grigoriou1961-1970CrimeDramaGreece
    Amfivolies (1964)
    Amfivolies (1964)

    Grotesque dark shadows of a faceless manly figure invade the quiet bedroom of an affluent newly married woman. A freelance reporter is onto something; however, can he piece together the truth before she loses both her sanity and her life?Read More »

  • Alfred Weidenmann – Julia, du bist zauberhaft AKA Adorable Julia (1962)

    1961-1970Alfred WeidenmannAustriaClassicsRomance
    Julia, du bist zauberhaft (1962)
    Julia, du bist zauberhaft (1962)

    Julia, Du bist zauberhaft (AKA Adorable Julia) is a 1962 Austrian comedy film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer and Jean Sorel. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It is based on the 1937 novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham, and the subsequent play that Guy Bolton and Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon adapted from the novel.Read More »

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