1970s

Plot:
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult…Read More »

This is the new restoration of Yvonne Rainer’s Kristina Talking Pictures. Namechecking both Virginia Woolf and Jean-Luc Godard in the film’s opening segment, Rainer continues to experiment in her elegiac, hybrid third feature with unshackling narrative from conventional representation, using the paradoxical feminine figure of a lion tamer, Kristina (played by several women, including Rainer herself), and a disjunctive audiovisual syntax that pushes avant-garde film grammar into thrillingly novel, expressive realms. Kristina arrives from Budapest to 1970s New York City, harboring hopes of becoming a dance choreographer, as well as romantic affections for an elusive sailor named Raoul.Read More »

Dersu Uzala is the enthralling tale of an eccentric indigenous frontiersman (Maxim Munzuk) who is taken on as a guide by a Soviet surveying crew. While the soldiers at first perceive Dersu as a naive and comical relic of an uncivilized age, he quickly proves himself otherwise with displays of ingenuity and bravery unmatched by any member of the inexperienced mapping team, on more than one occasion becoming their unlikely saviour. An amazing true story based on the memoir by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.

Filmed in the far reaches of Siberia, it took over two years for Director Akira Kurosawa to complete this timeless masterpiece of cinema which was shot in 70mm and was honoured with the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film in 1976.Read More »

This is the new restoration of Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers. Rainer’s debut feature film announced both her shift from the world of dance towards avant-garde cinema, and what would become a career-long interest in “women’s stories” and the teasing machinations of melodrama. The familiar tale of a man who can’t choose between two women and makes everyone suffer is reworked by Rainer as a jolting and radically austere, anti-illusionist spectacle, comprising dance rehearsals, photography, tableaux, and a flurry of fragments of text, both onscreen and not. Off-camera, multiple voices can be heard—including that of cinematographer Babette Mangolte, who was at the time just beginning work with a young Chantal Akerman.Read More »

A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.Read More »

Michael (James Aubrey, LORD OF THE FLIES) is a successful songwriter, living the good life without a care in the world. The along comes a hitchhiker named Ginny (Alison Elliot). Michael gives her a left and a connection is made. Over time, they fall in love and everything seems perfect…at first. The their age difference comes to light. It turns out that Ginny is only fourteen years old. Soon, Ginny’s parents get wind of this relationship and immediately call in the police. When facts become grossly manipulated, sympathies shift as Michael is charged with rape.Read More »

Mid-August in Paris (the title is a date: August 15) in a sunny, quiet apartment a young woman talks, thinks, reflects about herself, everyday life and little events in a long, uninterrupted monologue. The camera pictures her and her gestures in long, fixed shots moving around the rooms, the space, the light and shadows of a summer day.Read More »

From acclaimed erotic filmmaker, Wakefield Poole, comes The Bible, like you’ve never seen it before!
The stories of Adam & Eve, Bath Sheba and Samson & Delilah are given sexual twists in this visually stunning and sensually charged masterpiece of the erotic avant-garde.
Featuring Georgina Spelvin (The Devil in Miss Jones), Gloria Grant and Bo White. Wakefield Poole’s Bible! may have been a commercial and artistic failure, but the film is entertaining on so many levels that we can highly recommend it because it offers some fascinating insights into one of the strangest film projects of its era.Read More »

Ann Fromm (Gundel Lindblom), age 34 and a lecturer in Slavic Languages, is married to Andreas (Per Myrberg), a 40-year-old architect. They introduce themselves to the TV audience as rich, happy, and uncomplicated. They are well-educated, well-mannered, and polite. Anna has had an affair with a common friend, Ellis (Erland Josephson), for 8 years. Their relationship is as conventional as a marriage. When Anna reveals her unfaithfulness to Andreas, their upper middle-class façade rupture. This event occurs in the same week as Martin Luther King is murdered.Read More »