1961-1970

  • Merab Kokochashvili – Didi mtsvane veli AKA Big Green Valley (1967)

    Arthouse1961-1970ClassicsGeorgiaMerab Kokochashvili

    Sosana is a shepherd and lives the livelong days with his herd. He decides to bring his family to the field and teach his son how to take care of the herd. Unexpectedly, a group of geologists discover the oilfield in the pasture, meaning that there would be oil wells set up right there were Sosana’s herd was. the collective farm demands that Sosana hand over his herd to the farm. sosana’s private life is also in disarray. His wife leaves. The shepherd cannot come to terms with the changes. He wants to live the way his ancestors did and wishes to be buried by their side. with no family and with no herd Sosana is wandering in the snowy field in quest of the lost herd.Read More »

  • Pavel Jurácek – Prípad pro zacínajícího kata AKA Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

    1961-1970ArthouseCzech RepublicFantasyPavel Jurácek

    The Lemuel Gulliver of Dlouhá Street takes an unexpected journey to the flying island of Laputa, in the realm of Balnibarbi, and back again. The parable about a totalitarian system, where bizarre laws are in force and unwritten rules are adhered to, mixes with a fantastical spectacle in which “dreams touch the world and the world touches dreams”. In twelve chapters, the Kafkaesque motion picture, Case for the New Hangman, tells the timeless tale of a foreigner who brings hope and excitement to the stagnant waters of Balnibarbi whereupon, instead of being received as a guest, he is treated with suspicion.Read More »

  • Hollis Frampton – Zorns Lemma (1970)

    1961-1970ExperimentalHollis FramptonShort FilmUSA

    “Zorn’s Lemma stands for – Every non-empty partially ordered set in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element.

    It is named after the mathematician Max Zorn.

    The terms are defined as follows. Suppose (P,≤) is the partially ordered set. A subset T is totally ordered if for any s, t ∈ T we have either s ≤ t or t ≤ s. Such a set T has an upper bound u ∈ P if t ≤ u for all t ∈ T. Note that u is an element of P but need not be an element of T. A maximal element of P is an element m ∈ P such that the only element x ∈ P with m ≥ x is x = m itself.Read More »

  • Gianfranco Parolini – Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte AKA If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)

    1961-1970ActionEuro WesternsGianfranco ParoliniItalyWestern

    Synopsis:
    After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach’s strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.Read More »

  • François Truffaut – La Mariée était en noir AKA The Bride wore Black (1968)

    1961-1970ArthouseFilm NoirFranceFrançois Truffaut

    Quote:
    This Francois Truffaut thriller is based on a novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Moreau tracks down all five culprits, sexually enslaves them, and then engineers their deaths. The ominous musical score was written by Bernard Herrmann, another frequent Hitchcock collaborator. The Bride Wore Black was initially released in France as La Mariee etait en Noir. — Hal EricksonRead More »

  • Jun’ya Satô – Kuruwa sodachi AKA Red Light District Upbringing (1964)

    1961-1970AsianDramaJapanJunya Sato

    Tamiko has been with a geisha house since she was little. Torn between staying in the only world that she knows but also loathes, and a normal life on the outside, Tomiko becomes more and more desperate. Times are also changing, it isn’t easy to keeps the books balanced and there is a new law under debate that may end this way of life for good.Read More »

  • Montgomery Tully – The Third Alibi (1961)

    1961-1970DramaMontgomery TullyThrillerUnited Kingdom

    A composer stuck in a middle-class marriage finds that his affair with his wife’s half-sister has resulted in her pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

    IMDB wrote:
    Neat little British thriller directed by Montgomery Tulley, who was perhaps best known for the Merton Park Edgar Wallace and Scotland Yard crime dramas. A good story, well directed with an impressive cast, especially Laurence Payne as philandering songwriter Norman and the ever-reliable John Arnatt as the police inspector. There’s a neat twist at the end.Read More »

  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Boca de Ouro AKA The Golden Mouth [+Extras] (1963)

    1961-1970BrazilDramaNelson Pereira dos Santos

    When powerful outlaw “Boca de Ouro” dies, a reporter interviews his former lover Guigui, to try to outline his personality. But the woman offers him three different versions of the facts, following the changes of her own personal feelings towards the man.

    Quote:
    Nelson Rodrigues’ Rashomon-lite gangster melodrama gets a purposive physical rendering on the hands of Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The filmmaker always described this as gun for hire work, but it is one of his most dramatic exact films and the cast is terrific. (Filipe Furtado)Read More »

  • Joseph P. Mawra – Olga’s House of Shame (1964)

    1961-1970CrimeDramaJoseph P. MawraUSA

    After having been run out of New York City’s Chinatown, brothel owner Madame Olga moves her ring of prostitutes and criminals to a deserted ore mine and starts over.

    “As the original negative for Olga’s House of Shame is incomplete, the restoration process benefitted from a variety of different sources in order to revive both picture and soundtrack. Given the fragmented nature of the film, it is extraordinary Olga can still exist in its full authenticity.” — NWRRead More »

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