The premise behind the Up series is deceptively simple: take a cross-section of children at age 7, ask them about their hopes for the future, and then return every seven years to mark their progress. However, the results of these experiments, launched in 1963 by Britain’s Granada Television, are anything but mundane, and their revelations about society, maturation, and the human condition were compiled into six extraordinary films, packaged together for the first time in this five-disc set. We meet the 14 children whose lives we will follow for the next 36 years in Seven Up, a episode of the television series The World in Action and directed by Paul Almond.Read More »
1961-1970
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Michael Apted – The Up Series – 7 Plus Seven (1970)
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Antonio Maenza Blasco – Orfeo filmado en el campo de batalla (1969)
1961-1970Antonio Maenza BlascoEroticaExperimentalSpainThis is a digitally transferred work print of an exceptionally rare film. There is some light residual ghosting here and there.
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In December 1968 I participated in the film Orpheus Shot on the Battlefield, which originated as a collective work, a movie without an author, but which would ultimately be attributed to Antonio Maenza in the end even though he only played the role of the director in the film. The film, which was never provided a soundtrack, was screened on several occasions with a soundtrack performed live consisting of a text for three voices and a number of musical pieces, among which were the “descent into hell” from the opera L’Orfeo by Monteverdi in the version by Edward H. Tarr, released in 1968 by Erato, “New York 1963 – America 1968” from Every One of Us by Eric Burdon and the Animals; and “The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet” from Freak Out by [Frank Zappa and] The Mothers of Invention. After the “state of emergency” in January 1969, an epilogue was shot but it was never developed.Read More » -
Nikoloz Sanishvili – Chermeni AKA Chermen (1970)
1961-1970AdventureArthouseGeorgiaNikoloz SanishviliUSSRThe film’s main hero is Chermen. An illegitimate son, Chermen is striving to assert his dignity. He is opposed by Dacco, the elder of the Aldar clan, in whose village Chermen lives. Guided by mercenary motives, Dacco strikes a deal with Prince Tsarai. Together, they rob people and then divide the loot between themselves.
By some chance, Chermen learns of the deal and informs his friends about it. At first, he thinks that no one in the Aldar village would believe him, the bastard, and that the plot would remain unexposed. But the friends accept the challenge.Read More » -
Mike Kuchar – Born of the Wind (1964)
1961-1970CampCultMike KucharQueer Cinema(s)USAWho needs a description, it’s a Kuchar filmRead More »
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Jacques Deray – Par un beau matin d’été AKA Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)
1961-1970CrimeFranceJacques DerayThrillerAn ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore. A somewhat predictable, but enjoyable crime melodrama, enhanced by a cool soundtrack, a sustained atmosphere of sunlit unease and a touch of incest. Geraldine Chaplin’s film debut in which she gives the insanely sexy Sophie Daumier a run for her money. Based on a novel by James Hadley Chase.Read More »
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Edmee Wood – Jazz Calendar (1968)
1961-1970DocumentaryEdmee WoodUnited KingdomJazz Calendar (1968): a rarely screened documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, for which Jarman designed sets and costumes.Read More »
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Maurice Lemaître – Toujours à l’avant-garde de l’avant-garde, jusqu’au paradis et au delà aka Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After (1970)
1961-1970ExperimentalFranceMaurice LemaîtreThe Films of May '68Quote:
Ce film est une oeuvre supertemporelle. Le support des participations du public est constitué par une image, qui a varié plusieurs fois au cours des diverses projections. Une projection de Maurice Lemaître, lui-même, dans la bande sonore, éclaire le fonctionnement de la séance, pour se terminer sur un défi lancé à la salle.Read More » -
Peter Whitehead – Wholly Communion (1965)
1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDocumentaryExperimentalPeter WhiteheadUnited KingdomWhitehead’s breakthrough film, the documentation of the great Albert Hall Poetry Festival in ’65, which won him acclaim and awards. Shot handheld with only 45 minutes of stock (the finished film is 33 minutes), and presumably closely distilling much of the tension and event-ness of the celebrated ‘happening’. Verse luminaries include a bill-topping Allen Ginsberg (who reclines into his adoring entourage like a decadent monarch), the gruff, pipesmoking compere Alec Trocchi, an incendiary Adrian Mitchell, and most memorably the stoned heckler who disrupts the wired Harry Fainlight to the delight of the massive crowd. Read More »
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Albert T. Viola – One Naked Night (1965)
1961-1970Albert T. ViolaDramaUSAQuote:
ONE NAKED NIGHT follows the life of a young woman who is trying to avoid falling into the same trap that led to her mother’s suicide; prostitution.Read More »