1960s

  • Helena Amiradzibi & Jerzy Stefan Stawinski – Wieczór przedswiateczny aka Christmas Eve (1966)

    Drama1961-1970ComedyHelena AmiradzibiJerzy Stefan StawinskiPoland

    Storyline: The third movie ,that Stawinski created with his wife Helene Amiradzibi had to be dreamy story about human loneliness, oscillating between realism and surrealism. To break out main character from real time and space ,Stawińscy decided to shoot the entire film in the studio. Makeshift houses, movable walls, artificial snow emphasize the conventionality of the presented world and pay attention to the inner experience of man.Read More »

  • Nobuo Nakagawa – Maboroshi Tengu AKA The Phantom Goblin (1962)

    1961-1970ActionJapanMysteryNobuo Nakagawa

    The great Okawa Hashizo plays a double role in this thrilling tale of intrigue and corruption within the capital city of Edo. When Moriya Shuma, an injured Edo officer is rescued by a vassal whose appears to be his exact double, he swears to sweep out all the criminals from the city. Directed by one of Japan’s most revered filmmakers, Nakagawa Nobuo, this story is filled with twists and turns, and loaded with surprises. Plenty of realistic swordplay highlights this exciting motion picture.Read More »

  • Alan Lomax – Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport (1966)

    1961-1970Alan LomaxDocumentaryPerformanceUSA

    Featuring Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, Son House, Rev. Pearly Brown, Bukka White

    Imagine you have stumbled into a juke joint where the mentor of Robert Johnson, Son House, and the idol of the Rolling Stones, Howlin’ Wolf, dis one another. Picture a place where Wolf taunts Bukka White while the robust Parchman Farm alumnus spins his proto-funk dance grooves and the spectral skip James weaves his haunting “Devil Got My Woman.” It’s an archetypal blues “crossroads” where legends of the 1920s Delta and 1950s Chicago share the same musical space, suspended out of time in a super-real present, a non-specific blues time. Read More »

  • Kinji Fukasaku – Gyangu tai G-men AKA Gang Vs G-men (1962)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanKinji Fukasaku

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    The young Sonny Chiba is fabulous in this wildly entertaining Kinji Fukasaku film. It’s the 4th movie in the very loosely related Gang series. This instalment sees former gangster (Koji Tsuruta) brought back to action when the police needs his help to bring down a dangerous gang lead by Tetsuro Tamba. Chiba plays an enthusiastic young man who goes undercover even though it’s obviously more than he can handle. Critic Mark Schilling aptly described his character as “the seventh samurai” of this story. Though not an all time classic like some of Fukasaku’s later movies, it’s a very stylish and entertaining film full of 1960s cool. Chiba, bursting with youthful charm and energy, is the film’s biggest asset. This is one of his best performances, often leaving superstars like Tamba and Tsuruta in his shadow, and marked the beginning of his best era as an actor.Read More »

  • Armando Bo – Fuego AKA Fire (1969)

    1961-1970ArgentinaArmando BoDramaErotica

    Laura is a young woman living in a mansion with her reptilian lesbian maid Andrea. She meets and falls in love with Carlos, a man of high society who sees in her a vivaciousness he so longs to have in his life. But little does he know what troubles lie in store for him. Laura suffers from a dangerous case of nymphomania, desiring any man she lays her eyes on.Read More »

  • Tai Katô – Kaidan Oiwa no borei AKA Ghost of Oiwa (1961)

    1961-1970HorrorJapanTai Katô

    One of the most beautiful versions of Yotsuya Kaidan. Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who’s left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked into prostitution by a masseuse, Tamiya is joined by his friend Naosuke in turning the situation into a plot to win back Oiwa, which complicates as a new girl enters the picture. Tamiya’s scheming injustices backfire in the form of an onryo, a vengeance-seeking ghost, and yet the movie’s horror is entirely of human contrivance.Read More »

  • Kan Mukai – Esa AKA The Bite AKA The Pimp (1966)

    Drama1961-1970EroticaJapanKan Mukai

    Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn’t like what he’s doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day he’s given the assignment to seduce a pretty waitress and they wind up falling in love. Koichi tells his madame that is going to quit, but she has other plans for him.Read More »

  • Keisuke Kinoshita – Kotoshi no koi AKA This Year’s Love (1962)

    1961-1970AsianClassicsJapanKeisuke Kinoshita

    Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.Read More »

  • Michel Soutter – La lune avec les dents AKA The Moon with Teeth (1967)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaMichel SoutterSwitzerland

    The international cinematic new wave came bursting into the Swiss cinema through the work of Michel Soutter, whose La lune avec les dents (The Moon with Teeth) became practically a manifesto of the movement. Michel Soutter was one of the first directors of New Swiss Cinema who has made fiction films and he cofounded the Groupe 5 with Tanner and Goretta. The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness – until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William’s life – a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction. Read More »

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