1960s

  • Ingmar Bergman – Ett drömspel AKA A Dream Play (1963)

    Ingmar Bergman1961-1970DramaFantasySweden
    Ett drömspel (1963)
    Ett drömspel (1963)

    Agnes (Ingrid Thulin), daughter of the goddess Indra, has come to Earth to learn about what it means to be human. She meets many people in her journey. The figures that guide her most are Alfred (Uno Henning), an officer who becomes a doctor; Axel (Allan Edwall), the lawyer that she weds, and the poet (Olof Widgren) who may be the author of her dreams. What she observes and experiences makes her pity mankind.Read More »

  • Tokuzô Tanaka – Yadonashi inu AKA Homeless Dog (1964)

    Tokuzô Tanaka1961-1970ActionCrimeJapan
    Yadonashi inu (1964)
    Yadonashi inu (1964)

    First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō TanakaRead More »

  • Guy Gilles – Au pan coupé aka Wall Engravings (1968)

    1961-1970DramaFranceGuy Gilles
    Au pan coupé (1968)
    Au pan coupé (1968)

    mk2 (a bit revised) wrote:
    Jeanne and Jean, a sensitive young man, have one last rendez-vous at the “Pan Coupé”, the little café where they always meet. A few weeks later Jean flees, disappears… Jeanne confides in her friend Pierre and his father. They all begin an investigation of their own into the young man’s disappearance. Disillusionment, poetry and dark romanticism combine to create a compelling film in urgent need of rediscovery.Read More »

  • Zoltán Fábri – Dúvad AKA The Brute (1961)

    Zoltán Fábri1961-1970ArthouseDramaHungary
    Dúvad (1961)
    Dúvad (1961)

    The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing “beast” of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager’s wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago.Read More »

  • Tengiz Abuladze – Me, bebia, Iliko da Ilarioni AKA I, Grandmother, Illiko & Illarion (1962)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaTengiz AbuladzeUSSR
    Me, bebia, Iliko da Ilarioni (1962)
    Me, bebia, Iliko da Ilarioni (1962)

    The events just before, during and after World War Two have little direct effect on the inhabitants of the village inGeorgia where Zuriko lives. A schoolboy, Zuriko goes to the schoolhouse with his previously unlettered grandmother, who is receiving an education alongside him. He has some loyal, if slightly addled friends in the person of a myopic hunter named Illarion, and a one-eyed man named Illiko. So nearsighted is Illarion that on one occasion he shot Zuriko’s dog because the took it for a rabbit. The loyalty of his friends is proven after the war, when they sell the cow they all own in order to send Zuriko to college in Tblisi. This black and white film is notable for several things: its loving portrayal of the Georgian country people and countryside, and the fact that it was made by (Tenghiz Abuladze, who went on to make the extremely significant, award-winning 1984 film Monanieba, also known as Pokayaniye, or Repentance.Read More »

  • Rogério Sganzerla – O Bandido da Luz Vermelha AKA The Red Light Bandit (1968) (HD)

    1961-1970BrazilCrimeExperimentalRogério Sganzerla

    Synopsis
    The story a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.Read More »

  • Kinji Fukasaku – Hokori takaki chosen AKA The Proud Challenge (1962)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanKinji Fukasaku
    Hokori takaki chosen (1962)
    Hokori takaki chosen (1962)

    Kuroki, a journalist working for a newspaper, is investigating the clandestine sale of arms to Southeast Asia.Read More »

  • Dennis Potter – Between Two Rivers (1960)

    Dennis Potter1951-1960DocumentaryUnited Kingdom
    Between Two Rivers (1960)
    Between Two Rivers (1960)

    After a brief tutelage with innovative BBC documentary producer Denis Mitchell, Dennis Potter teamed with producer Anthony de Lotbiniere to film a documentary (later described by David Niven as “absolutely wonderful”). Returning to the Berry Hill roots of his childhood, Potter used interviews with locals (including his parents) to show changes in the working-class traditions of the Forest of Dean, where “the green forest has a deep black heart beneath its sudden hills, pushing up slag heaps and gray little villages clustering around the coal.”Read More »

  • Marcel Ophüls – Le chagrin et la pitié aka The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) (HD)

    Marcel Ophüls1961-1970DocumentaryFranceWar
    Le chagrin et la pitié (1969)
    Le chagrin et la pitié (1969)

    Quote:
    Marcel Ophuls’ four-and-a-half hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah in its value not just as a film but as an essential historical record in its own right – not least since its interviewees are all long dead.
    Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. He also demolishes numerous self-serving national myths to such an extent that, although he made the film for French television, they wouldn’t show it for over a decade.Read More »

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