1961-1970

Captain Celluloid battles the evil Master Duper and his criminal gang, the League of Film Pirates, who plan to hijack copies of classic films, copy them and sell them to desperate film collectors all over the world.Read More »

Synopsis
The Ruhr, a present heavy with anger: the issue of resistance, of fighting against fascism, of the workers’ movement. There is also the question of the overwhelming rage that can surge up when faced with the reality of defeats, with no consolation or reconciliation. (-cinemadureel.org)Read More »

The girlfriend of a young gypsy tries to guide her life in a proper way but does not achieve it. When she gets difficulties because of a fight everything changes.Read More »

Synopsis: Professor Ferlach and his daughter Helga undertake an expedition to Ceylon to look for a statue of Buddha with a priceless ruby set on its forehead. They believe the statue is still intact in a temple that disappeared after a massive earthquake…Read More »

Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by the always lovely Kumi Mizuno.

One of Okamoto’s trademarks is his recessive staging, i.e. the big foreground wide-angle look, the kind of wide-screen composition which is quite common in spaghetti westerns, particularly those of Sergio Leone’s (partly due to the technical problems of the Techniscope format, widely used in Italy in that period). We could notice this signature in Okamoto’s late 50s films already, that is, a few years earlier than Leone and other western directors.Read More »

Sin of God was made as a studio exercise by the world-famous Polish-born director Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) during her studies at FAMU in Prague. The plot is based on Isaac Babel’s short story The Sin of Jesus. – A young maid Arina (Jaroslava Pokorná) has a love affair with a peddler Serega. She is even pregnant with him for the second time. She doesn’t take care of the twins from her first pregnancy, she gave them to a foundling. Her lover, however, has to enlist. The inexperienced mother does not know how to fulfil her sexual and emotional desires during Serega’s absence. So she consults God. He sends her an angel, Alfred, with whom she cannot conceive. But this is not the end of the woman’s troubles, rather the beginning.Read More »

Italian oddity on violent influences in society, at times somewhat Godardesque. A strangely apathetic and mute mother watches on as her children develop disturbing behaviour. They torture the nanny, accuse each other of Communism, build dangerous rockets that tend to blow up and kill whoever is nearby, read medical details about death, and seem to be involved in a series of deaths and accidents. The mother joins a strange revolutionary group that preaches violence against the bourgeoisie, builds bombs, and takes part in odd didactic presentations, while another mother buys her children books by De Sade. Eventually the mother decides to fight fire with fire and put a violent end to the madness.Read More »

Synopsis
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other. The siblings Christine and Stefan grew up separated from each other due to their parents’ divorce and have no knowledge of each other. Later in life they meet and enters into a relationship.(imdb)Read More »

Kurosawa’s lost masterpiece has finally come to light. Filmed in 1970 and aired on Japanese television “Song Of The Horse” is his visual poem for the horse, the creature that he loved the most. Told through narration by an old man speaking with his grandson while the visual mastery of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time expands before one’s eyes. Kurosawa ordinarily avoided television work and this is the only time that he had any involvement with the small screen. A rare and beautiful ode to the most gallant member of the animal kingdom!Read More »