Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina - Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina - A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Shop on High Street, The (The Shop on Main Street) (1965)- Dir. Jan Kadar
- A key film of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s, that explores 'everyday fascism' through the story of a Jewish shopkeeper who mistakes her…
Simon of the Desert (1965)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook - A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1965)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey - The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey - One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli - Maid Jeanne Moreau manipulates two blue–blooded households to ascend her status in pre–war France. Another shrewd political jape from the…
Gertrud (1964)- Dir. Carl Dreyer
- Exploring similar territory to fellow Scandinavian Ingmar Bergman, Dreyer's final film is an intense psychological study about a middle–aged…
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini - Acted entirely by non–professionals, this is a startlingly visual rendering of the biblical text, blending breath–taking photography with…
Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky - The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet. Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
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