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Subgenre Sampler

 
Belle De JourBelle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967) Recommended
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
WeekendWeekend (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
DaisiesDaisies (1966)
Dir. Vera Chytilova
Feat. Julius Albert, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova
Much–loved cinematic firecracker from the halcyon days of 60s Czech radicalism, in which two girls (both called Marie) live out their anarchist…
Delirious Fictions of William Klein, TheDelirious Fictions of William Klein, The (Who are You, Polly Maggoo?; Mr. Freedom; The Model Couple) (1966-1977)
Feat. Anemone , Jacques Boudet, Eddie Constantine
An American photographer in new wave Paris; Dir. Klein has been making challenging cinema for more than forty years. In his three obscure fiction…
Simon of the DesertSimon of the Desert (1965) Recommended
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…
Woman of the DunesWoman of the Dunes (1964) Aro Favourite
Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
Exterminating Angel, TheExterminating Angel, The (1962) Aro Favourite
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal
A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
La JeteeLa Jetee (1962) Recommended
Dir. Chris Marker
Classic science–fiction short told almost entirely in stills takes a man from the future on a terrifying journey back to his childhood. The…
Tale of Zatoichi, TheTale of Zatoichi, The (1962) Recommended
Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
The inaugural movie in the iconic 'Zatoichi' series – which followed the intriguing adventures in mythical Japan of a blind masseur, who has…
ViridianaViridiana (1961)
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…

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