Subgenre Sampler
Wim Wenders on Film (Lightning over Water, The State of Things, A Trick of the Light) (1980-1995)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- Boxset of three underseen Wim Wenders classics, each concerning the agony and ectasy of filmmaking.
Alexandria... Why? (1979)- Dir. Youssef Chahine
- An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier - The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
Camera Buff (Amator) (1979)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Pointed, if slightly familiar satire of Communist life, has a smalltown clerk in Poland buy a Super8 film camera and begin to film life around him,…
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny - A writer is exiled to the remote South in the mid 1930s. Based on the autobiography of Carlos Levi, this film in four parts contrasts his political…
La Luna (1979)- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Alida Valli… - A wayward young junkie cuddles up to his Opera–singing mother (Jill Clayburgh) in this peculiar incest drama, shot in lush Bertolucci overtones.
Laura (Laura, Shadows of a Summer) (1979)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell… - One of the dreamy, soft focus movies of fashion photographer Hamilton, featuring his characteristic themes: the coming of age of a young girl in an…
Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979)- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang - A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
Passe ton Bac d'abord (Graduate First) (1979)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczak… - Dir. Pialat’s matter–of–fact realism and blasé cast of young actors conveys all the aimlessness and uncertainty of youth in this…
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
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