Subgenre Sampler
Orchestra Rehearsal, The (1978)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Baldwin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi - A comedy of the absurd about a group of orchestra musicians who stage a revolt against the conductor after the building collapses. Allegory may be…
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi - Portrayal of early 20th century peasantry in Lombardy, this un–melodramatic alternative to Bertolucci’s NOVACENTO, examines with quiet…
A Special Day (1977)- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn - A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Bilitis (1977)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Patti D'Arbanville - Tissue–thin sex drama from famed 1970s photographer Hamilton (he of those misty images of nude or lace–clad women), going into dreamy…
Chess Players, The (1977)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Richard Attenborough - India's first internationally renowned film–maker draws upon the ancient game of chess as a metaphor for Anglo–Indian political relations…
Despair (1977)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Man Who Loved Women, The (1977)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Brigitte Fossey… - Charles Denner plays a dedicated skirt–chaser, who falls in love with women so constantly he is brought to the point of…
Padre Padrone (1977)- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Feat. Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli… - An affecting true story about a Shepherd's son who escapes the shackles of family expectations and returns mature and educated to confront his…
Serpent's Egg, The (1977)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Isolde Barth, Heinz Bennent, Toni Berger - Jewish trapeze–artist Keith Carradine endures the depravities and anti–semitism of 1920's Berlin. Out of the director's most grotesque…
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