Subgenre Sampler
Slogan (1969)
- Dir. Pierre Grimblat
Feat. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg - Vivacious French romance about a reckless advertising director who throws caution to the wind and abandons his preggers wife to embark on a worldwide…
Bride Wore Black, The (La Mariée était en noir) (1968)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy… - Traumatised by her fiance's death, moments before due to be wed, Jeanne Moreau dedicates herself to a long–term plan of revenge, hunting and…
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)- Dir. Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Feat. Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang - Less astringent than the reputation of husband and wife filmmakers Straub–Huillet would suggest, this lean but invigorating treatment of Johann…
Cremator, The (1968)- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova - Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
Damned, The (1968)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger - Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Hour Of The Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann - One of dir. Bergman's most troubled visions, this concerns the descent of an unstable artist (von Sydow) and his sensitive wife (Ullmann) into a…
L'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon - Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
La Chamade (Heartbeat) (1968)- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli - Catherine Deneuve flitters between youthful passion and the comfort of an older, wealthy lover in this elegant menage a trios, lessened only by an…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène. The title…
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)- Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Feat. Sergio Corrieri - Merging the political and personal to stunning effect, this witty and artful assemblage of documentary, still photography, and dramatic fiction…
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