Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Zatoichi: Festival of Fire (Zatoichi 21) (1970)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai
- One of the strongest of the later films in the 25–strong Zatoichi cycle (this is 21), with the blind masseur with the cane sword getting into…
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres, aka Army in the Shadows) (1969)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel…
- Melville’s heavyweight masterpiece – by turns sombre, exhilarating, and tension–filled – tackles the clandestine rearguard…
Boucher, Le (The Butcher) (1969)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne
- Psychological thriller probes the perhaps dangerous liaison between a celibate school–teacher and a murder suspect, the local butcher. Rich in…
Colour of Pomegranates (Color of Pomegranates) (1969)
- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
Feat. Sofiko Chiaurel, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan
- A visually exquisite, at times baffling film from the much–censored Armenian director. Retells the life of 18th century mystic poet Sayat Nova…
Dillinger is Dead (1969)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot
- Indefinable late–sixties curio finds gas mask designer Michel Piccoli at a loose end in his gaudy suburban home. A gun that may have belonged…
Double Suicide (Shinjû: Ten no amijima) (1969)
- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Shiwa Iwashita, Hosie Komatsu
- A landmark of avant–garde Japanese cinema aims to replicate the startling aesthetic of traditional 'bunraku' puppetry in its enactment of an…
Femme Infidele, La (The Unfaithful Wife) (1969)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Michel Bouquet, Stephane Audran, Maurice Ronet
- French bourgeoisie couple Michel Bouquet and Stephane Audran form a murderous love–triangle with seducer Maurice Ronet, revealing the hidden…
Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969)
- Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya
- A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…
Katzelmacher (1969)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla
- Daring Fassbinder drama focused on a group of Munich friends indulging in the banality of their ordered lives until the arrival of a Greek immigrant…
Le Gai Savoir (Joy Of Learning) (1969)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Challenging offering from dir. Godard puts two actors on a soundstage and allows them to dwell on ideologies, concepts and complex understandings of…