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Subgenre Sampler
Max and the Junkmen (Max Et Les Ferrailleurs) (1971)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider - French crime drama set in the noir shaded streets of Paris follows a frustrated detective getting tangled up in a love triangle after commissioning a…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin… - Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Ear, The (Ucho) (1970)
- Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler - Set over the course of an evening this is a searing look at life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an equally harsh examination of a…
Things of Life, The (Les Choses De La Vie) (1970)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise - Golden Palm nominated French comedy focusing on the life of a fatally injured man who upon seeing his life flash before his eyes realizes he must…
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…
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…
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…
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night at Maud's / My Night with Maud) (1969)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault - Rohmer's fourth moral tale again presents the idea of a man's romantic dilemma with more than one woman in his life. The wordy philosophising is…
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…
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