Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Mamma Roma (1962)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Anna Magnani - Pasolini, in this early minor–masterpiece, demonstrates a keen awareness of Italy’s altered social and political landscape in the…
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962)- Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev - Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Frederico Zardi - An epic Italian political drama, charting in a non–linear fashion the true story of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, a criminal and…
Sanjuro (1962)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai - The sequel to YOJIMBO unravels the story of nine would–be Samurai unveiling a government corruption ring. Kurosawa adopts a satirical…
Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray) (1962)- Dir. Serge Bourguignon
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Patricia Gozzi - Touching, if occasionally over–sentimentalised drama that contemplates the relationship between a mentally scarred bomber pilot and the…
Tale of Zatoichi Continues, The (1962)- Dir. Kazuo Mori
Feat. Shintaro Katsu - The first of many sequels to the iconic TALE OF ZATOICHI, in which a blind, affable masseur (Katsu) who happens to be a lethally skillful swordsman…
Tale of Zatoichi, The (1962)- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu - The inaugural movie in the iconic 'Zatoichi' series – which followed the intriguing adventures in mythical Japan of a blind masseur, who has…
Trial of Joan of Arc, The (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) (1962)- Dir. Robert Bresson
- One of dir. Bressons' more difficult works, depicting the final days of 15th century French religious patriot Joan of Arc and utilising the actual…
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina - While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…
Winter Light (1962)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom… - The second in Bergman's faith trilogy, in which a village priest finds himself drawn towards atheism after the death of his wife. Crisp, reflective…
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