Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran - An early comedy from French new wave director Claude Chabrol (LE BOUCHER), following four single Parisian women as they encounter the romantic…
Lola (1960)- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel - Irresistible 'New Wave' confection breezily spins its romantic tale around the alluring presence of Anouk Aimee, here a cheery cabaret–dancer…
Moderato Cantabile (Seven Days...Seven Nights) (1960)- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jeanne Moreau - New Wave two–hander stars Jeanne Moreau as a bored housewife who falls for Belmondo's brooding stranger. Stunning wide–screen…
Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) (1960)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama - An exquisitely simple and moving Japanese drama, notable for having almost no spoken dialogue in depicting a year of struggle for a small farming…
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (1960)- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Alain Delon, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet - The original adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's gripping novel 'The Talented Mr Ripley', who is here embodied by a sleek Delon in only his third…
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot… - An uncompromising, richly detailed portrait of an impoverished family who travel to Milan where they are beset by violent misfortune.
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger… - Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Testament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud… - Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow - Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Hideko Takamine - Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…
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