Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3366 Films to Buy & Rent
47 Ronin, The (Genroku chushingura) (1962)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Setsuko Hara
- A grand and spectacular take on a famous Japanese legend, with 47 ronin (masterless samurai) in feudal Japan seeking revenge on those responsible for…
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Shiwa Iwashita, Keiji Sada
- Dir. Ozu's final work is one of his best – an appropriately autumnal evocation of age and dependency, set around a widower who sorrowfully…
Andrei Tarkovsky Collection, The (Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker) (1962-1979)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Five cinematic landmarks from the visionary Russian filmmaker.
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini
Feat. Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas…
- Naughty for the time, this all–star portmanteau film is loosely based on updated versions of the bawdy stories of 14th century writer Giovanni…
Cartouche (Swords of Blood) (1962)
- Dir. Philippe de Broca
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale
- The dashing Jean–Paul Belmondo cut, thrusts, and courts the ravishing Claudia Cardinale in this quasi–Robin Hood swashbuckler steeped in…
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Corrine Marchand
- One of the treasures of the French New Wave, dir. Varda’s debut is, Pauline Kael contends “one of the few films directed by a woman where the…
Divorce Italian Style (1962)
- Dir. Pietro Germi
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli
- Italy’s archaic marital laws – where divorce was still illegal in the sixties – are the star in this devious satire of an unhappy…
Eva (1962)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Sir Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi…
- Jeanne Moreau is that obscure object of desire which novelist Stanley Baker falls for, and is taken for a ride. Interesting, if lurid Losey melodrama…
Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal
- A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
Fencing Master, The (1962)
- Dir. Harumi Mizuho
Feat. Raizo Ichikawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Kinuyo Tanaka
- Thoughtful, if minor exploration of samurai traditions concerns an aging swordsman struggling to keep his feudal art form alive in early 20th century…