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Subgenre Sampler
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn - An acting feast for Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn (who won an Oscar) as tempestuous King Henry II and his estranged wife who fiercely…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène. The title…
Milky Way, The (1968)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny… - Bunuel experiments with narrative in relating theories of traditional Catholicism to the encounters of two wandering vagrants.
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal… - Macabre cat–and–mouse thriller from the pen of suspense–master William Goldman (MARATHON MAN), about a psychotic master of disguise…
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1968)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin… - Schoolteacher at a private girls school, Maggie Smith grooms and instructs her pupils with a passionate sense of vocation, unfortunately making more…
Secret Ceremony (1968)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum… - Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results. Originally an excellent…
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968)- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud… - Anthony Quinn plays a Russian bishop who is elected Pope after twenty years in political asylum. Beautifully adorned best–seller adaptation.
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig - Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti… - A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
Up The Junction (1968)- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman… - A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed…
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