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Subgenre Sampler

 
King Kong EscapesKing Kong Escapes (1967)
Dir. Ishiro Honda
Feat. Mie Hama, Akira Takarada, Rhodes Reason
Kaiji co–production between Japan and the USA which pits a robot version of King Kong (MechaniKong!) against a giant dinosaur Gorosaurus. A…
Le SamouraiLe Samourai (The Samurai) (1967) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon
Alain Delon plays an ultra–cool assassin whose flawless disposition is impenetrable to the Gendarmerie but not to a sexy key witness. Steely…
MouchetteMouchette (1967)
Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…
Oedipus RexOedipus Rex (1967)
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
Striking visual achievement, filmed amidst the Moroccan desert and Bologna, describes the Oedipal tale of a tortured soul who murders his father and…
PlaytimePlaytime (1967) Recommended
Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
Tati's satirical vision of modern city life and brutalist architecture is his magnum opus. His alter–ego Mr. Hulot goes about his third…
WeekendWeekend (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
Young Girls of Rochefort, TheYoung Girls of Rochefort, The (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Francois Dorleac, Gene Kelly
The carrot of love is dangled in Jacques Demy's positively radiant follow–up to UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: an unbridled, colour–saturated…
Andrei RublevAndrei Rublev (1966) Recommended
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.
Au Hasard BalthazarAu Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
Robert Bresson's immediately recognisable minimalist style is here lent to one of the few films whose central character is a donkey.
Before the RevolutionBefore the Revolution (1966)
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Adriana Asti, Francisco Barilli
Bertolucci's second film – made at the age of 22! – demonstrates his bravura visual style fully formed around this coming of age in the…

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