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Subgenre Sampler
Red Lion (Akage) (1969)- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shiwa Iwashita - A fine samurai comedy from dir. Okamoto (KILL!), has a luckless soldier (Toshiro Mifune) don a brilliant red hairpiece (thus impersonating a…
Slogan (1969)
- Dir. Pierre Grimblat
Feat. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg - Vivacious French romance about a reckless advertising director who throws caution to the wind and abandons his preggers wife to embark on a worldwide…
Bouncing Beauty, The (The Little Bather) (1968)- Dir. Robert Dhéry
Feat. Louis de Funès, Franco Fabrizi - A zany and plotless comic gem from France's top comedian, Louis de Funès, distinctive for its hilarious visual gags. Funès plays a maniacal CEO of…
Kill! (Kiru) (1968)- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - A sharp and blackly comic tale set in 1830s Japan around two bedraggled swordsman – one a former samurai (Nakadai), the other a farmer aspiring…
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…
Firemen's Ball, The (1967)- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha - Early film from the director of AMADEUS and CUCKOO'S NEST is an engaging, off–beat collection of comic vignettes, including a clumsy beauty…
Ladies of the Night (Plus vieux métier du monde, Le) (1967)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe de Broca, Claude Autant-Lara
Feat. Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau… - A six–segment portmanteau comedy which traces the history of prostitution from its Stone Age version (being the 'oldest profession') through to…
Les Grandes Vacances (The Big Vacation) (1967)- Dir. Jean Girault
Feat. Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne - French comedy great Louis de Funès plays dictatorial headmaster to his two wayward sons, who rock the boat when sent to England as exchange students.
Playtime (1967)- 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…
Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois - Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
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