Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Age of Consent (1968)- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. James Mason, Helen Mirren - Dir. Michael Powell's (PEEPING TOM) last feature, based on Aussie artist Norman Lindsay (who also inspired SIRENS). Here, a cranky James Mason goes…
Birthday Party, The (1968)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols - A lodger at a boarding house is menaced by two sinister visitors, in this version of Harold Pinter's Kafka–esque first play. Flashes of black…
Boom! (1968)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Noel Coward… - Thud: Only film buffs who admire Losey's very original directorial style are likely to appreciate fuzzy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Milk…
Bride Wore Black, The (La Mariée était en noir) (1968)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy… - Traumatised by her fiance's death, moments before due to be wed, Jeanne Moreau dedicates herself to a long–term plan of revenge, hunting and…
Charly (1968)- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala… - Child–minded Cliff Robertson has experimental brain–surgery, but his resulting super–intellect proves a mixed blessing. Credible,…
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)- Dir. Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Feat. Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang - Less astringent than the reputation of husband and wife filmmakers Straub–Huillet would suggest, this lean but invigorating treatment of Johann…
Countdown (1968)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore… - An early and unusual space–travel drama from dir. Altman, in which American astronaut Caan must undergo tough training with instructor Duvall…
Cremator, The (1968)- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova - Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
Damned, The (1968)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger - Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Faces (1968)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin - A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
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