Subgenre Sampler
Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1964)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer - Agnes Varda's sly subversion of romantic norms courted controversy with its frank depiction of the infidelity of a happily married man and the…
Magnificent Showman, The (Circus World) (1964)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth - Grandiose "Cinerama" spectacle (that flopped at the box office) starring John Wayne as a circus proprietor who decides to take his show on a…
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe - In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon… - Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
Onibaba (the Hole) (1964)- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura - An eerie, brazenly sensual medieval folk tale about a mother and daughter–in–law who kill just to survive and eventually turn on each…
Parade's End (TV Mini-Series) (1964)- Dir. Alan Cooke
Feat. Judi Dench, Ronald Hines - A three–part BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Ford Madox Ford. On the eve of the Great War, a wealthy aristocrat is torn in a love…
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason… - Anne Bancroft is riveting as a woman of the verge of a nervous breakdown in this penetrating and vastly under–rated British melodrama. As…
Red Desert (il Deserto Rosso) (1964)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti, Richard Harris - Housewife Monica Vitti embarks on a casual affair with Richard Harris following a nervous breakdown. Set amidst an oppressive industrial landscape,…
Soft Skin, The (La Peau Douce) (1964)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Francois Dorleac, Jean Desailly - Moving New Wave drama from Francois Truffaut tells the story of a scholar pursuing a torrid affair with a stewardess while attempting to juggle his…
Une Femme Mariee (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) (1964)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy - Key work from the first phase of Godard's career which deconstructs the life of a married woman in a series of complex and humorous portraits. Over a…
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