Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Advise and Consent (1962)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray… - Political thriller–fable set in the corridors and committee rooms of Washington DC, where the fundamentally decent Senator, Henry Fonda, learns…
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Shiwa Iwashita, Keiji Sada - Dir. Ozu's final work is one of his best – an appropriately autumnal evocation of age and dependency, set around a widower who sorrowfully…
Barabbas (1962)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy… - Lavish, literate and thrilling by equal measure, this Hollywood Roman speculation follows the wanderings of the legendary thief (Quinn) who was saved…
Boccaccio '70 (1962)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini
Feat. Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas… - Naughty for the time, this all–star portmanteau film is loosely based on updated versions of the bawdy stories of 14th century writer Giovanni…
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Corrine Marchand - One of the treasures of the French New Wave, dir. Varda’s debut is, Pauline Kael contends “one of the few films directed by a woman where the…
Connection, The (1962)- Dir. Shirley Clarke
Feat. Garry Goodrow, Warren Finnerty - Experimental cult curio based on the Jack Gelber play, in which a group of musician junkies await a heroin hook–up in a New York loft. Things…
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford… - A bittersweet reprise of THE LOST WEEKEND, with PR–expert Jack Lemmon's never–ending round of cocktail parties dragging him and his wife…
Dr. Crippen (1962)- Dir. Robert Lynn
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar - This well paced drama centered around Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's murder of his wife was originally billed as a horror, but is actually a rather…
Eva (1962)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Sir Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi… - Jeanne Moreau is that obscure object of desire which novelist Stanley Baker falls for, and is taken for a ride. Interesting, if lurid Losey melodrama…
Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal - A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
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