Tag: 1967

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Jack Fisk
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A commercial for Anacin.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Uta Levka, Claus Ringer, Carl Möhner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

A sexy temptress no man can resist and a local police officer who falls hard for her become embroiled in a complicated intrigue of passion and jealousy in Radley Metzger’s boldly original erotic update of the opera Carmen.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears…

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Juro Kara, Keiko Koyanagi, Miki Hayashi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A young man breaks into a nurse’s rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Algeria

In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault’s mother. It bothers other mourners and Mersault himself that he showed no emotion when his mother died. His eventful day at the beach takes place a short time after the funeral when he is examining what his life has been and what path should he take in the future.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK

An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

Director: Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol
Stars: Tom Baker, Nico, Valerie Solanas
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot’s license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

In Nazi-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.

Director: Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey
Stars: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana parishioners discuss the idea, the social ministry committee meets with Hope leaders, and Hope youth talk about race and religion.

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn’t want to give them up so easily.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven’s guidance.

Director: Peter Brook
Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat’s last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Stars: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

When the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services.

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Dusica Zegarac, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Brigid Berlin, Julian Burrough, Taylor Mead
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude” patrons leave the establishment, their places taken by new customers, also nearly in the buff.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with thier inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Italy | Yugoslavia

In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he’s drafted into the S.S.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Jack Kinney
Stars: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

Director: Allan King
Stars: Martin Fischer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist’s experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Giovanna Claudia Mongino, Luciano Piergiovanni
Genre: Romance
Country: Italy

Fun, sweet featurette (49 minutes) about a 15 year old (“let’s say 16”) boy who likes to take an industrial approach to courting.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Director: George Lucas
Stars: Dan Nachtsheim, Joy Carmichael, David Munson
Genre: Sci-Fi, Short
Country: USA

While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary | Soviet Union

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army – aided by Hungarian Communists – and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK

In Hong Kong, the ambassador returning to America meets the Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Austria

Stones of different shapes and colors live and die together.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was… Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner’s daughter, accuses him of trying to rape her. But although Doucet (happily married to schoolmistress Suzanne) has always had a conduct above reproach, the Roussels decide to file a complaint against him.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don’t want him to learn it.

Director: Don Levy
Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When Max (Michael Gothard), a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK | Japan

A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.

Director: Murray Lerner
Stars: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who’s acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin’ Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform

Director: Pierre Koralnik
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marianne Faithfull
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France

Released in 1967, this was the first colour film made for French TV. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance’s family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, War
Country: USA

An experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jean Varda, Tom Luddy, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.

Director: Jules Bass
Stars: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

On the Isle of Evil, the head of the “World Organization of Monsters” reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined a formula for total destruction, only to be upset when the monsters try to steal the formula and kill his nephew.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | France

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Director: Kamran Shirdel
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Iran

A documentary which explores what did or did not happen on a rainy night a young boy allegedly saved a train from crashing.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Mort Ritts, Stefan Nosko
Genre: Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

Some time in the near future two veterans from some conflict engage in a conversation while sitting in a bath.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India

Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: UK

Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ’14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities (John and Yoko had not met then).

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima’s fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Director: William Hale
Stars: Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford, Lola Albright
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena.

Director: King Hu
Stars: Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan | Hong Kong

When the children of an executed General are pursued in 1457 China, some heroic martial arts swordsmen intervene.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee’s suicide.

Director: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Luchino Visconti
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Peter Brumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

Four guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Alan Aldridge, Julie Christie, David Hockney
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music.

Director: Paul Bogart
Stars: Hal Holbrook
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, ‘Hal Holbrook’ portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story..

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Director: Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Arne Arnbom, Ingmar Bergman, Tage Danielsson,
Jörn Donner, Lars Görling, Gustaf Molander, Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Harriet Andersson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A Swedish film in eight episodes.

Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: France

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam war.

Director: Jack Hill
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father’s death.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Morocco

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy–he’ll murder his father and marry his mother.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.