Painters Painting (de Antonio)

Director: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Philip Leider, Leo Castelli, Willem de Kooning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

Cabaret (Fosse)

Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Free Woman, A (Schlöndorff)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

Indian Summer (Zurlini)

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets nineteen year old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo’s girlfriend, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Malcolm X (Perl)

Director: Arnold Perl
Stars: James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, John Ali
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Maben)

Director: Adrian Maben
Stars: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Belgium | West Germany | France

Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick’s dog on vocals). “Careful” and “Set the controls” are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong.

Siddhartha (Rooks)

Director: Conrad Rooks
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Romesh Sharma
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India | USA

The story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.

Sounder (Ritt)

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Pink Floyd: Time (Emes)

Director: Ian Emes
Stars: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: UK

During live performances, Pink Floyd back-projected a specially-commissioned, animated film by Ian Emes.

Visitors, The (Kazan)

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez.

Caliber 9 (Di Leo)

Director: Fernando Di Leo
Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy

A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.

Chung Kuo – Cina (Antonioni)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Giuseppe Rinaldi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai, and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.

César and Rosalie (Sautet)

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn’t making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.

Harder They Come, The (Henzell)

Director: Perry Henzell
Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Bad Company (Benton)

Director: Robert Benton
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

Jeremiah Johnson (Pollack)

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.

My Childhood (Douglas)

Director: Bill Douglas
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas’ influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-’40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape – he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars – and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Imagine (Lennon, Ono)

Director: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Stars: Fred Astaire, John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John’s historic ‘Imagine’ album and Yoko’s ‘Fly.’

State of Siege (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Legend of Boggy Creek, The (Pierce)

Director: Charles B. Pierce
Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A documentary-style drama about the “Fouke Monster”, a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Garden of Luxor (Jarman)

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Karl Bowen, Christopher Hobbs
Genre: Short
Country: UK

A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of reddish random images of Egypt and the pyramids; a strange garden destroyed from time to time by a man with a whip; a young peaceful man relaxing on the floor; other smoking and eating insects. This is Jarman’s view of the Garden of Luxor and its mysteries.

Bremen Freedom (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.

Blaise Pascal (Rossellini)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Pierre Arditi, Rita Forzano, Giuseppe Addobbati
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

Blaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.

Marjoe (Kernochan, Smith)

Director: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to the start of “televangelism”.

Mattei Affair, The (Rosi)

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

Heat (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Spoof of the casual sexual adventures of a one-time child actor in Hollywood. It also involves a bratty on-again, off-again lesbian character.

Child’s Play (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

At an exclusive boys’ school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Fritz the Cat (Bakshi)

Director: Ralph Bakshi
Stars: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Pierre Baillot, Gilette Barbier, Jean-Pierre Bastid
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.

Dawns Here Are Quiet, The (Rostotskiy)

Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy
Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Lucifer Rising (Anger)

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Donald Cammell
Genre: Short, Fantasy
Country: USA | UK | West Germany

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer – in order to usher in a new occult age.

Super Fly (Parks)

Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Stars: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Goodbye CP (Hara)

Director: Kazuo Hara
Stars: Hiroshi Yokota, Kôichi Yokozuka
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

An intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view their lives.

Pictures of the Old World (Hanák)

Director: Dusan Hanák
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience.

Tomorrow (Anthony)

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin, Sudie Bond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

And Hope to Die (Clément)

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Canada

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don’t go quite as planned.

New Land, The (Troell)

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Triple Echo, The (Apted)

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Tout Va Bien (Gorin, Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Ulzana’s Raid (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Butterflies Are Free (Katselas)

Director: Milton Katselas
Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Asylum (Robinson)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Horror
Country: UK

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Between Time and Timbuktu (Barzyk)

Director: Fred Barzyk
Stars: ‘Cousin Brucie’ Morrow, Dortha Duckworth, William Hickey
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.

Man, The (Sargeant)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.

Un Flic (Melville)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.

1776 (Hunt)

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Stars: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA

A musical retelling of the American Revolution’s political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Goat Horn, The (Andonov)

Director: Metodi Andonov
Stars: Katya Paskaleva, Anton Gorchev, Milen Penev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge.

Born to Boogie (Starr)

Director: Ringo Starr
Stars: Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, Mickey Finn
Genre: Music
Country: UK

Documentary about T. Rex includes concert footage and staged sequences. Sir Ringo Starr’s directorial work is mindful of touches used on Magical Mystery Tour.

Nathalie Granger (Duras)

Director: Marguerite Duras
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Alfredo, Alfredo (Germi)

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Devil, The (Zulawski)

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Poland

During the Prussian army’s invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father’s death and his fiancee’s betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.

Three Cheers for the Whale (Marker, Ruspoli)

Director: Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
Stars: Casamayor, Valérie Mayoux, Lalan
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE chronicles the history of mankind’s relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (Nicolaescu)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (Godard, Vertov, Gorin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Moshe Dayan, James Dean
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam.

Slap the Monster on Page One (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | West Germany

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas)

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | West Germany

A film diary divided into three episodes. In the first part Jonas Mekas tells about his time as emigrant in New York in 1950s, after leaving the home country of Lithuania. The second part depicts his first trip back there, while the last is filmed during a stay in Vienna shortly afterwards.

Valley (Obscured by Clouds), The (Schroeder)

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70’s encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Merchant of Four Seasons, The (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The (Newman)

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through.

Avanti! (Wilder)

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father’s body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Heartbreak Kid, The (May)

Director: Elaine May
Stars: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.

Canterbury Tales, The (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Pasolini’s artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer’s most erotic tales.

Roma (Fellini)

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy’s capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini’s life.