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Andy Warhol – The Nude Restaurant (1967)
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”...
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Gualtiero Jacopetti – Addio zio Tom aka Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi, best-known for the groundbreaking shockumentary Mondo Cane, directed this bizarre and shocking look at slavery in America. Set...
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R. Maslyn Williams – Mike and Stefani (1952)
Fascinating artifact from the period of peak European migration into Australia, which can be instructively set alongside the films of Giorgio Mangiamele (one of whose films seems a direct response to...
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Leonid Gaidai – Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu AKA Ivan Vasilyevich...
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation An unconventional comedy based on M. Bulgakov’s play, “Ivan Vassilevich,” when inventor, Timofeev builds a time machine, things go awry. Tsar Ivan the Terrible...
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Andrei Konchalovsky – Shy People (1987)
Diana (Jill Clayburgh) and her rebellious cocaine snorting daughter (Martha Plimpton) travel to the Louisiana bayou to meat their distant relatives. They find a wild gun-toting marsh woman (Barbara...
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Andre Singer – Night Will Fall (2014)
Synopsis: When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened. Using...
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Robert Altman – Fool For Love (1985)
“At the center of Sam Shepard’s ‘Fool for Love’ are two people whose hurts are so deep, whose angers are so real, that they can barely talk about what they really feel. That does not stop them from...
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Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden (2014)
The film follows the rise and fall of Paul, a DJ who pioneered the French touch – a type of electronic dance music that became widely popular in the 1990s. At a time where raves dominate the era, Paul...
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John Maclean – Slow West (2015)
Slow West follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas....
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Roberto Rossellini – Francesco, giullare di Dio AKA The Flowers of St....
Quote: The Flowers of St. Francis—or, Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester), to give it its full title in Italian—is a delicate, fascinating hybrid, a film that is self-consciously,...
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Len Lye – Free Radicals (1958)
Free Radicals Directed by Len Lye US 1958, revised 1979, 16mm, b/w, 4 min. Quote: In arguably his greatest film, Lye reduces the medium to its most basic elements by scratching designs on black film....
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Dominik Graf – Die geliebten Schwestern AKA Beloved Sisters (2014)
Friedrich Schiller was Germany’s William Shakespeare, a poet and playwright who espoused Romanticism and was for a time forced into exile because of his political writings. Alongside Goethe, he is...
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Saskia Diesing – Nena (2014)
The film tells the story of sixteen-year-old Nena, who is confronted with the suicide attempt of her handicapped father. At the same time she falls head over heels in love for the first time in her...
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Mona Fastvold – The Sleepwalker (2014)
A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia’s secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia’s sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira....
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Richard Myers – The Path (1960)
B&W, SILENT. “Light as the symbol of the ineffable. The ‘plot’ of this subjective recreation of a dream seems to concern a mysterious journey; the spectator, however, is visually directed toward...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Suna no onna AKA Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city,...
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Sang-soo Hong – Bam gua nat AKA Night and Day (2008)
Hong Sang-soo Gets in Touch with Inner Frenchman in Night and Day A Korean in Paris By Scott Foundas Tuesday, Oct 20 2009 ‘We can’t easily tell night from day during the summers here,” observes one...
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Apotheosis (1970)
Quote: What a perfect film…..short and simple, Ono takes a camera and a boom mike onto a hot air balloon, kicks the rope, and starts the camera and lets us watch as it goes above the clouds for a 17...
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Kjell Grede – Harry Munter (1969)
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He’s an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He’s offered work in the U.S....
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Ghasem Ebrahimian – The Suitors (1989)
Quote: A young Iranian woman fends for herself in America in spite of the wishes of her newfound friends after her husband is accidentally killed. Review From the NY Times: Before we are 15 minutes...
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