Le soldatesse
Valerio Zurlini’s WWII epic Le soldatesse (1965) follows Lt. Martino (Tomas Milian) as he escorts a truck carrying prostitutes (including the iconic Marie Laforêt, Anna Karina, and Valeria Moriconi) from… Read more »
Tag: 1960s
La lama nel corpo
In a remote corner of the English countryside, Doctor Vance (William Berger) oversees an asylum and safeguards the tragic secrets of his past. But when a new nurse and an… Read more »
Castle Keep
Actor Burt Lancaster first met Sydney Pollack on the set of John Frankenheimer’s The Young Savages (1961) where Pollack was employed as an acting coach for the teenaged cast members…. Read more »
40 Pounds Of Trouble
40 Pounds Of Trouble (1962) was producer and star Tony Curtis’ passion project. Beginning in 1962 Curtis’ career began to wane and it was believed that 40 Pounds Of Trouble… Read more »
La decima vittima
In the twenty-first century war and crime have been erased from society by the globally instituted “big hunt”. Mankind’s primitive, violent impulses are given expression in a game that is… Read more »
Matka Joanna od Aniołów
Set in the seventeenth century, Matka Joanna od Aniołów (1961) tells the story of a convent in rural Poland overrun with demonic possessions. The Reverend Mother Joan of the Angels… Read more »
Le Gai savoir
Le Gai savoir (1969) finds Jean-Luc Godard in a period of transition. At the time Godard was becoming progressively more radically Marxist while, as an artist, he was attempting to… Read more »
The Vengeance Of She
Hammer Films’ The Vengeance Of She (1968) picks up where their previous adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s novel She left off. The film follows Carol (Olinka Berova aka Olga Schoberová)… Read more »
Spider Baby
Virginia (Jill Banner) believes that she is part spider, hence the nickname “spider baby”. Her sister, Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn) may act like an innocent little girl, but she’s just as… Read more »
Hudutların Kanunu
Scratched, dirty, and with frames missing, the lone surviving print of Lütfi Ömer Akad’s Hudutların Kanunu (1966) is a worn and weary mess. But the physical condition of the film… Read more »
