Bezeten, Het Gat in de Muur
Nils Janssen (Dieter Geissler), a medical student, can’t stop spying on his mysterious neighbor through a tiny hole in the wall. His journalist girlfriend, Marina (Alexandra Stewart), begins to worry… Read more »
Tag: 1960s
Blind Beast
Aki Shima (Mako Midori), a model specializing in bondage portraits, is kidnapped by the blind “amateur” sculptor Michio Sofu (Eiji Funakoshi) and his mother (Noriko Sengoku) to serve as the… Read more »
Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
I Start Counting
David Greene’s belatedly en vogue film I Start Counting (1969) isn’t so much a coming of age picture as it is a meditation on the role that imagination and fantasy… Read more »
Privilege
Privilege (1967) was Peter Watkins final film made entirely in England. After making the films Culloden (1964) and The War Game (1965) for the BBC, Watkins was given the chance… Read more »
Uptight
Uptight (1968) is one of the most criminally underrated pictures of all time. This reimagining of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer is so close to the reality of Fred Hampton’s… Read more »
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Meg (Gigi Darlene) is a Bunny Yeager type housewife. One Saturday, when her husband Ted (Alan Feinstein) is at work, Meg is raped by the janitor in her building. After… Read more »
The Catch
During World War II, an American G.I. is forced to parachute and lands outside of a remote Japanese village. Very quickly the soldier is captured by the villagers and imprisoned…. Read more »
The Love God?
“This is a dirty case and a dirty little man.” The Love God? (1969) is easily the best of Don Knotts’ comedies. Unlike The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), The Ghost… Read more »
Der Schatz im Silbersee
Karl May looms large in the landscape of German culture. His nineteenth century western adventure novels, influential in their day, re-entered German popular culture in the post-war period as the… Read more »
