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It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Alexander Kluge the “father” of New German Cinema. Kluge was an original signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto and it was his early films… Read more »
It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Alexander Kluge the “father” of New German Cinema. Kluge was an original signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto and it was his early films… Read more »
The Belle Starr Story (1968) is an early directorial effort from Lina Wertmüller before she found international success in the mid-seventies. This relatively early effort (which she directed under the… Read more »
We rented a bus and off we went. There was some planning: John would always want a midget or two around.. -Ringo Starr With the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club… Read more »
Shot on the same sets and at the same time as The Reptile (1966) and Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) is a relatively low budget… Read more »
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express (1966) applies the filmmaker’s Nouveau roman formal experiments onto the crime film as a means of parodying the genre as well as the filmmaking process itself. Of… Read more »
Prior to her association with John Lennon, Yoko Ono appeared in the Michael Findlay movie Satan’s Bed (1965). Ono was living in New York City and enjoying a place amongst… Read more »
Piero Schivazappa’s Femina Ridens (1969), or The Laughing Woman, posits that Modernism, as a series of aesthetic principles, is the last bulwark against the tide of progress. Schivazappa’s direction solicits… Read more »
Follow Me, Boys! (1966) was the last feature film that Walt Disney himself had a hand in. The Norman Rockwell small town location, the Boy Scouts of America propaganda as… Read more »
Director Larry Peerce is that classic example of the journeyman filmmaker. For years before directing his first theatrical feature Peerce worked in television, becoming one of the most efficient and… Read more »
The old Hollywood studios saw Robert Hutton as a “knock-off” Jimmy Stewart; an actor good for supporting roles and sometimes the lead in a lower budget feature. Chances are you’ve… Read more »