A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze Read More »
Run, Psycho, Run / Più tardi Claire, più tardi… (1968) Brunello Rondi, Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered Read More »
Hercules and the Captive Women / Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961) Vittorio Cottafavi, Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) Read More »
The War Is Over / La guerre est finie (1966) Alain Resnais, Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold
Diego is one of the chiefs of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris Read More »
Go with God, Gringo / Vaya con dios gringo (1966) Edoardo Mulargia, Glenn Saxson, Lucretia Love, Ignazio Spalla
Cris brothers kill Gringo’s brother and frame him and his friend for murder. Read More »
Pecos Cleans Up / Pecos è qui: prega e muori! (1967) Maurizio Lucidi, Robert Woods, Erno Crisa, Luciana Gilli
Three musicians arrive in a Mexican village destroyed by El Supremo and learn Read More »
Two Wives / Tsuma futari (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »
The Organiser / I compagni (1963) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century Read More »