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Tag Archives: 1960s
La vendetta di Ursus / Revenge of Ursus (1961) Luigi Capuano
The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. Read More »
Macunaíma (1969) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Grande Otelo
Our story begins with Macunaima’s miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Read More »
Karakkaze yarô / Afraid to Die (1960) Yasuzô Masumura
A group of yakuza is hired to break a strike and an antihero of his former law partners faces Read More »
The Twilight Story / Bokutô kitan (1960) Shirô Toyoda
A village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. Read More »
The Comedians (1967) Peter Glenville, Richard Burton
Set in the Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic Welsh hotel owner Read More »
Sono yo wa wasurenai / A Night to Remember (1962) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter embarks Read More »
The Hustlers (1962) Ruy Guerra, Per Aabel, Norma Bengell, Hugo Carvana
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the “cafajestes”). Read More »
Parias de la gloire (1964) Henri Decoin, Curd Jürgens, Maurice Ronet, Folco Lulli
Ferrier’s brother was killed in WW2, and since he has taken a violent dislike to German people. Read More »
Mazel Tov ou le mariage (1968) Claude Berri, Elisabeth Wiener, Prudence Harrington
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. Read More »