Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who’s mute. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The House of Hanging / Byoinzaka no kubikukuri no ie (1979) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yoshiko Sakuma, Junko Sakurada
Kosuke visits a photo studio to take photo for his passport. Read More »
Hundred Faces for a Single Day / Mi’at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed (1972) Christian Ghazy, Micheline Daou, Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention Read More »
The Last Savage / Addio ultimo uomo (1978) Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni, Riccardo Cucciolla
The Decameron / Il Decameron (1971) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
Rape Shot Momoes Lips / Rape shot: Momoe no kuchibiru (1979) Katsuhiko Fujii, Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe
Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Our Miss Fred (1972) Bob Kellett, Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival
Shakespearean actor Fred Wimbush’s drafted during WWII. Read More »
Mountain Pass / Passe montagne (1978) Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Villeret, Yves Le Moign
When the car of Georges, a Parisian architect, breaks down on the motorway Read More »
Winds of Change / Metamorphoses (1978) Takashi, Peter Ustinov
Several animated stories from “Metamorphoses”, Roman poet Ovid’s narrative of legends, are presented. Read More »