Cinematic Era: 1963 Vintage

Mondo documentary.

A prince disguises himself as a common man to win the love of Seema, a middle-class woman. Complications arise when his true identity is revealed, testing their love and trust.

A Hashimoto cartoon.

A Luno the White Stallion short.

Because he was given 50 francs one night as he was reciting poetry in a Parisian café, Grégoire decides to discover the world, and to take his fiancée Micheline alongside.

American sculptor, Alexander Calder, creates around the workshop. The film features several of his kinetic sculptures-- Wild moving figurines that spin, undulate and perform circus acts. The film ends on a hanging moon mobile, completing our wacky trip.

"We'll Never Turn Back" was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Amzie Moore, a Mississippi NAACP activist escorted the film maker through rural Mississippi interviewing share croppers and activists in the voter registration campaign. Appearing in the film are Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin as well as other local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes and Hollis Watkins. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.

Casper meets a giant with no friends, and introduces him to the forest animals, but the animals aren't so sure they want to be friends with a giant.

Documentary short about the moment of creation and birth of the characters of the book "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" by Ernesto Sabato.

A short documentary in the form of a mock-info-travelogue of Hitler’s mountain retreats Berghof and the Eagle’s Nest at Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden.

Love Forever

An American intelligence agent is captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.

A princess attempts to win back her kingdom from a powerful shape-shifting sorcerer.

The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning sequences and shock cut towards a static, didactic form of “documentary” marked with long takes, minimal camera movement, a surface concentration on showing how things are. Being silent they operate on sheerly visual means. From the outset they grapple with socio-political issues with the stifling atmosphere of Catholic family life in Italy

Farzana, a lonely young widow known as "Baaji," finds her quiet life disrupted when her cousin Nasir visits. A tragic misunderstanding leads her to believe Nasir intends to marry her, unaware that his heart actually belongs to another.

A couple of boys are trying to get $30 to buy a boat.

The 186th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the article 'A story from South Wales', about the closure of unproductive pits and the compulsory relocation of workforces.

The story of a poor family and their relationship with the local mafia.

A former convict, named Raul Vela, and a cabaret singer, called Clara, are a couple who tries to lead a normal life. He has found an employment and she wants to leave the cabaret. One day an old chief, who wants to disappear, proposes him to justify his supposed death in a supposed accident. In exchange, Raúl will receive one hundred thousand pesetas as gratification. Raul refuses to engage in the deception. Shortly after, he reads in a newspaper about the death of Cervera, which makes the police relate him to the case.

Badsha, a kind thief, decides to mend his ways after he finds a child deserted on the road and takes him home. Meanwhile, the child's mother undergoes a shock after losing him.

A Sidney the Elephant cartoon.

“There is a TV screen superimposed over his face, his face being the screen and the screen being the image.The image of a TV screen can be an image in a movie. On television, the movie is the television image.This seems logical.” (George Landow, letter to Sheldon Renan, 1967) “A study for Fleming Faloon. Kraft is the actor in Fleming.” (Owen Land, letter to Mark Webber, 2004)

The Ghostly Trio make mischief by slipping Casper an enlarging potion.

Based on a comic novel, this Turkish fantasy movie shows some resemblance to Casper.

A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there finds cheering proof that despite concrete and bulldozer, the persistent seed prevails. The film is without commentary and the camera work is a constant delight, for Chapman has the gift of catching life smiling wherever he may look. Film without words.

Andy Warhol film.

Rahmat, an unemployed young man, befriends a woman forced into prostitution after being deceived by a womanizer named Parviz. Later, during a trip to Isfahan, he meets Zohreh, another of Parviz's victims. Pregnant with Parviz's child, Zohreh asks Rahmat to pose as her husband before her parents ...

Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.

Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ruins of a series of soon-to-be-demolished Victorian houses, sometimes appearing in drag, sometimes in blue jeans and a sweatshirt.

Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.

Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII.

A film about Canadian ballet dancer Margaret Mercier. Prima ballerina of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, graduate of Sadler's Wells Ballet, and student of the Bolshoi Ballet, Miss Mercier talks about her art. The film follows her through rehearsal and a scene from Cinderella.

Images illustrate a poetic text in three parts - Morning, Afternoon, and Evening - with variations on work and leisure, heat and coolness, and love and sex.

Yuri Gagarin's triumphant visit to Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris suburbs, for the Cité Gagarine inauguration.

Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers.

Popular theatre re-enactment that goes back to the XVII-XVI centuries, integrating in the pilgrimage of Senhora das Neves, held every year, in the first days of August. The performers are local people, and the show takes place outdoors, in the church square, involving Christians and Moors.

A somewhat cowardly man remains unmarried, while his own people desperately try to find him a bride.

Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they are with their unmarried sisters. Finding the right husband is their primary concern, but they don't know that behind their backs, Fotis' sister is dating Kosmas, and Kosmas' sister is dating Fotis.

A focus on Sweden's greatest dramatist, August Strindberg, his years spent in Paris and the inspiration the city had on his poetry.

A television producer helps a woman assaulted on the waterfront and takes her to his apartment to recover, where she recounts her recent adventures in New York and he discusses Nudism.

One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art dada collage film," this free-form short presents cut-out images animated across old photos (a style picked up by Terry Gilliam a few years later) and found objects that dance to the beat of the rock-and-roll soundtrack. He produced this short during a summer spent with Joseph Cornell and Jordan edited the film entirely in camera, making the upbeat visual rhythm of this delightful lark even more impressive. –Sean Axmaker

hong kong film

Report on the ideological foundation Moral Rearmament (MH), based on an idea by the American Frank Buchman, in which critics of the movement have their say. The followers of this group are required to put four virtues into practice: absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute altruism and absolute love.

The oil workers in the Caspian Sea saw a performance by Muslim Magomayev on TV and decided to invite him to their field. One of the oil workers went to Baku to look for Muslim...

A Hashimoto cartoon.

Pojar’s wickedly humourous satire pokes gentle fun at a speechmaker so enamoured with the sound of his own voice, he is oblivious to the effect he is having on his audience. Pojar details their bafflement, fidgets, whispers and snores with great imagination.