Cinematic Era: 1965 Vintage

Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson I took place on November 22, 1965 for the WBC/Ring/lineal world heavyweight championship.

The U.K.'s New Musical Express poll winners concert. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Searchers, the Moody Blues, Freddie and the Dreamers, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, the Seekers, Herman's Hermits, the Ivy League and Division Two, Sounds Incorporated, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Cilla Black, Donovan, Them, the Animals, the Kinks.

François de Menil has been lit at a three-quarter angle from the left; he glances briefly at the camera and then stares straight in front of him as if avoiding catching the camera’s eye; the right side of his face fades off into deep shadow.

A young woman studying in Europe returns home to find that her father has been murdered. The perpetrators, in order to seize her inheritance, try to drive her insane.

Short by György Kepes.

A just-released convict plans revenge against the man who framed him for two crimes.

"Vanity. Had a beard. Appearance (looks). Looking. Disappearance act. Hand-made fades and zooms but camera made shave. Camerazor. Handsome. Tired. Walking Woman. My worst film."

During the anti-fascist struggle, in 1944, a partisan detachment receives Soviet weapons and ammunition delivered by airplanes. Some of the weapons must be transferred to another partisan detachment. This task is entrusted to a peasant potter. Overcoming enormous difficulties and failing to meet the contact with the password, the peasant nevertheless delivers the weapons to their destination.

A look at the business of cleaning, from the air we breath to the clothes that we wear.

A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.

Homage to the Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández.

Bell Labs mathematician Frank W. Sinden translates the equations that define many basic rules of physics into computer graphics, so one can see them play out in real time.

Mad scientist Professor Frogg invites an unsuspecting friend into his futuristic mansion. He begins to tell him about plans to control Earth with the help of invaders from another planet.

Exploring some of the industrial applications of film, and the many ways in which it is used as a tool in man's search for knowledge.

Highlights from the race,

Introduces a boy who visits a farm and begins to notice similarities and differences between animals. Shows that animals can be grouped according to categories such as insects or fish and as to whether or not they have backbones.

An archival short of Britain's greatest bandleader, Joe Loss, and his orchestra, including hits such as "Old Ned", "No Regrets", "If I Had A Hammer", "Let There Be Drums", and "(I'm Saying) Farewell To The Dames".

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the music. It proves that there are still singers who can perform Verdi's melodies at the highest level and that it is also possible to bring them together into an ensemble. The production fulfills all one's expectations of the modern city of Berlin in terms of stylishness and performance.

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden shot with the Éclair NPR, a light, silent camera allowing the recording of sync sound.

Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

A photographer who specializes in nudes is confined to a hospital but has a deadline coming up that he won't meet if he's still in the hospital. Several nurses hear of his problem and volunteer to help him solve it.

Animated film about a weird creature travelling.

A London man with an overbearing wife escapes the drudgery of his life when he sprouts wings.

Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and kaleidoscopic effects. Switching to lively organ accompaniment, the film pours out a stream of simple scratchings that rollick across the screen. Fish, breasts, flowers, boats, water, lips, hearts, stars—the hieroglyphs explode with color and celebrate the female creative force. The surge slows with the return of ritual drumming, this time with chanting, and a self-reflective coda. -- National Film Preservation Foundation

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Short film.

A short historical vignette constructed from an eighteenth-century three-panel watercolor genre painting, using its crowded, witty details to evoke a scene from Korea’s past.

In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut emotional inner worlds of a young Brighton couple in this highly concentrated, sharp 60s short.

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.

The rooster Schreihals works diligently, while the two mice Singeschön and Springeschön prefer to play and dance all day long. When the rooster finds an ear of wheat, it is the clever mice who urge him to make grain out of it, grind it, and bake a cake with the flour. Will they get a piece of the cake with their clever advice?

A mercenary from the Bay of Pigs invasion escapes in search of protection and is taken in by a peasant woman who ignores his identity.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

The Crown Jewels of Iran is a 1965 film commissioned and then banned by the Shah’s cultural ministry, featuring dazzling edits and camera movements and a charged narration assaulting economic disparities.

A documentary about the life and spirituality of Charles de Foucauld, a French priest who lived in the Sahara and was assassinated in 1916.

Andy directs Edie for a screen test.

An animation submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration.

The love story in Buenos Aires of a young provincial couple.

The three-spined stickleback is shown. Nest building, zigzag dance, fanning at the nest, sometimes following a female, also short mouth fights, the female swimming into the nest, spawning, the male poking at the rear end of the partner, inseminating the eggs in the nest after the female swims away.

A documentary account of the assault on Mt. Everest in 1963 by the men of the first American Mount Everest Expedition under the leadership of Norman Dyhrenfurth.

The story delves into the existential problems of a forty-something executive who rediscovers his youthful drive and generosity in a young woman, only to fall and rise from a terrible moral crisis, which is cinematically resolved within a period of 24 hours.

Part of a restored collection of rare early works by Nam June Paik, Electronic Fables is an example of Paik's early improvisations and experiments with electronic image manipulation, prior to his invention of the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer. This piece also makes use of anecdotes by John Cage and other influential artists and cultural figures.

Woody is the object of desire between two feuding hillbillies' hound dogs.

Techniques for rapid drying and harvesting of grasses using various machines.