Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê.

Brother Theodore narrates and appears in this surreal hybrid animated/live action short film based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.

Back stage of Samuel Beckett’s "Endgame". Actors and director of the “Little Loggia” theatrical company of Brescia talk about the theatre.

In November 1966, Mr. Owens completed his first film Autre fois j'ai aimé une femme ("Once I Loved a Woman"), which in its short existence, has had special screenings both at the school of the Institute and Morton Hall, the Second City Film Center, and the Filmmakers' Cinematheque of New York. Upon viewing Autre fois, Gregory J. Markopoulos wrote "[Edward Owens] may well be one of the few for whom 'amateur' and 'professional' need have no significance whatsoever: true to his own native talents, with grim determination uncanny, whether the mind in the arts is for or against beauty or its opposite twin, chaos." —John F. Steward-Butkovich, Brotman & Sherman Theatres

A documentary about the making of the film "They're a Weird Mob", a movie about an Italian adjusting to life in Australia.

Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.

Short animation inspired by traditional folk songs, telling the story of a young boy torn between two potential brides, one rich and one poor.

Based on Güner Sümer's play, Bozuk düzen tells the story of four children (Erol Keskin, Nedret Güvenç. Ekrem Bora and Salih Güney) trying to survive difficult relationships and situations they are involved in.

A Cantonese factory woman obsessed with a famous Wuxia actor, has her fantasy crushed after discovering he is not the charming and humble person his movies portray him as. - Matthew E Carter

Stillborn, also winner of the MPD Student Film award for the best film made by a student enrolled in a college course in cinematography, is an experimental film at times abstract in its execution. It tells the story of a boy and girl who meet out in the middle of nowhere. As he looks upon the young girl's face he imagines what life with her might be like. His imagination runs wild as he thinks of the blissful episodes such as marriage would bring, as well as the entrapment he could suffer. At film's end he makes his decision. Use of the negative image for one sequence is extremely effective.

During World War II, one small band of brave soldiers is on a covert mission deep behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Their mission is to take out a secret Axis radar installation and pave the way for an all-out Allied air strike. Against harrowing odds, the resilient heroes will stop at nothing to complete their mission. This independent war drama from Kenneth W. Richardson stars James E. McLarty, Jim Westbrook and Robert Stolper.

Laila, the daughter of Mazloum Pasha, falls in love with officer Tarek, but he marries his cousin Nevine. As Laila loses her wealth, her father, and her daughter, she starts getting close to Tarek after his wife dies.

The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.

In a construction company faced with the suspension of production due to lack of profitability, an engineer still believes in the effectiveness of his work in the province, however it affects the relationship with the girlfriend.

An edited version of the 1940 Republic serial "Mysterious Doctor Satan", which was released to TV in a syndication package in 1966.

A documentary that looks at the obstacles African-American males face when building a career. As the narrator states, "this film is about his chances, about the changes that have been made and the problems still remaining." The film includes interviews with men who are "making it," or who are some of the first African Americans in their field.

Mexican feature film

A cashier who served 16 years in prison for a murder and robbery he did not commit wants to find his wife and daughter after his release. However, his daughter has fallen in love with Turgut, the man who set him up, and is willing to make any sacrifice for him, even taking the blame for her mother's murder of Turgut...

A man living between dream and reality, making the woman he fell in love with as a statue and falling in love with her and then killing her in his dreams.

A succession of modern songs, from Iê-iê-iê to Bossa Nova, mix with the record of the tastes and customs of the youth of the time.

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

Rena Varlamou (Rena Vlahopoulou), a female queen and a captain, takes up the election campaign of her fiancé Pericles Arapis (Stavros Xenides), a tavern who has founded a party and wants to become a member. He tries to land him in reality, but he does not, and when Pericles is not elected, he takes off. The reason is the sudden death of the uncle of Iakovos Menexes, a political career, who had re-elected a Member on their island. Menexes had included it on his ballot, as a runner-up, and Rena took his place, becoming the first female MP and struggling to make some important works in her place.

Nishad, daughter of a noble family, has three suitors. However, after making her decision, it comes to light that the groom only gained noble status after his father won the lottery.

The story is based on Voltaire's tale "Le monde comme il va" ("The world as it is"). Sent by the genie who presides over the destiny of Persepolis (Paris!), the Scythian Babouc carefully informs himself of everything, to tell the genie whether or not to destroy the city. This is the pretext for a series of interviews, scenes taken on the spot or reconstructed in the studio. We meet a musician who lives for his art and a Marxist historian, both of them optimists in the end; but also a war widow and an economically weak old lady: while the "fureur de vivre" gives free rein to the Golf Drouot and socialites hide their turpitudes behind a façade of good manners. A large, poorly housed family bravely faces up to its fate, and the children are happy; a working-class household talks about the union struggle, inhumane working conditions and reasons for hope. Finally, a poet sums it all up by talking about his commitment to the service of mankind.

A newly established and impressively designed park turns out to be highly inconvenient and troublesome for people. However, it takes quite some time before the designers come to realize that the park is, first and foremost, meant for people and needs to be redesigned accordingly.

Sou'ad is a beautiful student, who lives with a strict family. When they find out that she loves one of the employees, they prevent her from going to school. A married couple sympathizes with Sou'ad and treats her like a daughter. Sou'ad gets closer to the husband and tries to get his attention.

Adventure story,. set in the Venezuelan jungles.

The French track and field team prepares for the world championships. A paean to sport as a shining example of human nobility, as well as an almost anthropological investigation into a most particular company of people who manage to be rivals and comrades at the same time.

Two ambitious young provincials, Patrick and Michel, go to Paris to seek their fortune. Patrick seems to be the epitome of the up-and-comer at any price: with no scruples whatsoever, he manages to break into the world of finance, i.e. into the home of banker Philippe Haguenauer. He soon becomes the lover of the woman, Hélène, director of a major fashion house, while Philippe, for his part, is having the perfect love affair with Nadine, his secretary. And this with the mutual consent of both spouses. Meanwhile, Michel, shy and sentimental, is looking for a situation, while remaining honest.

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Jakubisko’s graduation work which examines the lives of young people on the eve of their joining the army for national service.

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment.

Addresses the age-old problem of two men vying for the same woman. Includes an unconventional, contemporary duel between them, with a wineglass and a violin as weapons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

The first NFL Films feature, it established the trend of dramatizing the game itself and not the outcome.

The story of Geronimo, an American indian, and his brother.

A detective narrates this story of police investigating three murders and discovering that their leads take them to the heart of a white slavery ring that is also in the drug trade. Men set up parties, invite young women, and then drug them, kidnap them, and sell them off to brothels.

In 1965 actor and hopeful first time director Titus Moede befriended ‘Preacher’ of the outlaw motorcycle club the Coffin Cheaters while looking for a project. He soon realized that this was exactly the subject he had been looking for.

A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from taking over a young woman's farm.

9 minute home-movie version of the 1957 feature film “The Deadly Mantis” from Castle Films.

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.

Three selfish fishermen are in danger because of their great envy. And although fate has mercy on them, the men do not learn from it, but everything repeats itself. Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1966.

Story about a spoilt girl and a guy who changes her and saves her from killers.

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked." –Ken Kelman

An estranged husband refuses to take up his son's responsibility after parting ways with his wife. But when he receives the news of his wife's death, he sets out in search of his son.

In the distant city of Blagoveshchensk, a father and his two sons, Rodka and Kostya, live together. After graduating from college, Kostya works as a surgeon and suffocates from the "greyness" of others, and 15-year-old Rodka suffers from the inability to help people. One day, a young woman appears in their house, whom Kostya brings.

The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a great deal in the Dutch capital. The film follows Katús, mostly roaming the streets, in a loose documentary style. The events are set against the backdrop of four national occasions - The Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Liberation Day and Remembrance Day.