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Graduation essay at the CSC. Torn between two men (Claudio Trionfi and Oddo Bracci) who would like to cage her in a bourgeois and respectable love, Delia Boccardo gives herself to one and the other, then abandons them to their fate.
A mechanic falls prey to a dangerous gang that gets him involved in the murder of a woman. Shortly after his release from prison, he embarks on a journey motivated by a sole purpose; to take revenge on the perpetrators.
Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film and recorded fourteen hours of audio. Over the next few years, Kubelka toiled in the editing bay, producing a work charged with intricate, ironic brutality.
Rene Ricard in a lost Screen Test. The image was reproduced on the cover of the book ‘Screen Tests/A Diary’ (New York: Kulchar Press, 1967).
"Karaoğlan - Camoka'nın İntikamı" is the third adaptation based on a famous Turkish historical comic book by Suat Yalaz.
"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.
A one-off special performance by Tony Hancock of his stand-up comedy act (which rarely changed), at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
This is a pilot film for an animated TV program based on "Son-goku the Monkey." In order to get an idea of the reaction of children, its main audience, a preview was held at an elementary school. It received complaints that Son-goku was portrayed too nicely.
Bakery employees chase all over the city trying too find the bomb planted in one of their wedding cakes.
A comedy about Moishe, a soldier in the army whose nickname is Moishe Air-Condition.
Ingratitude rules the world... A puppet animated film based on a short story by Jaroslav Hašek.
American filmmakers associated with the mafia are concerned about the great success of Bulgarian films around the world. They decided to send a big spy, Jesse James, to Bulgaria. His task is to blow up the film studios. But the Bulgarian inspector Lokum Shekerov is at his post.
After disappearing without a trace 18 years ago, Prince Naresh (Dev Anand) returns to his village as commoner Dilip Singh, only to discover that tragedy has befallen his family and that his adversary (Premnath) is close to ascending the throne. In a triple cross, the nobleman hatches a plan to take his rightful place as the king. Saira Banu plays Naresh's love interest, and Durga Khote portrays his mother in this entertaining yarn.
Tara is the only daughter of a rich Zamindar in a village and spends her time in the vicinity of nature. One day her childhood friend Ghona comes back from the city. The two indulge in fights initially however once again becomes the best of friends. In the meantime Ghona starts working for Tara's father. As the parents start looking for a suitable match for their only daughter Tara falls prey in the hands of a policeman. The family tries their best to protect their child from this scandal by fixing her marriage with a suitable groom. However the cat is let out of the bag and Tara's family is humiliated. Tara decides to marry the policeman. She tries her best to bring her husband back on track but without success. In the end she is forced to stab him and as a result she is imprisoned. Her husband repents and passes away. Ghona is given the responsibility to take care of Tara by the lawyer.
Rare black and white footage of Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones auditioning for the 60s hit NBC television program The Monkees.
1966 Japanese movie
Ladki Sahyadri Ki is a 1966 bilingual social drama starring Shalini Abhyankar, Sandhya, Vatsala Deshmukh and others. Rani is asked to join a theatre troupe but her family does not allow girls to work. The village temple needs to be repaired and to help pay for it, she takes it on. She gets into trouble when the stage-owner makes advances towards her and she snubs him. This man is responsible for the temple repair work and he stops it out of spite. Can she make sure the temple is restored?
Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.
A dutiful son vows that he will get married only after his sister is settled in life. The sister is a woman who was a victim of child marriage. Her brother is a talented musician who performs in musical shows around town and in one of them, where the theme involved making fun of modern women, he falls foul of another gifted artiste, who vows to teach him a lesson. Enmity turns to love but he still has to get his sister suitably married...
In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a country and western benefit concert after the opera company that his wife (Pamela Hayes) booked suddenly backs out. Along with country icons Minnie Pearl, Dottie West, Connie Smith and Faron Young, the film features great tunes such as "Born to Lose," "Abilene" and "Young Love." Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey (of Bowery Boys fame) portray stagehands.
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
The adventures of two flight attendants when they meet a secret agent from Buenos Aires.
Acclaimed producer David L. Wolper presents this landmark documentary (based on Theodore H. White's best-selling book) that analyzes Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory over Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election.
Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. "George Maciunas had a number of films which didn’t have titles on them. Then he put them together into his Fluxus reel and tried to remember who made them. It was an intentional Fluxus joke." (Owen Land, interview with Mark Webber, 2004)
A folk comedy loosely based on the career of Danish inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer. We follow Ellehammer, his loyal assistant Pehtersen, and his patient wife as they battle creditors and widespread ridicule until, on September 12, 1906, Ellehammer becomes the first person in Europe to get a flying machine off the ground on the island of Lindholm.
Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.
Documentary about Swedish wildlife.
An overview of John F. Kennedy's political career. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., in 2014.
Summer 1918. There is a danger of ships being captured by Germany in the Black Sea Fleet. The Soviet government decides to destroy the fleet. The film tells about the intense struggle of the Bolsheviks against the forces of counterrevolution trying to disrupt the execution of the order.
One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
A CID officer goes undercover to track down a large sum of money that was stolen by a group of soldiers during the Second World War.
Sven Bertil, a pastor's son, accidentally is hit in the head by a church bell, resulting in a permanent concussion. He is admitted to a mental hospital,. Sven Bertil ends up in a conflict with his psychologist, his father and his father's new woman. He escapes from the institution and joins a group of gangsters. They exploit him for their criminal purposes..
A Marine officer leads a rescue mission through the Vietnamese jungle to rescue his brother, a doctor who has been taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, masked wrestler Superargo quits wrestling and, following the advice of his friend Col. Alex Kinski of the Secret Service, becomes a secret agent, using his superhuman abilities to stop villain Diabolicus' plans to wreck the global economy by turning uranium into gold.
Maryam leaves her son Majid on the street, and a man named Abbas Agha and his wife Fatemeh raise the child. Farid, Maryam's husband, is released from prison and later becomes very wealthy. Majid and his friend Hassan collaborate with a group of thieves led by Ghaffar. One day, Majid enters Farid's house and takes refuge in Hayedeh's room, gradually falling for her. Abbas, who knows Majid's real parents, gives Majid an incriminating letter to deliver to Farid.
Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place.
Pinku from 1966
Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin, this nearly 20 minute avant-garde short features repeated articulations of such random things as "Hello," "Where are we now?," and "Look at that picture" instead of music or standard dialogue. The narrative is decidedly nonlinear and perplexing, with no discernible plot whatsoever as we see images of Gysin working on his paintings and calligraphic designs and Burroughs rummaging through draws, packing a suitcase, giving a young man a physical, making a call in a phone booth, and waiting on a platform for a subway train.
The story of a young woman who makes a living by singing in the streets and a young millionaire.
The tale of a little toy ship, Aurora, that defies entire fleets of evil Capitalist warmongers.
Somewhere in Bosnia in 1943 between the fourth and fifth enemy offensives column partisans withdrew across a river to free territory. At the moment of crossing the river, a group of Chetniks suddenly attack a column of partisans. In this violent attacks, a lot of partisan dies. Manage to cross the river and so be saved from bullets, only few partisans as a young partisan Radojica young nurse partisan Milica. Radojica and Milica cut off from his brigade, moving in their difficult and arduous hike over the mountains in the hope that they will meet again with the brigade. In this wandering, they will encounter a series of tragic-comic situations. Since the departure of Radojice in prison and subsequent flight to several grisly encounter with the Chetniks, to find the brigade and brave and daring capture of the entire Chetnik detachments and Chetnik duke who was responsible for the attack on the partisans.
Two friends accidently enter the valley of death where more than adventure awaits them!
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.
Two thieving gloves try to snatch an apple.
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.
A generous businessman is betrayed by a jealous office worker when he marries another woman. The employee takes the company's secrets and sells them to the competition in an effort to destroy his happiness.
"This film surveys agricultural progress in India, showing the role of USAID technical assistance. The film was produced by Fali Bilimoria and written by Zul Vellani" (US National Archives).
hong kong film
A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World War II when the Japanese-Canadian community of Canada's west coast was uprooted and moved inland. There are some flashbacks to the events he describes, but the film is mainly about his home and family life in Montréal and his successful career as a chemical engineer.
From the study of his rundown English manor, an old British Professor instructs the audience as to the dangers associated with vampires, and exactly how to kill them. Scenes from Roman Polanski's horror/comedy classic, The Fearless Vampire Killers, are interspersed throughout.
A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.