Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

Bob Hope's USO tour from 1968.

Young widow Madame Yanne takes care of her pretty nieces Florentine and Juliet, who are currently living out their lesbian obsessions and are currently more engaged with each other than turning their heads around the lusty male world.

In 1968, Bruce Conner offered this film comprised of the unedited footage of Toni Basil dancing, footage that was previously edited down in 1966 to create the film Breakaway.

A meek office worker finds himself flung into a fantasy world as a naked muscleman. An early version of the Den character, known from the comic magazine Heavy Metal and the movie by the same name.

This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.

A 1968 film.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

As she describes the lives of her parents, who run a tofu store and try to follow their convictions without thinking of themselves, Fumiko realizes that a family based on true trust between parents and children is the only place where a wonderful human being can be formed in a society undergoing drastic changes.

It is not easy for a foreigner to learn the Hungarian language today, but it wasn't the case either when the example sentences were put into the mouths of Romanian weavers and Chinese comrades in language books. Short film director Béla Vajda wrote the screenplay for his award-winning graduation film in Oberhausen together with his film college classmate Gyula Maár.

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.

An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and played by Cowan. –B. C.

An absurd film by Kuri Youji.

Love, sex and death get mixed in a love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

An Iraqi film about the life story of a money collector (Kamsari) inside one of the public transport buses in Baghdad, and the daily encounters with various segments and different characters, along with the funny situations and incidents that ensue.

There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries to escape, and sometimes he just tries to do what he wants despite the box. In the next box, another figure is always trying to force the person in box one into whatever form that box is taking. And the last box is a television, which is cheering the other two on.

Paris, Latin Quarter, May 1968. Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, on his bed, a young man indulges in daydreams that invade the whole space.

Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in particular with the war in Vietnam.

A short documentary about Iran’s oldest mosque, the Jameh Mosque of Fahraj.

A medium-length film by Vlado Kristl.

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films including a Charlie Chaplin short.

This concert shows very rare and unique footage of Aretha in a very productive and creative part of her career.

A documentary short on the life and works on José Medina, one of early Brazilian cinema's most renowed pioneers.

The story of a playful and curious black kitten, who lived with a selfless and kind doctor. One day the little prankster broke a lamp. He was genuinely sorry about what had happened and wanted to correct the situation. Going out on the balcony, he saw a light in the distance and thought it was the lamp, which could replace the host's spoiled one. The kitten bravely went through the dark streets and trails.

This film, conceived for an "oral culture" shows cows on a pasture in Northern Germany in one single shot. With interruptions, the cows seem to attempt to concentrate on the camera... until at last two cars glide past in the background, the film's climax, gratefully received by an applauding audience... (Peter Steinhart)

A safety short which teaches children the proper way to call the police or fire department in a pre-911 world.

The Pirate's Treasure is a 1968 feature film based on the character Jommeke by Jef Nys. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name, De schat van de zeerover (The Pirate's Treasure). It is Filiberke's birthday and Jommeke wants to surprise him with a cool gift. But there is a big problem. Jommeke's piggy bank is empty. While searching for a gift, Jommeke finds an old toy boat for his best friend in a trash can. However, they discover something mysterious in the boat: an old map with clues to a great treasure! Will Jommeke and his friend Filiberke unravel the secret?

The film captures the pivotal events surrounding President Lyndon Johnson's historic address on March 31st, focusing on his decision to halt bombing in North Vietnam and his surprising announcement not to seek re-election. The speech aimed for peace negotiations amidst the Vietnam War, leading to diplomatic breakthroughs with North Vietnam. It also chronicles the aftermath, including societal unrest following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and Johnson's efforts to maintain national unity.

In some of Croatian villages, in the 1960s, there was still a custom of arranged marriages between children aged 12 to 15. This poignant but also witty film depicts the wedding of one of these unhappy couples.

"My camera was silent, and so I started to compose wild sound collages for my films from my records with the help of tape, for example with my favorite Callas arias. I even got her to sing with herself that way. I also contrasted Schlager scraps of the Caterina Valente, whom I adore, and Christmas carols with the pictures. I cannot interpret what began then. I am an artist, I work intuitively." - Werner Schroeter

Documentary focusing on heavyweight boxing champions from 1882 to 1929.

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.

Motel operator Ann Porter and bar owner Dan Mullins decide to set up a key club to satisfy sexually their clientele. The club's membership consists largely of married people seeking extramarital sexual excitement. Inhibitions are cast aside and some unexpected results are achieved: Bob and Patti, a married couple who have independently joined the club, by chance receive matching room keys; and their encounter revitalizes their their faltering marriage. Meanwhile, some of the married women discover that they are sexually attracted to other women. Ann and Donn eventually throw a party for their clients. The members indulge their individual sexual preferences and all goes well until the husband of a participant, Sharon, makes an unexpected appearance and begins to beat her. Bob tries to intervene and he is accidentally killed by the jealous husband. The police then raid the party and break up the key club.

In a mountain village, a dying woman reveals a secret to the priest and entrusts him with her two children, Dimitrakis and Annoula. Growing up, Dimitris leaves for Athens, finds a job, and shortly after, Anna arrives. He falls in love with Betty, while Stefanos is interested in Anna. Stefanos helps Dimitris to become a singer, but the revelation that the two children are not siblings, as Anna is the daughter of Mr. Pantelis, overturns everything and gives them the right to be together.

Kips finds himself in the Stone Kingdom, where he gets acquainted with the fabulous treasures of the Stone King and learns a lot of interesting things about the rocks.

A sequel to an equally un-notable Turkish actioner

The vampire Yoshitsune appeared at Rashomon every night and drank the blood of women kidnapped by his servant, Musashibo Benkei. Then a mysterious woman appeared at Rashomon.

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture.

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food for thought in this impromptu reversal of roles.

Early experimental short film by Herbert Holba.

Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife, Stella, and sets out in search of adventures.

Sexy Marsha Jordan works as a secretary at a dating service (Date-A-Mate) and gets it on with her boss, his wife and his brother in law.

A documentary short originally played at the Kennedy Space Center's 70mm theater during the 1960's before the moon landing in 1969 when it was replaced with a new short based on the moon landing.

A documentary on the events leading to the six day Arab-Israeli War of 1967, consisting of preexisting archival footage, incident re-creations, and interviews with military personnel.

Musical cartoon satirising the relationship between Man and ape and suggests that man himself may have far to go before he is out of the trees.

The campaign of the parliamentary elections of June 1968 in Asnieres with the three main candidates: Albin Chalandon ( UDR ), Claude Denis ( PCF ) and Roger Hanin ( FGDS ).

A study of my parents in grey and white. An evening film. My mother lights the sabbath candles, cooks, crochets, sleeps, talks to father reading the paper – we are together. This is the first completed note.

A dance film-fantasy, a tour of old and new Tallinn from its own unique angle - from the rooftops. First colour film of Eesti Telefilm.

An animated lecture that totally overthrows the idea of the tender character of women and violent character of men. It proves that the reality is different.

The story of the Masked Five taking revenge on the bandits who robbed them while dressed in their own costumes.

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.