Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15.

A portrayal of two modern young men and their experiences of love. Jack, a sociology student, is in a relationship with Betty, who is somewhat older than him. It develops into a passionate love affair, but in the long run, the age difference and especially Betty's upper-class background weigh too heavily. Jack's friend, the cynical journalist Hugo, has casual relationships with several girls until he falls in love with the model Ruth. However, she returns to her husband, and when Hugo later has his face disfigured in a car accident, he ends up committing suicide. Before doing so, he tells Jack that he and several others have also had relationships with Betty.

In this early short, Mayolo takes viewers on a visit to the estate of Simon Bolívar in Bogotá where stately memory and crass commercialism collude to obscure what Bolivarismo was supposed to be?

When a college student accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian, the dead man’s fiancée shows up at his door the next day, demanding answers.

A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the passing of doomed ships, the niece awakens in her uncle's cabin. She makes him marry her but never allows the tyrannical captain to ever touch her. For eight years, the ship never docks as the malnourished crew wishes for death.

The film tells a story of Kosynka, a pregnant mare, and her owner, a battered old man. Kosynka leads the “horse walker,” designed to train young horse to walk steadily and at a pace. Set to a soundtrack of Bach and Russian folk music, this film is another example of a parable-like narrative, which became more popular in Soviet documentary in the early 1970s.

The protagonist of the film, a radio reporter, is a type of person who does not recognize any ethical standards on the way to a professional career. He builds successes in his journalistic career on the misfortune of another man - a woman who loves him. However, the tragic end of this procedure breaks him down and prompts him to take a desperate step.

After successfully executing a robbery, a group of thieves start to unravel. At the same time, a priest is mistaken for one of the members. Will he break the seal of confession and reveal the identity of the guilty party in order to clear his name?

A teenage boy and his friend look up an artist who painted a picture of the boy's mother years before. The eccentric artist eventually tolerates the intrusions of the two teens and gives the boy some historical background on how the two met and became involved. When the boy tells his mother he has met the artist, the mother returns to him and rekindles the passionate affair the two shared years before. The boy is caught in the middle between his mother's infidelity and his own resentment and rebellion towards his conservative, often humorless father.

A film about parks in Riga and their historical past and present.

The musical tale about the red-haired freckled boy who didn't want to dig potatoes.

Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva’s grandmother recalled her sojourns in Dalmatia and her romantic affair with the local Mario for her whole life. Eva soon begins to behave coldly to her Czech friend.

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered

Raoul, himble employee, and his wife Marlène, have luxurious tastes and use purchase on credit, bad cheque… It won’t last.

A documentary about a high school dropout. Uses scenes and narrative from movies which he made to show how his attitude toward learning was changed from apathy to zeal by his movie-making experiences.

Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a particular focus on the principal actors and the Piz Gloria mountain top setting.

Pete and Sandy get permission to go trick-or-treating by promising to avoid mischief. So, they inveigle two younger boys to play a prank.

A melodrama about a man from a rural shantytown who moves to urban Hong Kong to try and make it big.

Princess is the title of a photo novel which will be written by Walter and photographed by Mark. A story of sex and violence which has great success. But Mark falls so much in love with his model that he can't tell her apart from Princess...

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends and slides headlong into disaster.

Canada struggles to preserve her borders after the Treaty of Washington in this feature documentary. The country's survival as a nation independent of the United States rests in the balance, as the film shows in its exploration of historical context, underlying factors, and possible alternatives. Part 9 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

A career guidance film about scientific research that shows the scientist as a methodical explorer of the unknown.

Becoming a tenant in a new-build apartment - what a lucky coincidence, especially as it is also located in Berlin! But every person is an individual and every family has its own peculiarities. In this respect, there are initially various communication difficulties and adjustment problems between the tenants of a house; only between Isetta and Robert does the ice seem to melt in time, while with the other tenants it takes an extraordinary event, a kind of horse cure, which takes them on the path - so much desired in socialism - from the I to the We and to a unity called a house community.

A great musical film.

Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle.

Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope Spheeris produced this intimate and sensual observation of a woman bathing. The appearance of Spheeris’ credit at the beginning of the film seems to ask the question: how does voyeurism change when we know the voyeur is actually a voyeuse? 16mm, b/w, 6 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

The third part of Euripides’ trilogy relates Orestes’ confrontation with the people of Argos after killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, and his struggle to defend himself and his heritage – with the support of his sister, Electra.

This documentary shows the inhuman conditions on which the patients of Iquique's Psychiatric Hospital live.

This creative educational film by Pieter Van Deusen features a variety of string instruments performed by noted musicians such as Shamim Ahmed Kahn. This film was part of a music film series for Churchill Films: Wind Sounds, Percussion Sounds, and an offshoot film by Pieter with Les Blank entitled Christopher Tree.

An eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his biplane.

hong kong film

A wealthy industrialist and his beautiful wife make each other's lives miserable and fruitlessly seek solace in extramarital affairs. A joint trip to Greece is the final attempt to save their failing marriage. However, the wife begins an affair there with a Greek fisherman.

1969 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.

María belongs to the upper bourgeoisie and has always had everything in life, even a brilliant, educated husband; in short, an intellectual to presume. Alejandro, on the other hand, has been going up day by day, he has grown up with his work, believing in himself -he is an economist- he has fought with all his strength to achieve a higher social level and he has succeeded. He is a professor in the University, executive of a great company, owner, in short, of a beautiful villa in the outskirts. But he is, nevertheless, in the critical age, in the age of taking stock of his past, of justifying himself. And the truth is that, despite his material triumph, he is not happy, there is no reason to be in his participation in society, he is not satisfied with anything. It is, in a word, a step away from his inner failure. In this situation he discovers, in turn, that María accuses him of having dedicated more time to succeed than to love her.

A four-screen within one frame film, shot in un-slit regular 8mm, in four sections of four performance / happening / destruction art events presented in 1967 at the Judson Gallery below Washington Square in New York City. SOME MANIPULATIONS captures the confrontational light pieces of Jean Toche, an avant garde musical performance by Nam June Paik and cellist Charlotte Moorman, an actionist painting event by Steve Rose, and a classic Dada lecture/performance by Al Hansen. SOME MANIPULATIONS was premiered in December 1967 as one of the continuous loop elements in Jud Yalkut's DESTRUCT FILM environment, in which spectator/participants were obliged to walk, sit on, and dive into a floor covered with unrolled "junk" 16mm film in order to view the rotating slide and film projections. The film's inclusion represented an instance of ultimate feedback of events back into the space in which they had been presented.

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).

Lohmann's son is kidnapped. The un-known kidnappers get a thirty-thousand-jewel from the West German millionaire as ransom. The eager police lieutenant-colonel, Gálffy finds that the traces lead to a mysterious, elegant blonde, who is naturally a brunette.

In response to the Detroit riots of 1967, where racial tensions in the city reached a breaking point, the city decided that the way to resolve these tensions would be to put more resources into employing Black people. Namely, chronically unemployed Black men who they refer to as "the hardcore." And predominantly, employing them on the line in auto assembly plants. But in the words of Lloyd Love, a young Detroiter interviewed in the film, this PBS documentary poses the question, "Do you think a job is the answer?" The film explores this question in 1968, by speaking with workers, unemployed people, union activists, students, people who implement city-run employment programs, members of DRUM (Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement), and the Detroit Industrial Mission.

A promotional concert film made for promoting and introducing Moscow to foreigners.

Maurice Lemaître had the ambition to make a really creative film about the revolt of May 68. For this, he did not renounce any of his filmic audacities and he managed to plunge into this new thematic dimension the cinematographic inventions put in In its previous achievements.

Oswald Kolle devotes himself to cheating and discusses the causes of any adultery in a conversation with psychologist Helmut Kentler. Kolle explains that an infidelity on the part of one of the two partners by no means has to mean the end of a marriage, but could even be an enrichment. Kolle's explanations are supported by two films in which a wife, neglected by her husband, gives herself to a childhood friend, and a husband, after initially resisting his secretary, finally ends up in bed with her after a fit of jealousy on the part of his wife.

The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.

Modesta arrives in Mexico City to chase acting dreams, but a slick “producer” remakes her into “Yvonne” and tries to sell her to the wealthy, until she rebels and forces him to choose between ambition and love.

In the Orient, oil sheikhs request new girls. The relevant brothel owners realize that there is a shortage among them. They press the morse key in the direction of Europe. Their liaison men in Hamburg roam pubs and the port and procure the desired goods by kidnapping and seduction. Drugs and blackmail the desired commodity declare the whole thing as a dance tour and see the girls off at the quay. The competition of the dealers means that some of the girls do not reach their destination alive.

Brief documentary that testifies to the existence of priests critical of Francoism within the Spanish Catholic Church.

A teenage girl sets out to active fame in Hollywood as an actress, only a sleazy producer's wife has other plans for her.

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.

1969 Japanese movie

An abstract film, featuring various colors and shapes.