Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

Thai horror film.

Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals.

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside of his sphere of friends, being a collection of early experiments and directions. While lacking the sophistication and artistry that is found in his six finished works, this film provides invaluable insight to his first attempts at animation and clues to some of his later work. - Pamela Turner. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Leo Beuerman is a 1969 American short documentary film directed by Gene Boomer. It tells the story of Leo Beuerman (1902–1974), a diminutive, disabled man who sold pencils and became a fixture on the downtown sidewalks of Lawrence, Kansas in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to his determination. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Mini-doc on the set of Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement" (1969).

A short animated film from 1962.

Short music film dedicated to the pre-WW2 performer Sofka Nikolić.

The Urdu film Meri Bhabhi (1969) was directed by S.A. Hafiz.

The Live at Montreux series continues with a travel through time to June 22, 1969, featuring a performance from "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald. Featuring fully restored black and white footage and remixed audio in 5.1 and DTS, this program presents a stunning performance from one of the most versatile jazz singers of all time. Joining Fitzgerald in this performance are Tommy Flanagan (piano), Frank de la Rosa (bass), and Ed Thigpen (drums).

A young boy Jampoll is spending the summer in his grandfather village where he fights criminals using his friends help.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe, originally aired in two parts.

A sexploitation short warning that mixing weed and alcohol can be bad.

A crime syndicate abducts young women and forces them into pornography.

The woman, whose every request is fulfilled by her husband but still fails to be happy, starts to get away from everything by giving herself to alcohol.

A wife discovers that her husband is cheating on her. Enraged, she puts together a plan to take her revenge on him. What she doesn't know is that her husband has a similar plan in mind for her. What neither one of them knows is that someone else has the same plan for both of them.

Brebbia’s film shot in his native town is a mix of footage from the historical core of Varese that has to give way shortly to new residential areas and building sites. The major focal points of the camera eye are young people huddled on the main square, Piazza del Podesta. Fleeting details of their facial expressions, held for an extra second before they vanish, focus on musings about lives of the locals in the year 2000.

Short documentary about the conflict between the law on education and the unwritten law of traditional Bosnian village life, which dictates that daughters stay at home.

During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by photographer Don Snyder (who also shot slides during the same session). Smith appeared as his red-wigged, plastic-jawed, alter ego Rose Courtyard, seated in a wheelchair amid the detritus of the Plaster Foundation. The film was accompanied by two rounds of Kate Smith singing “God Bless America”. Dressed in a red satin gown, clutching a bouquet of dead roses, Rose is finally moved to stand up and salute. The film was found in a can labeled “Song for Rent”, title of a 1971 mixed media production in which Smith appeared. (J. Hoberman)

A look at the world of scampi, which increased in popularity during the 1960s.

A balladic story based on the motifs of M. Urban's short story, in which the arduous work of loggers and the harshness of the environment interlace with the poetry of the Slovak mountains.

Medallion of the extremely successful star of the 1960s Marta Kubišová.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 10 February 1969.

Pinpoint-accurate period portrait of late-'60's Greenwich Village detailing the lives and loves of the denizens of a run down downtown hotel and chamber-of-horrors peepshow. Wayfaring platinum souls, crooked cops practicing mind control, a vampire queen atop Dracula's coffin being slobbermauled by a werewolf in the shadow of Houdini's straitjacket and plenty of underpants sex.

The first film by Steve Carver ("Big Bad Mama"), focusing on the life of a young man growing up in Pruitt-Igoe. Featuring an evocative jazz score and sharp editing, this impressionistic cinematic portrait follows William Townes as he discusses life in and outside the projects, romance, fights, friendship and his aspiration to someday do "more than one thing."

Two screenwriters write a sexy western while surrounded by naked, hot-to-trot girls on a secluded dude ranch. Typical softcore shenanigans.

A very nice young singer wants to succeed in Cosquín.

Two bananas meet and fall in love.

A walk in a wheat farmland in the a village. While moving between the tall sheaves, the walker’s restless eye surveys the fields, the cattle, and settles on the faces of the residents of the small town. Brief animation exercises repeat, and the sketch the figure of a contemplative walker.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.

An inmate escapes from jail and maintains a relationship with his jailer's wife,

A Serbian TV adaptation of the famous play by D. H. Lawrence.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Based on the story by V.G. Korolenko “In a Bad Society.”

Moods, rhythms, and images of sheep. Natural sounds without commentary. The slowly grazing sheep shuffle, gather, and begin flowing through the valley, a soft, blurry river of wool. They stop, clump together, collect their feet, and lie down quietly to chew their cuds. Sleep. Awake! Pressing together along the road; moving to the highlands, hooves thundering; voices yowling. Fresh grass. Ewes call their lambs. Bouncing over nothing, bleating, the lambs search out their mothers. Milk. Heads banging, the lambs play. pushing, jostling, and scurrying together into the darkness.

The Princess of Oobieland is interviewed in a television studio in New York City. Her responses, sometimes only barely discernible over the whir and clang of obscure machinery, are testimony to the closing of those gateways which we encountered in the first part (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND).

A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631

The adventures of a cat who endures the indignation of a busy family and the dangers of being lost in a big city.

The second film adaptation of the legend of Aysel who, seduced by her boss, becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child.

A man is drinking wine, pukes it up, and eats it. He repeats it for a while, until he starts to rub the vomit all over himself.

"Kurzeme is in the voices—the voices of windmills and airplanes, fishing boats and ocean liners, land and sea, the elderly and children, victims and heroes… In our voices." A text by Jānis Peters, read by actor Juris Strenga, accompanies the story of Kurzeme—its history and present day. Turning the pages of a harsh history filled with wars and revolutionaries, the “price lists” of medieval executioners, and the tragedy of Zlēki during World War II, the film returns to the summer of 1969, bringing together various characters and events.

Teleoperator for S. Yesenin's poem.

The almost impassive recording of a common jacket hanging on a balcony slowly slides into the analysis of the mechanisms of perception, where the lines between reality and illusion are revealed somewhat labile.

Available episodes of missing movies by Mauritz Stiller.

Pinku from 1969.

Nalan, who had an accident while going to meet with Kemal, is injured after the accident.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating how bad behaviour affects colleagues and the public and the correct way to act towards others.

Kitsos lives a quiet life in Gastouni, grabbing his sheep. But the pressure of his father and his beloved Asteros forces him to become a merchant by turning to nearby villages without success. Desperate father sends him to Athens where everything is so different from the village. Kitsos goes to the house of the uncle, Pericles. There he discovers that Ritsa, Pericles's daughter, has relation with an employee, Vassilakis. Pericles wants to marry Ritsa with Parmenion, but Kitsos decides to help the lovers.

French television program discussing Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".

He sat and shat knowing all sit and shit and feeling at one with humanity. Introduction by Ron Nameth, music by Grateful Dead and Olivier Messiaen.