Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Hideko Takamine - Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…
Where the Boys Are (1960)- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux… - Fairly 'swingin' sixties beach romp with Hart, Hamilton and a cast of bright young co–eds on Spring Break vacation at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.…
Wild River (1960)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet - Romantic drama focused around an Authority agent (played with controlled complexity by Montgomery Clift) who meets with resistance and a fair share…
Young One, The (La Joven; White Trash) (1960)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton - Bunuel’s English–language feature masterfully unfurls the quandary between a young girl and an itinerant black musician unjustly accused of…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret - Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris. Adapted from…
39 Steps, The (1959)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Kenneth More, Taina Elg - Colour copy of Hitchcock's spy thriller, this time with Kenneth More and Taina Elg as the innocents entangled in Scottish intrigue.
400 Blows, The (1959)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy… - Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger… - Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny - This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara… - Smalltown lawyer James Stewart defends a man accused of murdering a suspected rapist. The shifting ambiguities of the case make this more a…
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