Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Amarcord (1974)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armendo Brancia - Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…
Arabian Nights (Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte) (1974)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche - For the final part of his “Trilogy of Life”, Pasolini interweaves several of the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’,…
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau) (1974)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier - Rivette assaults the narrative form for his epic–lengthed, dream–like, near indescribable tale of two girls whose lives and imaginations…
Conversation Piece (1974)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano - A retired professor, who leads of solitary and ordered existence is disturbed by rich and overbearing new tenants in his Roman palazzo. Assembles…
Effi Briest (1974)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla - Thoughtful drama, from provocative German Dir. Fassbinder, recounting the story of a stifled married woman whose long hidden affair reveals itself…
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira - The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
Golden Lotus (Jin ping shuang yan) (1974)- Dir. Han Hsiang Li
Feat. Yang Chun, Hu Jien, Tien Ni… - Now rather obscure erotica from the Shaw Brothers, adapting the classic Chinese novel about a 'Casanova' of the Sung Dynasty and various intertwined…
Icy Flesh (Icy Breasts; Les seins de glace) (1974)- Dir. Georges Lautner
Feat. Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur - Alain Delon potboiler, with the French leading man succumbing to the wiles of an alluring, if deadly femme fatale. Better known as 'Icy Breasts'.
La Gueule Ouverte (The Mouth Agape) (1974)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Hubert Deschamps, Monique Mélinand, Philippe Leotard… - Devastating drama from dir. Pialat distills autobiographical material into an edifying portrait of terminal illness, and the emotional state of the…
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement - A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
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