Subgenre Sampler
Cercle Rouge, Le (The Red Circle) (1970)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand… - A precisely–crafted colour 'noir' from the French master, dir. Melville, which rejigs the usual ingredients into an exemplary heist…
Claire's Knee (1970)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy - The director's fifth moral tale gained him major international recognition. A curiously droll tale of a middle–aged man's obsession with the…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin… - Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Decameron, The (1970)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic - The first part of dir. Pasolini’s ‘medieval trilogy’, this adapts ten of Boccaccio’s famously ribald tales of the Italian Middle Ages. With…
Domicile Conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud - Serio–comic misadventures of Truffaut's alter–ego, Antoine Doinel, an immature father–to–be who is unsettled in matrimonial…
Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970)- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig… - A vibrant, whimsical and genuinely fantastic adaptation of Perrault's classic 17th century fairy tale in which a Princess (Deneuve) disguises herself…
Ear, The (Ucho) (1970)- Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler - Set over the course of an evening this is a searing look at life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an equally harsh examination of a…
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer - A group of dwarfs run riot and take over their penal colony on a bleak volcanic island. Bizarre and unsettling parable will leave an indelible mark…
Fellini Satyricon (1970)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born… - Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest) (1970)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer… - The second in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career. In this…
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