Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Rod Taylor, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin…
- Antonioni explores the psyche of young radicals who try to find the meaning of life after fleeing from riotous protests. Engaging hippie fare.
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick…
- Loosely built around the adventures of hippie troubadour Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody and star of WOODSTOCK), as he wanders rural America asking…
All the Right Noises (1969)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…
- The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
Bronco Bullfrog (1969)
- Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd
- Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from…
Kes (1969)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Colin Welland, Brian Glover
- Dreary life in Northern mining town takes on a new lease for a young boy when he discovers and nurtures an injured kestrel. A sensitive, moving film.
Me, Natalie (1969)
- Dir. Fred Coe
Feat. Patty Duke, James Farentino, Salome Jens…
- Thoughtful, though occasionally mawkish coming–of–age tale with Patty Duke as a young woman struggling with low self esteem and fighting…
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular
- Lightweight Swinging–60s youth comedy about a sex–obsessed teenager and his efforts to get laid. Not up there with the best relics of…
If.... (1968)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Mona Washbourne…
- An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…
L'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon
- Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
Actuality Dramas of Allan King, The (Warrendale; A Married Couple; Come on Children; Dying at Grace; Memory For Max, Claire, Ida and Company) (1967-2005)
- Dir. Allan King
- A collection of five cinema–verité style documentaries from the extraordinary Canadian auteur Allan King, all of which are emotionally…