Black Lizard - Kuro Tokage - (1968)

Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler’s beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler’s expensive “Star of Egypt” diamond. To thwart the planned kidnapping, the jeweler hires Japan’s number one detective, the brilliant Akechi. This sets off a dual between Black Lizard and Akechi as each tries to outwit the other. In the process, the two adversaries develop a mutual respect and affection for each other.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku. 

Writers: Rampo Edogawa (novel), Yukio Mishima (stage adaptation), Masashige Narusawa.

Stars: Akihiro Miwa, Isao Kimura, Kikko Matsuoka, Jun Usami, Yûsuke Kawazu, Kô Nishimura, Toshiko Kobayashi, Sônosuke Oda, Kinji Hattori, Kyôichi Satô, Jun kato, Ryuji Funakoshi, Mitsuko Takara, Yukio Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba.

Cameo: The presence of Yukio Mishima , the famous Mishima, as human statue. 

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9450429221542

Don´t Shoot the Composer (Ken Russell, 1966) - Documentary about Georges Delerue

This documentary is far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue. It also serves as a calling card for Ken Russell, whose work would define the 1970s as Delerue’s did in the 1960s. It begins with a sly work of pastiche, parodying the conventions of French noir. It goes onto encompass slapstick, verité scenes of the Delerue family and a harrowing montage of the Vietnam War. This eclectic approach gives us a sense of the different facets of Delerue’s life- his love of cinema, his home life, his work ethic. It also prefigures Russell’s feature length biopics of Mahler and Liszt, though in a more modest- and lucid- fashion.

Director: Ken Russell.

Stars: Georges Delerue, Ken Russell, John Drummond.

Subtitled in English,

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/6908806564518

From the Clouds to the Resistance - Dalla nube alla resistenza - (1979)

With two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò”, taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese’s novel “La luna e i falò”: after WWII the emigrant ‘The Bastard’ comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.

Director: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub.  

Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Walter Pardini, Ennio Lauricella, Andrea Bacci, Loris Cavallini, Francesco Ragusa, Fiorangelo Pucci, Mauro Monni.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2607700576934

A Primer for '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1971)

A “primer” or explanation of the basic plot, themes, sources and meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s widely praised and often misunderstood epic motion picture, released in 1968. Film clips illustrate the scenes as interpreted in a script narrated by Keir Dullea, one of the stars of the film. Includes some behind-the-scenes information and references to material not included in the final cut. Stanley Kubrick’s controversial science-fiction film classic is analyzed for its technical and visual pioneering role in viewing human history.

Director: John Musilli.

Writer: Stephan Chodorov.

Stars: Keir Dullea.

Optional English subtitles are available for this program, to enable them on the video player click on the cogwheel, click on the last option  and finally, click on “EN”.

Dog´s Heart - Cuore di cane - (Alberto Lattuada, 1976)

Based on a novel by Michail Bulgakov. Set in the early years of the Russian Revolution, a scientist turns a dog into a man.

Director: Alberto Lattuada. 

Stars: Max Von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf, Gina Rovere, Cochi Ponzoni, Vadim Glowna, Rena Niehaus, Enzo Robutti, Violetta Chiarini, Amerigo Tot, Ilona Staller, Giuliano Petrelli.

Music by Piero Piccioni.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2664286784166

The Wolf af the Door - Oviri - (1986)

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.

Director: Henning Carlsen. 

Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl, Valeri Glandut, Ghita Nørby, Merete Voldstedlund, Fanny Bastien, Jørgen Reenberg, Henrik Larsen, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen, Yves Barsacq, Thomas Antoni, Kristina Dubin, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Morten Grunwald.

1986 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2537591736998