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

Chère Louise (1972)

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.

Director: Philippe de Broca.

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Julian Negulesco, Didi Perego, Jill Larson, Lucienne Legrand, Pippo Starnazza, Luce Fabiole, Jenny Arasse, Louis Navarre, Yves Robert.

Music by: Georges Delerue.

Subltitled in English. 

Courtesy of RareFilmm.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9739431774886

The Red Spectacles - Jigoku no banken: akai megane - (1987)

As the world decayed into chaos, the Metropolitan Police had no choice but to fight back, creating an elite unit of police. They became known as Kerberos, the Watchdogs of Hell. Over time, though, the zeal of the police force was transformed into cruelty and corruption. Three of the elite rebelled against the system. But only one, senior detective Koichi Todome, escaped to freedom. Several years later, he returns home. But why? What is left for him in this city that continues to decay? Koichi must now determine who is friend and who is foe as he attempts to unravel what happened after he left.

Director: Mamoru Oshii. 

Writers: Mamoru Oshii (original story), Kazunori Itô & Mamoru Oshii (screenplay).

Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tesshô Genda, Mako Hyôdô, Ichirô Nagai, Yasuo Ôtsuka, Hirô Oikawa, Takashi Kanematsu, Toshio Furukawa, Tomohiro Nishimura, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Takahiro Hirai, Fumihiko Tachiki, Takeyuki Funato, Daiki Nakamura, Zenchû Mitsui, Mitsuhiro Uwabe, Naoyuki Yoshinaga, Fuyuki Shinada, Kazuo Tauchi, Norio Kurisaki, Fumi Hirano, Takayoshi Ito, Kintarô Sakata, Hideyo Amamoto

Subtitles: English

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/9812979288742

The Flight of the Eagle - Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd - (1982)

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Jan Troell. 

Writers: Klaus Rifbjerg, Ian Rakoff, Jan Troell & Georg Oddner (screenplay), Per Olof Sundman (freely adapted from the novel by).

Stars: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker, Clément Harari, Eva von Hanno, Lotta Larsson, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Ulla Sjöblom, Mimi Pollak, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Ingvar Kjellson, Bruno Sörwing. 

Subtitles in English. Courtesy of RareFilm.

Link fot the movie: https://ok.ru/video/2566689000102

Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Goddard , 1990)

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard’s film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies but some time later, he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard.

Writers: Jacques Audiberti (novel), Jean-Luc Godard (scenario) (uncredited).

Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Reigher, Laurence Côte, Joseph Lisbona, Véronique Müller, Joe Sheridan.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2610668440230

The Invitation - L"Invitation - (1973)

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.

Director: Claude Goretta. 

Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion, Corinne Coderey, Michel Robin, Cécile Vassort, Rosine Rochette, Jacques Rispal, Neige Dolsky, Pierre Collet, Lucie Avenay, Roger Jendly, Gilbert Costa, William Jacques, Daniel Stuffel. 

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Winner International Prize, Dramatic Film.

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Winner Jury Prize.

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

1974 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Subltitled in English.

Link to watch the movie (Third Party): https://ok.ru/video/2610407541414

The Games of Countess Dolingen - Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz - (1981)

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar.

Binet’s first independent feature film is exceptional in French film history. With its uncanny atmosphere, this visually exquisite study of female erotic fantasy was largely inspired by the short story “Dunkler Frühling” (Dark Spring) by the German poet Unica Zürn, whom Binet very much admired. In three stories woven together in various ways, she tells of the crime of one man (Michael Lonsdale), the unfulfilled love of a young girl and the fate of a neglected wife (Carol Kane).

Director: Catherine Binet. 

Writers: Catherine Binet, Bram Stoker (short story “Dracula’s Guest”), Unica Zürn (novel).

Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Carol Kane, Katia Wastchenko, Marina Vlady , Emmanuelle Riva, Roberto Plate, Marilu Marini, Robert Stephens, Marucha Bo, Antoine Binet, Raoul Escari, Tobie Schumer, Carine Toly, Nathalie Goldnadel, François Mouren-Provensal. 

Subtitled in English.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2610668702374

The Pedestrian - Der Fußgänger (Maximilian Schell, 1973)

Aging German man Heinz Alfred Geise is a successful business owner whose past is quite haunting; during World War II he helped orchestrate a Nazi-led bloodbath in a small Greek village. When this secret is exposed in a newspaper article, it causes his son, Andreas, to try to kill both his father and himself. 

Directed by the great actor Maximilian Shell.

A rare movie with English subtitles.

Director: Maximilian Schell. AKA The Pedestrian

Writers: Dagmar Hirtz, Maximilian Schell, Franz Seitz (uncredited).

Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, Gertrud Bald, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack, Peter Hall, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Maximilian Schell, Ruth Hausmeister, Dagmar Hirtz, Johanna Hofer, Silvia Hürlimann, Christian Kohlund, Walter Kohut, Alexander May, Herbert Mensching, Peter Moland, Herbert Mensching Françoise Rosay. 

LINK FOR THE MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/2563503753894

Out of the Unknown - Sci-Fi TV Series - Epsiode 2 - The Counterfeit Man - (1965)

This is one of the surviving episodes of the British TV Series - Out of the Unknown, aired from 1965 to 1971. Something similar to The Twilight Zone. A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.

This is the second episode.

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. But perfect enough to escape discovery on the long return trip to Earth? Can the deadly counterfeit be detected and stopped before its hunger for new life can endanger an entire planet?

Directed by

George Spenton-Foster

Writers

Alan Nourse, Philip Broadley

Stars

Alexander Davion, David Hemmings, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

Subs: English.

LINK:  https://dai.ly/k4VxdTifBBlJfACTJji