Art House Cinema
Art House films are critically-acclaimed movies that don't necessarily cause a stampede at the box-office. These so-called 'minor' works are generally seen only at Film Festivals or a few selective theatres, but they stay in the mind, for better or worse. Below is a list of films in Alice's Collection that for one unexplained reason or another, generally didn't quite get the exposure they may have deserved when originally released.
Enjoy finding many of cinema's 'gems' in this section.
Right: Peter Greenaway's 'The Baby Of Macon'.
Opening Night (1977)
8.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell
An unstable, ageing Broadway actress starring in a new play reaches emotional breaking point when a devoted fan dies on the opening night. Superbly ac... Read more
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
6.7/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: David Carradine, Gert Frobe, James Whitmore, Liv Ullmann
Set in Berlin in 1923, the film is about a Jewish-American trapeze artist (David Carradine) and his sister-in-law (Liv Ullman), who are entrapped by a... Read more
Nuts In May (1976)
6.6/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Sheila Kelley
A middle-class couple who never abandoned their '60s counterculture ways go on a camping vacation, but their rigidly odd lifestyle is rubbing their fe... Read more
The Tenant (1976)
7.7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters
Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
7.5/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Morgan Woodward, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey
Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint; he loves his girls and he loves his job. Trouble is, however, he also loves to gamble and this has res... Read more
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Blu-ray) (1975)
7.8/10
Director: Chantal Akerman
Starring: Delphine Seyrig
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to... Read more
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Blu-Ray) (1975)
6/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P Quintavalle, Aldo Valetti
Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. T... Read more
Lisztomania (1975)
6.5/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Fiona Lewis, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Rick Wak...
This freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most outrageous efforts. Roger Daltrey, lead singer f... Read more
Inserts (Blu-ray) (1975)
6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright
In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more
Inserts (1975)
6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright
In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more