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'.
The Passenger (1975)
7.6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting adventure is a portrait of a drained journalist, covering a guerrilla war in North Africa who exchanges identitie... Read more
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
6.3/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger
Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for 'The Romantic Englishwoman' credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the peopl... Read more
A Woman Under the Influence (1975)
8.2/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes
Unquestionably one of the greatest films of the 1970s, John Cassavetes' masterpiece centres on a dysfunctional Los Angeles family, and the perverse, h... Read more
The Day of the Locust (Blu-ray) (1975)
7/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Nathanael West's powerful novel about Hollywood in the 30's is faithfully transferred to the screen. William Atherton is the naive artist who learns t... Read more
The Day of the Locust (1975)
7.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Nathanael West's powerful novel about Hollywood in the 30's is faithfully transferred to the screen. William Atherton is the naive artist who learns t... Read more
The Night Porter ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Gabriele Ferzetti, Philippe Leroy
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
Mahler (1974)
7.3/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Georgina Hale, Robert Powell, Rosalie Crutchley, Miriam Karlin
A dazzling evocation of the moods, loves, and music of one of the foremost composers - Gustav Mahler. By means of flashbacks and dream imagery, the fi... Read more
The Mirror (1974)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankovsky
Effortlessly blending past and present, dreams, subjective reminiscence and a wider overview of 20th Century Russian history, Andrei Tarkovsky creates... Read more
The Night Porter (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
Steppenwolf (1974)
6.3/10
Director: Fred Haines
Starring: Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi
Max von Sydow and Dominique Sanda star in this adaptation of Herman Hesse's classic novel about a man's internal struggle to find peace within himself... Read more