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'.
That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
7/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton
Robert Altman's offbeat, moody tale stars Sandy Dennis as a lonely, frustrated single woman whose encounter with a mysterious young man sitting in the... Read more
Medium Cool (1969)
7.4/10
Director: Haskell Wexler
Starring: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship
This unique blend of documentary and drama sets a TV news reporters fictional romance against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicag... Read more
Kes (1969)
7.9/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher
A charming, caring chronicle of the boyhood experiences of Billy, a Northern England miner's son who finds an injured Kestrel and nurses it back to he... Read more
Burn! (1969)
7.4/10
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Renato Salvatori, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez
An engrossing drama based on a true incident and starring Marlon Brando as a British agent sent to a 19th Century Caribbean island to investigate a re... Read more
Camille 2000 (1969)
6/10
Director: Radley Metzger
Starring: Daniele Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi
The Dumas classic tale gets trashed in this 'naughty' expose of heated passions, duplicitous lovers, cheating wives, horny men and sexually overcharge... Read more
The Damned (1969)
7.6/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
A gigantic allegory of the rise of Nazism through the decadent Krupp-like family; a baroque film which explores the dark cycles of violence and evil i... Read more
Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968)
6.7/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Zina Bethune
For the movie world, a major talent was knocking: New York University graduate film student Martin Scorsese. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times proc... Read more
Faces (1968)
7.7/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Cassavetes rivetting and personal study of a crumbling marriage with John Marley as a salesman who finds comfort in the arms of prostitute Gena Rowlan... Read more
Delius: Song of Summer (1968)
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Max Adrian, Maureen Pryor, Christopher Gable
Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the Sixties, "Song of Summer" is an immensely moving story... Read more
The Immortal Story (1968)
7.1/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Jeanne Moreau
'Immortal Story' was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life,... Read more