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 Young One (1961)
7.5/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Claudio Brook, Zachary Scott, Key Meersman, Bernie Hamilton
Luis Bunuel's rarely-seen gem (and one of only two films he made in English) takes his oft-expressed themes of morality and sexual perversity and relo... Read more
Lolita (1961)
7.6/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel captures the author's black humour with ghoulish understatement. James Mason... Read more
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
8.2/10
Director: Mikio Naruse
Starring: Hideko Takamine
A delicate, devastating study of a woman's life, a Ginza barmaid who fears that, as she faces her 30th birthday and the loss of her job, she will have... Read more
The Virgin Spring (1960)
8.1/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
This stunning work stars Max Von Sydow in an exploration of a father's revenge for the rape and murder of his daughter. The highly contrasting black a... Read more
Pull My Daisy (1959)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Frank
Starring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
Pull My Daisy is a collectable object containing Robert Frank's famous film of 1959 on DVD; a text booklet with an introduction, the transcript of the... Read more
Shadows (1959)
7.4/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
John Cassavetes' stunning directorial debut, starring Leila Goldoni as a light-skinned black woman whose romance with a white man (Anthony Ray) is thr... Read more
The River (1951)
7.6/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight
In 1949 and 1950, Renoir travelled to Bengal for his first colour film - the story of a large British family living on the banks of the Ganges. Winnin... Read more
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gino Cervi, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose
An early masterpiece from then documentary-maker director Michelangelo Antonioni, said to be one of Martin Scorsese's favourite films. Setting the to... Read more
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume 1 (1947)
Director: Kenneth Anger
Starring: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Andre Soubeyran
A pioneer of the American undeground film movement, Anger's films were largely rejected in his home country, finding more of a following across the At... Read more
L'Age d'Or (1930)
7.3/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwa... Read more