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#1 ANNA DVD (1967) $14.99
run time: 87 minutes. France. Color. English subtitles.
directed by: Pierre Koralnik
description: Released in 1967, this was the first color film made for French TV. Starring Anna Karina (of Jean-Luc Godard film fame), Marianne Faithfull (who sings one song) & Serge Gainsbourg (who also wrote the amazing music). Anna is a bizarre pop art/comedy/musical filled with bright vibrant colors, strange, hallucinatory scenes and some of the best songs Serge ever wrote. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph. A truly charming and entertaining movie that every Gainsbourg fan should see.

#2 SEBASTIAN DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: David Greene
description: A British mathematician (Dirk Bogarde), working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter (Susannah York). An extremely stylish, sophisticated romp that was slyly coy at the time, and simply faboulous when viewed today. Jerry Goldsmith provides noticeable musical accompaniment... and keep an eye out for Canadian actor Donald Sutherland in a bit as an American. WATCH CLIP

#3 ONE OF THOSE THINGS DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 88 mins. DENMARK. Color.
directed by: Erik Balling
description: When a respectable married man and high powered executive with an automobile company (Roy Dotrice) accidentally kills a man in a car accident, he finds himself the target of blackmail and manipulation by a beautiful young girl (Judy Geeson) who uses her knowledge of the incident to worm her way into a job and threaten his marriage. This Danish film made with a British and Japanese cast is considered a great "lost" film that has been rarely seen... until now! WATCH CLIP

#4 DEEP END DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 88 minutes. UK. Color.
directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
description: Exceptional film from 1971 about a teen boy's sexual obsession with his older, loose, co-worker at a seedy London bathhouse. Great cinematography, realistic acting, humor and an amazing set-piece ending. Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teen-aged London bathhouse attendant who forms a business alliance with a female attendant (Jane Asher). The object is to obtain better tips from their clients, but soon the impressionable Moulder-Brown falls in love with the older Asher. Brushed off by the girl in favor of a handsome swimming instructor, Moulder-Brown makes several halfhearted attempts at revenge. Motivated by lust with tragic results, Deep End observes how adolescent obsession can mushroom into disaster if one doesn't have the emotional equipment to cope. The director's stint working with Roman Polanski (he wrote KNIFE IN THE WATER) shows in this highly recommended rarity! WATCH CLIP

#5 THE TOUCHABLES DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color. Uncut.
directed by: Robert Freeman
description: Absolutely the rarest (and wildest) of Mod Artifacts, THE TOUCHABLES stars Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson, Marilyn Rickard and Kathy Simmonds as a quartet of Pop-Art princesses who kidnap rock-star Christian (David Anthony) and imprison him in their plastic, see-through Bubble House. Gay wrestler Ricki Starr gets jealous, and tries to (literally) muscle his way into the action. Directed by Beatles-photographer Robert Freeman (who shot the cover for Rubber Soul), and featuring music by long-lost British flower-pop group Nirvana. WATCH CLIP

#6 EYE OF THE CAT DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 97 mins. USA. Color. Theatrical Version.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a severe case of ailurophobia -- an irrational fear of all cats. In order for their plot to succeed, the pair must first eliminate Aunt Danny's legions of feline companions...which turns out to be much more difficult than expected, thanks to a sly, deadly counter-plot. Notes on alternate versions: This is the original "more intense" theatrical version featuring the plots original supernatural elements and an army of killer housecats. WATCH CLIP

#7 THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Paul Newman
description: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel and directed by actor Paul Newman. Joanne Woodward portrays the eccentric young widow who is raising her two disparate daughters in an atmosphere of bitterness, hatred and over-protection that threatens their very growth and development. Embittered and misandristic, she raises her daughters in an atmosphere of hate that leaves them as depressed and neurotic as she is. The title of the movie comes from her anger at her daughter's science teacher for encouraging her to expose marigolds to gamma rays as a science project. This experiment becomes a metaphor for her own life, as she struggles to bloom in a household deadened by her mother's alcoholism and her sister's lethargy.

#8 PERFECT FRIDAY DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Peter Hall
description: A trio of aspiring crooks plan to steal a million dollars in this crime comedy. Lord Nicholas (David Warner) and his Swiss wife Britt (Ursula Andress) are the jet-set couple who have spent all their money and seek a loan from the bank. She asks Graham (Stanley Baker) for a loan, but the mid-level manager has plans of his own to pad his retirement account by means of larceny. Graham approaches both Nicholas and Britt to help him in his plan. Britt sleeps with both men, willing to take off to Rio with the first one who gets his hands on the money. Nicholas and Graham both are under the assumption they are the masterminds of the plot that is highlighted by amusing twists. WATCH CLIP

#9 THE STRANGE AFFAIR DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 106 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: David Greene
description: The Strange Affair is a fragmentary "60's" interpretation of a straightforward Bernard Toms novel. Michael York plays a rookie London policeman, appalled at the corruption surrounding him. He does not find comfort in the fact that his own superior (Jeremy Kemp) is just as crooked as the crooks. Susan George plays a "mod" girl with whom York conducts the strange affair. Like many British films of its period, it is a wonderful representation of London in the sixties with pop-art imagery and a wonderful settings. WATCH CLIP

#10 JOANNA DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 114 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Michael Sarne
description: Genevieve Waite plays Joanna, a promiscuous art student with Walter-Keane-wide eyes, a vacant face and baby monotone voice. She wanders about 1960's London, being surprised in beds where she doesn't belong, being lectured by her grandmother when she oversleeps at home, searching for commitment, and falling in love with an African American nightclub owner (played by Calvin Lockhart) Donald Sutherland plays a dying, kind-hearted aristocrat that Joanna befriends. Christian Doermer also gives a fine performance, as an art school instructor, who — with Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Sutherland — gathers Joanna into something like a serious, conventional life again. Featuring an eclectic mixture of surrealistic filming techniques and beautiful imagery from director Michael Sarne, who went on to direct 1970's Myra Breckinridge, then disappeared from view. WATCH CLIP


modcinema.com staff favorites:

THE TOUCHABLES DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color. Uncut.
directed by: Robert Freeman
description: Absolutely the rarest (and wildest) of Mod Artifacts, THE TOUCHABLES stars Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson, Marilyn Rickard and Kathy Simmonds as a quartet of Pop-Art princesses who kidnap rock-star Christian (David Anthony) and imprison him in their plastic, see-through Bubble House. Gay wrestler Ricki Starr gets jealous, and tries to (literally) muscle his way into the action. Directed by Beatles-photographer Robert Freeman (who shot the cover for Rubber Soul), and featuring music by long-lost British flower-pop group Nirvana. WATCH CLIP

THE CHRISTIAN LICORICE STORE DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: James Frawley
description: Franklin Cane (Beau Bridges) is a red-hot professional tennis player who climbs the ladder of success with his trainer, Jonathan (Gilbert Roland), at his side. Jonathan was once considered the greatest American tennis player and intends to guide Franklin to the high-road. Franklin does not transcend the interest he has in local Hollywood-type parties littered with has-beens, wannabes and think-they-ares. It is there that he meets Cynthia (Maud Adams), a pretty photographer who makes a living photographing people like French filmmaker Jean Renoir and taking production photos of commercials. Cane becomes slowly seduced by the fast-track life and, when Jonathan suddenly passes away in his sleep, he succumbs to a lifestyle that is completely devoid of morality.

JOANNA DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 114 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Michael Sarne
description: Genevieve Waite plays Joanna, a promiscuous art student with Walter-Keane-wide eyes, a vacant face and baby monotone voice. She wanders about 1960's London, being surprised in beds where she doesn't belong, being lectured by her grandmother when she oversleeps at home, searching for commitment, and falling in love with an African American nightclub owner (played by Calvin Lockhart) Donald Sutherland plays a dying, kind-hearted aristocrat that Joanna befriends. Christian Doermer also gives a fine performance, as an art school instructor, who — with Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Sutherland — gathers Joanna into something like a serious, conventional life again. Featuring an eclectic mixture of surrealistic filming techniques and beautiful imagery from director Michael Sarne, who went on to direct 1970's Myra Breckinridge, then disappeared from view. WATCH CLIP

DEEP END DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 88 minutes. UK. Color.
directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
description: Exceptional film from 1971 about a teen boy's sexual obsession with his older, loose, co-worker at a seedy London bathhouse. Great cinematography, realistic acting, humor and an amazing set-piece ending. Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teen-aged London bathhouse attendant who forms a business alliance with a female attendant (Jane Asher). The object is to obtain better tips from their clients, but soon the impressionable Moulder-Brown falls in love with the older Asher. Brushed off by the girl in favor of a handsome swimming instructor, Moulder-Brown makes several halfhearted attempts at revenge. Motivated by lust with tragic results, Deep End observes how adolescent obsession can mushroom into disaster if one doesn't have the emotional equipment to cope. The director's stint working with Roman Polanski (he wrote KNIFE IN THE WATER) shows in this highly recommended rarity!

TAKING OFF DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Milos Forman
description: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter eventually joining a support group for the parents of runaway children. As a critically revered lampoon of late-'60s sensibilities, Taking Off is full of "unknown" Manhattan-based performers who became famous during the '70s and '80s, including Paul Benedict, Vincent Schiavelli, Allen Garfield, Audra Lindley, and, in fleeting roles as auditioning singers, Carly Simon and Kathy Bates.

YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Douglas Schwartz
description: Beau Bridges plays an uptight insurance clerk. Ron Leibman plays Bridges' laid-back pal, who talks Beau into skipping work in order to drive Leibman to the airport. This little trip across town turns into an idyllic trek up the California coast. While Leibman wheels and deals in his efforts to con the Establishment, Bridges loosens up with several nubile females, totally forgetting his proper fiancee Janet Margolin. While it has all the earmarks of a typical "youth trip" film of the 1970s, Your Three Minutes Are Up scores with its believable characterizations and its perceptive view of California's mixed-up social values. WATCH CLIP

THE STERILE CUCKOO DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 107 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Alan J. Pakula
description: Liza Minnelli is Pookie Adams, a relentlessly kooky coed in The Sterile Cuckoo. The film's focus, however, is on Wendell Burton (likewise making his first screen appearance) as reserved young college student Jerry. He is actively pursued by the unpredictable Pookie, who helps him to survive his first months in school. Gradually, however, it is obvious that Jerry is outgrowing Pookie. Both, however, have benefited from the relationship (he has gained self-confidence, she is now able to come to grips with her unhappy home life) and their parting is a tender one. Not unlike his stars, Alan J. Pakula was making his directorial bow with The Sterile Cuckoo, which earned an Oscar nomination for its theme song "Come Saturday Morning." WATCH CLIP

MOVE DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
description: Hiram Jaffe (Elliot Gould) is an intellectual New Yorker whose fortunes have led him to walk dogs in central park, and to author pornographic literature to make a living--a self-described "scatological existence." Dolly (Paula Prentiss) is his long-suffering wife who watches as he suffers a mental breakdown. This film is of interest to Prentiss fans as it was her first big role in 5 years of eschewing Hollywood. Genevieve Waite is the ditzy model Gould meets in the park. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, based on the novel by Joel Lieber, and music by Marvin Hamlisch. WATCH TRAILER

SKY RIDERS DVD (1976) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Douglas Hickox
description: Robert Culp plays Jonas Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen (Susannah York) and their children are kidnapped by terrorists. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex-husband (James Coburn) enters the fray and enlists a crew of professional hang gliders to help him plan a rescue from the terrorist's mountain top lair. WATCH CLIP

SHE CRIED MURDER DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Herschel Daugherty
description: Beautiful model Sarah Cornell (Lynda Day George) witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a train while riding in the subway. But when the police come to interview her, she recognizes one of them as the man who did the pushing (Telly Savalas). She spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the good cop, that Telly is a bad cop; and Telly spends the rest of the movie chasing her around the city and finally to the subway yards. Only now the police, having finally been convinced, have joined in the chase. WATCH CLIP

THAT CERTAIN SUMMER DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Lamont Johnson
description: A teenager must deal with his divorced father's homosexuality in this made-for-tv movie written by the Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Mannix). Hal Holbrook stars as a middle-aged divorced man, whose son played by Scott Jacoby cannot fathom the reason for his parents' split. During a summer visit, Jacoby meets his father's much-younger "best friend," played by Martin Sheen. Holbrook hedges, but finds he can no longer hold back the truth from his son: Sheen is Holbrook's male lover. Originally telecast on November 1, 1972, That Certain Summer was the first TV film to take a mature and non-remonstrative approach to the subject of homosexuality. WATCH CLIP

REMEMBER MY NAME DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Alan Rudolph
description: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the holiday season by a stalker. It seems that the assailant, Emily (Geraldine Chaplin), is Neil's chain-smoking, mentally disturbed ex-wife, who has just been released from jail after serving a long sentence for murder. Now she seems to be both seeking revenge for some past wrongs and attempting to win Neil back at the same time. WATCH CLIP

A NEW LEAF DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 102 minutes. USA. Color.
directed by: Elaine May
description: Playboy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) squanders his wealth and must seek out a new source to maintain his idle rich lifestyle. The easy alternative to work is to find a rich woman, marry her, and murder her. Klutzy, nerdy Henrietta Lowell (Elaine May) is the ideal candidate. But in dealing with his klutzy, nerdy, trusting new wife, a botanist, and her ill-managed estate, Henry unwittingly begins to assume some sense of responsibility. WATCH CLIP

THE DION BROTHERS $14.99
run time: 94 minutes. USA. Color.
directed by: Jack Starrett
description: A.K.A. THE GRAVY TRAIN DVD (1974) The Dion Brothers stars Stacy Keach and Frederic Forrest as a husky but none-too-bright pair of West Virginia brothers. Feeling stifled by their blue-collar jobs, the boys become tentatively involved in crime, only to discover that they enjoy working on the wrong side of the law. The moments of extreme violence in this film erupt naturally, not arbitrarily, but still come as a shock to those viewers who've grown to like the sociopathic protagonists. Co-starring a young Margot Kidder who later went on to fame with Superman. Terence Malick co-wrote the film's seriocomic script under the "nom de plume" of David Whitney. WATCH CLIP

OUTRAGE DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Richard T. Heffron
description: In this 1973 Movie of the Week, Jim Kiler (Robert Culp) decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent community. When he complains, one of the youths tries to run him over. Kiler files charges against the boy and harassment turns to terrorism, where the lives of his family are threatened. After a wave of destruction and violence, Kiler wages a one-man war against the marauding youths. Based on a true incident, this story originally was titled "One Angry Man." WATCH CLIP

THE VERY STRANGE STORY OF JOE MEEK DVD (1991) $14.99
run time: 60 mins. UK. Color & B&W.
directed by: Alan Lewens
description: Originally broadcast in 1991 as part of the Arena series of programmes and reshown on BBC4 on ... 5 September 2007 as part of the Hidden Lives season. A profile of the legendary maverick producer and song writer Joe Meek, composer of the massive hit Telstar who recorded most of his hits in a home studio using innovative recording methods in Holloway Road. Meek was obsessed with the occult and suffered from depression and paranoia, and in 1963 had been charged with 'importuning for immoral purposes'. In 1967 after becoming paranoid he'd be framed for a murder of someone he knew, he killed himself and his landlady.

EYE OF THE CAT DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 97 mins. USA. Color. Theatrical Version.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a severe case of ailurophobia -- an irrational fear of all cats. In order for their plot to succeed, the pair must first eliminate Aunt Danny's legions of feline companions...which turns out to be much more difficult than expected, thanks to a sly, deadly counter-plot. Notes on alternate versions: This is the original "more intense" theatrical version featuring the plots original supernatural elements and an army of killer housecats. WATCH CLIP

THE 3,000 MILE CHASE DVD (1977) (TV) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Russ Mayberry
description: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price. A casual glance at the cast list for the made-for-TV 3000 Mile Chase might lead one to conclude that stars Cliff De Young and Glenn Ford play dual roles. In fact, De Young is a bonded courier, and Ford is a government witness. Produced by Roy Huggins, 3,000 Mile Chase was a revamping of his earlier busted pilot film Target Risk (1974). Originally telecast June 16, 1977, Chase likewise failed to graduate to a weekly series. WATCH CLIP

THE LAST CHILD DVD (1971) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
description: In the badly-overpopulated future of 1994, each couple is only allowed one child and people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws. A young married couple (played by Michael Cole and Janet Margolin), pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator (Van Heflin in his final screen performance) to help them escape to Canada as they are persued by a Population Control agent (Edward Asner). This Aaron Spelling produced ABC "Movie of the Week" originally aired on October 5th, 1971. WATCH CLIP

THE NEON CEILING DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 93 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Frank Pierson
description: A housewife (Lee Grant) and her teenage daughter (Denise Nickerson, just before landing her role as Violet Beauregarde in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) flee their boring lives, stopping at a diner in the California desert. They run up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist (Gig Young) whose life's work are the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling. Young resents their presence and is as rude as possible--leading Lee to conclude that Young is the first honest man she's ever met. Ultimately (and inevitably), the two lost souls begin a new life together. Critically praised upon its first telecast, The Neon Ceiling plays like the rough draft of a forgotten William Inge play when seen today. WATCH CLIP

REVENGE FOR A RAPE (1976) (TV) $14.99
run time: 92 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Timothy Galfas
description: "I'm fine, but you look like you've been through hell!" Revenge For A Rape is an intense television drama about three men who attack and rape a man's wife while on a camping trip. The victims husband Dr.Travis Green (actor Mike Connors from the 1960's private detective series Mannix) takes it upon himself to track them down. The victim, Amy Green (made-for-television movie veteran Tracy Brooks Swope) plays the wife and Robert Reed (playing very against type) delivers a strong and effective role as Sheriff Paley.

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