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2 FILMS BY WILLIAM KLEIN

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ADIEU PHILIPPINE

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After the New Wave, filmmaker Jacques Rozier stood out by employing cinema verite aesthetics to heighten the realism of his fiction films, most notably Adieu Philippine. "...a minor masterpiece...an engagingly improvised narrative about a Parisian youth in the 1960s...which contains a hilarious parody of French television" (David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film). In French with English subtitles.

Jacques Rozier---France---1961---106 mins.
ADRIATIC SEA OF FIRE (FLAMMES SUR L'ADRIATQUE)
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In this WWII action movie based on real events, two sailors in the Yugoslav Royal Navy disobey orders to abandon their battleship after an attack by Axis powers. Instead of giving up the Zagreb, they plot to use the warship one last time or destroy it. Starring Gerard Barray, Antonio Passalia and Claudine Auger (Thunderball's Domino),
AFFAIR ( PIERSON )
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Mauro Parenti and Paola Senatore play Marc and Beatrice, a novelist and his      wife who suffer the tragedy of losing their only son in an auto accident and     the subsequent strain in their sex life due to his impotence. Considered a       masterpiece of erotic cinema, this film features cinematography by Andre Zarra and original music by Armando Trovajoli. In French with NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.  Claude Piersen---Italy/France/Canada---1974---82 mins.
AFRICAN THRILLS/ COUPLES OF
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Two erotic features from France. African Thrills (Louis Soulanes/Zygmunt   Sulistrowski, 1978, 90 mins.) finds a photographer and his very sexy assistant   on assignment in Africa where the heat of the jungle leads to passion in the     bedroom. In The Couples of Boulogne (Christian Gion/Bernard Legrant,     1974, 90 mins.), a young couple on their way to Paris end up in Boulogne, a    nudist colony where couples meet to act out their most daring sexual           fantasies. English dubbed.                                                       Louis Soulanes/Zygmunt Sulistrowski/Christian Gion/Bernard Legrant---France---1978/1974---180 mins.
ALAIN DELON COLLECTION
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Not much of a title, but this set includes five of the suave Gallic screen       star's most sought after films. The Widow Couderc (Pierre                  Granier-Deferre, 1974, 92 mins.) is a fun French thriller with Simone Signoret   as the provincial widow whose love affairs lead her to fall in love with       Delon, playing an escaped murderer. Then in Diabolically Yours (Julien   Duvivier, 1968, 90 mins.), poor Alain has lost his memory. But Senta Berger,   who claims to be his wife, says everything will be fine once he is out of the    hospital and back at his estate. An intricate thriller involving unnatural     accidents, murder plots and a lusting Chinese servant. The Swimming Pool (La Piscine, Jacques Deray, 1969, 85 mins.) is a story of intrigue and   lust set in the South of France on the Riviera. Delon tangles with Austrian      beauty Romy Schneider in a steamy tale of jealousy and sexual tension. The     life of gypsies in France serves as the backdrop for The Gypsy (Le    Gitan, Jose Giovanni, 1975, 102 mins.), a drama about a Robin Hood-like     gypsy (Delon) who stays one step ahead of the law and the woman (Annie           Girardot) who helps him. Our Story (Notre Histoire, Bertrand       Blier, 1984, 111 mins.) is a surreal comedy that earned Delon a Cesar Award    for his role as a drunk who hits rock bottom, meets and beds Nathalie Baye on  a train, and clings to her for dear life as soon as they detrain. In Fr
ANATOMY OF A RELATION / GENESIS OF A MEAL (MOULLET)
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From filmmaker and longtime Cahiers du Cinema critic Luc Moullet comes a pair of documentaries that resonate with his absurdist view and maverick vision.
ANGELIQUE 5 FILM COLLECTION
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All five romantic adventure movies based on the series of novels by Anne and     Serge Golon and starring Michele Mercier as the beautiful Angelique:             Angelique (1964, 115 mins.), Angelique: The Road to Versailles       (1965, 105 mins.), Angelique and the King (1966, 100 mins.),             Untamable Angelique (1967, 95 mins.), and Angelique and the Sultan (1968, 105 mins.). In French with English subtitles.                           Bernard Borderie---France---1964-1968---518 mins.
AWAKENING OF ANNIE/ UNSATISFIE
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A double dose of French erotica. The Awakening of Annie (Zygmunt           Sulistrowski, 1973, 90 mins.) follows a seductive, innocent girl who finds       herself caught up in a steamy affair with an American journalist and a           millionaire. In Unsatisfied (Jean-Marie Pallardy, 1971, 90 mins.), an    ailing millionaire murders his nurse in the heat of passion. He turns to his   son-in-law for help, but more trouble ensues. Both features dubbed in English. Zygmunt Sulistrowski/Jean-Marie Pallardy---France---1973/1971---180 mins.
BACCHANALES SEXUELLES
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This once-lost, soft-core classic is French exploitation auteur Jean Rollin's    first foray away from vampire eroticism and into adult films and as such was     filmed under the pseudonym Michel Gentil. The film stars Rollin staple Joelle    Coeur as a young woman who is watching over her cousin's home for six months.  Bored, she calls her girlfriend over, but their hot and sexy nights end when a bizarre sex cult invades the domicile.                                         Jean Rollin---France---1973---102 mins.
BARBARELLA
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Jane Fonda crash-lands on the planet Sogo, where an evil queen, a stone maze, and an overdose of pleasure stand in her way of rescuing a scientist.
BEAR AND THE DOLL
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Luminous beauty Brigitte Bardot stars as a fashion model debutante spoiled by    wealth, fame, and decadence in swinging 1960s Paris. Traveling through the       French countryside, she literally stumbles upon love in the unlikeliest of       places--the arms of reclusive bachelor farmhand (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Michel   DeVille's frothy romantic comedy of opposite attraction makes perfect use of   Bardot's sex-kittenish charms and the beauty of rural France. With Daniel      Ceccaldi. Dubbed in English.                                                     Michel Deville---France---1969---88 mins.
BEST WAY TO WALK
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Claude Miller's ambitious and deeply felt debut tells the story of a sports      director and a crossdressing music teacher who struggle to come to terms with    their sexual identities while working at a summer camp for boys. A disciple of   Francois Truffaut, Miller's acute sensitivity is easily identifiable, even in  this early work. In French with English subtitles.                             Claude Miller---France---1976---82 mins.
BILITIS
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A French softcore coming-of-age story about a boarding-school girl (Patti D'Arbanville) Featuring Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carriere, Vaseline covered lensing by Bernard Daillencourt (Immoral Tales), and Cesar Award-nominated music by Francis Lai. In French with English subtitles.

David Hamilton---France---1977---95 mins.
BLACK & WHITE IN COLOR/ SKY
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A satire on racism, colonialism and war, Black and White in Color          follows a group of French colonists in Africa who learn of their country's       involvement in WWI a few months late and enlist the native population to         attack a nearby German outpost. Brutal and hilariously unfortunate events      ensue. Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1976. In French and   German with optional English subtitles.                                        Jean-Jacques Annaud---France---1976---92 mins.
BORSALINO AND CO.
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A historical mob saga, set in 1930's France. Screen giant Alain Delon (The    Leopard) stars as Roch Siffredi, a well-manicured gangster impresario who's   unwilling to relinquish his vice grip on pre-war Marseille. When an upstart      Italian mob tries to move on in his territory, Siffredi's response is swift    and violent. Jacques Deray (Flic Story) adorns a meticulous,             multi-layered storyline with action-packed sequences and evocative period      detail. The result is a top-notch piece of '70s pulp. In French with English     Jacques Deray---France---1974---102 mins.
BRIGITTE & BRIGITTE / UP & DOWN (MOULLET)
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Luc Moullet, original member of the French New Wave and long-time Cahiers     du Cinema critic, directed these two idiosyncratic comedies with a modern     eye and an absurdist wit. In Brigitte and Brigitte, the titular heroine  s meet by chance and move to Paris together, where they enroll at the Sorbonne   and take crash courses in cinephilia. Costarring roles and amusing cameos by   famous directors (Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Andre Techine, and Sam Fuller)  only add to the film's charm. Up and Down, partly inspired by Dadaist      playwright Alfred Jarry's The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle       Race, follows a group of cyclists as they struggle up the winding slopes of the Alps. Some cheat, some conduct business, and one even wears a tutu!        "Moullet's films are a mixture of Monty Python and Mike Leigh" (Sight &       Sound). In French with English subtitles.                                   Luc Moullet---France---1966/1992---156 mins.
BRIGITTE BARDOT CLASSIC COLLECTION, THE
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Three saucy classics starring French bombshell Brigitte Bardot: Plucking the Daisy (1956), The Night Heaven Fell (1958) and Don Juan (1973).
BRIGITTE BARDOT FILM COLLECTION
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Five films starring the original French sex kitten are featured in this sexy set. Includes Naughty Girl aka Cette Sacree Gamine (Michel Boisrond, 1956, 83 mins.), Love on a Pillow aka Repos du Guerrier (Roger Vadim, 1962, 98 mins.), The Vixen aka Les Femmes (Jean Aurel, 1969, 86 mins.), Come Dance with Me aka Voulez-Vous Danser Avec Moi? (Michel Boisrond, 1959, 91 mins.) and Two Weeks in September aka A Coeur Joie (Serge Bourguignon, 1967, 96 mins .). In French with English subtitles.

Michel Boisrond/Roger Vadim/Serge Bourguignon/Jean Aurel---France---1956-1969---445 mins.
BURNING COURT
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A strange film that deals with a number of weird subjects, including             occultism, possession, family curses, etc. An unusual and very interesting       foreign horror opus, dubbed in English. With Jean-Claude Brialy.                 Julien Duvivier---France/Italy/Germany---1961---113 mins.