Black God White Devil (1964)
In this foundational film of Brazil’s cinema novo movement, Glauber Rocha explores the climate of fear that gripped the country in the 1940s.
Beginning of an Unknown Century (1967)
by Larisa Shepitko and Andrei Smirnov
This two-part omnibus film was commissioned to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution. Deemed too dark by Brezhnev’s censors, the film was immediately shelved, and first shown only twenty years later in 1987.
Weekend (1967)
by Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s scathing late-sixties satire presets a critique of bourgeois consumer culture.
