Jesús Franco, 1973
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Best Discoveries 2016
A yearly round-up of my favorite firsts featuring New Wave from Senegal to Sweden, a couple of very different Noirs, a few not-for-everyone, highly idiosyncratic classics, some trash and exploitation, a few in-betweens, and a handful of great documentaries--three about photographers, one about filmmaking, and one about garlic. Then there's A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness, which is, simply, unlike anything I've ever seen.
(Bonus points if you can name which of these features a Martin Scorsese cameo!)
Odd Man Out Carol Reed, 1947
Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973
The Salt of the Earth Juliano Ribeiro Salgado/Wim Wenders, 2014
Man in the Wilderness Richard C. Sarafian, 1970
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Ben Rivers/Ben Russell, 2013
Candy Christian Marquand, 1968
Girl on the Run Arthur J. Beckhard/Joseph Lee, 1953
Millennium Michael Anderson, 1989
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers Les Blank, 1980
Phase IV Saul Bass, 1974
Finding Vivian Maier John Maloof/Charlie Siskel, 2013
The Girls Mai Zetterling, 1968
Operation Kid Brother (aka OK Connery) Alberto De Martino, 1967
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau David Gregory, 2014
Supervan Lamar Card, 1977
Solarbabies Alan Johnson, 1986
Capricorn One Peter Hyams, 1977
Bill Cunningham New York Richard Press, 2010
Bone Larry Cohen, 1972
Cannonball! Paul Bartel, 1976
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles, 1971
(Bonus points if you can name which of these features a Martin Scorsese cameo!)
Odd Man Out Carol Reed, 1947
Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973
The Salt of the Earth Juliano Ribeiro Salgado/Wim Wenders, 2014
Man in the Wilderness Richard C. Sarafian, 1970
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Ben Rivers/Ben Russell, 2013
Candy Christian Marquand, 1968
Girl on the Run Arthur J. Beckhard/Joseph Lee, 1953
Millennium Michael Anderson, 1989
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers Les Blank, 1980
Phase IV Saul Bass, 1974
Finding Vivian Maier John Maloof/Charlie Siskel, 2013
The Girls Mai Zetterling, 1968
Operation Kid Brother (aka OK Connery) Alberto De Martino, 1967
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau David Gregory, 2014
Supervan Lamar Card, 1977
Solarbabies Alan Johnson, 1986
Capricorn One Peter Hyams, 1977
Bill Cunningham New York Richard Press, 2010
Bone Larry Cohen, 1972
Cannonball! Paul Bartel, 1976
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles, 1971
