Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Mick Travis is now a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced and sinister scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar (returning from O Lucky Man!) will be demonstrated Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Mick Travis progresses from coffee salesman to personal assistant to a corporate mastermind in this sprawling surreal allegory. Travis learns the amoral lesson, reinforced by songs from a commentator/singer, Alan Price, that he must abandon his principles in order to succeed, but unlike the other characters he meets he must retain a detached idealism that will allow him to distance himself from the evils of the world. Juxtaposed with Travis' experiences, 1960s Britain is seen retreating from its imperial past while retaining world influence by means of corrupt dealings with foreign dictators.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Lindsay Anderson’s first order of business was satirising the initiating institution of English public school life which he resolved with a savage insurrection. The film established a unique character by freely intercutting between discordant elements: color and black & white sequences or scenes of vague fantasy and reality though never indicating how these shifts should be interpreted. The film was a harbinger of the 1960s counterculture and even said to contribute to the student uprisings in Paris in May 1968.

Country:South Africa, United Kingdom

Director:Zoltan Korda

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Alan Paton provided a screenplay from his own classic novel concerning minister Stephen Kumalo’s journey to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:John Henderson

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

A combination of live-action, animation, and special effects tells the fantastical adventures of Alice as she returns to Wonderland. Alice is a young girl who steps through a magical mirror and is transported from the real world into an enchanted one of talking insects, nonsensical questions, and reversals of logic. Her journey is marked by mostly incomprehensible encounters with quirky characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Red Queen and White Queen, and Humpty Dumpty.

Country:United Kingdom, United States of America

Director:Robert Altman

Summary:

Robert Altman’s meticulous conundrum of schiziophrenic subjectivity becomes a more malevalent trap by the minute. A man and his wife visit their weekend cottage located in  a scenic but isolated corner of the countrytside. The man is in good spirits but has his mind on other things. He doesn't pay much attention to his wife's concerns. She's experiencing a curious imbalance in which she ‘sees’ a former lover who was killed years ago in a plane crash. A family friend now drops by to visit with his 12 year old daughter.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Michael Powell

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

British master Michael Powell reversed his angle with this hard edged study. Mark Lewis works as a focus puller in a British film studio. As a sideline, he supplies a local shop with sexy photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they manifest. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in the psychology of terror conducted by his own scientist father.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:John Boorman

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps; a barbarian group who operate by brute force and a highly civilized group with mental powers. Zed is an exterminator, a savage warrior living among the brutals. Like all exterminators, Zed honors a stone head called Zardoz that promises worshipers that when they die, they will go to the Vortex, a community of immortals. Zed manages to travel to the Vortex concealed in the head of Zardoz. Zed's arrival in the Vortex begins to cause disruption.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Basil Dearden

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Basil Dearden had largely devoted himself to expertly tight crime dramas with a sharp moral sense but for his final film he arrived at a decidedly metaphysical position while elaborating a story Hitchcock had filmed for television. While driving one evening, Harold Pelham appears possessed and has a car accident. While on the operating table, there even appears to be two heartbeats on the monitor. When he awakes, Pelham finds his life has been turned upside-down: he learns that he now supports a merger that he once opposed, and that he apparently is having an affair.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Albert Lewin

Summary:

This is Albert Lewin’s doubling take on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In the 1930’s, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman of the 17th century, cursed by God to wander the seas until Doomsday...