NZ Federation of Film Societies PERMANENT COLLECTION and seasonal selections
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À Bout de Souffle - see Breathless
About the White Bus (Fletcher, UK, 1968) FlJ68
The Adversary / Pratidwandi (Ray, India, 1970) RaS70
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, USSR, 1938) EiS38
Allies (Wilkinson, Australia, 1983) WiM83
The Amateur Gentleman (Freeland, USA, 1936) FrT36
America - From Hitler to M-X (Harvey, USA, 1982) HaJ82
Among People - see My Apprenticeships
Andrey Rublyev (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1966) TaA66
El Angel Exterminador - see The Exterminating Angel Ankur / The Seedling (Benegal, India, 1974) BeS74 The Anna Cross (Annensky, USSR, 1954) AnI54
À Nous la Liberté (Clair, France, 1931) ClR31b
Apur Sansar - see The World of Apu
Aranyer Din Ratri - see Days and Nights in the Forest
The Ascent / Voskhozhdenie (Shepitko, USSR, 1976) ShL76
Ashes and Diamonds / Popiol i Diament (Wajda, Poland, 1958) WaA58
Ashik Kerib (Paradzhanov & Abashidze, USSR, 1988) PaS88
Astenichesky Sindrom - see The Asthenic Syndrome
The Asthenic Syndrome / Astenichesky Sindrom (Muratova, USSR, 1989) MuK89
L'Atalante (Vigo, France, 1934) ViJ34 Autumn Fires (Barclay, New Zealand, 1977) BaBa77 L'Avventura (Antonioni, Italy / France, 1960) AnM60 B Ballada o Soldate - see The Ballad of a Soldier
The Ballad of a Soldier / Ballada o Soldate (Chukhray, USSR, 1959) ChG59
Banshun - see Late Spring
La Battaglia di Algeria - see The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers / La Battaglia di Algeria (Pontecorvo, Italy, 1966) PoG66
La Bête Humaine / The Human Beast (Renoir, France, 1938) ReJ38
The Bill Douglas Trilogy - see My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home
Black Holiday / La Villeggiatura (Leto, Italy, 1973) LeM73 Black Harvest (Anderson & Connolly, Australia, 1992) An/Co92
Blackmail (Hitchcock, UK, 1929) HiA29
Der Blaue Engel - see The Blue Angel
Blood of a Poet / Le Sang d'un Poète (Cocteau, France, 1930) CoJ30
The Blue Angel / Der Blaue Engel (von Sternberg, Germany, 1930) VoJ30
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin' Hopkins (Blank, USA, 1969) BlL69
Boudu Sauvé des Eaux / Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, France, 1932) ReJ32
Boudu Saved From Drowning - see Boudu Sauvé des Eaux
Boyarsky Zagovor - see Ivan the Terrible Part II
The Boyars' Plot - see Ivan the Terrible Part II
Breathless / À Bout de Souffle (Godard, France, 1959) GoJ59
The Bridge: A Story of Men in Dispute (Pohlmann & Mita, New Zealand, 1982) Po/Mi82
Brief Encounters / Korotkie Vstrechi (Muratova, USSR, 1967) MuK67 Brother's Keeper (Berlinger & Sinofsky, USA, 1991) Be/Si91 Burden of Dreams (Blank, USA, 1982) BlL82 C Campanadas a Medianoche - see Chimes at Midnight
Casino Cambodia (K, Thailand, 1994) KI94
Chapayev (Vasiliev x 2, USSR, 1934) Va/Va34
Chelovek s Ruzhyom - see The Man with the Gun
The Childhood of Gorky / Detstvo Gorkovo (Donskoy, USSR, 1938) DoM38
Children (Davies, UK, 1976) DaT76
Children of Paradise - see Les Enfants du Paradis
Chile: Hasta Cuando? (Bradbury, Australia, 1986) BrD86
Chimes at Midnight / Campanadas a Medianoche (Welles, Spain / Switzerland, 1966) WeO66 Chulas Fronteras (Blank, USA / Mexico, 1976) BlL76
The Colour of Pomegranates / Nran Gouyne / Sayat Nova (Paradzhanov, USSR, 1969) PaS69
Company Limited / Seemabadha (Ray, India, 1971) RaS71
Comradeship - see Kameradschaft
Cousin Bobby (Demme, USA, 1992) DeJ92
The Cranes Are Flying / Letyat Zhuravli (Kalatozov, USSR, 1957) KaM57
The Crime - see Murder Czech Style D Day of Wrath / Vredens Dag (Dreyer, Denmark, 1943) DrC43
Days and Nights in the Forest / Aranyer Din Ratri (Ray, India, 1969) RaS69
Death and Transfiguration (Davies, UK, 1983) DaT83 Del Mero Corazon (Blank, US, 1978) BlL78
Detstvo Gorkono - see The Childhood of Gorky
Diary of a Country Priest / Journal d'un Curé de Campagne (Bresson, France, 1951) BrR51
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief / Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki (Oshima, Japan, 1969) OsN69
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (Deren, USA, 1977) DeM77
Dolgie Provody - see A Long Farewell
Down to Earth (Smith, UK, 1955) SmJ55 Dry Wood (Blank, USA, 1973) BlL73a
Dry Wood and Hot Pepper - see Dry Wood & Hot Pepper E The Eclipse - see L'Eclisse
L'Eclisse / The Eclipse (Antonioni, Italy / France, 1962) AnM62
The Eighth / Osmiyat (Heskiya, Bulgaria, 1969) HeZ69
Elephant Boy (Flaherty & Korda, UK, 1937) FlR37
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On / Yuki Yukite Shingun (Hara, Japan, 1987) HaK87
The End of Agent W4C (Vorlicek, Czechoslovakia, 1967) VoV67
Les Enfants du Paradis / Children of Paradise (Carne, France, 1945) CaM45
Les Enfants Terribles (Melville, France, 1949) MeJ49
Escape - see The Flight
El Espiritu de la Colmena - see The Spirit of the Beehive
Eva Wants to Sleep / Ewa Cche Spac (Chmielewski, Poland, 1957) ChT57
Everything for Sale / Wszystko na Sprzedaz (Wajda, Poland, 1968) WaA68
Ewa Cche Spac - see Eva Wants to Sleep
The Exterminating Angel / El Angel Exterminador (Buñuel, Mexico, 1962) BuL62 F A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov - see Oblomov
Film (Schneider, USA, 1965) ScA65 First Contact (Anderson & Connolly, Australia, 1982) An/Co82
Flickorna - see The Girls
The Flight / Utek / Escape (Skalsky, Czechoslovakia, 1967) SkS67
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Weissman & Fernie, Canada, 1992) We/Fe92
A Free Woman - see Summer Lightning
Frenzy / Hets / Torment (Sjöberg, Sweden, 1944) SjA44
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Rappaport, USA, 1995) RaM95 G Gamlet - see Hamlet
Gap-Toothed Women (Blank, USA, 1987) BlL87a Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (Blank, USA, 1980) BlL80
Gates of Heaven (Morris, USA, 1979) MoE79
Gelegenheitsarbeit Einer Sklavin - see Occasional Work of a Female Slave
Gertrud (Dreyer, Denmark, 1964) DrC64
Ghare-Baire - see Home and the World
The Girls / Flickorna (Zetterling, Sweden, 1968) ZeM68
A Girl's Own Story (Campion, Australia, 1986) CaJ86a
The Girl Was Young - see Young and Innocent
God's Country (Malle, USA, 1985) MaL85
The Gorky Trilogy - see The Childhood of Gorky, My Apprenticeship, My Universities
La Grande Illusion (Renoir, France, 1937) ReJ37
The Grasshopper / Poprigunya (Samsonov, USSR, 1955) SaS55 H Half Life (O'Rourke, Australia, 1985) OrD85
Hamlet / Gamlet (Kozintsev, USSR, 1964) KoG64
A Handful of Rice / Man och Kvinna / Man and Woman (Fejos & Skoglund, Sweden / Thailand, 1940) Fe/Sk40
Hets - see Frenzy
His Girl Friday (Hawks, USA, 1940) HaH40
Home and the World / Ghare-Baire (Ray, India, 1984) RaS84 Hot Pepper (Blank, USA, 1973) BlL73b
The Human Beast - see La Bête Humaine I The Idea - see L'Idée
L'Idée / The Idea (Bartosch, France, 1934) BaBe34
If All the Guys in the World... / Si tous les Gars du Monde... / Race for Life (Christian-Jaque, France, 1955) Ch55
I'll Walk Beside You (Rogers, UK, 1943) RoMa43 In Fading Light (Amber, UK, 1989) Am89 Innocents Abroad (Blank, USA, 1991) BlL91b Intimate Stranger (Berliner, USA, 1991) BeA91 Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (Black, UK, 1995) BlD95
Ivan Groznyi - see Ivan the Terrible Part I
Ivanovo Detstvo - see Ivan's Childhood
Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo / My Name Is Ivan (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1962) TaA62
Ivan the Terrible - see Ivan the Terrible Part I & Ivan the Terrible Part II
Ivan the Terrible Part I / Ivan Groznyi (Eisenstein, USSR, 1944) EiS44
Ivan the Terrible Part II / Boyarsky Zagovor / The Boyars' Plot (Eisenstein, USSR, 1946) EiS46
I Went to the Dance - see J'ai été au Bal J J'ai été au Bal: The Cajun and Zydeco Music of Louisiana / I Went to the Dance (Blank & Strachwitz, USA, 1989) BlL89 Joe Leahy's Neighbours (Anderson & Connolly, Australia, 1988) An/Co88
Journal d'un Curé de Campagne - see Diary of a Country Priest
Judy - see Three to Go
Jump for Glory / When Thief Meets Thief (Walsh, UK, 1937) WaR37
Just Me and Mario (Stitt, New Zealand, 1989) StG89 K Kameradschaft / Comradeship (Pabst, France / Germany, 1931) PaG31
Kanojo To Kare - see She and He
Katok i Skripka - see The Roadroller and the Violin
Korotkie Vstrechi - see Brief Encounters L The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, UK, 1938) HiA38 Lancelot of the Lake / Lancelot of the Lake (Bresson, France / Italy, 1974) BrR74 Lancelot of the Lake - see Lancelot du Lac
The Last Bolshevik / Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (Marker, UK / Finland / France, 1993) MaC93
Late Spring / Banshun (Ozu, Japan, 1949) OzY49
Learning Fast (Preston, New Zealand, 1981) PrG81
Lenin In 1918 / Lenin v 1918 (Romm, USSR, 1939) RoMi39
Lenin v 1918 - see Lenin In 1918
Letyat Zhuravli - see The Cranes Are Flying
Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy (Buba, USA, 1988) BuT88
Lightning Over Water (Nick's Movie) (Ray & Wenders, W. Germany / Sweden, 1980) We/Ra80
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir - see Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir
The Long Bow Trilogy (Hinton & Gordon, USA, 1986) Hi/Go86
A Long Farewell / Dolgie Provody (Muratova, USSR, 1971) MuK71
Louie Bluie (Zwigoff, USA, 1985) ZwT85
Louisiana Story (Flaherty, USA, 1948) FlR48
Lucia (Solas, Cuba, 1969) SoH69 M Mababangong Bangungot - see The Perfumed Nightmare
Madonna and Child (Davies, UK, 1980) DaT80
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (Blank, USA, 1995) BlL95
Man and Woman - see A Handful of Rice
Man och Kvinna - see A Handful of Rice
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, UK, 1934) HiA34
The Man with the Gun / Chelovek s Ruzhyom (Yutkevitch, USSR, 1938) YuS38 Marc and Ann (Blank, USA, 1991) BlL91a
Married (Preston, New Zealand, 1992) PrG92
A Married Couple (King, Canada, 1969) KiA69
A Matter of Struggle (Harvey, USA, 1985) HaJ85
Memorias del Subdesarrollo - see Memories of Underdevelopment Memories of Underdevelopment/ Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Alea, Cuba, 1968) AlT68
La Mer des Corbeaux - see Mor'Vran
Michael - see Three to Go
Le Million (Clair, France, 1931) ClR31a
The Miniskirted Dynamo (Hartman, Australia, 1996) HaR96
Mirror / Zerkalo (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1974) TaA74
Moi Universiteti - see My Universities
The Moon over the Alley (Despins, UK, 1975) DeJ75
Mor'Vran / The Sea of Ravens / La Mer des Corbeaux (Epstein, France, 1930) EpJ30 Mouchette (Bresson, France, 1967) BrR67
El Mumia - see The Night of Counting the Years
Murder Czech Style / Vrazda po Nasem / Vrazda po Cesky / The Crime (Weiss, Czechoslovakia, 1967) WeJ67
The Murderer Hides His Face / Vrah Skryva Svoy Tvar (Schulhoff, Czechoslovakia, 1966) ScP66
My Ain Folk (Douglas, UK, 1973) DoB73
My Apprenticeship / V Lyudyakh / Out in the World / Among People (Donskoy, USSR, 1939) DoM39
My Childhood (Douglas, UK, 1972) DoB72
My iz Kronstadt - see We From Kronstadt
My Man Godfrey (La Cava, USA, 1936) LaG36
My Name Is Ivan - see Ivan's Childhood
My Universities / Moi Universiteti (Donskoy, USSR, 1940) DoM40
My Way Home (Douglas, UK, 1978) DoB78 N Nackt Unter Wolfen - see Naked Among Wolves Naked Among Wolves / Nackt Unter Wolfen (Beyer , E. Germany, 1963) BeF63
Navrat Ztraceneho Syna - see Return of the Prodigal Son
Neskolko Dnei iz Zhizni I. I. Oblomov - see Oblomov The New Guinea Trilogy - see First Contact, Joe Leahy’s Neighbours & Black Harvest
Nicaragua: No Pasaran (Bradbury, Australia / Nicaragua, 1984) BrD84
Nick's Movie - see Lightning Over Water
Night and Fog / Nuit et Brouillard (Resnais, France, 1955) ReA55
Night Journey (Mitchell, UK, 1938) MiO38 The Night of Counting the Years / El Mumia (Abdelsalam, Egypt, 1969) AbS69
Nights of Cabiria / Le Notti de Cabiria (Fellini / Italy / France, 1957) FeF57 Nobody’s Business (Berliner, USA, 1996) BeA96
Le Notti de Cabiria - see Nights of Cabiria
Nran Gouyne - see The Colour of Pomegranates
Nuit et Brouillard - see Night and Fog O Oblomov / Neskolko Dnei iz Zhizni I. I. Oblomov / A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov (Mikhlakov, USSR, 1979) MiN79
Obsessive Becoming (Reeves, UK, 1995) ReD95
Occasional Work of a Female Slave / Gelegenheitsarbeit Einer Sklavin (Kluge, W. Germany, 1973) KlA73
On the Bowery (Rogosin, USA, 1955) RoL55
Open City - see Rome, Open City
Osmiyat - see The Eighth
Ourselves Alone? - see Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Out in the World - see My Apprenticeship P Paris Was a Woman (Schiller, UK / USA, 1995) ScG95
Pépé le Moko (Duvivier, France, 1936) DuJ36
The Perfumed Nightmare / Mababangong Bangungot (Tahimik, Philippines, 1977) TaK77
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies (Scorsese & Wilson, UK / USA, 1995) Sc/Wi95
Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir / The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (Renoir, France / Italy / W. Germany, 1969) ReJ69
The Pleasure Garden (Broughton, UK, 1952) BrJ52
Der Plötzliche Reichtum der Armen Leute von Kombach - see The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Popiol i Diament - see Ashes and Diamonds
Poprigunya - see The Grasshopper
Pratidwandi - see The Adversary Puamana (Blank, USA, 1991) BlL91c Q Que Viva Mexico! - see Time in the Sun R Race for Life - see If All the Guys In the World... Rats in the Ranks
Return of the Prodigal Son / Navrat Ztraceneho Syna (Schorm, Czechoslovakia, 1967) ScE67
The Roadroller and the Violin / Katok i Skripka / The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1961) TaA61
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport, USA, 1992) RaM92
Roma, Città Aperta - see Rome, Open City
Rome, Open City / Roma, Città Aperta / Open City (Rossellini, Italy, 1945) RoR45
Rose of Tralee (Burger, UK, 1942) BuG42
The Round-Up / Szegenylegenyek (Janscó, Hungary, 1965) JaM65
Rules of the Game / La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, France, 1939) ReJ39 S Sabotage / The Woman Alone (Hitchcock, UK, 1936) HiA36
Sadko (Ptushko, USSR, 1952) PtA52 Salt of the Earth (Biberman, USA, 1954) BiH54
Le Sang d'un Poète - see Blood of a Poet
Savages (Ivory, USA, 1972) IvJ72
Sayat Nova - see The Colour of Pomegranates
Sciuscia - see Shoeshine Scorpio Rising (Anger, USA, 1964) AnK64 Seacoal (Amber, UK, 1985) Am85
The Sea of Ravens - see Mor'Vran The Seedling - see Ankur
Seemabadha - see Company Limited
A Sense of History (Leigh, UK, 1992) LeM92
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors / Teni Zabytykh Predkov (Paradzhanov, USSR, 1964) PaS64
She and He / Kanojo To Kare (Hani, Japan, 1963) HaS63
Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki - see Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Shoeshine / Sciuscia (De Sica, Italy, 1946) DeV46
Sink or Swim (Friedrich, USA, 1990) FrS90
Si tous les Gars du Monde... - see If All the Guys In the World...
Smultronstället - see Wild Strawberries
Solaris (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1972) TaA72
The Southerner (Renoir, USA, 1945) ReJ45
Spirit of the Beehive / El Espiritu de la Colmena (Erice, Spain, 1973) ErV73
Stalker (Tarkovsky, USSR, 1979) TaA79
The Steamroller and the Violin - see The Roadroller and the Violin Strange Weather (Ahwesh & Strosser, USA, 1993) Ah/St93
Strohfeuer - see Summer Lightning
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach / Der Plötzliche Reichtum der Armen Leute von Kombach (Schlöndorff, W. Germany, 1971) ScV71
Summer Lightning / Strohfeuer / A Free Woman (Schlöndorff, W. Germany, 1972) ScV72
Sweetie (Campion, Australia, 1989) CaJ89 Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella (Blank, USA, 1995) BlL95
Szegenylegenyek - see The Round-Up T Ta Treti - see The Third One
Teen Kanya - see Two Daughters
Teni Zabytykh Predkov - see Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
The Terence Davies Trilogy: see Children, Madonna and Child & Death and Transfiguration
The Third Kind - see The Third One
The Third Man (Reed, UK, 1949) ReC49 The Third One / Ta Treti / The Third Kind (Balik, Czechoslovakia, 1969) BaJ69
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Hitchcock, UK, 1935) HiA35
Three Daughters - see Two Daughters
Three to Go (Weir, Hannant & Howes, Australia, 1970) We/Ha/Ho70
The Ties that Bind (Friedrich, USA, 1984) FrS84
Time in the Sun (Eisenstein, USA, 1939) EiS39
A Time Out of War (Sanders, USA, 1954) SaD54
Together (Mazzetti, UK, 1953) MaL53
Tokyo Monogatari - see Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story / Tokyo Monogatari (Ozu, Japan, 1953) OzY53
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre - see The Last Bolshevik
Torment - see Frenzy
Toula - see Three to Go
Tout Va Bien (Godard & Gorin, France / Italy, 1972) GoJ72 The Town That Lost a Miracle (Barclay, New Zealand, 1972) BaBa72
Triumph des Willens - see Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will / Triumph des Willens (Riefenstahl, Germany, 1936) RiL36
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (Jordan & Ascher, USA, 1995) Jo/As95
Truth Under Siege (Gladsjo & Borgers, USA / Belgium, 1994) Gl/Bo94
Turumba (Tahimik, Philippines, 1982) TaK82 28 Up (Apted, UK, 1984) ApM84
Two Daughters / Teen Kanya / Three Daughters (Ray, India, 1961) RaS61
Two Friends (Campion, Australia, 1986) CaJ86b
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (Frears & Dibbs, UK, 1995) Fr/Di95 U
Unknown Chaplin (Brownlow & Gill, UK / USA, 1983) Br/Gi83
Utek - see The Flight V Vampyr: The Strange Adventure of David Gray (Dreyer, Germany / France, 1931) DrC31
Vernon, Florida (Morris, USA, 1980) MoE80
La Villeggiatura - see Black Holiday
Viridiana (Buñuel, Spain / Mexico, 1961) BuL61
I Vitelloni / The Young and the Passionate (Fellini, Italy / France, 1953) FeF53
V Lyudyakh - see My Apprenticeship
Voenno-polevoy Roman - see A Wartime Romance Volga-Volga (Alexandrov, USSR, 1938) AlG38
Voskhozhdenie - see The Ascent
Vrah Skryva Svoy Tvar - see The Murderer Hides His Face
Vrazda po Cesky - see Murder Czech Style
Vrazda po Nasem - see Murder Czech Style
Vredens Dag - see Day of Wrath W A Wartime Romance / Voenno-polevoy Roman (Todorovsky, USSR, 1984) ToP84
We From Kronstadt / My iz Kronstadt (Dzigan, USSR, 1936) DzY36
When Thief Meets Thief - see Jump for Glory
Where the Heart Roams (Csicsery, USA, 1987) CsG87 Wild Strawberries / Smultronstället (Bergman, Sweden, 1957) BeI57
The Woman Alone - see Sabotage
Woman of the Dunes / Suna No Onna (Teshigahara, Japan, 1964) TeH64
The World of Apu / Apur Sansar (Ray, India, 1958) RaS58
The World of Tomorrow (Johnson & Bird, USA, 1984) Jo/Bi84
Wszystko na Sprzedaz - see Everything for Sale Y Young and Innocent / The Girl Was Young (Hitchcock, UK, 1937) HiA37
The Young and the Passionate - see I Vitelloni
The Youth of Maxim / Yunost Maksima (Kozintsev & Trauberg, USSR, 1935) KoG35
Yuki Yukite Shingun - see The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Yum, Yum, Yum! (Blank, USA, 1990) BlL90
Yunost Maksima - see The Youth of Maxim Z Zerkalo - see Mirror
Zéro de Conduite (Vigo, France, 1933) ViJ33
Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart (Blank, USA, 1987) BlL87b