Twentieth Century is perhaps our favorite of Howard Hawk's comedies. John Barrymore is Oscar Jaffe an obsessive director/producer of Broadway plays who turns Carole Lombard from an unknown into a huge star. When she leaves him, he tries to win her back through every deception imaginable. Barrymore's character is the paradigm of the pretentious thespian and megalomaniacal director whose clever mind constantly spews forth scheme after scheme. Many say that the character of Jaffe resembles Barrymore's actual personality, and the film was made at the height of his infamous drunken debauchery. Incredibly tight and well scripted, Twentieth Century is without a doubt one of the great comedies of the 1930s.

Billy Wilder's "lost" film Ace in the Hole is one of his darkest. Douglas plays a down and out reporter who is bent on returning to his former fame, and willing to destroy anyone who gets in his way. When a man gets trapped in a mine collapse, Douglas uses the "opportunity" to create a media event under his exclusive control. His immorality knows no bounds as he becomes involved with the trapped man's beautiful wife played by Jan Sterling. In Ace in the Hole, Wilder's dark side comes out in spades and the characters are some of 50s cinema's most brutal: callous self absorption reaches epic proportions. Ace in the Hole was not a commercial success upon its release, and yet Wilder is often quoted as saying it is one of his favorite films.

Inventive, otherworldly and playful, this is a unique animated film. The story takes place in another world where humans are the pets of enormous blue beings called Oms. The story follows the exploits of the human Terr, who escapes and joins up with other free humans to start a rebellion against their masters.Filmmaker Roland Topor sprinkles the film with groovy seventies notions, (references to yoga and psychedelia) and creates a quixotic "turned-on" tone. We are hard pressed to find anything quite like Fantastic Planet anywhere, it is entirely unique.

Bedazzled is a Hilarious British comedy from cinema legend Stanley Donen and comedy team Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Moore plays a short order cook who is obsessed with the waitress at Wimpy Burgers, so obsessed he is willing to part with his soul in order to get her love. Cook plays the devil, who is only too happy to take Dudley's soul and give him seven wishes. Each time he wishes, Moore is transported into a fantasy scenario where he is with his dream girl, but in every instance, Cook cleverly exploits a loophole to frustrate Moore's happiness. The scenario where Dudley Moore and Peter Cook are pop stars ranks as one of the funniest Swinging 60s scenes in all of British Cinema!

From Italian director Elio Petri comes this masterpiece of Sixties Pop. Starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave, A Quiet Place tells the story of a popular Milanese artist who rents an old villa. in hopes of finding some peace and quiet to continue painting in isolation. Instead he is visited by the ghost of a young woman who was murdered at the villa during WW2. Through the various testimonies of the townspeople he discovers more and more music this woman's life, which can only be described as nymphomaniacal. Nero's grip on reality loosens as he is lured in by the ghost. Stylistically, A Quiet Place is a wild but thoughtful film distinguished by Italian mid-century modern set design and psychedelic fantasy scenes.

Danger Diabolik is a camp adventure from the mind of Italian virtuoso director Mario Bava. Visually Diabolik is unsurpassed as the ultimate in 60s camp, with druggy dance club scenes shot through colored glass, sexy over the top get-ups, and "future" high tech gadgetry. Starring the game-faced John Phillip Law and the gorgeous Marisa MelI as the outlaw couple and Bunuel favorite Michel Piccoli as the cop in hot pursuit. The production design is outrageous and inventive, and to this day is copied time and time again. One of Bava's most fun, Danger Diabolik is the closest thing to a living comic book ever filmed.

Ken Russel's masterpiece stars Oliver Reed as the priest of a small French town during the reign of Louis XIV. His philosophy of free love gets him into trouble with the daughter of a wealthy resident, and his iconoclastic take on Christianity angers the religious hierarchy of the kingdom. Redgrave plays a hunchback nun who is sexually obsessed with Reed and incorporates him into her religious fantasies as a sexual Christ. All hell breaks loose when she accuses him of being in league with the devil, and a horrific witchhunt ensues.