New Directors, New Form

More bleak filmmaking in the artsy mode. We are introduced to some great directors of the sixties. Oneis Andrzej Wajda whose "Ashes and Diamonds" is highly provocative. Also from Poland, the genesis of Roman Polanski with his early film, "Knife in the Water." Now comes Milos Forman and Miklos Jancso and, most significantly, Andrei Tarkovsky. Rising high in the Japanese cinema is the great Nagisa Oshima with his quirky film and Shohei Imamura. Another proponent of the weird is Ritwik Ghatak. There are mentions of Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, and Walter Ruttmann. This series puts things out there in such haste that it is hard to make the connections necessary to completely understand the waves going through the film world. I think that the biggest strength of this whole series is to see for the first time or revisit many of these films.