Night Of The Living Dead (1968) ****

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (1968) ****

Wycieczka w nieznane (1968) ****

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) ****

Golden Swallow (1968) ***

The Psych-Out (1968) ***

Richard Rush directed this excellent film about San Francisco hippies.

The Pick Up (1968) ***

Petulia (1968) ***

Greetings (1968) ***

The Killing Of Sister George (1968) ***

Goto l'ile d'amour (1968) ***

Inga (1968) ***

Fando y Lis (1968) ***

La Prisonnière (1968) ***

David Holzman's Diary (1968) ***

Immortal Story (1968) ***

Capricious Summer (1968) ***

Hour Of The Wolf (1968) ***

Candy (1968) ***

Spirits Of The Dead (1968) ***

Very uneven omnibus feature consisting of three shorts adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Roger Vadim's episode starring Jane Fonda is extremely disappointing. But Louis Malle's segment starring Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot is excellent (and very sexy). And Fellini's segment is a cinematic tour de force, one of the highlights of his career. Segments:

"Metzengerstein" (Roger Vadim)  *

"William Wilson" (Louis Malle)  ***

"Toby Dammit" (Federico Fellini)  ****

Sympathy For The Devil (1968) ***

I Am Curious – Blue (1968) ***

Valley Of The Bees (1968) ***

Caprice Italian Style (1968) ***

Segments:

"La bambinaia" (Mario Monicelli)  **

"Il mostro della domenica" (Steno)  **

"Perchè?" (Mauro Bolognini)  **

"Che cosa sono le nuvole?" (Pier Paolo Pasolini)  ***

"Viaggio di lavoro" (Pino Zac and Franco Rossi)  **

"La gelosa" (Mauro Bolognini)  **

Teorema (1968) ***

Who's That Knocking At My Door (1968) ***

Stress-es tres-tres (1968) ***

Silence And Cry (1968) ***

Romeo And Juliet (1968) ***

Firemen's Ball (1968) ***

Milos Forman's comedy about a beauty contest organized by a firemen's union in Communist Czechoslovakia. A vicious satire about Communism.

Lalka (1968) **

An adaptation of Boleslaw Prus' novel about an impoverished aristocratic woman (Beata Tyszkiewicz) playing with the affections of a rich merchant. Also with Anna Seniuk as a prostitute.

Weekend z dziewczyna (1968) **

A Polish war movie set during the Nazi occupation.

Dragon's Return (1968) **

Slovak film.

Julia Anna Genowefa (1968) **

Polish drama about a young woman looking for her biological parents.

Les Biches (1968) ***

Claude Chabrol's film about a menage à trois involving a man and two bisexual women.

Un Film comme les autres (1968) *

The first of Godard's agit-prop films made between 1968 and 1972. It would probably worked better as a radio program, because its banal visuals actually distract from its uneven, but occassionally interesting soundtrack.

Je t'aime je t'aime (1968) *

Probably Alain Resnais' worst film, though "La Vie est un roman" (1983) and "L'Amour a mort" (1984) are also strong contenders for that dubious distinction. The film was selected at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the director was so ashamed of it, he withdrew it from competition. Of course, he later pretended that he only did it to support the May 68 student revolt in Paris, but the real reason was undoubtedly the film's narrative and stylistic weaknesses.

Rachel Rachel (1968) *

Depressing film about a not-so-old spinster.

Bullitt (1968) ***

Excellent police drama starring Steve McQueen.

The Conqueror Worm (1968) ***

Superb horror movie about the burning of witches in England.

Death By Hanging (1968) ***

Powerful drama about a hanging.

The Devil Rides Out (1968) ***

Christopher Lee plays an English gentleman fighting against a sect of Devil worshippers. Arguably, Hammer Studio's best horror film, very suspenseful.

Faces (1968) ***

One of John Cassavetes' best films.

Finian's Rainbow (1968) ***

Fred Astaire's last musical film. The songs are excellent, but the dance numbers are a bit disappointing. Musical numbers:

"Look To The Rainbow"  **
"This Time Of The Year"  **
"Astaire's Jig"  **
"How Are Things In Glocca Morra?"  ***
"Look To The Rainbow" (reprise)  ***
"Astaire's Romp"  **
"Old Devil Moon"  *
"Something Sort Of Grandish"  *
"If This Isn't Love"  **
"Something Sort Of Grandish" (reprise)  *
"That Great Come-And-Get-It Day"  *
"When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich"  **
"Old Devil Moon" (reprise)  *
"The Begat"  *
"Look To The Rainbow" (reprise)  *
"When I'M Not Near The Girl I Love"  **
"Look To The Rainbow" (reprise)  *
"How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" (reprise)  **

Five Million Years To Earth (1968) ***

Aka "Quatermass And The Pit". An excellent science-fiction movie from Britain.

Funny Girl (1968) ***

The life of Fanny Brice.

Przekladaniec (1968) ****

A hilarious science-fiction satire scripted by Stanislaw Lem. In a near future, transplantation of organs is reaching such epidemic proportions, that legal definitions of individual identities become hotly disputed.

High School (1968) ***

Fascinating documentary that reveals the moral and intellectual emptiness of the middle-class bourgeois values.

La Hora de los Hornos (1968) ***

Documentary film about the necessity of a revolutionnary struggle in Argentina. A classic of the Latin American "Third Cinema".

Laughter (1968) ***

Give A Damn (1968) ***

The Lion In Winter (1968) ***

A great historical drama about King Henry II and his family.

Build Me Up Buttercup (1968) ***

A music video from The Foundations.

To Fetch A Bike (1968) ***

Roy Andersson's debut, a short film about a young couple waking up and reluctantly getting out of bed.

Cybele (1968) ***

Glupia sprawa - kabaret (1968) *****

Pierwszy kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej. Wspaniala obsada - Bohdan Lazuka, Barbara Wrzesinska, Wojciech Pokora, Barbara Krafftowna, Kazimierz Grzeskowiak, Adriana Godlewska, Krystyna Sienkiewicz, Jan Kobuszewski, Tadeusz Plucinski i Roman Klosowski - oraz znakomite piosenki:

"Bo ja sobie waze lekce" ***

"Ja ich znam" **

"Wez pan siekierke" **

"Ballada o Imogenie" ***

"W Konskiem" ***  

"Piesc mnie" ***

"A mna nie chce poniewierac nikt" ***

"Droznik" **

"W Paryzu" **

"Kawalerskie noce" **

"Glupia sprawa" **

Memories Of Underdevelopment (1968) ***

Excellent Cuban drama about a bourgeois dissident living under Castro's dictatorship.

Ed Sullivan Show: Love Is Blue (1968) ***