109. Bulaklak sa city jail (1984)

Country: The Philippines
Directed by Mario O'Hara

An important moment of the progressive Filipino cinema. O'Hara as always choose marginalized characters who try to survive in a brutal world and depicts the wrong doings of society without tp try to make the misery photogenic. In this movie the female jails ,where the often innocent prisoners are treated like animals and got exploited with any possible way , are exposed  as they are, dark, dirty and claustrophobic , while the lives of the prisoners-victims are stripped out of glory and heroic dramatization. Bulaklak sa city jail is a movie with a lot of dialogues and unfortunately I watched it without subtitles. So, surely I missed a lot of things but even only from the images I could see the quality of the director's work and the power of his social comments

You can watch the movie here although are not subtitles and the quality of picture is very poor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4A_ZoHCkcM

108. The blind beast (1969)

Country: Japan
Directed by Yasujo Masumura

Sex ,violence and horror are three elements that always are used from the producers and directors in order to attract viewers and their movies to go well in the box office. Japan has a great tradition in this kind of films but somehow very talented people got involved to the creation of movies either of the pinku genre either of the Yakuza one : 'Blind beast' is one of the best examples when artistic vision is inhaled to rather commercial films that are belong to the cinema of exploitation. Masumura , an underrated director that in reality played a major role to the Japanese new wave movement, give us here a raw, weird and hallucinating film that , as you watch it, slowly brings you back to your basic instincts. As you come closer and closer to the characters the film has a great impact on you that ,you like it or not, you can't deny. Years passed from the time that I watched the film but still I remember how it captured my attention from the beginning to the end

 You can watch the full movie here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7l39rM5gGo

107. Subarnarekha (1962)

Country; India
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak

Ritwik Ghatak is a genius, a huge figure of the Indian cinema. This movie shows clearly why. In an often surprising editing and use of the sound he is mixing different elements with a way that the film has a mainstream flow but is also highly artistic. Every time you think that the film gets too simplistic then it turns to something complex that has multiple readings. Is interesting how he uses the landscapes poetically but not only as images of  beauty but also as the arena of the eternal suffering of his nation. The movie has a strong realistic style but also something theatrical. The film often seems as melodrama , other times turns to a philosophical essay. Ghatak deals with the history and the pain of partition of Bengal, but makes a lot of comments as well about the injustice, the system of the casts, the social taboos. Subarnarekha is a film that you can watch it many times and every time to find something new to appreciate

You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeiGPWYIOqs