Goldstein (1965)

GOLDSTEIN the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters the film is a funny warmhearted postcard from an important moment in American cinema GOLDSTEIN starring veteran character actor Lou Gilbert shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival with Bertoluccis Before the Revolution Cinema deity Jean Renoir called the film the best American film I have seen in 20 years