European auteurs did not abandon artistic cinema beyond 1963. No, it continued and some of their films were very good. 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965) is no Closely Watched Trains, but it’s another black-and-white art film that manages to be meaningful. A Czech-British production, it was audaciously directed by Jiri Weiss—ah, those closeups—and has jazzy, quirky music in it. The movie is about desolation and immorality, not necessarily in that order. British actress Anne Heywood, in an affecting performance, plays a shop worker involved in illegal activity with her unsatisfactory married lover. I saw Shade on Tubi. Unusual and more or less sensual, it deserves to be available and seen.