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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Top Ten of 1960-69: Part Two – 1961
In this post, I will be continuing onward with my recollection of favorite films from the 1960s. Here, I count down my top ten of 1961. See also: My top ten of 1960 & 1962 10) One, Two, Three – dir. Billy Wilder Quite … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 Dalmatians, 1960's, A Woman is a Woman, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, animation, Billy Wilder, Clyde Geronimi, Dusan Vukotic, French, Hamilton Luske, Ingmar Bergman, Japanese, Jean-Luc Godard, Jerome Robbins, John Huston, Last Year at Marienbad, Luis Bunuel, Mexican, musical, One Two Three, Robert Wise, Spanish, Surogat, Swedish, The Misfits, Through a Glass Darkly, Viridiana, West Side Story, Wolfgang Reitherman, Yojimbo, Yugoslavian
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Top Ten of 1960-69: Part One – 1960
While I love every decade in cinema, there’s something about the rebellious, table-turning 1960s that particularly intrigues me. It is at turn of this decade when the cinematic world saw an incoming of movements and “new waves” across Europe, Asia, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, British, Eyes Without a Face, Federico Fellini, Francois Truffaut, French, Georges Franju, Ingmar Bergman, Italian, L'avventura, La Dolce Vita, Little Shop of Horrors, Louis Malle, Michael Powell, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peeping Tom, Psycho, Roger Corman, Shoot the Piano Player, Swedish, The Apartment, The Virgin Spring, Top Ten of 1960s, Zazie dans le metro
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I Stand Alone (1998) – dir. Gaspar Noé
So bleak is the world for I Stand Alone’s nameless butcher, and from the opening montage and voice-over that director Gaspar Noé provides for us, it isn’t difficult to see why. His childhood is marked by abandonment and abuse. His adulthood … Continue reading
Dead Ringers (1988) – dir. David Cronenberg
Strangely enough, Dead Ringers may be the single most incomprehensible (or least comprehensible) film I’ve seen from David Cronenberg. I really love his films for the fusion of the physical and psychological that emerges within the conflicts of his protagonists, particularly in … Continue reading
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) – dir. David Wain
Wet Hot American Summer is set during the very last day of an eight-week summer camp. The place is Camp Firewood; the year is 1972. Rather than sticking with one primary plot structure, this entire day is shown to be comprised … Continue reading
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