1960s

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A woman is granted a separation from her husband and through a flashback her various battles with life’s wolves are recounted.
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This tame children’s adventure might be interesting to kids — the idealistic fantasy of living on a self-sufficient island somewhere is deep-rooted in the human psyche starting at a very early age — but the blandness of this film is unlikely to enchant adults.Read More »

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue…Read More »

Another case rather isolated in the background of Italian cinema during 60s is Paolo Spinola, who made the best debut as a director in 1964: “La fuga”, a movie which Spinola shot aged 35 after a long activity as assistant director and scriptwriter. It’s the first Italian movie explicitly and fully based on a psychoanalytic plot. “La fuga” (which is also the best script written by Sergio Amidei during 60s and the best acting performance by Giovanna Ralli, who won the Nastro d’Argento prize as the best leading actress of that year thanks to this movie) suggests an attentive and meticulous investigation of a neurosis suffered by Piera, a typical woman from the Italian affluent society, wife of a successful engineer and living a ménage seemingly with no worries.Read More »

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The Miracle of Bali is a BBC series of cultural documentaries narrated by David Attenborough and first shown in 1969. The series comprises three programs about the culture of Bali.Read More »

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What can be said about Funeral Parade of Roses other than that it is the personification of a fever dream, and the definition of a “mindfuck.” Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 cult film is nothing but a nightmare that stares down at you with glaring eyes, and never allows you the opportunity for a rest even after it’s over because it will stay with you and haunt you for days. The images are so stark and hellish that one begins to believe that they are in the pits of hell, either that, or inside the mind of a mad genius. Matsumoto’s controversial film was a re-telling of the classic Oedipus Rex tale by Sophocles, and was given a brief release in the US in 1970.Read More »

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In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

(Remake of a 1949 movie of the same name directed by Senkichi Taniguchi written by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshirô Mifune)Read More »

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Giving up-and-coming writers a chance, or better yet, two. The American playwright and later comedian Peter Paul Bergman wrote a film script in the summer of 1964 at the LCB workshop “Playwriting,” which formed the basis of Flowers is His Name. In this crime parody, detective Peter Flowers gets to deal with Nola, the “most beautiful and depraved woman in the world,” as it says in the opening credits: “Love is the material, ecstasy the action, today the time.”Read More »

A visually beautiful burlesque fantasy about a fountain-of-youth pill and its effects on Getz, a down-and-out Tel Aviv night-club singer. After taking this much sought after pill, Getz becomes the epitome of youthful energy, and therefore a teen idol, a symbol of beauty and youth, up to the cathartic ending of the movie.Read More »