Tag: 60s movies
A Tale of Two Marnies: The Book Version and the Film Version
Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic [Read More…]
Emma and Rayette/Marcello and Bobby: A La Dolce Vita/Five Easy Pieces Parallel
Carole Eastman’s screenwriting career might have spanned decades, but there were only so few scripts she was able to give us considering the amount of [Read More…]
Two For The Road Reveals The Infinite Number of Complications in Marriage
Before Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, before Blue Valentine, there was the original gangsta of horror love stories, Two For the Road. Though, in [Read More…]
Life Is Only Precious When It’s In Peril: Cléo from 5 to 7
Following La Pointe Courte in 1955, considered by many to be a foreshadowing of the full-tilt French New Wave movement, Agnès Varda’s second feature, Cléo from [Read More…]
Angela Lansbury as the Ultimate Frivolous Woman in Blue Hawaii
As far as movies that are hard to watch for their overt misogyny go, Blue Hawaii is one of the ones that increasingly takes the [Read More…]
A Man and A Woman: A Disjointed Glance at Finding Love Again
“If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.” This is one of of the [Read More…]
I Dream of Anna Karina
Has there ever been a French goddess as captivating as Anna Karina? Sure, you have Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve, but those are just your [Read More…]
Do the Loose-Fitting Clothes of Monica Vitti’s Character in L’Eclisse Represent a Loose Moral Compass?
It’s clear when watching Monica Vitti on screen that she’s one of those beauties who you have to acclimate yourself to, the type who becomes [Read More…]
Boccaccio ’70: Showcasing the Renaissance in Italian Film
Very few films are able to effortlessly combine the temperaments and egos of major directors. 1962’s Boccaccio ’70 manages to bring together the singular minds [Read More…]
