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1960 Recap and Top 10 Favorites
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 30, 2017
I have now watched 100 films that were released in 1960. A complete list can be found here. It was a great year and I have 17 films for my favorites list. This may be the first year that the Best Picture winner is also my very favorite film of the year. Excellent films I didn’t have room read more
The Goddess (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 29, 2017
The Goddess (Devi)
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Written by Satyajit Ray; story by Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee
1960/India
First viewing/FilmStruck I’m still pondering the meaning of this beautiful but strange film. Doyamoyee and Umaprasad (played by Shamila Tagore and Soumitra Chaterjee read more
The Devil’s Eye (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 28, 2017
The Devil’s Eye (Djävulens öga) Directed by Ingmar Bergman Written by Ingmar Bergman from a radio play by Bergman and Oluf Bang 1960/Sweden Svensk Filmindustri First viewing/FilmStruck Bergman balances out the torment of 1960’s The Virgin Spring with this little comedy. The film is read more
The River Fuefuki (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 27, 2017
The River Fuefuki Directed by Keisuki Kinoshita Written by Keisuki Kinoshita from a novel by Shichiru Fukazawa 1960/Japan Shochiku Ofuna First viewing/FilmStruck Kinoshita was certainly an uneven director. I thought this anti-war film was up there with his brilliant The Ballad of Narayama. It read more
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 27, 2017
Bells Are Ringing
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from their musical play
1960/USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
First viewing?/Amazon Instant Back before cell phones, back before voice mail, and back before answering machines, there were human beings picking up our m read more
Home from the Hill (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 25, 2017
Home from the Hill Directed by Vincente Minnelli Written by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a novel by William Humphrey 1960/USA Sol C. Siegel Productions First viewing/Netflix rental 1960 has been heavy on dysfunctional family melodramas. They are wearing out their welcome with me. W read more
Blood and Roses (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 23, 2017
Blood and Roses (Et mourir de plaisir)
Directed by Roger Vadim
Written by Roger Vadim and Roger Vailland; original story by Claude Brule and Claude Martin; novel by Sheridan Le Fanu
1960/France/Italy
Documento Film/Films EGE
First viewing/YouTube The erotic meets the supernatural in this story of read more
Can-Can (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 23, 2017
Can-Can
Directed by Walter Lang
Written by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer from a musical comedy by Abe Burrows
1960/USA
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Suffolk-Cummings Productions
Repeat viewing/Netflix rental There are a lot of nice Cole Porter standards and some glorious dancing i read more
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 22, 2017
La Dolce Vita
Directed by Federico Fellini
Written by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Brunello Rondi
1960/Italy/France
Riama Film/Cinecitta/Pathe Consortium Cinema/Gray-Film
Repeat viewing/Netflix rental
One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Life is bittersweet in th read more
The Warped Ones (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 21, 2017
The Warped Ones (Kyônetsu no kisetsu) Directed by Koreyoshi Kurohara Written by Nobuo Yamada 1960/Japan Nikkatsu First viewing/FilmStruck Warped is right. Three delinquents are released from the reformatory. They are all weirdos who immediately revert to their lives of crime and meanness. read more
Sons and Lovers (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 20, 2017
Sons and Lovers
Directed by Jack Cardiff
Written by Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke from the novel by D.H. Lawrence
1960/UK
The Company of Artists
First viewing/YouTube rental This handsome film is a well-acted adaptation of Lawrence’s classic novel of desire, both repressed and unleashed. read more
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 14, 2017
BUtterfield 8
Directed by Daniel Mann
Written by Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes
1960/USA
Afton-Linebrook
First viewing/Netflix rental Elizabeth Taylor is not bad here but was better in other, better, films. The Hayes Code is still in force. Gloria Wandrous (Taylor) works as read more
Breathless (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 13, 2017
Breathless (À bout de souffle) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Written by Jean-Luc Godard; story by Francois Truffaut 1960/France Les Films Imperia/Les Productions Georges de Beauregard; Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie Repeat viewing/Netflix rental One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die read more
Village of the Damned (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 12, 2017
Village of the Damned
Directed by Wolf Rilla
Written by Stirling Silliphant, Wolf Rilla and Ronald Kinnoch from the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
1960/UK
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
First viewing/Netflix rental Before Rosemary’s Baby, we had Village of the Damned. It is read more
North to Alaska (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 11, 2017
North to Alaska
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Written by John Lee Mahin, Martin Rakin and Claude Binyon from a play by Ladislas Fodor and an idea by John H. Kafka
1960/USA
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
First viewing/Netflix rental This is the first of the series of entertaining two-fisted r read more
Late Autumn (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 11, 2017
Late Autumn (Akibiyori) Directed by Yasujiro Ozu Written by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu from a novel by Ton Satomi 1960/Japan Shochiku Eiga Repeat viewing/Netflix rental In the late autumn of his career, Ozu made this comic twist on his eternal marriage plot. I smiled throughout. As the film begi read more
The Lost World (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 10, 2017
The Lost World
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett from the book by Arthur Conan Doyle
1960/USA
Irwin Allen Productions
First viewing/Amazon Instant Lizards in dinosaur suits just don’t cut it. The irascible Professor Challenger (Claude Rains) arrives in Londo read more
Shoot the Piano Player
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 9, 2017
Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianiste)
Directed by Francois Truffaut
Written by Francois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy from a novel by David Goodis
1960/France
Les Films de la Pleiade
Repeat viewing/Netflix Rental
One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Truffaut goes meta for his seco read more
Spartacus (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 8, 2017
Spartacus Directed by Stanley Kubrick Written by Dalton Trumbo from a novel by Howard Fast 1960/USA Bryna Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I am not big on 3 1/2 hour sword-and-sandal epics. This one is so grand, however, that it keeps my read more
The Time Machine (1960)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Mar 7, 2017
The Time Machine Directed by George Pal Written by David Duncan from a novel by H.G. Wells 1960/USA George Pal Productions/Galaxy Films Inc. First viewing/Amazon Instant I’ve read the source novel and was looking forward to the movie. It is nowhere near as thought-provoking but still a fun read more