Tag: 1967 in Film
Video: The Best Films of 1967
As part of our Rewind: 1967 in Film series, we asked the film nuts at Twitter to cast their votes on their top 5 films…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Belle de Jour
The late 60s heralded a time of sexual liberation and also opened the door for woman to express themselves in a way the hadn’t before….
Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort came along at a time when, perhaps, the musical picture was dispersing from its great cinematic run. Jacques Demy had…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Valley of the Dolls
“BAD as Jacqueline Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls” is as a book, the movie Mark Robson has made from it is that bad or worse.”…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – In Cold Blood
In 1959, the landscape of American true crime changed forever. What took place was the brutal murder of the Herbert Clutter family in the small…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Playtime
I sometimes wonder how a film like Playtime can exist. Imagine being Jacques Tati going to a studio asking for financing to basically create your…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Bonnie and Clyde
Within the realm of American Cinema, one can’t overstate the shock of seeing Bonnie & Clyde for the first time. I can imagine it: it’s…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Jungle Book
Thirty years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed the landscape of cinema as the very first feature-length animated film, Walt Disney’s death in 1966…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Incident
You would struggle to head on over to 1967, or indeed that defining era in American cinema in general, to find such a social commentary…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Cool Hand Luke
1967 was a groundbreaking year not only for the American film industry, but for American society as a whole. The opposition movement to the Vietnam…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Point Blank
Never have footsteps done so much to revolutionize filmmaking as they have in Point Blank. The film plays like an inversion of that old saying,…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Le Samouraï
I think every film deserves a certain benefit of the doubt. By that I mean, you should always be prepared to watch a film through…