Recommend Me Some Movies from the 1960s

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Let the night air cool you off
+ rep for these. There's no need to sell me on The Man With The X-Ray Eyes. I think a few of those might find their way onto my 60's list.
You have better taste than I thought.



Any american movies worth checking out for an arthouse buff like me... I have got Faces on my watchlist. As well as we are going to have a Richard Brooks theme at our movie club (Elmer Gantry and In Cold Blood).

Maybe i should check out some Ford and Hawks? I really liked Red River...



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I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Scorpio Rising (1964)

Weird short (30 minute) film that is often credited with changing the way music is used in films, inventing the music video etc.

On youtube:



(probably NSFW)



Any american movies worth checking out for an arthouse buff like me... I have got Faces on my watchlist. As well as we are going to have a Richard Brooks theme at our movie club (Elmer Gantry and In Cold Blood).

Maybe i should check out some Ford and Hawks? I really liked Red River...
I liked Elmer Gantry but I'm not sure you would. Got In Cold Blood recorded, looks interesting and probably more appealing to you too.



Scorpio Rising (1964)

Weird short (30 minute) film that is often credited with changing the way music is used in films, inventing the music video etc.

On youtube:



(probably NSFW)
I have seen that, and its good. However its not going to be a contender for my list tbh.



Chappie doesn't like the real world
I don't read every post so this may have been mentioned, but I think you may like A Taste of Honey. It's worth a shot anyway.





Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964) by Sergei Parajanov

I just saw this and my first impression is that this is a hidden gem. A story of lost love, set in Ucraine. Its nearly etnographich in its depiction of Hutsul culture. The cinematography is absolutely spellbinding and the use of colour to depict the mood of the protagonist was really intriguing. Highly recommended and i must say that this is in sharp competition for one of the top spots on my list.



Its also on youtube:




I thought that i would show you my watchlist, both to get some recommendations but maybe it could also inspire some of you:

Accattone (1961)
Antoine et Colette (1962)
The Apartment (1960)
Army of Shadows (1969)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Bad Girls (1968)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Baron Prásil (1961)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Blind Beast (1969)
Blow-Up (1966)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
O Caso dos Irmãos Naves (1967)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Color of Pomegranates (1968)
The Cremator (1969)
Daisies (1966)
The Devil's Trap (1962)
Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969)
Le Doulos (1962)
Dragon Gate Inn (1967)
L' Eclisse (1962)
Emotion (1966)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
The Face of Another (1966)
Faces (1968)
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Gamlet (1964)
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
The Graduate (1967)
Harakiri (1962)
High and Low (1963)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
If.... (1968)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Kawaita hana (1964)
Kes (1969)
Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Knife in the Water (1962)
Kuroneko (1968)
Last Summer (1969)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Mademoiselle (1966)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Marat/Sade (1967)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Matka Joanna od aniolów (1961)
Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969)
A Mulher de Todos (1969)
Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963)
My Way Home (1965)
Naked Island (1960)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
La Notte (1961)
The Nun (1966)
Onibaba (1964)
O Padre e a Moça (1966)
Payer of Promises (1962)
Pitfall (1962)
The Plea (1967)
The Possessed (1965)
Il Posto (1961)
The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
Purple Noon (1960)
Que la bête meure (1969)
The Red and the White (1967)
The Red Light Bandit (1968)
Reflections (1964)
Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (1963)
La Rivière du hibou (1962)
Salesman (1968)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima (1965)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Shame (1968)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Simon of the Desert (1965)
Slnko v sieti (1962)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Sundays and Cybele (1962)
The Sword of Doom (1966)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Time to Love (1965)
Titicut Follies (1967)
A Touch of Zen (1969)
Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Údolí vcel (1968)
Vidas Secas (1963)
Vinni-Pukh (1969)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The War Game (1965)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Yûkoku (1966)
Z (1969)
Zywot Mateusza (1968)



Some of these have probably been mentioned but the 60s is a great decade to get into Japanese films:

High & Low (1963) - Akira Kurosawa



The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) - Masaki Kobayashi


(You do need to watch the previous two to really appreciate this)

Harakiri (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi



Late Autumn (1960) - Yasujiro Ozu



Those are all fantastic and I'd also recommend:

The Face of Another (1966) - Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Samurai Rebellion (1967) - Masaki Kobayashi

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) - Mikio Naruse



Did WAR AND PEACE play in movie theaters and people sat through all 7 hours of it at once? With intermissions, I assume.



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
No, It was originally released in four parts but not all together. What a repertory theatre does is up to them. The closest I came to watching something like this at once is when my wife and I saw Little Dorrit at the theatre the same day in 1988. Part 1 (3 hr) played in the afternoon, then there was a two-hour dinner intermission and Part 2 (3 hr) played in the evening.



7 hours would be a lot. The longest movie I saw on the big screen was probably 4.5, but it went pretty fast and it didn't even have an intermission (I think). That was Mysteries of Lisbon at the AFI, Silver Spring. My wife got bored in the middle of it and went for a nap in the car, but I loved it.



Oh yeah, and Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors is great.