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Post by Ginnie on Aug 19, 2008 21:10:16 GMT -4
Okay, I'm interested in movies that when you watch today, define/evoke/capture the feel of the sixties. And I'm talking movies that were made in the sixties. Here are a few I can think of:
Blowup To Sir With Love The Party (my all-time favourite comedy) Woodstock
...hmm, what these movies all seem to have in common is music. I guess that goes with the territory...
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Post by dmundt on Aug 20, 2008 0:44:46 GMT -4
Planet of the Apes. Seriously. It is chock full of themes from the 1960s.
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Post by gillianren on Aug 20, 2008 0:54:38 GMT -4
Don't forget both Hard Day's Night and Help! That's a major movement of the era down on film.
I'm thinking, here. I think Blow-Up and Woodstock are excellent choices. There's also the awful Valley of the Dolls, notable for poor Sharon Tate if nothing else.
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Post by Kiwi on Aug 20, 2008 8:55:34 GMT -4
Picks from my DVDs. The ones that first came to mind are the James Bond movies and The Graduate. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) Dr No (1962) From Russia With Love (1963) Tom Jones (1963) Goldfinger (1964) Thunderball (1965) Casino Royale (1967) -- Almost so bad it's good. The Graduate (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) You Only Live Twice (1967) Barbarella (1968) Elvis: '68 Comeback (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Easy Rider (1969) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Marooned (1969) -- Got to have the space programme. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music (1970) The Who Live At the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (1970) (I've followed accurate dating, where a decade, century or millennium starts with I and ends with X, L, C, D or M in Roman figures, which have no zero. ) Tom Jones is about an era long before the 1960s, but it captures the madness, fun and laughter of my teenage years in the 60s. There are other historical movies filmed in that decade which capture bits of or remind me of the 60s, but none like Tom Jones does. For those who don't know, Ginnie recommended the last one to me in a thread in BABBling at BAUT. I've only looked at bits of it so far, but it certainly captures the 60s for me. The best part is that it's the Special Edition and its original retail price was $34.95. It was marked down to $18.00 which I thought was a good deal, but when I got to the cashier, found it was further marked down to $9.98, so it was quite a bargain. Thanks, Ginnie! American Graffiti would be a great movie for 1962 but it doesn't fit the criteria, being made in 1973.
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Post by echnaton on Aug 20, 2008 11:16:05 GMT -4
Here are a few of mine. The Apartment Dr. Strangelove Cool Hand Luke
I also must add that great 1962 story of conspiracy and paranoia The Manchurian Candidate
ETA again. In the Heat of the Night I haven't seen this in years, but it is very on topic for the year of its release,1967.
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Post by Jason on Aug 20, 2008 11:17:38 GMT -4
I second Planet of the Apes. "Don't trust anyone over thirty." Dr. Strangelove comes to mind as well.
EDIT: Ah, beaten to the punch. Well then I'll add Dr. Strangelove's more serious twin Fail Safe.
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Post by Jason on Aug 20, 2008 11:19:54 GMT -4
Camelot.
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Post by Al Johnston on Aug 20, 2008 12:11:18 GMT -4
Don't go there. It is a silly place. ;D
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Post by gillianren on Aug 20, 2008 12:25:26 GMT -4
ETA again. In the Heat of the Night I haven't seen this in years, but it is very on topic for the year of its release,1967. Actually, I saw that in a class called "The History of the Twentieth Century Through Film." To, um, represent the '60s. I have Festival: Filmed at the Newport Folk Festival sitting on my library pile. I'll get back to you about that one when I watch it, but since it's got "Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Peter, Paul and Mary, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Donovan, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Odetta, Staple Singers, Mike Bloomfield, Ronnie Gilbert, Paul Butterfield and others," I'm suspecting it's one of the films we're looking for.
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Post by lenbrazil on Aug 20, 2008 12:55:54 GMT -4
In addition to films already mentioned I’d say The Pink Panther, The President's Analyst, Sympathy for the Devil and MASH though the latter was released in 1970 it seems to have been filmed in 1969.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 20, 2008 15:23:57 GMT -4
Hey, I'm happy if you enjoy it. I wonder what the special edition is like. I have an old release DVD - you can tell just by the packaging. All it has is the concert. I'm glad you picked it up so cheap.
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Post by Kiwi on Aug 21, 2008 9:34:35 GMT -4
I wonder what the special edition is like. It has a recent interview with Pete Townshend, 38 minutes 56 seconds. I was amazed at what he first said, so wrote it down: 0:00:00 1 Murray Lerner Interviews Pete Townshend 0:00:40 I really didn't like working with that band at all. 0:00:43 Lerner: Was the Isle of Wight fun? 0:00:45 No. And what we produced was not something that I wanted any part of, particularly. The Who didn't make the kind of music that I wanted to make. They weren't the kind of band I wanted to be in, and it was just one of those things where I just happened to be there and when you put us together, we went off in this particular direction. 0:01:03 And if we'd have been robbing banks, I would have had as little control in whether or not I was a part of it or not. I always felt uncomfortable. I always felt, I always felt ill at ease, and my wife, for example, you know, just… it drove her nuts, you know. I would come back from a tour and she would say, "Well, what was it like?" and I would say, "It was hell!. And she'd say, "Well, why do you do it?" and I'd say, "Because I don't have a choice." And she'd say, "Well you do have a choice," and I'd say, "Well, I don't have a choice. I don't have a choice," you know. 0:01:31 I felt trapped, I felt imprisoned. But I also felt that, as a band, we were performing a function, and also as a band – in other words, I'd got a commission. This was the interesting point. Wrote the first song for The Who called "I Can't Explain" which was a hit here, and I felt that that had connected with the audience. 0:01:52 [Concert] 0:02:10 What I felt had happened was is that the band, the members of the band, the record company, the managers, and the audience were all saying to me, "We really like this song you wrote. Write some more." And I thought, "Oh, you know, I'm an artist, I've got a commission." And that has sustained me all my life. Just that simple thing: Write some more. It's just such a great thing to be told if you're a writer. "We want to hear something, or read, we want to hear something more from you." So that sustained me.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 22, 2008 15:08:12 GMT -4
Strange! But artists tend to say things based on how they feel that day.
Such as John Lennon saying once that he hates the Abbey Road album.
...and for some reason it makes me think of something David Bowie said about Mick Ronson, his guitar player. See, Bowie wanted the band to put on makeup and get really dolled up for their shows. Now, Mick is from Hull, England - workingclass and all that. But Mick changed his views completely when he saw how many girls came on to him when he had makeup on.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 22, 2008 15:10:36 GMT -4
And even though I haven't seen this movie in years, when I think of it, I think of the sixties:
Casino Royale.
Maybe because I was a kid in the sixties when I first saw it?
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Post by gillianren on Aug 22, 2008 15:27:27 GMT -4
I can officially advise Festival as a good example of '60s music documentary.
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