A boy accidentally kills a carrier pigeon in this story told through symbolism and imagery. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
The Boys (1962) Sidney J. Furie, Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton, Crime, Drama
When the night watchman of a garage is found murdered, 4 young men are arrested and put on trial. Read More »
The Sea Gull (1968) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, Drama, Romance
An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Read More »
Birds Do It (1966) Andrew Marton, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Comedy, Family
Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy “miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor” – in short, a janitor. Read More »
Une aussi longue absence / The Long Absence (1961) Henri Colpi, Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Charles Blavette, Drama
Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. Read More »
Wild in the Streets (1968) Barry Shear, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Comedy, Drama, Music
Wealthy twenty-two year old Max Frost – born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr. – is a rock music superstar, he a rock music franchise unto himself. Read More »
Fury River (1961) Alan Crosland Jr., Otto Lang, Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Adventure
The Iceman Cometh (1960) Sidney Lumet, Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, Drama
The chilling tale of a high-rolling gambler who changes his ways and is determind to help the drifters, alcoholics and prostitutes who have come to depend on his “generosity”. Read More »
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo / Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) Kôji Wakamatsu, Michio Akiyama, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Mimi Kozakura, Drama
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »
Le fate / The Queens (1966) Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Comedy
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. “Queen Sabina”chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. Read More »