Tag: 1960s
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The Paranoid Corporate Games of ‘Black Test Car’
The pitilessness of Yasuzo Masumura’s black comedy continues to ring true more than six decades after its release.
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In ‘Jane,’ An Actress Stumbles Toward Greatness
On D.A. Pennebaker’s 1962 portrait of a young Jane Fonda.
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‘The Girls’’ Feminist Frustrations
Notes on Mai Zetterling’s 1968 dark comedy.
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Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
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My Favorite First-Time Watches of 2025
The best movies I saw in 2025 that weren’t released in 2025.
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The Hunger
Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 black comedy ‘I Knew Her Well’ is one of its decade’s most undersung works.
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Odds & Ends: Halloween Edition
Notes from the last month.
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Daliah Lavi Carries ‘The Demon’
Her fantastic work is sometimes undercut by the movie’s rather clinical presentation, though.
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Sexy Beast
Alain Delon was at his most astonishing-looking in ‘Purple Noon,’ René Clément’s 1960 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s dark, seductive ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley.’
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In the Shadows
‘Victim,’ Basil Dearden’s tense 1961 noir, groundbreakingly depicted gayness with sympathy and homophobia with contempt.
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The Everyday Brutality of ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’
On Robert Bresson’s account of a donkey’s hard life.
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‘The Book of Stone’: Slow-Burning Horror Done Right
Carlos Enrique Taboada’s fourth film as a director extols the virtues of taking your time in a genre prone to revealing too much too soon.
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