Tag: 1960s
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‘Accident’ Leaves a Mark
On Joseph Losey’s 1967 classic.
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Watching ‘Black Lizard’ (Very Happily) By Mistake
The ‘Black Lizard’ of 1962 turned out to be much better than its more famous 1968 counterpart.
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I Feel It All
On ‘Daisies’ and ‘Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.’
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‘Putney Swope’ is an Unfocused, But Still Frequently Sharp, Satire
‘Putney Swope’ chronically doodles.
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Sentimental Journeys
On ‘The Great Race.’
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The Tricky Surfaces of ‘Even the Wind is Afraid’
The film isn’t not gratifying, but you want it to boil over more — perhaps so far that a mess is left behind. Still, it has a hell of a simmer.
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‘Danger: Diabolik”s Eye-Catching Comic-Book Style
At times the movie suggests a fashion magazine’s idea of pulp storytelling.
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‘The Housemaid’: A Precursor to ‘Parasite’
Though it has no more valuable insight than a trifling, plot-driven soap opera.
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The Limits and Revelations of ‘Portrait of Jason’
Even through the elision-heavy editing and its subject’s initially, almost defensively romantic storytelling, we see so much.
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‘The Raven’ is the Most Charming of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Series
This is a rambunctious horror-adjacent movie frequently operating at the fever pitch of a farce.
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‘A Quiet Place in the Country’ Has No Trouble Unsettling Us
Does ‘A Quiet Place in the Country’ belong to the haunted-house subgenre, or the ‘descending into madness’ subgenre?
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Cruel Summer
On ‘La Collectionneuse,’ ‘Long Weekend,’ and ‘La Ciénaga.’
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