Tag: 1960s
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‘The Bride Wore Black’: Sweet Revenge
In which Jeanne Moreau becomes an angel of death.
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Tokyo Drifters
Two Seijun Suzuki movies — ‘Youth of the Beast’ and ‘Gate of Flesh’ — starring Joe Shishido.
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The Fragmentations of ‘Je T’aime, Je T’aime’
Alain Resnais tries out sci-fi.
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‘Massacre Gun’ is a By-the-Book Yakuza Thriller
But it’s steadily generous to the senses.
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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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