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Boys’ Night Out (1962, Michael Gordon)
Ah, the 1960s sex comedy. I guess Hollywood was ecstatic to be able to use the word sex in a film back then. Actually, watching the film, I thought it was later, maybe 1966. But it couldn’t have been,...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962, Honda Ishirô)
I thought movies about giant monsters fighting were supposed to be exciting, but apparently not. I haven’t seen King Kong vs. Godzilla in maybe fifteen years and now, this time, I watched the original...
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Cape Fear (1962, J. Lee Thompson)
Maybe half of J. Lee Thompson’s shots in Cape Fear are good. Unfortunately, the other half aren’t mediocre, they’re bad. He’s given to iconic shots of Robert Mitchum, some of which make Cape Fear look...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, Tony Richardson)
Despite its title, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner doesn’t really concern itself with loneliness and the only long distance running is secondary in the narrative. The film’s really something...
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Now Hear This (1962, Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble)
Now Hear This is a fairly amazing cartoon. It’s even more amazing when one considers it’s a Warner Bros. cartoon under the “Looney Tunes” banner. Jones and co-director Noble play with the idea of sound...
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La jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
La jetée is better in its parts than the whole. But the whole is still a rather significant success. Marker shows all a film needs to be successful is great photography (Marker and Jean Chiabaut) and...
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Martian Through Georgia (1962, Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow and Maurice Noble)
Martian Through Georgia has three directors and no ending. It also has nothing to do with Georgia. It opens fairly well, with very expressionist mainstream cartooning showing life on Mars. A bored...
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Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962, Jean Cocteau)
The title sort of gives away Jean Cocteau addresses… the year 2000, but not really. The short, conceptually, is meant to be preserved in a time capsule and projected to young people in the year 2000....
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Something’s Got to Give (1962, George Cukor)
I wonder how Something’s Got to Give plays if you haven’t seen My Favorite Wife (Give was a remake). This thirty-seven minute edit of footage of Marilyn Monroe’s last–unfinished–film is a disjointed...
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Tor, King of Beasts (1962, Donald F. Glut)
While Tor, King of Beasts is a remake of King Kong, director Glut comes up with a few new twists for the retelling. The two most obvious are the futuristic plane Glut (he also stars) and his companions...
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Madison Avenue (1962, H. Bruce Humberstone)
Madison Avenue somehow manages to be anorexic but packed. It only runs ninety minutes and takes place over a few years. There’s no makeup–which is probably good since Dana Andrews, Eleanor Parker and...
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Ride the High Country (1962, Sam Peckinpah)
Ride the High Country is a fine attempt. It’s not a successful attempt, but it’s a fine one. Director Peckinpah seems to know what he wants to do, but he’s too trapped in Western genre tradition....
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Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)
The first half of Lolita is a wonderful mix of acting styles. There’s James Mason’s very measured, very British acting. There’s Shirley Winters’s histrionics; she’s doing Hollywood melodrama on...
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An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujirô)
In An Autumn Afternoon, director Ozu has a peculiar approach to how he presents his cast delivering dialogue. They stare just off camera and speak calmly, gently, no matter what. Ozu and photographer...
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Now Hear This (1962, Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble)
Now Hear This is a fairly amazing cartoon. It’s even more amazing when one considers it’s a Warner Bros. cartoon under the “Looney Tunes” banner. Jones and co-director Noble play with the idea of sound...
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La jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
La jetée is better in its parts than the whole. But the whole is still a rather significant success. Marker shows all a film needs to be successful is great photography (Marker and Jean Chiabaut) and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Martian Through Georgia (1962, Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow and Maurice Noble)
Martian Through Georgia has three directors and no ending. It also has nothing to do with Georgia. It opens fairly well, with very expressionist mainstream cartooning showing life on Mars. A bored...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962, Jean Cocteau)
The title sort of gives away Jean Cocteau addresses… the year 2000, but not really. The short, conceptually, is meant to be preserved in a time capsule and projected to young people in the year 2000....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Something’s Got to Give (1962, George Cukor)
I wonder how Something’s Got to Give plays if you haven’t seen My Favorite Wife (Give was a remake). This thirty-seven minute edit of footage of Marilyn Monroe’s last–unfinished–film is a disjointed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tor, King of Beasts (1962, Donald F. Glut)
While Tor, King of Beasts is a remake of King Kong, director Glut comes up with a few new twists for the retelling. The two most obvious are the futuristic plane Glut (he also stars) and his companions...
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