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From the 1970s on, the quality of his films improved and Adorf could lend his remarkable acting talents to more ambitious works such as "Il Delitto Matteotti", in which he was a striking Mussolini, or "Die Blechtrommel", where he was terrifying as a boorish grocer contaminated by Nazism.
Welcome to my subjective selection of the best movies made in Europe between 1960 and 1969.
- A New Hollywood
- Barbarians at The Gate
- 1967
- “They're Young, They're in Love, They Kill people."
- “This Is Benjamin. He’S A Little Worried About His future.”
- Immigrants and Exiles
- King of The BS
- “A Man Went Looking For America. and Couldn’T Find It Anywhere…”
- The Men Who Would Be Godard
- 1969
In the late 1960s and early 70s, a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in American cinema. Their work was thematically complex, formally innovative, morally ambiguous, anti-establishment, and rich in mythic resonance. They spoke for a generation disillusioned by the Vietnam War, disenchanted by the ruling elite, and less willing t...
The studios were weakened further by the popularity of television in the 1950s. Their response was to offer audiences something they could not find elsewhere: Technicolor, widescreen, stereo sound, and 3-D. Historical epics and musicals – the genres that most suited these innovations – dominated production. In the 1950s the strategy paid off with m...
Though the year 1967 is now often cited as a turning point in the history of American cinema, few working in the film industry at the time were aware of it. The major studios continued to put most of their resources into the kinds of movies that had proved successful in the past, which meant big budget musicals like Camelot (Warner Brothers) and Dr...
In 1963 Robert Benton and David Newman were two young writers working for Esquire magazine in New York, when they first had the idea to write a screenplay based on the Depression-era gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Although, by their own admission, they knew very little about scriptwriting, they wrote what they wanted to see, and the resu...
From the start Nichols made audacious creative choices for The Graduate that went against orthodox filmmaking practices of the time, but which would ultimately prove inspired and fundamental to the film’s success. The first was to throw out an earlier, more orthodox draft of the screenplay by established screenwriter Calder Willingham, and to hire ...
Among those who would have the greatest impact on the style and tone of the new American cinema were European emigrees like British director John Boorman. His previous work included television documentaries for the BBC, and the Dave Clark Five vehicle, Catch Us If You Can (1965). “There was a complete loss of nerve by the American studios at that p...
Roger Corman was another successful independent filmmaker. Since the mid-50s, he had successfully cornered the market in exploitation teen flicks, cheap sci-fi and horror. The major studios may have felt that movies likeSorority Girl (1957) and The Wasp Woman (1960) were beneath their dignity to produce, but such films fit the atmosphere of rural d...
Roger Corman wasn’t the only producer working in Hollywood with his finger on the pulse of youth culture. Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, both originally from the East Coast, met in the early 1960s while working in television and soon after formed Raybert Productions. Inspired by the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night(1964), the pair decided to devel...
By the late 1960s, thousands of American students began graduating from newly-established college film courses. Many dreamed of emulating the uncompromising approach of Jean-Luc Godard and making films as a form of self-expression. Few, though, had the ingenuity and drive to succeed in the real world of film production. Among the few exceptions was...
1969 marked the beginning of a three year slump in cinema attendances in America to an all time low of 15.8 million a week in 1971 (by comparison attendances in 1946 were 78.2 million a week). At the same time overheads were rising. Sensing an opportunity, wealthy corporations who had made their money in industries such as zinc mining or hotels, be...
- The Conformist/The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) Bernado Bertolucci had been marked as a comer since the release of his debut, 1964’s Before the Revolution.
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Much like Bertolucci, another young Italian director coming of age in the 1970s, Elio Pietri, seemed to be headed for the international big time.
- Le Boucher (1970) By the end of the 1960s, Cahier du Cinema critic turned suspense film maker Claude Chabrol had come to a polished pinnacle of his craft.
- Kes (1970) After the British “Kitchen Sink” period ended as such, too much reality had been introduced into that country’s cinema to allow a return to the old formal methods of film making and their usual emphasis on upper and upper middle class polite society.
Nov 12, 2010 · The view of the New Hollywood of the 1960s, often portrayed as the influence of European films on American filmmakers, fails to note the role of the big Hollywood studios.
Jan 18, 2016 · 1. Rocco and His Brothers (1960) The great Italian director Luchiano Visconti was a most interesting figure in cinema history.
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Nov 14, 2023 · While films from countries outside of Europe and the United States have faced many barriers when it comes to being screened in these countries, they are slowly but surely dismantling the...
