I watched The Spy Who Came in from the Cold last night. The first hour particularly with Burton’s character playing at being off the rails is incredible cinema.
Firstly, have you seen it? If so, what did you think?
Secondly, what are your favourite 1960s films? Particularly interested in British films of the period (but i’ve done the kitchen sink dramas to death).
yep, love it. great burton performance tbh and can’t really think of much else like it.
Blow Up, all the Kubricks, Peeping Tom. Aside from British stuff it was a great decade for Euro art cinema, take your pick of Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman - pretty much all at the top of their game.
I watched Spy Who Came In From the Cold recently-ish - last year I think - it’s good.
don’t about best but I enjoyed If…, Performance, The Innocents, Hammer films (These are the Damned, Quatermass and the Pit, The Devil Rides Out), the Ipcress File
it was a pretty good decade for genre films and trash as well as art in a lot of places
I first watched the IPCRESS File whilst stoned infront of a log fire in a hut in the middle of the forest in Poland. Probably the most comfortable i’ve been as an adult, but remember the brainwashing scenes ruining my vibe a bit.
My favourite 60s british film would be Peeping Tom. Other than that, I’ve rated Rosemary’s Baby (possibly tied with Big Lebowski for favourite ever film), Psycho, The Producers, The Odd Couple, Night of the Living Dead, In the Heat of the Night, La Jetee and Legend of a Duel to the Death as five star films.
I would highly recommend Legend of a Duel to the Death to anyone with an interest in Japanese cinema, I’d never heard of it before I watched it but it blew me away.
I watched a film on the BBC late one night. It was a British sci-fi film, guessing from the 60s, but maybe slightly before or after. It was about an old couple who make some sort of brainswap machine, they then coerce a younger man back to their house to put the plan to action…but the i fell asleep. It might have been called Doctor something. Been doing my head in. Anyone?
From turning my head to look at my DVD shelf, I’ll offer up Breakfast At Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, Batman The Movie, Mary Poppins, 101 Dalmatians, Kes, and Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. All great lads.
