1960 Was A Very Good Year (?)
1960 wasn't exactly 1939 in terms of quality, but there were a few good ones. Why 1960? These films were born the same year I was!
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The Apartment (1960, Unrated)
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La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) (House of Fright) (Mask of the Demon) (1960, R)
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Breathless (Ŕ bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961, Unrated)
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Elmer Gantry (1960, Unrated)
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House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1960, Unrated)
Vintage hammy Vincent Price, but spooky enough to make you look behind you while you're watching. |
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Home From the Hill (1960, Unrated)
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Inherit the Wind (1960, PG)
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Unrated)
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The Magnificent Seven (1960, Unrated)
This could very well be my favorite western (High Plains Drifter running a close 2nd). Based on Seven Samurai (another fave), a gunman is hired by the residents of a Mexican village to protect them against bandits. He in turn hires six others to help him. At every showing I can sense men all over the country hanging their heads in shame that they will never be as cool or as badass as the cumulative star power of this film. And they'd be right! I mean...Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Charles Bronson in the same film?!?! Please! If Robert Mitchum had been added to this mix, your TV would just turn to liquid nitrogen. It would be THAT cool. |
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Peeping Tom (1960, Unrated)
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Psycho (1960, R)
Such a great movie! As many times as I've seen this film (probably about 20 by now), the shower scene still puts goosebumps on my arms. And I still never want to believe that Norman is...well, let's not spoil it for the couple of people left in the world who haven't seen it. And Gus Van Sant should be flogged for trying to remake it. |
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Spartacus (1960, PG-13)
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The Time Machine (1960, G)
OK movie, I like it up until he comes to his final resting place. But the theme -- common in 1950's films -- that everything would be fine if you lived like Americans always bugs me. |
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Village of the Damned (1960, R)
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