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For local relevance, Taylor Camp http://taylorcampkauai.com/ is quite good, imho, and will be playing at the Palace sometime in April if a date can be arranged for a screening, according to the filmmaker. An extra credit option for the students, perhaps, to attend and write a review. The book is hot off the press and a dvd version is available, too. Here are the specifics on ordering such:
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Incidentally, while on the topic of good films connected to the Sixties, here is a cut-and-paste of just the options and tallies only (not the 67 excellent comments following) from Bruce Hershenson's poll on the topic http://www.emovieposter.com/
May 1st, 2009 - What is your favorite classic movie primarily revolving around social issues in the 1960s (not necessarily made in the 1960s!)?
A club member sent us the following, "I would be very interested to see the film options, voting, and comments for a poll on the best films about the 'zeitgeist', flavor and pivotal events of the U.S. in the 1960's including --but not limited to-- Hippies, the Vietnam conflict, and the various movements: psychedelic, civil rights, environmental, peace, and so on." So this week, we are asking club members, "What is your favorite classic movie primarily revolving around U.S. social issues in the 1960s?"
IMPORTANT! Note that we realize this is a very broad topic, but that is OK. The primary purpose of this poll is to have fun and to present club members with films they may have overlooked! Note that the poll options are not restricted to films MADE in the 1960s, but rather any movies ABOUT the 1960s, and can include all sorts of topics such as the Vietnam War, music of the 1960s, civil rights, hippies, and drug culture. Obviously, every movie made in the 1960s that was set in the "present day" was a "1960s movie", but we are looking for movies with elements that were unique to the U.S. in the 1960s (anti-war protests, Summer of Love, etc.), and ones that are clearly among the very best such movies ever made! You are welcome to vote for many of the excellent movies we did not provide as options (either as your first choice, or by giving any second or third choices in the comments field).Please pick one of the options below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or anything else you would like to share with the rest of the e-mail club. Note that you do not have to rewrite the name of the movie you chose at the start of the comments field, but you DO need to put your full name and city or country if you want to be considered for winning a set of books.
Option Votes
Alice's Restaurant 4
American Graffiti 9
Animal House 8
Apocalypse Now 14
Apollo 13 3
Born on the Fourth of July 1
Brokeback Mountain 1
Coming Home 3
Deer Hunter, The 8
Don't Look Back 2
Doors, The 1
Dr. Strangelove 21
Easy Rider 8
Fail-Safe 1
Forrest Gump 12
Full Metal Jacket 3
Good Morning, Vietnam 2
Graduate, The 7
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 9
Hair 3
Hard Day's Night 2
In the Heat of the Night 4
Jesus Christ Superstar 5
JFK 1
Lenny 1
Malcolm X 1
Medium Cool 1
Midnight Cowboy 4
Mississippi Burning 2
Platoon 4
Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming!, The 5
Sympathy for the Devil 1
Taylor Camp 1
Thirteen Days 2
To Sir With Love 1
Wanderers, The 2
Woodstock 2
Year of Living Dangerously, The 1
Z 1
Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option in the comments field below) 6
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2 of my fav movies in the "So far out it's in" category are the cheesy "Lord Love a Duck" which starts out like the 1960's as a beach party movie and ends as a black comedy and the Monkees movie "Head" which cannot be appreciated unless you saw one of their 30 min tv shows first.
As Zimmy says "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing."
Also some "Big Trouble"- the sound is a corporate conspiracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkA3C-5DdA
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Seeing Malcolm McDowell the other night, I thought about how no one mentioned Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).
A shocking and prophetic film.
Why is it that even the best films of the year, these days, don't stick with me? I go to see them, engage, but I don't continue thinking about them afterwards. Very few of them.
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Most important is very subjective and 5 isn't many, but here's my list (in no particular order):
The Birth of a Nation (1915). Still controversial after 95 years. I can't defend D.W. Grifith's favorable depiction of the KKK, but from a purely film making perspective, its influence is still felt today. It was the first commercially successful feature length Hollywood movie, introduced facial closeups, jump-cuts, high-angle shots and fadeouts. Tickets were $2 (about $45 in todays money), it cost $112,000 to produce and grossed $18 million, making it the most profitable film of all time up until 1937.
The Jazz Singer (1927) First feature-length 'talkie'
Fantasia (1940) Didn't make a profit for 29 years, but pretty much invented the concept of an animated feature. Visually stunning, a classical music score . . . and no dialog.
Citizen Kane (1941) WTF?, it's Citizen Kane!
Red River (1948) The prototypical Western
The Star Wars series (1977-2008) George Lucas keeps beating the horse waaaay past being dead, but his influence on special effects cannot be denied.
Now as to what I like, that's a whole 'nother thang [  ] :
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
48 Hrs. (1982)
Alien (1979)
American Graffiti (1973)
Animal House (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Bull Durham (1988)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Grand Prix (1966)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quest for Fire (1982)
Shooter (2007)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Unforgiven (1992)
And finally, tied for DFL. The 2 worst flicks ever made - so bad they're great - and both from Ed Wood: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)' and 'Glen or Glenda (1953)' [xx(] [xx(]
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just saw The Postman Always Rings Twice on tcm and was just thinking- there's no better education on what a dirty rotten stinkin world we live than noir movies.
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I agree ... a great genre, great movie. The remake wasn't as good IMHO, even though it had Nicholson and Lange, who are two of my favorites. Noir in black and white is better too. Because of this topic I just ordered "Out of the Past" because it's a great noir film and I haven't seen it in a long time.
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My all time favorite is Harold and Maude, it reminds me not to hold on to tightly to things and I love the music. Sling Blade - the basic simplicity of the character makes me miss the time when I saw things as just black or white, the older I get the more I see gray. Forrest Gump, I like, I spent many a years ingesting everything under the sun in search of that type of intellegence. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It makes me home sick for a place I was born that no longer exist. And lastly Planes Trains and Automobiles or some thing as rediculous, just because now and then we just need a dose of good medicine. I have seen so many enjoyable movies tomorrow my pick may be quite different.
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Noir in black and white is better too
Usually, yes, but perhaps not always: Bladerunner.
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All creative work is derivative.
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Hallo Darling! I'm arrived and I'm happy to see you've been busy too! LOL
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Bladerunner rocks.
Carrie
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