The 1960s saw the rise of New Hollywood as the entertainment industry moved away from the outmoded studio system as audiences flocked to films of all genres (science fiction, horror, spaghetti westerns, super spies) but still appeared en masse on screens. more traditional entertainment such as epics, musicals, comedies and prestige dramas.
In this decade, Hollywood’s long-established code of censorship came to an end, empowering adventurous filmmakers to create groundbreaking, even taboo classic films. Social change and unrest were certainly reflected on the screen - and many of the decade’s biggest hits were intended primarily for entertainment.
1 “Psycho” (1960)
Already at the peak of its popularity, Alfred Hitchcock thrilled and frightened international audiences with his most famous shocker. The director’s tendency to play with the audience, “like a piano,” as he put it, is over. Psycho. The big star of that time Janet Leigh brutally killed in the last moments of the first act - and a doe-eyed dreamy heartthrob Anthony Perkins cast against the type like serial killer Norman Bates.
If there is a deficiency in Psycho, is an unnecessary encoding in which the lawyer explains the plot to viewers who have just watched the film and are fully aware of what happened. It’s a small row on one of the most successful films - the most intense film of all time according to the American Film Institute.
2 “The Sound of Music” (1965)
One of two Robert Wise musicals of the decade to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (West Side Story won four years ago) Sounds of music contributed Julie AndrewsHollywood royalty status a year after she won the Best Actress Oscar Mary Poppins. Her other most famous role is Maria von Trapp, a nun who falls in love with a widowed war hero as World War II looms over Austria.
Almost 60 years later, Sounds of musicthe value of replay is remarkable and its presence in pop culture cannot be overestimated. It has been restored and remastered over and over again and remains a darling of the sentimental public. Musicals were not Wise’s only area of specialization: the 1963s Intrusiveis one of the most influential supernatural horror films.
3 ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)
Stanley KubrickThe sci-fi masterpiece remains the author’s most famous and influential film. The cooperation and struggle between man and machine transcends space and time in an enigmatic, endlessly interpretable and reinterpretable enigmatic interpretation. Arthur S. Clark short story.
2001 received an Academy Award for visual effects and will forever remain a touchstone in this field. Best Performance in an Epic Movie - Douglas Rein as the voice of HAL 9000, the scary villain. Along with similar Blade RunnerAnd metropolis, 2001 is one of the highest achievements of science fiction cinema.
4 ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962)
If one movie embodies epic filmmaking at its best, this might be it. David Leancrowning achievement (he also made a box office leviathan Doctor Zhivago, short meeting, Bridge over the River Kwaiand cool Charles Dickens adaptation) stars Peter O’Toole like a British lieutenant T. E. Lawrenceaccording to his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Amazingly photographed in Super Panavision 70 and co-star Omar Sharif And Alec Guinness, Lawrence of Arabia The full version, with a theatrical introduction, ending and intermission, is almost four hours long. Just over a minute longer than gone With the Windit is the longest film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
5 “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)
Harper Leethe great American novel that won the Pulitzer Prize received a worthy (some would even say excellent) film in Robert Mulliganrestrained, but very touching black and white masterpiece. Best Actor Oscar Winner Gregory Peck gives his most memorable performance as Southern lawyer Atticus Finch, a widowed father assigned to protect a black man (Brock Peters) accused of rape.
Film debut Robert Duvall (in a silent role in the third act), To Kill a Mockingbird A timeless look at prejudice and morality, nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture. The American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest hero in the history of cinema.
6 “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly” (1966)
Clint Eastwood it’s the Man with No Name in a film whose reputation predates it, an artistically refined spaghetti western about archetypal characters competing in the hunt for Confederate gold against the backdrop of the American Civil War.
Sergio Leonethe jewel in the crown was a financial success, although it was misunderstood by some critics of the time. During these days, Good bad evil considered by many to be the best spaghetti western ever made, the best western ever made, and even the pinnacle of Eastwood’s incomparable filmography.
7 ‘Graduate’ (1967)
The defining work of the New Hollywood movement of the decade (along with such Bonnie and Clyde, midnight cowboy, Easy Rider, Guess who’s coming to dinner, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and more), Mike Nichols’extremely profitable dramatic stars Dustin Hoffman as a disillusioned college graduate who is seduced by an older woman (Ann Bancroft), then falls in love with her daughter (Katherine Ross).
Crystal clear cinema, witty script and timeless music Simon and Garfunkel do Graduate a slightly melancholy classic with a lot of repetition. Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and Nichols won Best Director.
8 “Peeping Tom” (1960)
A disturbing psychological thriller so dark it bankrupted one of Britain’s most respected authors. Peeping Tom an uncomfortable look at the voyeurism inherent in cinema. If a little indirectly, this is one of the best films about filmmaking from a master whose career was cut short unfairly and too soon. This is the first film in history that puts the audience in the killer’s point of view (making it arguably the first slasher film). The effect was too great for the public and critics of the time.
Red shoeshelmet Michael Powell made this technically perfect horror film about a serial killer obsessed with capturing the moments of death of his victims. Peeping Tom was released the same yearPsycho was a significant box office success. Peeping Tom noticeably more interested in psychology and inner things than thrilling audiences. It’s not fun, but it’s a must-see for anyone who’s into cinema.
9 ‘Doctor. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Also known as simply Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick’s farcical masterpiece lays claim to being the best comedy ever made. In a dark satire on the fear of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States Peter Sellers gives a glimpse of his legendary career in three roles.
Incredibly cold and calculating on the surface (Ken Adams’ the set design is one of the best ever) but stupid in spirit, Dr. Strangelove was one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1989.
10 “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967)
“We rob banks.” Along with The Graduate, there is one more movie worth mentioning in every conversation about New Hollywood. Bonnie and Clyde. Warren Beatty And Faye Dunaway star in Arthur PennA highly influential crime film about infamous robbers and the manhunt around them.
Bonnie and Clyde broke many taboos for studio filmmaking with graphic violence that is still shocking (especially the unforgettable climax). It took some analysts a while to figure it out, but it is now widely revered as a watershed masterpiece.
eleven ‘Goldfinger’ (1964)
Popularity Ian Flemingthe James Bond novels flared up in the 1950s; It wasn’t long before 007 made it to the big screen. Aeon carefully thought out Doctor No was an international hit, and the 1963 sequel From Russia with love was even better - now considered one of the best moments of spy filmmaking. But no one could have foreseen the phenomenal success of the third Bond adventure on the big screen, a time-grabbing masterpiece that balances campy outlandishness and characteristic grit with surgical precision like no other film.
Guy HamiltonX golden fingerdid Sean Connery the most famous movie star of the time; Scottish actor who brings danger, humor and sex to the cult hero. In the comic thriller, 007 faces off against the sadistic lunatic Auric Goldfinger.Gert Fröbe) is obsessed with infiltrating Fort Knox (not to rob it) with the help of cunning personal pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). golden finger is one of the most gripping, revisited, and insanely entertaining films that is the culmination of the longest-running film franchise so far.
12 “Night of the Living Dead” (1968)
There are several original horror films that have reshaped and redirected the genre: Frankenstein took studio horror to the next level, halloween by the way invented the modern slasher, and scream overthrown him - and these are just a few of them. Another tipping point is the native of Pennsylvania. George A. Romerothe black and white shocker who invented the zombie.
Night of the Living Dead used a recently defunct censorship code to expose mass audiences to an unprecedented level of gut-rending graphic violence, opening the gates for ’70s shockers like Last house on the left,The hills have eyesand Romero’s own excellent sequel Dawn of the Dead.Night of the Living Deada terrifying horror film with a touch of social commentary.
Source: Collider
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