Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. Director Sam Peckinpah renders a vast canvas of the waning West in this drama of men who insist on living by their own outmoded moral code. The performances are faultless and the film is one of the year's best...
EASY RIDER. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride their motorcycles cross-country looking for the true meaning of America. The film (directed by Hopper, produced by Fonda and co-authored by Terry Southern) is by turns sensitive and embarrassing -and at its best when it shows with compassion the places and faces of mid-America...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. In the context of recent achievements, Stanley Kubrick's epic film deserves another look. Combining machinery and metaphysics in his tale of a voyage to Jupiter, Kubrick creates a cosmic morality play to which the flight of Apollo 11 adds a tantalizing immediacy...
What the police found when summoned to the Benedict Canyon house of Miss Tate, 26, wife of Film Director Roman Polanski, 36, was far bloodier and grimmer than they had let on. TIME learned last week. There was evidence of a wild struggle with the killer or killers as Sharon and another victim, Hair Stylist Jay Sebring, 35, were slashed repeatedly while they fought for their lives. A large number of pistol bullets were embedded in the walls and ceiling. Blood was spattered over most of the living room walls, and pools of blood and bloody footprints led into...
Those filmgoers who have read the Quartet will be somewhat baffled by much of the plot and motivation in the film; those who have not will be completely and hopelessly confused. The first -and better-part of Justine is devoted mostly to atmospherics, establishing the characters and their relationships with one another and the city of Alexandria. Director George Cukor had a good old-fashioned time sweeping his camera over studio-made streets and palaces, working himself up to a murder at a masked ball. After that, he and Screenwriter Marcus apparently decided that it was time to get down...