Last Year At Marienbad
French Spiritualist philosopher Henri Bergson outlined two types of human memory. The first is Motor Mechanism, when a person purposefully memorizes a text or moment. The second is involuntary memory,… Read more »
Tag: 1960s
Fando Y Lis
Intuition is responsible for a majority of the most fascinating works of art ever created. Throughout the ages artists have made decisions concerning their work in direct response to their… Read more »
The Great Silence
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
A High Wind In Jamaica
One doesn’t expect very much of an adventure drama marketed to children and starring Anthony Quinn that was released in 1965. Though A High Wind In Jamaica is all of these things,… Read more »
The World’s Greatest Sinner
In the spring of 2009 Vox Populi hosted a show and three screenings featuring the works of Timothy Carey. Timothy Carey was an actor, director, screenwriter and producer who, like… Read more »
Lord Love A Duck
Lord Love A Duck (1966) is perhaps one of the most offbeat satirical comedies of the sixties, a film that attempts to and succeeds at lampooning both the teen sex… Read more »
Les Bonnes Femmes
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) was a financial disappointment for Claude Charbol, though he considers it his best work of the era. Charbol’s film is dark and gloomy. It has captured… Read more »
Lonesome Cowboys
“…a movie about a one-woman all-fag cowboy town“-Andy Warhol If the fifties represented a trend in subverting the Western genre by inverting the sexual politics of the day, enhancing the… Read more »
A Hard Day’s Night
“We didn’t want to make a fuckin’ shitty pop movie. We didn’t even want to make a movie that was going to be bad.”-John Lennon, 1970 “Aesthetic experience exists. A… Read more »
Katzelmacher
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most infamous play, Garbage, The City, & Death (1975), is a kind of revisionist cabaret assault on the audience. By that point, Fassbinder had extended his creative… Read more »
