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The Best Films of the 1960s Decade
The greatest films of the 1960s, from the French New Wave to the subversive Spaghetti Westerns.
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Through its surreal blend of modern art and classical antiquity, Fellini Satyricon becomes a direct embodiment of our most maddening psychological conflicts, leading an absurd odyssey through the decadent parties, brothels, and temples of Ancient Rome as it stands on the brink of social collapse.
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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
If Yasujirō Ozu’s filmography is a cinematic suite testifying to the ongoing tension between tradition and progress, then An Autumn Afternoon makes for a tender final movement, poignantly tracing a widowed father’s reluctant attempts to marry off his daughter against a vibrant backdrop of commercialism’s advance into mid-century Japan.
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
One upper-class housewife’s discovery of her husband’s affair in Juliet of the Spirits may incite a surreal reckoning with religion, sexuality, and womanhood, though the insecurities that these kaleidoscopic dreams surface have evidently haunted her since childhood, as Federico Fellini holds up a feminine mirror to 8 ½ that seeks to understand the other side…
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The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Only by blackmailing, intimidating, and investigating from the shadows can one vengeful son expose the corporate corruption of mid-century Japan in The Bad Sleep Well, as Akira Kurosawa adapts Hamlet with a severe, noirish cynicism, examining the foundations of bloodshed which the upper-class bureaucracy shrouds in obscure conspiracies.
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8 1/2 (1963)
Through one Italian filmmaker’s struggle with creative block, contemptuous shame, and overwhelming pressures, Federico Fellini crafts a surrogate representation of himself, elusively traversing a surreal sea of memory and dreams in a film that seeks to intuitively examine the arduous processes of its own self-reflexive construction.
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La Dolce Vita (1960)
Through Federico Fellini’s cynical subversion of theological iconography and episodic parables, La Dolce Vita traces a tortured soul’s weary descent to the depths of an amoral, existentialist hell, examining modern-day Rome’s spiritual corruption to ultimately become one of cinema’s great religious epics.