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Charles Mingus once said: “Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” Jenna wasn’t thinking about this quote when she coined the term “Jazz Anxiety Movie” but it certainly fits. What she was thinking about was how many brilliant 1960s films about anxiety-inducing situations seem to have memorable jazz scores. But it was more than that–beyond just utilizin...

Bart and Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with movies in the year 1965, a year where you can feel the rebellion starting to bubble over. The following films are discussed:• Man Is Not a Bird (1965) Covek nije tica Directed by Dusan Makavejev Starring Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras • Waqt (1965) Directed by Yash Chopra Starring Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Raaj Kumar • Rapture (1965) Directed by John Guil...

Guest author Marshall Terrill speaks to Cinema60 about the life of Steve McQueen and the wild making of Bullitt

Guest Richard A Lertzman talks frankly to Cinema60 about his new book Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit along with breaking down the impetus behind the original Ocean's 11 (1960)

After years of fighting against political turmoil, personal strife and artistic complacency, Luis Buñuel finally found a decade that embraced him for everything he was and could be. The famous Surrealist who was ejected from the European filmmaking community in the early ‘30s for blasphemy and a sensibility too outrageous for mass consumption, made his circuitous way back to the Continent in the ‘...

Ryan Moore of Lost in the Longboxes! joins Bart & Jenna for a discussion on the Barbarella comic and film

Out here in the desert you only have two friends, your rifle and your flat angled eyeliner brush. One of Jenna’s favorite activities is spotting inappropriate fashion, hair, and makeup in meant-to-be period films. Some decades are certainly worse than others and the midcentury falls firmly in the ‘too self aware’ camp–I mean, how can you expect people to flock to the theaters if we can’t even see...

Sick and tired of Jenna torturing him with hours of terrible James Bond rip-offs , Bart takes the reins and chooses a mix of international bootleg Bonds that all have one very important thing in common: they make Bart laugh. How that is, or why that is, is the real question here; they border on enigmatic enough that even Bart isn’t too sure how to describe his sense of humor. Whatever it is, Modes...

Guest Danny Reid of pre-code.com joins us to talk about James Garner in 36 Hours

Don’t feel too bad if you don’t really know what was happening culturally in 1960s West Germany. The truth is not much was happening, at least for the first half of the decade. But once the mid-’60s hit, an interesting chorus of voices and visions started to emerge from Germany’s youth. Where there had been a heap of churned out fluff, suddenly filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbind...

Bart & Jenna welcome guest Natasha Degen, chair of Art Marketing Studies at FIT, to discuss William Klein's Who Are You Polly Maggoo?

Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1964. The following films are discussed: • The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer Starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau • Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён Directed by Elem Klimov Starring Viktor Kosykh, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova • The Americanization of Emily (1...

We maybe got, uh, too ambitious when we set out to watch every single Sophia Loren film from the 1960s. But how could we not? Loren was a 1960s superstar and for good reason, she starred in a whopping twenty films during the decade. The inconsistent quality of these films is a little puzzling considering the majority were produced by her career-shaping husband Carlo Ponti. However they can perhaps...

Bart & Jenna welcome guest Rachael Guma to talk about her love of Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966). She in turn blows their minds with a theory about how the film uses squares and circles as a visual language.

It’s easy to judge the past solely by its accomplishments, but doing so never provides the full picture. In isolating only the achievements of the Space Age, the ‘60s come across as a glossy and utopian time of cultural and scientific development. Yet, by the end of the decade, most of the world was trapped in a near fever pitch of anxiety; the Cold War was looming larger than ever, the American p...

Guest Pauline Kael joins Cinema60 in spirit to talk about one of her favorite films from the ‘60s: Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ! No reading required as Bart & Jenna argue her case for the film against their own personal misgivings.

Guest Kyle Eagle talks with Bart & Jenna about Sweet Love Bitter, an under watched gritty jazz film starring Dick Gregory

Tennessee Williams was always a man out of time, but by the ‘60s his time was sadly up. As the ‘50s came to a close, his career began a descent from its utmost apex to such a low that Williams himself fell deep into the bottle. Cinema, however, was still playing catch up with all of his later hits. With the way the decade was front loaded you’d hardly believe how quickly these films dissolved to a...

While 007 may have been the original catalyst, what truly turned the 1960s into an era of Bond was the vast number of rip-offs and spoofs that tried to cash in on the craze. Welcome to a new segment on Cinema60 where we guide you through the magical world of Bootleg Bond! You may have seen the Michel Hazanavicius O.S.S. 117 spoofs starring the ever charming Jean Dujardin, but Did You Know that O.S...

Author Greg Jackson joins Bart & Jenna to talk about Francesco Rosi's Hands Over The City (Le Mani Sulla Citta)

The following films are discussed: • Raven's End (1963) Kvarteret Korpen Directed by Bo Widerberg Starring Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm • When the Cat Comes (1963) Az prijde kocour Directed by Vojtech Jasný Starring Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský •  The Executioner (1963) El verdugo Directed by Luis García Berlanga Starring Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert •...

Let’s talk about dissatisfaction, frustration, futility and temptation. Let’s talk about Faust . Faust is a story about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Depending on the version, his reasons vary from a whim, to a bet, to a last resort scenario. What makes the story of Faust unique and intriguing is the fact that we have our hero engaging directly with evil and yet there's wiggle r...

In the 1960s, while European cinema was riding out multiple waves, Brazil was inventing Cinema Novo. Emerging out of Brazil’s populist movement of the 1950s and influenced by Italian neorealism and French New Wave, Cinema Novo was a political film movement that served to both warn against and highlight problems plaguing the rural Brazilian everyman. But the dream of social betterment through...

Guest Aviva Briefel joins Bart & Jenna in an episode that focuses on Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby . Aviva tells them why this is her favorite film ever and discusses its many themes–including body horror, misogyny, Satanism and bigotry.

Cinema60 gets out of its comfort zone and kicks into high gear with some Shaw Brothers action. While the studio was originally founded back in the 1920s, they became the Shaw Brothers studio that we know and love beginning in the 1960s. From Huangmei operas to wuxia action films, in the 1960s Hong Kong was quickly and violently moving away from traditional mainland influence and coming into its ow...