Cinema 60's

TOP FILMS 1960's

Pre 1960’s……

·      _Big studio era (MGM, Universal, Fox, Disney)

·      _Women as sex symbols (Marilyn Monroe). Also As housewives.

·      _Dramas where the story was the most important. Good Story lines and writing…

·      _Big Studio actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, Lona Turner, Doris Day

1960's 
 _Lots of social changes in the US society. So many movies and television shows         reflected this.

LIKE:

·      _Sexual Revolution

·      _Political Movements

·      _Assassination (Kennedy and Martin Luther King)

·      _Women’s Rights

·      _Space exploration

Movies:

·      End of Studios era. The studios started loosing money and had been bought by other companies

·      Big four hours movies

·      Independent actors

·      Movie Theaters became bigger and showed more than one film at a time

Horror:

·      Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary’s Baby, The Birds.

Adventures:

·      Laurence of Arabia, Bonnie and Clyde, Space Oddessey (science fiction)

Social:

·       Dr. Strangelove (cold war and the bomb), To Kill a Mockingbird (black and white, etc), Guess Who’s coming to Dinner

Fashion:

·      Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady

Spy:

·      Dr. Zhivago, From Russial with Love (James Bond film), The Thomas Crown Affair

Sexual Revolution:

·      Lolita, The Graduate

Music:

·      Hard’s Days Night (The Beatles),  To Sir With Love (Sydney Portier actor), Mary Poppins, The sound of Music…

TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1960s 1. The Sound of Music (1965) 2. 101 Dalmatians (1961) 3. The Jungle Book (1967) 4. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 5.  The Graduate (1967) 6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie) 7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (tie) 8. My Fair Lady (1964) 9. Thunderball (1965) 10.         Funny Girl (1968) 11.          2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 12.         Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) 13.         Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 14.         Cleopatra (1963) TOP FILMS BY YEAR IN THE 1960s 1960: Swiss Family Robinson (1960) or Let's Make Love (1960)  1961: 101 Dalmatians (1961)  1962:  Lawrence of Arabia (1962) or The Longest Day (1962) or Dr. No (1962)  1963: Cleopatra (1963) or From Russia With Love (1963)  1964: Mary Poppins (1964) or Goldfinger (1964)  1965: The Sound of Music (1965) 1966: Hawaii (1966) or The Bible (1966) or  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)  1967: The Jungle Book (1967) 1968: Funny Girl (1968) 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) TV Tv shows: Made for TV movies. TV dinners… so now families sat down to watch “family tv shows with good family values _Seasame Street,  _Bewitched,  _The Courtship of Eddy’s Father _Family affair,  _Flipper, Leave it to Beaver.  **** Cartoon’s ***.. Scooby Doo, Flinstones, etc.