Episodes
Ep# 88 - Dwight Macdonald's 60s Pick: Last Year at Marienbad
Bart & Jenna welcome the ghost of Dwight Macdonald to discuss the merits of difficult art through a dissection of Last Year at Marienbad
Ep# 87 - Akira Kurosawa in the 60s
Bart & Jenna dive into the cinematic treasures of Akira Kurosawa in a decade that almost ended his career
Ep# 86 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1962
Bart & Jenna watch six films in hopes of adding them to their Top Ten of the year 1962 – from some true cinematic classics to some intriguing foreign obscurities
Ep# 85 - Bulgarian Cinema in the 60s
Bart & Jenna watched the six most promising Bulgarian movies from the 60s in order to giving a taste of what the country’s cinema has to offer
Ep# 84 - William Shakespeare in the 60s
In this episode, Bart & Jenna have a lively debate about what it takes to adapt something as stylized as Shakespeare to a medium that leans so heavily towards realism.
Ep #83 - Bands Playing Themselves in the 60s
Bart & Jenna explore a series of band movies, from some notable British boy bands all the way to their American TV cousins. For such a decade-specific genre, it’s an episode full of high highs and low lows.
Ep# 82 - Sergei Parajanov & Yuri Ilyenko in the 60s
Bart & Jenna dive into the beautiful, surreal and unfairly banned films of Sergei Parajanov and Yuri Ilyenko.
Ep #81 - The Many Faces of Django in the 60s
Bart & Jenna navigate through the many sequels and bootlegs of Sergio Corbucci's Django.
Ep #80 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1961
Bart & Jenna watch six films in hopes of adding them to their Top Ten of the year 1961 – from some top commedia all'italiana choices, to struggling Parisian artists and refections on violence.
Ep #79 - Susan Sontag's 60s Pick: Persona
Bart & Jenna use Susan Sontag’s article as a sounding board to dissect Bergman’s filmmaking and explore the depths of Persona, as well as muse on whether or not cinema must have a “point.”
Ep# 78 - Documentaries in 1969
Bart and Jenna take a look at documentaries in 1969 – examining just how far the genre had progressed in ten years
Ep# 77 - Christopher J. Lee's 60s Picks: Battle of Algiers & Black Girl
Bart & Jenna are joined by Christopher J. Lee, professor of African studies, to discuss two anti-colonialist masterpieces of African cinema: The Battle of Algiers and Black Girl.
Ep #76 - Doris Day is Not That Kinda Girl in the 60s
Bart & Jenna talk Doris Day – one of the era’s biggest box office draws for bedroom adventures in which our main lady narrowly escapes certain fornication.
Ep #75 - The Films of Federico Fellini in the 60s
Bart & Jenna notice a parallel between Fellini's body of work in the 60s and the self-immolating ambitiousness of the decade itself.
Ep #74 - Carlo Vanstiphout's Guide to Kaiju in the '60s
Bart & Jenna are joined by Carlo Vanstiphout to talk all things kaiju in the 1960s – from Godzilla to Mothra, Frankenstein to Baragon, Gamera to Guiron and more
Ep# 73 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1960
Bart & Jenna watch six films in hopes of adding them to their Top Ten of the year 1960 – from the most arthouse of arthouse choices, to some deeply cynical satires.
Ep# 72 - Harry Alan Towers' Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu Movies in the 60s
Bart & Jenna sidestep Bootleg Bond by focusing on a revival film franchise that never would have existed if not for ‘60s Bond Mania: Fu Manchu films.
Ep# 71 - Soviet Sci-Fi in the 60s
Bart & Jenna travel to Venus to get a better look at some choice sci-fi films from behind the iron curtain – including Ikarie XB 1, Silent Star, and more.
Ep# 70 - The Films of Robert Wise in the 60s
Bart & Jenna cover Robert Wise’s two Best Picture-winning musicals, along with several other notable films from the 1960s – a couple of which are a highly prized by film lovers.
Ep# 69 - Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema in the 60s
Bart & Jenna dive into a positive who’s who of Egyptian cinema – including young Omar Sharif and Soad Hosny, multiple Naguib Mahfouz adaptations, and even two films that broke through to the Western world: the Muslim Crusade epic Saladin and the internationally celebrated The Night Counting The Years.