Jenna & Bart discuss, in order from the ridiculous to the sublime, several selections from this annus mirabilis of sci-fi films that engage directly with societal anxieties of the future.
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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.
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Guest Kyle Eagle, host of The Major Scale jazz radio show, talks with Bart & Jenna about Sweet Love, Bitter. Starring Dick Gregory, this under watched gem explores jazz, drug addiction, and racial inequality.
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Bart & Jenna take a look at Tennessee Williams in decline and find far more gems than they expected—from Fugitive Kind to The Night of the Iguana. Also they watch Boom!, also a film indeed.
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Bart & Jenna take another dip in the hot tub that is bootleg James Bond. This time they focus on the French Bond, known as Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka O.S.S. 117–a secret agent franchise that technically pre-dates Bond by four years!
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Author Greg Jackson joins Cinema60 to talk about why Francesco Rosi’s Hands Over The City scores high on his list of favorite ‘60s films.
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Bart and Jenna go global with their kiss, marry, kill choices of 1963 movies. They chose six different movies from six different countries, ending with a slaughter of two sacred cows of cinema.
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How much does Jenna love Goethe’s Faust? Don’t ask me; ask her poodle named Mephistopheles. Bart & Jenna watch several films based on Faust–a theme that was on people’s minds in the ‘60s.
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Bart & Jenna jump headfirst into Brazil’s Cinema Novo and drown a little bit. While Cinema Novo’s indulgence in political allegory, magical realism and dry satirical humor proves to be rather mystifying to outsiders, those same traits are what makes it brilliant cinema.
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Guest Aviva Briefel joins Bart & Jenna in an episode that focuses on 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.
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Bart & Jenna take a look at The Shaw Brothers and the changing landscape of Hong Kong in the 1960s. They discuss a range of films from the iconic classics to the bizarre–including The One-Armed Swordsman, Come Drink With Me, and Temptress of a Thousand Faces.
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Bart & Jenna talk Michelangelo Antonioni and his complex, heartbreaking and sometimes mystifying films–from L’Avventura to Zabriskie Point. They also try and dispel some widely repeated narratives about how to watch and read his cinematic language.
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Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1962. Including discussion on The Trial, Ivan’s Childhood, David and Lisa, The Inheritance, The Chapman Report and Hatari!.
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Bart & Jenna discuss every Derek Flint and Matt Helm movie. Both of these American Bond rip-offs represented blatant marketing strategies that were eager to peer into the psyches of the movie-going public and answer the burning question: gadgets or girls?
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1967 seems to have been the year the public was ready to talk about the effects of LSD. Bart & Jenna measure a wide range of LSD-centric films from 1967 in order from cop shorts like LSD Trip Or Trap? to Roger Corman’s psychedelic The Trip.
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In this episode, two honkies named Bart and Jenna discuss representations of black masculinity in a range of 1960s films, from the rightfully celebrated to the criminally under-seen.
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During the 1960s, Varda was not only breaking down barriers of film and gender, but she was coming into her own style as one of the true auteurs. Jenna and Bart take a look at her feature films and shorts of the decade.
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Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1961. Including discussion on Les Godelureaux, Girl with a Suitcase, The Innocents, Splendor in the Grass, Accatone and Something Wild.
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Poland didn’t have a “New Wave” per se, but behind that Iron Curtain they were still making some mighty fine films. Bart & Jenna catch you up on some of Poland’s greatest cinematic treasures from the ‘60s.
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1964 was a year that represented a real turning point for movie musicals, mixing enduring classics with cutting edge Rock'n'Roll films.
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