And here we are again, nary a breath drawn after the completion of one foolhardy countdown and its time to readjust the settings of the Wayback Machine and start over. In introducing the equivalent countdown for the nineteen-seventies, I noted that it was the first venture into films that I largely saw detached from their context, or rather in the context of retrospective adoration (or scorn) heaped upon them. I was forced to meet the films’ respective reputations at the same time I encountered the actual work for the first time. Take that sentiment and multiply it, and that brings … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 60s — An Introduction