LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962), THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

1962

Peter O'Toole leads the charge as Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia is truly a one-of-a-kind epic. Beautiful photography, expansive settings, gripping story, first-rate cast, direction by David Lean, etc...You almost can't beat it for epics. You basically couldn't do this movie today without relying heavily on CGI, but everything you see in Lawrence of Arabia has an authentic feel to it (Where did they get all those camels?) There is an awful lot of plot to lug around at times, but its worth the effort even if you need a scorecard to keep up with who is representing which warring tribe or the political ramifications as to which city is being sacked at what time, and certainly a film to see at least once for any moviegoer.

I first saw Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen in 1989, which is really the best way to see it if the opportunity ever presents itself.

Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey at the garden club lecture
in The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate, a political thriller based on Richard Condon's book, has the plot of a brainwashed soldier being set up to be a key part of a political assassination in the United States. Even though I've seen this movie before, I liked watching it again to see how all the pieces to the complex conspiracy reveals itself. The cast is highlighted by Laurence Harvey as Col. Shaw, the unwitting accomplice to the plot and Angela Lansbury as his conniving mother. My favorite scenes (or set of scenes) involve the brainwashing of the soldiers around Chinese and Soviet conspirators that interchangeably revert to a lecture at a ladies' garden club at different times during their indoctrination.

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Of course, most 1962 films didn't make the 1001 movie cut. Here are some that I've seen at some point in the past.
 

1. Advise and Consent
I included a picture of Allen Drury's book Advise and Consent, because it always seemed to show up every year at our library book sale in one edition or another. No, I haven't got around to reading this epic tome yet, but Otto Preminger's movie featuring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton and many others is a pretty good political intrigue picture if memory serves.

Original 1959 cover of the novel which is
probably still on one of my shelves somewhere.

2. 300 Spartans
After seeing the movie 300, I decided to watch the the 1962 Cinemascope film based on the same Persian War storyline. Verdict: I prefer 300, comic book overtones and all.

3. The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
Made in 1959, but not released until 1962, this silly science fiction film is best know in my house as the first Mystery Science Theater episode that featured Mike Nelson after replacing Joel Hodgson. It should be described in your house that way, too!

"Jan in the Pan" from The Brain that Wouldn't Die via
Mystery Science Theater

4. Cape Fear
Revenge drama about a criminal (Robert Mitchum) coming back to seek revenge on the lawyer (Gregory Peck) who convicted him. I actually  prefer Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake more. I think preferring a remake in two of the first four listings here is more coincidence than trend.  

5. Carnival of Souls

One of my favorite low-budget cult horror movies ever. I guess others agree, since it actually got released on Blu-Ray from the high brow Criterion Collection in 2016. Carnival of Souls on Blu-Ray from Criterion? You gotta love that!

Who needs The Walking Dead when you've just
paid admission to...Carnival of Souls?

6. Days of Wine and Roses
Well respected film dealing with alcoholism that I'm really surprised isn't listed in the 1001 book. Probably worth a revisit.

7. Dr. No
Things that happened in October, 1962:
First James Bond movie
Johnny Carson takes over Tonight Show
Cuban Missile Crisis
I was born

First Bond girl Ursula Andress in Dr. No set a standard
of voluptuousness that was hard to duplicate in my book

8. Follow That Dream, Girls, Girls, Girls or Kid Galahad
I now realize listing the Elvis movies I've seen in the years of doing this blog are starting to all run together. I think I've seen Follow That Dream...or have I?

9. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Sort of a rip-off of Around the World in Eighty Days. The release date of this movie makes me realize I've had a crush on Barbara Eden for about fifty years now. (Maybe not quite that long)

Barbara Eden in Five Weeks in a Balloon

10. David and Lisa

I remember thinking this film of two young people with mental illnesses finding romance was pretty good. Definitely one I need to revisit.

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11. How the West Was Won
I've always liked this expansive Western epic ever since the first time I saw it as a kid on television. Definitely a movie that had quite the all-star cast from Gregory Peck to Debbie Reynolds to John Wayne to Jimmy Stewart. In fact, I remember seeing this for the first time with my brother, who actually knew who all these larger than life stars were. I think the conversation went something like this.

Me: Who is that?
Brother: That's Karl Malden.
Me. Who is that?
Brother: That's Walter Brennan.
Me. Who is that"
Brother: That's Richard Widmark.
Me: Who is that?
Brother: Would you shut up and let me watch the movie?

Jimmy Stewart chases the varmint for the last time
after he meets Carroll Baker in
How the West Was Won

12. Hatari!
Pretty fun John Wayne adventure about  people who capture animals for zoos. My favorite part is the scene where a drunk Red Buttons keeps asking "Tell me about the rocket? What did it look like?" I can't even remember the context, but it was funny...trust me. 

13. The Intruder
Racist Yankee with a questionable hairpiece convinces a bunch of hicks to elect him their leader. Now, now...I'm not talking about the 2016 Presidential election. This low budget American International movie which I originally watched on Night Flight on the USA network during the 80's, is actually pretty sound and surprisingly poignant film.

Captain Kirk before he saw the light in
The Intruder

14. King Kong vs. Godzilla
I really can't remember who wins.

15. Lonely are the Brave
Film of a modern day Cowboy (written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Kirk Douglas) who just can't fit into the modern world is one of those films that I would have bet would have been in the 1001 book.

Another round for Mr. Douglas
in Lonely Are the Brave

16. The Miracle Worker
First film telling of the Helen Keller/Annie Sullivan story. Originally on Broadway in 1959, and a theater staple ever since.

17. The Longest Day
Star studded retelling of the D-Day Invasion featuring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton and many others. The invasion probably seems tame after you've seen Saving Private Ryan, but it's a pretty good film in its own right. I seem to remember seeing this for the first time with my brother, who actually knew who all these larger than life stars were. I think the conversation went something like this.

Me: Who is that?
Brother: That's Robert Ryan.
Me. Who is that?
Brother: That's Curt Jurgens.
Me. Who is that"
Brother: That's Peter Lawford.
Me: Who is that?
Brother: Would you shut up and let me watch the movie?

John Wayne at Normandy in The Longest Day

18. Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Lighthearted Jimmy Stewart comedy. I admit to watching it...and not remembering much about it.

19. The Music Man
Classic musical that gets extra points for having a librarian as a lead character and has one of my favorite all-time musical numbers Rock Island, which features the cast singing about that out-of-town salesman in rhythm to the train that they are moving on. One day...one day...I'd like to be in a production of this and perform this song!

Marion the Librarian and the con man in
The Music Man

20. Ride the High Country
Early addition to the Sam Peckinpah cannon...yet, another one that needs revisiting.

21. Requiem for a Heavyweight
Sad story from a Rod Serling story about how a washed up boxer has to cope with life after his ring career is finished. Between Requiem for a Heavyweight, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, and Zorba the Greek, this was a pretty good period for Anthony Quinn.

Anthony Quinn faces the end of his career in
Requiem for a Heavyweight

22. State Fair
There really wasn't anything better on that time I watched State Fair with Pat Boone? It did have Ann-Margaret in it. Maybe that's why I watched it.

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23. Sanjuro
It's interesting that neither Sanjuro or Yojimbo make the 1001 book like so many other Kurosawa films did. Both are excellent films in their own right.

Sanjuro: Kurosawa...Mifune...Samurai...sign me up!

24. Term of Trial
I remember this film with Laurence Olivier as being a pretty powerful drama when I first saw it. That's been over thirty-five years ago...so don't hold me to it.

25. The Trial
Orson Welles doing Franz Kafka seems like a pretty righteous teaming to me. But the film is confusing and often doesn't make sense. But in this case, that's a good thing. You understand? Or if you don't understand, maybe that's good, too!

Tony Perkins about to go on an existential trip in The Trial. 

Goodbye, 1962 and stay safe, everyone!

LA DOLCE VITA (1960), ITALY) INHERIT THE WIND (1960), LA DOLCE VITA (1960, ITALY)

1960

Innocence in La Dolce Vita

Partygoer: Will you be writing about the stupid and corrupt aristocracy?

Marcello, the journalist: First, I write about other things. Second, you aren't that interesting.

The above quote really sums up Fellini's three hour marathon on the decadence and emptiness of the rich and famous and those paparazzi (This film invented the term) that follow them. Opinions on this movie differ. Bosely Crother of the New York Times said it was "a brilliantly graphic estimation of a whole swath of society in sad decay and, eventually a withering commentary upon the tragedy of the over civilized." Film guru Gerald Mass was less impressed, "La Dolce Vita is a sterile thematic exercise, an overstated contrast of Sensuality vs. Spirituality."

Personally, I feel there is an awful lot there- Fellini's potpourri of characters, engaging performances, and symbolism that is almost always thought provoking...but  at almost three hours, the film is also way too long. My favorite scene is the miracle of the Madonna section, which was apparently largely improvised. The final image of innocence (above) that contrasts the main character's frivolousness  is reminiscent of Truffaut's 400 Blows.

The Age of Rocks vs. The Rock of Ages in
Inherit the Wind

A different type of movie that is one of my favorites from this year is Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind, which I've probably seen a dozen times. It is a fictional account of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. It's as straightforward as you can get and though some of it may be a tad overdone upon honest reflection, it is still a powerful piece overall. In fact,  the scene where Spencer Tracy (as Clarence Darrow stand-in Henry Drummond) interrogates the pompous Frederic March (as Williams Jennings Bryan stand-in Matthew Harrison Brady) is still one of my favorite scenes from any film...But the 1001 book doesn't include Inherit the Wind on the sacred list. It would certainly be on mine.

Like Inherit the Wind, there are many films from 1960 that are not on the 1001 list. Here are a few of those that I have seen before.

1. The Magnificent Seven 

First of all, this remake of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai certainly has many fans, but isn't in the same ball park as its predecessor no matter what my brother thinks! The Magnificent Seven does have a great cast and dramatic opening theme and certainly many fine moments, so it is worth seeing. Okay...Let's see if I can name the seven...Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughan, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz and Brad Dexter...I admit that I had to look up Brad Dexter.

The Magnificent Seven...Brad Dexter is third from the right

2. The Bad Sleep Well

Kurosawa's movie from this year has elements borrowed from Hamlet and is an interesting film, but is definitely second tier Kurosawa. Of course, second tier Kurosawa is still better than most.

3. Cinderfella

Boy, I saw this Jerry Lewis vehicle forty years ago. The title tells all in that it's a gender role reversal featuring the ever mugging Mr. Lewis re-enacting the fairy tale. I had thought a young Connie Stevens was in this film, but after further review, I was clearly thinking of another Lewis film, Rock a Bye Baby. We regret the error.

4. Elmer Gantry

Burt Lancaster won an Oscar for this well respected film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel. Definitely one I'd like to revisit.

5. Little Shop of Horrors

I much prefer the musical remake to this original American-International release. Though the original does boast a great scene from an extremely young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient.

Jack Nicholson gritting his teeth in  Little Shop of Horrors

6. House of Usher

The first and maybe the best of The Roger Corman adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories (Usually with Vincent Price). I was thinking my favorite of the group was The Conqueror Worm, but then looked up to find that that film was not even based on an Edgar Allan Poe work! First I get confused about Connie Stevens, now about Poe...My memory is slipping. Where's my medication!

7. The Last Voyage

I remember watching this movie about a sinking ocean liner on television while I was staying at my Aunt's house in the late 70's. I remember liking it, but am a little foggy on the details. I do remember Robert Stack was the star and there was a pretty cool scene with Stack trying to avoid a piano falling on his head...as I look at what I just described, it might not be as cool as I remember.

 
8. Let's Make Love

One of Marilyn Monroe's last films and I remember it didn't make a big impression on me.

9. The Lost World 

No relation to the movie of the same name about dinosaurs based on the Michael Crichton book. Though this one was also based on a book by a famous author (Arthur Conan Doyle) and also had dinosaurs in it! It also isn't to be confused with the silent movie The Lost World, which is also based on the Doyle story! Did I get all that right?

10. The Time Machine

One of my favorite science fiction movies and would definitely be on my 1001 list. H. G. Wells (Rod Taylor) travels thorough time in his homemade time travel contraption to meet the evil* Morlocks and the complacent tribe of blondes including the lovely Weena (Yvette Mimieux). It's a rousing adventure and thought provoking.

*It is open to debate whether the Morlocks are actually the evil ones here. The hotness of Yvette Mimieux is not open for debate.

I think traveling 800, 000 years into the future
to meet Yvette Mimieux is a great use of a Time Machine

11. Midnight Lace

I guess this was kind of a thriller (If you can even call a movie with Doris Day a thriller) that I watched with my mother. I have a rule on this blog that I don't criticize movies I watched with my mother as a kid...moving on.

12. Pepe

Cantiflas was a legendary movie star in his native Mexico. He is best known in the U. S. for his role in the popular Around the World in 80 Days. His follow up American film, Pepe was not successful despite cameos from Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ann B. Davis and Jay North of Dennis the Menace! A 2014 Mexican film about the actor's life (simply titled Cantiflas) received greater critical acclaim than Pepe.

13. Two Women

Sophia Loren was one of the first in a long line of screen beauties playing a non-glamorous role on her way to an Oscar.

14. Where the Boys Are

Forerunner of beach movies of the 60's that became popular a few years later. This one had Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss And Frank "The Riddler" Gorshin in it for some laughs. When Where the Boys Are '84 came out, I thought there was a rule that this movie would be remade every twenty-five years of so. When Where the Boys Are '08 or '09 never materialized, I gave up on that theory.

15. The Virgin Spring

Oscar winning Ingmar Bergman film that apparently isn't held in high regard by Bergman himself, as well as the 1001 book, since it isn't on the list. I think it's one of his best films...so there!

There's about to be trouble in The Virgin Spring

There's no debating that 1960 was a most interesting year for movies.
...Until next time then

TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1959), ALLIGATOR PEOPLE (1959)

1959 (Part III)

Like Carl Sagan's Spaceship of the Imagination in Cosmos, I'm taking myself back...back to 1959. Back to the drive-in. Where the picture isn't really that clear...it's too light outside...the sound isn't that good coming out of the virtual speakers...I couldn't really find a good spot to park in the first place...There's also some teenagers in the car next to me making out...It's a bit cold here too...I've spilled my popcorn...I should have at least brought a girl with me on my virtual journey...Oh, well. The movie is about to start.

Okay. Teenage Zombies. There's some teens in the malt shop (very 50's) They are trying to decide whether to go horseback riding or skiing. After much deliberation and banter, two of the teen couples decide to go off in a boat. Big mistake in a movie called Teen Zombies. They end up on an island and get out and see some people that look like migrants walking around aimlessly. This little shot is about the closest we get to actual zombies in the whole picture. I think I'll get some more popcorn....The kids are getting back to their boat only to discover their boat is gone! They've also seen a mysterious hulking creature (pictured below) walking around. They desperately look around the island and find a house with a female proprietor who seems to be dressed in sequins for some reason. I really like her 50's style kitchen even though it doesn't appear to be stocked with much food, even though she does offer sandwiches. This mysterious woman also tells the teens that they are mistaken in what they think they saw and she has no idea where their damn boat is! None of this matters, because the mysterious hulking figure comes around and captures the teens and puts them in a downstairs jail!

Meanwhile, a teen couple that didn't go on the trip is trying to find out what happened to their friends. They boy in this couple is especially exasperated as he tries to discover what has happened! This couple finds the island and meet the same woman who makes another unsuccessful attempt to give away some sandwiches before casually letting them go.

A couple of guys dressed in ties come to the island to talk to the lady. I think they talk about making an army of zombies and since it's the fifties, mention the hydrogen bomb.

The teens that got away bring the sheriff back to the island where we see the strange lady and the guys with ties beginning their experiments on the captured teens. Some of the teens break free and all the characters grapple before they all decide to leave the island. A gorilla came in to save the day and...wait a minute...a gorilla? Did I just dream that part? I did miss some of this section because I spilled some drink and had to get myself cleaned up.

The teens find the deputy back in their town. They are declared heroes and they are going to be given a medal from Eisenhower himself! They all climb into their coupe and drive off.

 Not quite a teenager, not quite a zombie- but about as close
as Teenage Zombie gets to the concept of the title.

Well, Teenage Zombies wasn't so hot, but maybe the second bill of this double feature Alligator People will be a little better. It actually starts off pretty well. A team of psychiatrists hypnotize dishy nurse Beverly Garland and find out she has suppressed memories of her past. These memories lead her back to her honeymoon where her husband, whose miraculous recovery from a plane crash is recounted before he disappears.

Beverly searches all over for her husband, and is led to the swamps of Louisiana by her husband's college transcripts. Geaux Tigers!

She gets a ride to the address she found by the gator hating one-armed Cajun character played by Lon Chaney, Jr. He isn't taking her for a pina colata at Trader Vic's, but is taking her to a mansion with a strange matron who claims not to know her husband. Clues emerge that point to her husband as actually living there after all. The movie is actually a pretty decent mystery so far.

Beverly then hears a piano being played in the house and goes down to check it out. She glimpses a weird and moist creature who sees her and then runs away. The lady of the house finally admits that is her son. Beverly then wanders into the swamp where she is rescued by Lon, but is unwilling to give him a little nookie as his reward. Her husband (who we now know has alligator-like flesh) rescues her from the unwanted advances, but knows he can't be with his wife again unless he can change back somehow to his old self with a more palatable epidermis.

We skip to the lab with Beverly, where the scientist who first saved her husband admits that he used gators as part of his experiments to bring back the severely injured to normal health. Even though he uses diagrams and charts to show how this is done, I really didn't get the science of it. It was a nice chart, though.

The scientist has one last hope that might change the husband back, but as we can probably figure out, the transformation doesn't go well and he goes full alligator. The lab blows up after Lon comes back for revenge. The husband drowns in quicksand. Beverly eventually forgets all this ever happened as we go back to the original scene in the psychiatrists office, where the doctors decide not to tell their pretty nurse about her sad reptilian past.

I think I had too much popcorn and chocolate covered stars. I don't really want to use the bathroom here so I think I'll just go with the flow of traffic and transition back to today...It was fun to go to the old drive-in, but I really don't think I'll be coming back.

Beverly Garland and her husband face a difficult marital issue in

Alligator People

A couple of other 1959 films fit neatly into this B-movie category and have made a lasting impression on me.

Plan 9 From Outer Space also came out in 1959. Ed Wood's story of grave robbers from outer space starring Criswell, Vampira and a dying Bela Lugosi is probably the most famous bad movie of all-time. Though it is hardly the worst film of all time! Not as long as Manos, The Hands of Fate and Monster A Go-Go are still around.

 B-movie legends Vampira and Tor Johnson in

Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space

The Wasp Woman is about a cosmetic supplier using the essence of wasp or something that makes the women using it turn into human wasps! I think that was the plot. I do know that despite the cheesy nature of this film, it scared me quite a bit when I saw it on the superstation way back when!

Cosmetics gone horribly wrong
in The Wasp Woman

Mystery Science Theater 3000 was (and is in its similar Internet Rifftrax transmogrification) a show whose plot involved a poor schmuck that was sent into outer space along with his two robot friends and forced by mad scientists to watch bad movies while the scientists monitor his mind. Most of the episodes are of cheesy movies and we get to watch the poor schmuck (Joel and later Mike) and the robots (Crow and Tom Servo) make sport of the films with their snarky comments. I've been a fan of this show for a long time, but the reason I bring it up here is that I think there is no better year of cheesy movies that MST3K has used than 1959. These are the only context I've seen these movies in. All these 1959 films I have seen on MST

Crow, Joel, Mike and Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater

1) The Beat Generation- Not to be confused with Beatniks starring Peter Breck, but The Beat Generation does at least have Jayne Mansfield imitator Mamie Van Doren. Or was she a Marilyn Monroe imitator? Or am I getting these movies mixed up? Well, no matter.

2) The Killer Shrews-Speaking of movies done on Mystery Science Theater 3000, this is the island adventure featuring genetically enhanced Shrews that want to kill you (hence the title) and stars James Best, that redneck sheriff guy from Dukes of Hazzard. I guess he played the sheriff, I wasn't really a regular watcher of the Dukes.

3) The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Disembodied head that is kept alive, noted episode for MST fans because it is the first episode where Mike replaces Joel as the host.)

4) Teenagers from Outer Space- (One of my favorite episodes. "What about torture?")

5) Hercules Unchained (Those sword and sandals Steve Reeves movies are ripe for picking)

6) The Day the Earth Froze (Sort of a weird Finnish fantasy epic from what I remember)

7) The Giant Gila Monster (Didn't really have the staying power of Godzilla, did it?)

8) Daddy-O (Any MST episode featuring a beatnik has that going for it)

9) Santa Claus (Not as famous as the Santa Claus Conquers the Martians episode, but pretty funny in its own right)

10) Attack of the Giant Leeches (Not to be confused with The Giant Gila Monster)

11) Girls Town (with Mamie Van Doren...and that should be enough)

12) High School Big Shot (There were an awful lot of high schools and teens in trouble in 1959)

Teenagers from Outer Space by way of
Mystery Science Theater 3000

I admit that when I decided I wanted to do a movie blog, I thought about doing one on B-movies instead of the blog theme I chose because they're so fun to write about. I don't regret the theme I chose, but it might have been fun to go the other way.

SHADOWS (1959), PICKPOCKET (1959, FRANCE)

1959 (Part II)

Tonight we're going to party like it's 1959.

Fred Kaplans' book, 1959: The Year That Changed Everything, states that this was the pivotal year that began much of what we now call modern times in the Western world. Important points for the year include:

· Mailer-Ginsburg-Kerouac-Burroughs and the banned Lady Chatterly's Lover
leading to things of a more permissible nature seeing print.
· Sputnik-leading to the space race.
· Herman Kahn's lectures on nuclear war being a lead in to the arms race.
· The introuduction of the solid intergrated circuit.
· Miles Davis, modern jazz & the civil rights movement.
· Castro's Cuban revolution.
· Cold War heating up with Kruschev's visit to the United States.
· SETI searching for life in outher space.
· Modern Art and the opening of the Guggenheim museum.
· Popular music and Motown.
· The final application for the birth control pill.
· The emergence of John F. Kennedy and the new Frontier.

A different kind of American film Shadows

Kaplan's chapter, The Off-Hollywood Movie, discusses the 1959 John Cassavetes film, Shadows. Cassavetes railed against Hollywood movies, where he said that commercial considerations were subtle, but dominate. He was more interested in the neo-realist filmmakers of Italy, who shot many of their films in the streets of Rome. Cassavetes decided to shoot a neo-realist film of his own in the streets of New York City. The result was Shadows, a story of a young black woman who passes for white, though a plot synopsis doesn't really do the movie justice, as it is largely free form and at least partly improvised. You know a 1959 movie that has a line that scoffs at the beat generation is pretty hip (or thinks it's pretty hip). Shadows, as well as other later films by Cassavetes, weren't big money makers, but did influence a generation of moviemakers such as Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanavich and Robert Altman.

I'm just glad that commercial considerations in today's American cinema have now become secondary to artistic considerations. (Hey, stop laughing!)

Not giving away emotional clues in Pickpocket

 In addition to Shadows,  this era also brought us Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. The British new wave of cinema was fast approaching as well. There was also Robert Bresson's film, Pickpocket, a revered film by a filmmaker whose films at first glance may elicit the reaction of "What was that all about?" Not in that the story is complex, but that the story is told so simply and with none of the tradition movie tropes (His films are edited oddly, scored oddly and the non-professional actors give very little in the way of overt emotions.) Pickpocket has traces of film noir, suspense, crime and drama, but it really doesn't fit into any of these categories. I've seen it more than once and it isn't my favorite Bresson (That would be Balthazar), but there is something about it and will probably revisit it yet again.

I watched the Ben-Hurish epics, the frothy Pillow Talky comedies and the art films above. But can looking at 1959 films be complete without a little of the campy? I think I'll head to the drive-in tomorrow.