The Southeast Museum of Photography celebrates the year 1960 in film with several classic great films throughout the fall.

New breakthroughs in film throughout that year, reflected the changing times in the world. Admission to the films is by donation.

All screenings occur in the Southeast Museum of Photography’s Madorsky Theater (Daytona campus of Daytona State College, building 1200).

The schedule includes:

September 17 - Psycho

Rating: R Director: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1960), 109 minutes.

Nothing has ever matched the impact of Psycho. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters--then pulls the rug out from under you.

September 24 -

Inherit the Wind

Director: Stanley Kramer (USA, 1960), 127 min.

Inherit the Wind is the film adaptation of the play of the same name. The controversial subject of evolution versus creation caused two polar opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs and created the greatest courtroom drama of the 20th century. Attorney Clarence Darrow faces off against fundamentalist leader, and failed presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in a small Tennessee town where a teacher has been brought to trial for teaching Darwinism.

October 1 - The Four

Hundred Blows (Les

Quatre Cents Coups)

Director: François Truffaut (France, 1960) 99 min.

In 1959, François Truffaut burst upon the scene, heralding the French New Wave with his emotional, autobiographical tale of a boy named Antoine Doinel. As Antoine, the 14-year-old star Jean-Pierre Leaud begins his career as director Truffaut’s alter-ego, a young boy neglected by his mother and stepfather who, to cover his absence at school, tells a lie that leads him to run away from home and end up in reform school.

October 8 - Breathless

(A Bout De Souffle)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1960), 90 min.

Godard’s first feature-length film, along with the works of Alain Resnais and François Truffaut, ushered in the cinematic explosion that was the French New Wave, or nouvelle vague and changed cinema forever. Breathless attracted attention with its lean, exciting and casual style, bold visuals, innovative editing, hand-held photography and its unflinching portrayal of the contemporary world. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg play two young lovers on the run from the law and on an odyssey through the streets of Paris.

October 15 - Rocco and His Brothers

(Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

Director: Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1960) 177 min.

In sweeping epic style, Rocco and His Brothers tells the story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world.

October 22 - L’Avventura (The Adventure)  

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France, 1960) 145 min.

Considered by many to be his masterpiece, L’Avventura positioned Michelangelo Antonioni as an international talent. What appears to be a search for a girl who mysteriously disappears is actually an examination of the alienation and self-discovery found along a voyage through the morally decadent world of the idle rich. 

October 29 - La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)

Director: Federico Fellini (1960, Italy/France, 1960) 174 min.

One of the most influential and critically acclaimed works by Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita follows a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome. In constant search for the next big scandal, he is continually seduced by the decadent life led by Rome’s pampered rich. La Dolce Vita presents a cynical and engrossing social commentary in a detailed panorama of Rome’s modern decadence and sophisticated immorality.

November 6 - The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)

Director: Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1960) 89 min.

Set in medieval Sweden, The Virgin Spring is a revenge tale about a father’s merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. It also examines a society in transition from Norse pantheism to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri--a dark, feral, Odin-worshipping foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow and their own daughter, a pretty and blond but also vain and naïve girl named Karin, whom Ingeri resents.

November 12 - Saturday Night and Sunday

Morning

Dir: Karel Reisz (UK, 1960) 89 min.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was at the forefront of the British New Wave of social-realist films and was one of the first of the “kitchen sink dramas” of the 1960’s that dealt with working class issues in a serious manner. Alan Sillitoe wrote the screenplay adaptation of his novel of the same name.

November 19 -

Peeping Tom

Director: Michael Powell (UK, 1960), 109 min.

Michael Powell’s extraordinary film is a psychological thriller about the childhood traumas, sexual crises, and the anti-social revenge as an adult of a psychopathic cameraman. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent who subjected the son to nightmarish experiments in fear, and recorded every interaction with a movie camera.

December 3 - The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)

Dir: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1960) 151 min.

The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of corruption at the highest levels of Japanese business and its tragic consequences. Japanese legend Toshiro Mifune plays Koichi Nishi, the seemingly stoic bridegroom who is trying to get ahead by marrying his boss Iwabuchi’s daughter, Kieko. For a host of secret, personal reasons Nishi slowly takes steps to destroy Iwabuchi’s life.

Go to http://www.smponline.org/films_1960s.html for more information on the year 1960 in film.

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