Tales of Terror (1962)

So, I actually meant to watch this the day I watched Trilogy of Terror: my list of horror movies for Halloween got away from me, and I thought I remembered what was on it until I went to cross that one off and found this one instead. Oops! In “Morella”, Lenora Locke (Maggie Pierce) goes […]

Les yeux sans visage [Eyes Without a Face] (1960)

I can’t for the life of me recall for certain whether an old friend recommended this one to me or Carnival of Souls or both (I’m pretty sure Carnival was in there, just less sure whether this was as well). Once upon a time, after all, Criterion went fairly light on horror flicks, so I […]

Village of the Damned (1960)

The last of my group of films-that-were-later-remade for the film club, this 1960 flick was remade 35 years later by John Carpenter (a tiny touch of a theme itself, though not exactly). I had watched this one before, in my days of multi-tasking while watching—a habit I decided to break by writing movie reviews, which […]

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

I actually first watched this one some time ago, but decided the film club would, as ever, make an enticing excuse to revisit it, particularly with my plotted (but abandoned, in light of said club’s dissolution) “then later watch remakes of a month’s movies” idea. I watched it long enough ago that I was likely […]

The Prize (1963)

I thought this was some kind of crime and heist movie: a “prize” that would be the object of the crime and any searches. That, Paul Newman, and a solid Leonard Maltin review sold me on picking this one up and throwing it at the film club months ago. Andrew Craig (Newman) is the winner […]

“X”: the Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Due to the quotation marks that often typographically indicate this title, it sat at the top of my alphabetized collection for ages when programmatically sorted. It’s an “unfair” sort of weight after a fashion, but I’m only human, so I let it drop into my film club selections early in 2021. Dr. James Xavier (Ray […]

Django (1966)

I try to keep the online film club somewhat on their toes, keeping things mixed in terms of genre, reputation source (I do still aim for positive reputations on the whole–but is it arthouse-positive? Cult-positive? Mainstream-positive? Who knows!), and decade of production/release–but it was perhaps the most whimsical to pull out this 1960s cult western […]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Without fail, when I watch a film in the 3+ hour range, that’s the first thing on my mind before I bother, and the thing I’m thinking of even afterward. Once in a while, I’d like to get past that and not have the line I have where it stops being “here is a movie” […]

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution [Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution] (1965)

A fellow cinephile asked me if I’d celebrated or acknowledged Jean-Luc Godard’s birthday today (though it was yesterday), and I admitted I not only hadn’t but had never seen anything he directed (despite collecting a few over the years). I didn’t get a specific suggestion quite in time, so I decided that my vague notion […]

座頭市血笑旅 (Zatōichi kesshō-tabi, lit. Zatoichi: Bloody Journey) [Fight, Zatoichi, Fight] (1964)

Wasn’t sure what to expect after the one-two punch of Kazuo Ikehiro’s more visually inventive and experimental Zatoichi films (the previous two, Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold and Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword), but we’re brought back to the series’s original director, Kenji Misumi with this one. On the road as ever, Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) is […]