1966: cinema loud
1966 is my favorite year in film: across all genres, filmmakers, and languages. 1966 cinema is stylish, wild, inventive, thrilling, and anarchistic.
There are films going on pure vibes and bright colors (ahem Modesty Blaise) and significant cultural works like Ousmane Sembène’s ‘La Noire de...’ (Black Girl) with its anti-colonial perspective that still reverberates. 1966 is a year with films outside the US-Euro stronghold reaching both prominence and global audiences. For me, it’s a year that typifies, at their best, movies as entertainment spectacle, as an art medium, and as a carrier of empathy.
I have made a list of about sixty 1966 releases to watch and profile here (twenty being rewatches, and forty being new-to-me).
Looking forward to a year full of unconstrained films!
1) Daisies
