Testament of Orpheus (1960) In the final film installment of Jean Cocteau’s Orphic trilogy, he encounters characters from his previous films and appears before a tribunal to defend his life and art. Though not as well-known as later French filmmakers, Jean Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut, Cocteau’s films introduced avant-garde sensibilities and philosophical underpinnings into cinemas.… Continue reading Best of the 1960s
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Big and red
The Big Red One (1980) In World War I, Private Possum (Lee Marvin) kills a German solider and returns to headquarters, where he’s told the war ended “about four hours ago.” Since the war was over, was it murder when he killed the German? Are the signatures of distant leaders on a piece of paper… Continue reading Big and red