I have now watched 48 films that were released in 1969. 1969 began March 14, a few days before California locked down, and ends as California has become a “hot spot” after doing so well.
A complete list of the films I saw can be found here. My favorites are listed in alphabetical order. I did not list Louis Malle’s excellent Phantom India series of documentaries, which was made for television. From the List, I could not find Lucia and I did not feel a need to re-watch Fellini’s Satyricon which I didn’t like much back in the day.
All My Good Countrymen – Directed by Vojtech Jasny
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Directed by George Roy Hill
The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) – Directed by Sergei Parajanov
The Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol) – Directed by Juraj Herz
Double Suicide (Shinju: Ten no Amijima) – Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Kes – Directed by Ken Loach
Midnight Cowboy – Directed by John Schlesinger
My Night at Maud’s (Ma nuit chez Maud) – Directed by Eric Rohmer
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Directed by Ronald Neame
Salesman – Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Directed by Sydney Pollack
Z – Directed by Costa-Gavras
Several I’ve never seen! On to 1970 and more memoirs from our youth!
Yes indeed! I’m going to start by rocking out to the director’s cut of “Woodstock”.
Oh that will be a lot of Woodstock!
The time flew by. Stay tuned for review!
A few surprises on your top ten list, but I suppose that this year was a mixed bag of candy. So is 1970 so I hope you made a good list to watch.
List will be up today. We’ll see how it goes.
Bea will you be covering this?
Soldier Blue (1970)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066390/
(note I’ve seen several comments that the film was butchered for its 1970 US release and that you need to watch the full version, unseen myself)
There’s a 2 hour version available for rent on Netflix. Do you recommend?
Have not seen this one at all, was just asking of it was on your review list, so sorry, I cannot comment on whether it is worth watching or not.
re runtime – I have seen a couple of mentions saying it should run to 115 minutes. so I assume “2 hour” was a thereabouts and simplified comment? There were quite a few cut versions of varying lengths released (even one at 114 minutes!). The cuts appear to have been for very strong, bloody and graphic violence and animal cruelty inspired cuts for horsefalls.
The cuts are for stuff that makes me want to give this a miss. Thanks.
…that’s fine, the more I researched the less I thought of the film. Just remember it was a talked about film at the rime hence I remembered the title name.