1960
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1960.
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Village of the Damned
‘Village of the Damned’ is some solid stuff. Feels of its time in a way that makes it feel like a long ‘Twilight Zone’ episode. I’m a fan. (read more)
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The Bad Sleep Well
A fair generalization of Akira Kurosawa movies is that his greatest works have wonderful characterizations while his lesser works are so because they lack this. The Bad Sleep Well is no different. Performances are strong (a fine example of Toshirô Mifune‘s incredible range in particular), the Hamlet-inspired story is conceptually good, but characters are underdeveloped… (read more)
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Spartacus
Spartacus gets both ends of the shaft from film nerds due to the fact it’s the least “Kubrickian” Stanley Kubrick movie, and most everyone else shrugs it off because it’s just not particularly great. Kubrick-like or not, Spartacus is still a pretty well done cheesy Hollywood melodrama adventure flick with some very entertaining action scenes,… (read more)
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Psycho
Yeah, everyone’s right about it: it’s astonishing how well Psycho still holds up, and that’s always a testament to how well-made it was in the first place. Psycho‘s not likely to instill fear in anyone anymore, but relative to its own time it’s in an entire, brand new league, and the thick tension and thrills… (read more)