1964
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1964.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I’m heartbroken. Not because of the story of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but everything else. I love musicals and thought its concept of every spoken line being sung was brilliant. I saw the bright, blooming colors and that this was a French movie and assumed that Jacques Demy foresaw my birth and created this movie… (read more)
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A Fistful of Dollars
It’s surprising how they both run the same length, as Yojimbo fleshes out its setting and characters much more than A Fistful of Dollars does, perhaps due to Sergio Leone‘s slow, suspenseful pacing. Yojimbo is also funnier. Yojimbo this, Yojimbo that. A Fistful of Dollars is inferior, but it still has plenty of its own… (read more)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Most of Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is still funny, but there are several long segments that are just incredibly boring, silly shit and the same run-on gags, like the aircraft scenes. It’s also natural to be disappointed at the lack of the iconic titular… (read more)
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The Kinks – “Kinks”
The first Kinks album consists mostly of a bunch of mediocre R&B covers and terrible original songs penned by the band’s producer at the time Shel Talmy. Odds are you already have any good songs on here on some Greatest Hits album. If you see any songs you don’t have, then take solace in the fact that… (read more)