A Sixties Film Festival

1. Yellow Submarine, dir. George Dunning (1968)
The Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby"
Liverpool
music hall

2. Blowup, dir. Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
"Swinging London"
alienation
voyeurism | the power and elusive quality of appearances

3. 1-2-3, dir. Billy Wilder (1961)
b. Samuel Wilder, Polish Jew in Austro-Hungarian empire (grew up in Vienna, lived in Berlin in 1920s)
Cold War farce
Berlin Wall | Brandenburg gate

4. The Battle of Algiers, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (1966)
French-Algerian War (1954-1962)
the Casbah (Arab quarter of Algiers)
FLN (Front de Libération nationale, or National Liberation Front)
terrorism and counter-terrorism, torture and reprisals