Not the Early Sixties but the Early Seventies

"...Ms. Moser, If the early Sixties was the time to be here, why did..."

Aug. 17, 2006 Postmarks

Early to Rise

Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone

"...See, he plays early music. Early, as in before the Classical Era, before..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Live: Richard Barone Presents Greenwich Village in the Sixties

Soft Boys, Youngbloods, Moby Grape, Brian Jones’ grandson, etc.

"...the lower part of New York City. In the Sixties, it became ground zero of the folk explosion...."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Jim Caligiuri

"Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties"

"Witness" brings the Civil Rights Movement to the Blanton Museum of Art

"...of Art's "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties" takes a timely look at art from that pivotal..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...crucible for all the forces that brought us the Sixties...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Lou Reed Box Set Tells Tale of Early Solo Career

The RCA & Arista Album Collection's 17 discs document the Seventies and Eighties

"...and Neil Young, carried the charge born of the Sixties into a world of cataclysmic change. Each grappled with..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Anthology Recordings Dusts Off the Early Stuff

Anthology Recordings for the digital age

"...about Father Yod (formerly known as Jim Baker), a Sixties counterculture free spirit, health-food entrepreneur, and Jesus-look-alike who preached..."

Feb. 20, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Inside Llewyn Davis

The latest from the Coen Brothers nails the Sixties folk-music scene, and delivers another of their memorably flawed heroes.

"...brisk shivers. It’s set in Greenwich Village in the early Sixties, the same time Dylan was starting to make..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Big Eyes

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.

"...memes were memes, they were fads and in the early Sixties one of the most popular was the ubiquitous..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

X-Men: First Class

The origins of the bad blood among Marvel's mutants is explored in this new film from the franchise.

"...mutant-leaders-turned-mortal-enemies. In this origin story, set primarily in the early Sixties, director Matthew Vaughn gooses summer blockbuster expectations further..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Down With Love

"...the great Rock Hudson/Doris Day sex comedies of the early Sixties, but possibly the finest one comes midway through,..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Remember the Titans

"...football film than it is a ponderous meditation on early Sixties racial division cloaked within a high school football..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Car 54, Where are You?

"...that simply can not be improved upon cinematically after nearly 30 years following their debuts on the airwaves. This..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.

"...son Sherman first popped up on TV in the early Sixties as interstitial entertainment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle..."

March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Yogi Bear

This mixture of animated talking animals and live action is unbearable.

"...Yogi Bear Show, which ran on TV in the early Sixties, have clawed their way onto the silver screen...."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tsotsi

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

"...film is based on a novel written in the early Sixties by famed playwright Athol Fugard, and adapted for..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ocean's Twelve

Like Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven and 1960’s Rat-Packing original, Ocean's Twelve is an elaborate and delightful excuse to get the screen’s biggest and most gorgeous stars in the same film.

"...Soderbergh here revels in the funky, retro-cool of both early Sixties’ machismo mythologizing (as perfected by Frank, Dino, Sammy,..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Secondhand Lions

In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.

"...in the least that McCanlies is playing your heartstrings nearly as well as Harpo Marx played an upended Steinway...."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fall of the House of Usher

"...for legendary B-movie outfit American International Pictures in the early Sixties, The Fall of the House of Usher takes..."

Oct. 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Home of Our Own

"...one scene to another. This film, set in the early Sixties, about a tough independent single mother (Bates) raising..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Riff-Raff

"...Like the angry-young-man films of the late Fifties and early Sixties, Riff-Raff doesn't sugarcoat its working class antiheroes. They're..."

April 23, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Love Field

"...period piece set in the American South in the early Sixties that tells the story of an interracial friendship...."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dogfight

"...as people in the remarkably romantic context of the early Sixties (and maybe that's just personal nostalgia). Phoenix's distant,..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...between these two timelines of present day and the early Sixties. Turns out adult Tony doesn’t know the whole..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...be taken as outright bias, but while Rebels is clearly the work of one of its own subjects, the..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Ken Johnson

Remembering the versatile theatre artist, who died March 2

"...and popularity of the stage scene here in the Sixties and Seventies has left us. Ken Johnson – or..."

March 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fantastic Four

All four aren't fantastic, but at least two are pretty good in this latest Hollywood take on a classic from Marvel Comics.

"...effects having finally matched pace with Lee’s fertile, febrile, early-Sixties, four-color, pulp-paper imagination, Lee can saunter off to that..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Education of Little Tree

"...Tree's story occurs in the Tennessee mountains during the early years of the Depression. Little Tree (Ashton) is a..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Get Folked!

An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.

"...that other notable British music group, with the taciturn, nearly dour Guest playing Lennon, McKean a wiseacre McCartney, and..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Patti, Mary, and Miriam

Girl talk with Patti, Mary, and Miriam.

"...First recorded and written by Ernie K-Doe in the early Sixties as “A Certain Girl,” the song irresistibly bounces..."

May 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

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