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Best Last scene from a 1960's movie. Breathless(1961), The Great Escape(1963), or The Graduate(1968)?


Memo: Hold the presses! Add Planet of the Apes(1968), to the list of choices.


The Graduate

À bout de souffle - Trailer

À bout de souffle (1960) Release Date:7 February 1961 (USA) Director:Jean-Luc Godard Writers:Jean-Luc Godard (writer) François Truffaut (story ...

Jean-Paul Belmondo 1961 interview

Campus Theatre celebrates anniversary with festival Oct. 14-23

Oct. 14, 7 p.m.: "The Third Man" - 1949, directed by Carol Reed. A pulp novelist travels to shadowy post-war Vienna to investigate the murder of an old friend-black-market opportunist, Harry Lime. "We're showing this film because it's a fantastic, internationally flavored film noir," said Faden. "Robert Krasker's atmospheric black and white expressionist style won the Oscar that year for Best Cinematography."

Oct. 15, 1 p.m.: "Fantasia" - 1940, directed by Walt Disney. This classic is a collection of animated short films that illustrate or accompany several pieces of classical Western music.

Oct. 15, 4 p.m.: "The Red Shoes" - 1948, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Romantically torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection, a ballerina must choose between love and her career as a prima ballerina.

Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: "Forbidden Planet" - 1956, directed by Fred M. Wilcox. A space crew lands on an alternate planet, Altair-4, to investigate the silence of the planet's colony and discovers two survivors ... and a mysterious terror.

Breathless 1961 - Bookshelf


Je t'aime-- moi non plus, Franco-British cinematic relations
289 pages
Je t'aime-- moi non plus, Franco-British cinematic relations

For The Daily Herald (7 July 1961), Breathless signalled that Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol had pooled talents to produce a picture 'which crashes like a ...

The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
362 pages
The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973

14 Later arrivals included Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960) and Last Year at Marienbad (1962); Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1961); and Truffaut's ...

Breathless 1961 - News


Rich Girl, Poor Guy and a Magical Makeover
That about sums up “The President,” a madcap comedy that deserves such a quick description, given that its breathless characters never slow down. The rarely performed play also deserves this high-energy revival, with a cast of 20 who race across the

Cecil Taylor: The Pianist Who's Also An Orchestra
Rudd played trombone with Taylor on a 1961 record called Into the Hot. The record was produced by legendary arranger Gil Evans. In a 1980 interview, Evans said his main job when Taylor was in the studio — aside from getting snacks — was to calm the

Cabinet reshuffle: Continuities, compromises and fatalities
By Ani Jozen One excellent feature of the science of politics is how it remains calm over change and movement when everyone else is breathless with exhaustion. In this event, it will be quite hard for many to tell where there are continuities,

Cecil Taylor: The Pianist Who's Also An Orchestra
Rudd played trombone with Taylor on a 1961 record called Into the Hot. The record was produced by legendary arranger Gil Evans. In a 1980 interview, Evans said his main job when Taylor was in the studio — aside from getting snacks — was to calm the

'Orange' painting squeezes record $86.9 million
by AFP Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow", 1961, on display at Christie's in New York on May 4 during a preview of the Post War and Contemporary Art sale. AFPpic "ORANGE, red, yellow" was as hot on the Christie's block as the colours on the bold,