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Mark Harris

Cinema ’67 Revisited: In Cold Blood

By Mark Harris
December 20, 2017
Criminal element: Richard Brooks’s adaptation of Truman Capote’s shocking reportage balanced style with naturalism

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Jungle Book

By Mark Harris
December 6, 2017
Lost boys’ club: the final animated film under Walt Disney’s reign left much to be desired

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Cool Hand Luke

By Mark Harris
November 22, 2017
Newman’s own: the 42-year-old star epitomized a new individualism with this pop cultural touchstone that represented an increasingly fractured society

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Wait Until Dark

By Mark Harris
November 8, 2017
The perils of Audrey: adapted from a successful Broadway play, this not-quite horror film cast Hepburn as a mouse who turns the tables on the cat

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Camelot

By Mark Harris
October 25, 2017
Courtly love: Warners’ adaptation of the wildly successful musical boasted an anti-imperialist queen, but couldn’t woo the masses

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Portrait of Jason

By Mark Harris
October 11, 2017
External monologue: even after 50 years, it’s unclear who’s playing who in Shirley Clarke’s unguarded pre-Stonewall portrait of a gay man

Cinema ’67 Revisited: New York Film Festival

By Mark Harris
September 27, 2017
Blowin’ in the wind: recalling the politicized offerings at the fifth edition of NYFF

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Battle of Algiers

By Mark Harris
September 13, 2017
Ripped from the headlines: Gillo Pontecorvo’s on-the-ground view of colonial revolt was accused of being a textbook for American radicals

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Point Blank

By Mark Harris
August 30, 2017
Concrete jungle: Lee Marvin’s gravitas anchored John Boorman’s Antonioni-inflected Hollywood debut

Cinema ‘67 Revisited: The Born Losers, Hot Rods To Hell, and The Trip

By Mark Harris
August 16, 2017
Attack of the sexagenarians: Hollywood’s woebegone initial attempts to tap into youth culture in the late sixties

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Exterminating Angel

By Mark Harris
August 2, 2017
Up all night to get lucky: Luis Buñuel’s surrealist yarn about aristocrats unable to leave a room is truly timeless

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Up the Down Staircase

By Mark Harris
July 19, 2017
Lesson learned: Sandy Dennis takes names in Robert Mulligan's adaptation of a New York City schoolteacher's novel

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Dirty Dozen

By Mark Harris
June 28, 2017
Angels with dirty faces: Vietnam commentary by way of that notorious motley crew on a wartime suicide mission

Cinema ’67 Revisited: King of Hearts

By Mark Harris
June 14, 2017
Mad about you: Philippe de Broca’s anti-war cult classic put the inmates in charge of the asylum

Cinema ’67 Revisited: You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale

By Mark Harris
May 31, 2017
Bond unbound: her majesty’s secret service franchise faced the departure of its star, serious imitators, and an over-the-top parody of the genre it pioneered

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Honey Pot

By Mark Harris
May 17, 2017
Too much but never enough: Joseph Mankiewicz's final film shot for madcap misunderstandings, but ended up drearily droll

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Two for the Road

By Mark Harris
April 26, 2017
Ambivalently yours: Stanley Donen's sweet and sour study of an uncertain marriage is realized with sophistication

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Accident

By Mark Harris
April 12, 2017
Dark hearts: Joseph Losey's formally ambitious, Harold Pinter-scripted puzzle box drama is as unsparing as it is stylish

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Hurry Sundown & Hombre

By Mark Harris
March 29, 2017
Out with the old: two well-meaning flops that lead to better roles (or political activism) for their stars

Cinema ’67 Revisited: A Countess from Hong Kong

By Mark Harris
March 15, 2017
Aristocrats in decline: Chaplin's final film was behind the times before shooting began