Ep# 86 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1962

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Bart and Jenna want to tell you what their favorites films from 1962 are, but the catch is that the films can only be selected from films covered on Cinema60 so far! But first, they’re going to talk about six films from 1961 that they’ve chosen to watch in hopes that they can snazz up their Top Tens with some bonus bangers. (Aka, basically it’s just Kiss Marry Kill by a different name.)

Jenna’s picks for the episode are a diverse range of societal critiques, but all three are favorite genres of hers: the anti-authoritarian fable, the dark, horror-adjacent satire, and the Commedia all'italiana. Bart’s pick are bit more uniform and specific - small-scale slice-of-life films about young women who’ve struck out on their own to make lives for themselves and end up involved in atypical relationship triangles. Six different nations are represented in their choices, providing a nice cross-section of what was going in in cinema in 1962.
The following films are discussed:
• Harakiri (1962)
切腹/Seppuku
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita

• Adieu Philippine (1962)
Directed by Jacques Rozier
Starring Jean-Claude Aimini, Stefania Sabatini, Yveline Céry

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Starring Leslie Caron, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters

• Smog (1962)
Directed by Franco Rossi
Starring Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori

• Strange Girl (1962)
Čudna devojka
Directed by Jovan Zivanovic
Starring Spela Rozin, Vojislav Miric, Zoran Radmilovic