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Most definitely.
I'd add Fellini's <i>La Strada</i> & the film noir <i>House on Telegraph Hill</i>.
But the "planets as Celestial eggs" was invented in the late 1990s at the earliest. In fact, the Eternals movie couldn't be more different from the original creation by Jack Kirby, whose concept was entirely different .... and better, IMHO.
A smart, thoughtful comment, and I pretty much agree with you. <i>Cutter's Way</i> is one of those great lost (or nearly lost) films that had the misfortune to come out at just the wrong time, I'd say. The above discussion makes me want to watch it again now.
Yes, the mid-1950s to the early/mid-1960s was his heyday. I was a kid in the 1960s & saw him in a lot of those movies on TV myself. :)
He was very good as the male lead in Disney's <i>Pollyanna</i>. And in 1963 he starred in the short-lived Western series <i>Redigo</i>. A solid performer, always dependable, and capable of more range than he was usually given credit for, I think.
He was a reasonably big name then, if not an A-lister. But he was more than B-list.
Hope you'll continue to enjoy it. :)
That, too. :)
Whatever regrets the characters carry with them, they're given their second chance to make amends & lay those regrets to rest.
It does echo <i>Wild Strawberries</i> ... but to my mind, there are also some similarities to <i>The Swimmer</i>, in that a middle-aged protagonist is brought face to face with his/her self-delusions, which are no longer able to sustain life as they've known it ... that have in fact strangled much of the life they might have lived up to that point.
I don't find it dated at all. The trappings, the decor, etc., are of their period, of course. But the primary issue of being locked into such a detached, cerebral world & denying the emotional aspect of life is just as present today as it ever was in the past.
Because Marion has been seeing & living her life through a facade of cerebral perfection & emotional self-deception, and only now is coming face to face with it.
There's an actual DVD now.
Actually, I <i>was</i> alive at that time, seeing the series when it first appeared on TV in America, and then returning to it many times over the decades. Yes, it was part of the zeitgeist ... but the zeitgeist was far more than just an empty fad, though it may seem no more than that to you. The social commentary extended into psychological commentary, going ever more deeply into the mind & soul of Number Six, who of course is also Everyman. The spiritual connotation is a conscious choice there. The final episode obviously doesn't work for you, and that's fine. But many viewers would disagree with your assessment.
The acid story has really been overblown. Certainly there were some who did so, but for the majority, the movie itself was more than trippy enough :)
While I disagree about the last 20 minutes, yours is a fair & honest response. It all comes down to each viewer's personal experience of this film ... or any film, in fact. That's all that matters in the end.
Absolutely. It still has no equal.
Probably more than I can count at this point. My first viewing was well over 55 years ago!
I think Jason just gets the overall tone right, and that also makes a difference in how we experience it. A movie made in the early 1960s is coming from a rather different place than one coming from the 1980s, I'd say.
A dream, a Surrealistic fever dream of symbols & metaphors about her emerging awareness of sexuality.
I took it as simply being his (and his particular branch of Christianity's) take on the Sabbath. Also, the story takes place nearly a century ago, when social mores across the board were more formal for everyone. Note that Eric Liddell doesn't yell & belittle & browbeat the boys playing football. He just offers a kindly reminder of what the day is supposed to be about for all of them. And does so with a fond smile, not a scowl. Perhaps remembering that he might have done the same at their age?