Episode 93: 1966 with Charles Taylor
A podcast about the great movie years.
Charles Taylor is the author of one of our fave film books, Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You, so he joins us to discuss the “hinge year” of 1966, which included late films from old masters (El Dorado), manifestos from provocateurs (Masculin Feminin), and electric shocks from cinematic wild men (Tokyo Drifter).
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7 Women is streaming on Hoopla and is available for digital rental or purchase. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is streaming on Tubi, PlutoTV, and Hoopla, and is available for digital rental or purchase; it’s also available on 4K from KL Studio Classics.
Masculin Feminin is streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max, and is available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. El Dorado is streaming on Hoopla and is available for digital rental or purchase. And Tokyo Drifter is streaming on the Criterion Channel and is available for digital rental or purchase.
You can read Charly’s Substack, “Crackers in Bed,” here, and you can buy his book here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
If you’d like to watch When I Close My Eyes, the documentary short Mike produced, you can do that on PBS’s Independent Lens site. And if you’d like to pre-order Jason’s new book Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.
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