Announcing the 1964 in Film Blogathon

Alright, so my favorite movie scenes blogathon is almost done and I've been starting to receive entries for my Women in Film blogathon and still waiting for someone to send something or other my way for the Journey Across the Cosmos Blogathon. Those are the big activities I've got going on throughout the summer but that doesn't mean I can't do other smaller interactive activities. I did recently start a relay which hopefully will get going soon, and so a smaller, week-long blogathon seemed like something that might be fun.

Having seen a few of these year-based blogathons I thought it would be worthwhile to try one of my own while I'm waiting for entries to my big ones. I've already submitted my review of The Producers for Rosie and Ruth's 1967 in film blogathon and I'm currently signed on to write a review of Tightrope for The Forgotten FIlms' 1984-A-Thon and I got to thinking that it might be fun to try a year-based blogathon of my own while waiting for the bigger events to fully take off.

Alright, enough of my rambling. Let's get to the point.

1964 was a great year for movies, and one that has often stood out to me on a personal level. We got a lot of big movies that year, including some which almost certainly don't deserve the critical acclaim they have when people keep insisting that they're the most awesomest action movies but completely overlook the blatant sexism and try to rationalize the fact that it had a glorified rape scene and it's just so friggin' absurd a lot of classics of note.

Critically-acclaimed actor Michael Caine had his first big acting role this year with Zulu. Meanwhile director Sergio Leone started to make his mark on cinematic history with the low-budget spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. Then of course Kubrick also came out with his famed dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Anyway, I thought since this year seemed to mean a fair bit to me, it would be a good one to honor with something like this. The point is to collect reviews of any film released during this period. (who knows, you might get me watching one or two more great films and finding even more reason to appreciate this particular year).

Now, I do have a few restrictions, so let's get these out of the way, shall we:

1. I do wish to encourage diversity, so for the most part I would like to ask that there be no duplicates (i.e. two reviewers discussing the same movie). However, under the right circumstances I might be willing to make exceptions.
2. No James Bond. I know, a lot of people are going to be hate me for this but it's largely for personal reasons. If you've followed my blog you should know very well how I feel about the series, especially during this time period, and if you've argued with me about it you'll know well how agitated I can get. Since I can't look at any reviews of Bond films objectively, I think it's better for all of us if we just avoid it all together.

Alright, now that's done, so we can get on with the event itself. I'm going to place this over the period of a week, between July 20 and July 26.

As for what to do, you can post a comment before the event telling me what movie you'd like to discuss. As long as it's not Goldfinger, it came out in 1964, and it hasn't already been claimed I shouldn't have any reason to object.

Current Entries

Conman at the Movies- Mary Poppins

All Things Kevyn- A Hard Day's Night
BB Creations- The Train
Book Reviews From James- A Fistful of Dollars


And just for fun, here's some stills from movies that came out in 1964: