1969: A Year That Changed Hollywood
July 19–25, 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s long awaited Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, an unrestrained re-creation of—and requiem to—1969 Hollywood, will open at the JBFC on July 26. To get in the mood, we’re turning back the clock to look at some of the big releases of that tumultuous year, when harder-edged stories dealing with social and political pressures of the day—whether the sexual revolution or the impact of the Vietnam War—took over the typical ’60s Hollywood fare of bland widescreen epics and musicals, reflecting and feeding a radical new era in filmmaking here and abroad.
Programmed by JBFC programming staff
Midnight Cowboy
July 7–13, 2023
4K Restoration
The 1969 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay features Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight…
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
July 21–24, 2019
“Like Sean Connery before him, George Lazenby had potency and dash, but his vulnerability was all new, and his scenes…
The Wild Bunch (Director's Cut)
July 20–25, 2019
“Arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s—a western that galvanizes the clichés of its dying genre with a shocking…
Medium Cool
July 20–23, 2019
“A film of tremendous visual impact, a kind of cinematic Guernica, a picture of America in the process of exploding…
