Mabuse (1960), for example, and John Ford’s Seven Women (1966) are movies that separate the sheep from the goats as far as aficionados of their directors are concerned.
Bloody religious wars were waged over these movies in most cases, they’re still being waged.įritz Lang’s The Thousand Eyes of Dr. And almost invariably, they were dying at the box office and at the hands of most mainstream reviewers, while a team of passionate and informed enthusiasts were singing their praises. Starting next Tuesday, May 17, the Film Center of the Art Institute will present a weekly series of testaments to run through the end of June.Ī lot of the movies included in “Testaments: Final Films of the Great Directors” were getting their first releases back in those days. It can be traced back to the 60s, specifically to the French New Wave and the forging in this country of the concept of the film auteur, a time when these and related phenomena were altering the official canons of movie culture. The notion of the “testament” - the final work of a major filmmaker - is an important one to film lovers.
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