In America, we tend to think about the 1960s as
that moment when our culture shifted—a decade-long earthquake that shook everything from our politics to our radio dials. But the movies? With some notable American exceptions, the bulk of that particular revolution was taking place across
the Atlantic. European cinema during the 1960s gave birth to new movements—French New Wave, Czech New Wave, Italian post-Neorealism—each exploding with innovative ideas about how to flip the medium on its head. Filmmakers were at once paying homage to classic American cinema while thumbing their noses
at its anchor-like conventionalism. New voices were emerging (Truffaut,
Godard, Forman, Polanski) at the same moment when established directors
(Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni) were taking experimental turns of their own.
It was style and substance combined as never before. In short: some of the
coolest movies ever made.
Special Offer: Trocadéro is celebrating our European 60s series! From May 9 to June 26, bring your Film Streams ticket stub for a 15% discount off your purchase of $50 or more at Trocadéro, Omaha’s exclusive boutique in the Old Market with distinctly Parisian and Italian finds.
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Films In This Series
Breathless
The 400 Blows
La Dolce Vita
Peeping Tom
Blow-Up
Loves of a Blonde
Jules and Jim
Cleo from 5 to 7
The Firemen's Ball
A Hard Day's Night
Pierrot le fou
Au hasard Balthazar
Knife in the Water
Persona
Play Time
Performance
The Battle of Algiers
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1960A Parisian thug on the run shacks up with the most adorable expatriate ever in this French New Wave landmark and Godard’s first feature-length film. Original title: À bout de souffle
Read more about BREATHLESS in our Film Notes. |
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1959Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS—about a 13-year-old boy cast out of his home and onto the streets of Paris—is arguably the best coming-of-age movie ever made. Original title: Les Quatre cents coups
Now showing with Truffaut's 1962 follow-up ANTOINE ET COLETTE! Running Time: 30 mins. (Please note: Screenings on Tuesday, May 13 and Wednesday, May 14 will be THE 400 BLOWS alone).
FREE Screening for High School Students: Tuesday, May 13, 3:30pm, with a post-show discussion led by Lindsay Trapnell, recent recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council's Distinguished Artist Award for Filmmaking. Please present your school ID for entry.
Read more about THE 400 BLOWS in our Film Notes. |
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1960Icon’s icon Marcello Mastroianni stars in this Italian masterpiece, a defining moment in cinema that found Fellini moving from the neorealism of his earlier films to the dreamy, visual grandeur of his later work.
Read more about LA DOLCE VITA in our Film Notes.
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1960Released the same year as Hitchcock’s
PSYCHO, British director Michael Powell
did demented direction one crazier with
his voyeuristic shocker about a murderous
filmmaker.
Please note the new dates for PEEPING TOM.
Read more about PEEPING TOM in our Film Notes.
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1966Swinging London is at the center of this
highly stylized classic and controversial
Antonioni mystery about a fashion
photographer who unintentionally
captures evidence to a murder.
Read more about BLOW-UP in our Film Notes. |
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1965Big emotions come from this simple
story of a working-class girl who falls for
a touring musician—at once a romance
with political undertones and a comedy
with piercing moments of sadness. Original title: Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Read more about LOVES OF A BLONDE in our Film Notes.
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1962The camera work, staggeringly inventive
at the time and still referenced today,
makes Truffaut’s JULES AND JIM one
of the most vital works of cinema ever
made; the love story, adapted from the
novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, makes it
one of the most beloved.
Original title: Jules et Jim
Read more about JULES AND JIM in our Film Notes.
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1962With a couple hours to wait for her biopsy
results, a young pop singer strolls around Paris, meeting old friends and new characters, while contemplating the life she’s
led so far. Original title: Cléo de 5 à 7
Read more about CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 in our Film Notes.
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1967A comedy of errors cast entirely with
nonprofessional actors, Forman’s brilliantly
deadpan portrayal of a corrupted benefit
gala was almost immediately banned in
the director’s native country.
Original title: Hoøí, má panenko
Read more about THE FIREMEN’S BALL in our Film Notes.
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1964At the height of Beatlemania came this
stylish and groundbreaking comedy
about a day in the life of the world’s most
famous foursome, starring John, Paul,
George, and Ringo themselves.
Read more about A HARD DAY’S NIGHT in our Film Notes.
Free Screening for High School Students:
Tuesday, June 10, 3:30pm, with post-show discussion led by Stephen Brock. Open to area high-school students and recent high school grads with student ID. Click here for more information.
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1965Cool is Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna
Karina playing lovers on the run from
themselves. Very cool is Godard painting
them up in vibrant colors (literally at one
point) and sending them from Paris to the
South of France in a convertible for two.
Read more about PIERROT LE FOU in our Film Notes.
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1966Widely considered to be one of cinema’s
most spiritually transcendent films,
Bresson’s masterpiece follows the parallel
lives of a donkey, Balthazar, and the
young woman who first cared for him as
a child.
Join us Thursday, June 12 at 6:30pm for a special screening followed by a post-show talk with Bemis Center artists, moderated by Bemis curator Hesse McGraw.
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1962An astonishing feature-length debut,
Polanski’s KNIFE IN THE WATER explores
the mounting tension that arises when a
wealthy couple on a weekend sailing trip
pick up a young hitchhiker.
Nóz w wodzie |
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1966Twenty years into his directorial career,
Bergman’s PERSONA is a landmark of
the unconventional, at once a seemingly
straight-forward narrative about a nurse
and her patient, and an artistic voyage
that breaks the fourth wall as few other
films have.
Read more about PERSONA in our Film Notes.
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1967Director Jacques Tati literally recreated Paris in order to make this long-lost masterpiece, a charmingly eccentric comic ballet about a man struggling to adjust with the times.
Read more about PLAY TIME in our Film Notes.
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1970“Controversial” doesn’t begin to explain
the initial reaction to this cult favorite
from Cammell and Roeg, a British
gangster film (by way of Jorge Luis
Borges) featuring Mick Jagger. |
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1966If anything, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS,
Pontecorvo’s landmark, documentary-style
account of the Algerian uprising against
French occupation, has only increased in
relevance in the decades since its release.
Original title: La Battaglia di Algeri
Please note: We have added additional days and showtimes for THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, which will now play through Thursday, June 26. |
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1969PLEASE NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond our control, all showtimes of Costa-Gavras’ Z have been cancelled. As a result, we have added more showtimes of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, which will now play through Thursday, June 26. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment.
The first film ever to receive Oscar nominations for both Best Foreign Film
and Best Picture, Z—based largely on the
1963 assassination of a Greek politician—
set a standard for political thrillers. |
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