Top Five 1960s – 1970s Movies

12 thoughts on “Top Five 1960s – 1970s Movies”

1. I’d have included National Lampoon’s Animal House and the original Hairspray as both nailing the early ’60s.

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2. Another music movie, “Walk the Line,” but I’ve loved it for the performances, but haven’t broken down the costumes.

   1. I don’t remember the costumes as being horrible. And I liked the story overall.

3. Oh my. I intensely disliked Behind the Candelabra — the acting and costumes were amazing but I liked nothing else. I thought the script, directing, and story horrible.

   I still need to see Dreamgirls….

4. I enjoyed Hidden Figures. The designer not only captured each of the women’s character by her dress, but also delineated class as well.

   The miniseries A Woman Named Jackie was excellent in their choice of dressing actress Roma Downey as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The choice of dress did an excellent job of showing Jackie’s evolution from the daughter of privilege to a woman of power.

5. I loved the costuming in the Mambo Kings. It shows what clothing was like in the Latin community in the 50’s and 60’s.

6. I love Call the Midwife; saw The Last Post on Amazon Prime recently, enjoyed it; 1960’s are about as late as I prefer to go in costume dramas. I don’t like the 70’s as much.

7. The Sapphires! It’s the (dramatised) true story of four aboriginal women who traveled to Vietnam to sing for troops. It’s funny and endearing, and of course, the Motown music is fantastic.

8. I really enjoyed “Dreamgirls”, along with “Saving Mr. Banks”, “American Gangster” “Infamous”, “That Thing You Do”, “Rush”, and “Apollo 13”.

9. Crybaby (kind of companion piece to Hairspray). Another John Water masterpiece.

10. “Catch Me if You Can” was another great one. Of course, for TV there’s always “Mad Men.”

11. Y’all left off Dazed and Confused!

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