By Nicholas Stix
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and The Apartment (1960) most overlooked? Judgment was up for a passel of Oscars, and made lots of money, but only won for Best Original Screenplay, because it was up against West Side Story that year.
The previous year, The Apartment won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (three for Billy Wilder!), and would have won for Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine, if Lizzie Taylor hadn't had a near-death illness and garnered a huge sympathy vote, which won her the Best Actress Oscar for her atrocious performance in Butterfield 8. (But why was she even nominated?!)
If was, likewise, not at all overlooked. It made a tidy profit, was named to ten best lists (including the Times,' if memory serves), and the whole world talked about it.
As for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), it got Alan Arkin his second Best Actor nomination in three years.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) made a huge splash at the time, and plenty of money.
Alice’s Restaurant was named to the New York Times’ Ten Best List for 1968, and turned a tidy profit.
Oh, What a Lovely War! (1969) was acclaimed. I didn’t see it, but I heard of it as a young lad.
Z (1969) won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and was acclaimed by left-wing movie critics (i.e., just about all critics) everywhere.
The obscene Midnight Cowboy (also 1969) won the Oscar for Best Picture, and shouldn’t even have been green-lighted. It was up for a zillion Oscars (including Jon Voight AND Dustin Hoffman for Best Actor), and everyone was talking about it. Fortunately, Voight and Hoffman knocked each other off, and John Wayne won his only Oscar as Best Actor, for his titanic performance in Maggie Roberts and Henry Hathaway’s masterpiece, True Grit.
My Night at Maud’s (yet again, 1969!): I never saw it, but I sure heard plenty about it.
Ah, so the images at the beginning were merely click-bait teasers, using movies that had nothing at all to do with the actual video.
Fortunately for me, my Chief of Research installed ad blocker on my desktop years ago, and periodically updates it.
The purposes of this channel are to ring people into seeing its commercials, and to mislead them about movie history. Whether Gene Siskel actually said such ridiculous things, I can’t say. However, I do know that somebody set up a channel, “Thomas Sowell today,” for which he used ai to download all sorts of conversations Sowell has had online over the years, and then write fake lectures in Sowell’s voice, which make him sound like a Trumpist.
After so many bad experiences with fake movie channels, with Thomas Sowell today, and with all the bad signs about this one, I am assuming the worst about it.
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"think you've seen all the best films of the 1960s? think again! Dive into Gene Siskel’s most overlooked cinematic gems from the 1960s—hidden masterpieces that deserve a second look. from underrated classics to forgotten thrillers, this video uncovers the films that flew under the radar but left a lasting impact. whether you're a film buff, a Siskel fan, or just love vintage cinema, these picks will expand your watchlist. don’t miss these incredible hidden treasures of the '60s—hit play and discover the movies time forgot!"
"Gene Siskel’s most overlooked films of 1960s"
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The black Ventriloquist's channel. I KNEW what I heard didn't sound like something Sowell would say. In 10 years,will anyone know who is "saying" what? Maybe not even ourselves.
--GRA
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