As part of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations, The School of Arts are teaming up with The Gulbenkian to bring you ‘Film65,’ A yearlong series of films all made in 1965, each introduced by a name speaker.<\/p>\n
1965 was a year when era-defining singles like The Beatles\u2019 \u2018Ticket to Ride\u2019 and \u2018Help!\u2019 , and the Stones\u2019 \u2018Satisfaction\u2019 and \u2018Get Off Of My Cloud\u2019, were outsold by The Seekers\u2019 \u2018I\u2019ll Never Find Another You\u2019 and Ken Dodd\u2019s \u2018Tears\u2019.<\/p>\n
The No.1 album spot was shared exclusively between seven LPs: \u2018Beatles for Sale\u2019, \u2018Help!\u2019, \u2018Rubber Soul\u2019, \u2018The Rolling Stones No.2\u2019, \u2018The Freewheelin\u2019 Bob Dylan\u2019, \u2018Bringing It All Back Home\u2019 \u2026 and the original soundtrack to \u2018The Sound of Music\u2019.<\/p>\n
The highest-grossing films were \u2018The Sound of Music\u2019, \u2018Doctor Zhivago\u2019 and \u2018Thunderball\u2019, with \u2018What\u2019s New Pussycat?\u2019, \u2018Von Ryan\u2019s Express\u2019 and Disney\u2019s \u2018That Darn Cat!\u2019 not far behind.<\/p>\n
Film65<\/strong> will capture the essence of what it was like at that time to go to see a film at your local Rialto, Regal or Essoldo. Perhaps you walked through the winter slush, a copy of \u2018Freewheelin\u2019\u2019 under one arm and the other around your Suze Rotolo lookalike girlfriend. What films might you have seen on the big screen?<\/p>\n The season will reflect both commercial and art-house successes of the year. It\u2019s an eye-opening cross-section, recording the impact of spaghetti westerns like \u2018For A Few Dollars More\u2019, spy movies such as \u2018The Ipcress File\u2019, and the work of young European auteurs like Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard and Roman Polanski. Above all else, stars\u2019 faces dominate: Clint Eastwood, Julie Christie, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress.<\/p>\n