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Monterey Pop

There were two major films about music events in the ’60s, Woodstock and Monterey Pop, made one year apart.

Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil, an “experimental” film from director Chris Marker (perhaps best known for La Jetée, which inspired Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys), is a pretentious love-it-or-hate-it piece of cinema.

Good Ol’ Freda

In a small British cottage, the filmmakers find the elderly Frieda, a girl who worked as a typist and, as a teenager, became the keeper of The Beatles fan club.

Paris Is Burning

In the late ’80s, Jenny Livingston spent several years observing the ballroom-dance subculture, popular primarily among poor and unprivileged New Yorkers