1960s

By the 1960s, Hollywood was in decline, unable to keep up with the radical political and cultural developments transforming American society. European films, however, fueled by government funding of film production, achieved unprecedented levels of critical acclaim and box-office success.

As the 60s began, we elected John F. Kennedy, a man who might as well have been a movie star, as President. His mistress was a movie star and even his campaign against Nixon was rolled out like the PR blitz for a summer blockbuster. His assassination in 1963, would become one of the most mulled-over events in cinematic culture, second perhaps only to the Holocaust.

Fashion and film have always gone hand in hand, whether it's a designer taking inspiration from a movie's wardrobe or a leading lady sporting the latest couture. We're rounding up the most important movies by decade-from the 1950s to today-that every fashion lover should see.

As many a film director's favourite film, Fellini's grand opus 8½, returns to cinemas, we round up 10 more masterpieces from what was a golden age for Italian cinema: the 1960s.

A new study has found that films created during the 1960s belong to the most creative era in cinema history, CBS Las Vegas reports.

It's been a little more than five months since the last installment of our History of Film series, and in that short time Movie Mezzanine has undergone some significant changes. This includes partnerships with Letterboxd and others, accreditation on Rotten Tomatoes, and the hiring of our first Reviews Editor in Josh Spiegel. What hasn't happened in 2014, however, is this ongoing feature. Today that's going to change.

A list of the top movies from the 1960s.

Cinema in the 1960s reflected the decade of fun, fashion, rock 'n' roll, tremendous social changes (i.e., the civil rights era and marches) and transitional cultural values. This was a turbulent decade of monumental changes, tragedies, cultural events, assassinations and deaths, and advancements, such as:

Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the 1960s.

Creepy kids, killer birds, zombies, and Edgar Allan Poe.

American cinema changed dramatically over the course of the 1960s, during which time the scope, shape, and content of film was rigorously challenged. Eager to break away from the domination of narrative features of this period, film artists used fresh, renegade styles to explore both the structure of edited composition and the lyrical nature of celluloid images.

The 1960s were a decade of transformation, the Japanese film industry was forced to change after the end of the Golden Age. New talents appeared, with movies reflecting the state of society; dark, troubled & surprising.