Gene Youngblood
Gene Youngblood's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Inside North Vietnam (1967)
“Hawks and doves alike will benefit by seeing it.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Apr 9, 2020
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The Trip (1967)
39%
“This is simply a beautiful movie about a fellow who takes an acid trip - with all its ups and downs.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Privilege (1967)
55%
“Privilege has no identity nor direction of its own, though an awesome amount of energy is expended in trying to make us think so.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
55%
“In short, this movie is a perfect demonstration of how the Hollywood syndrome has corrupted, distorted and misrepresented the art of film throughout its brief history.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
64%
“I haven't walked out on a film in years; it was a depressing experience.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Chafed Elbows (1966)
“A series of one-liners and sight gags that amount to a cinematic equivalent of Mad Magazine, and it has Mad's adolescent intellectual-emotional level.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Festival (1967)
100%
“Festival is a perfect example in my view, of one of the few types of cinema in which filmic technique validly takes a secondary position to literary-musical content.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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The Stranger (1967)
46%
“Literature and cinema - incompatible but habitual bedfellows - are fused flawlessly in this adaptation of Camus' existentialist masterpiece.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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The Graduate (1967)
87%
“Every cinematic cliche, every formula plot device, every pseudo-intellectual ploy, every sentimental gimmick, every prefabricated, sure-fire boxoffice ingredient designed to empty pocketbooks and dampen hankies is present in this despicable movie.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Chappaqua (1966)
“It's the kind of film every UCLA cinema student would make if he were a Poor Little Rich Boy with a Big Hang-Up. Well, that's not exactly true, because I've seen much better films at UCLA.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 1, 2020
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Jalsaghar (1960)
100%
“It is the most delicately balanced, the most poetic, and with the possible exception of The World of Apu it is Ray's most romantic movie.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 1, 2020
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Mahanagar (1963)
93%
“We are left in awe of the evanescent beauty of [Satyajit Ray's] thoughts.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 1, 2020
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Echoes of Silence (1967)
“It will open your eyes to the power of the silent image.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 1, 2020
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How I Won the War (1967)
44%
“We've been handed this kind of tripe in every Terry Thomas, Peter Sellers, Martin and Lewis, Laurel and Hardy Army spoof ever made.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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I, a Man (1967)
“Warhol's acerbic, corrosive, outlandish humor is honed to razor-sharp perfection.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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Elvira Madigan (1967)
57%
“That a film should not be well-made in this age of technology is flatly unforgiveable.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
99%
“[Gillo] Pontecorvo is not much different from Mike Nichols and his techniques in the execrable Graduate. But the separating factor is Pontecorvo's artistic sensibility: he knows when enough is enough.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
“A triumph of surpassing technical mastery and probing thematic eloquence. It is everything we ever dreamed it could be.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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The Chinese Girl (1967)
95%
“Deep, rich, profound, [and] overwhelming.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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Portrait of Jason (1967)
100%
“Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason is an extremely significant movie which must be seen by anyone with serious regard for the medium.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
93%
“It is an impressive achievement, even more remarkable considering that Bellocchio was only 25 when he made it three years ago.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 30, 2020
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
97%
“Does Polanski have to show us Satan walking around like some RKO matinee monster in a corny dream sequence right out of Juliet of the Spirts?” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 30, 2020
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The Lovely Month of May (1963)
94%
“The uncanny magic, the devastating power of this film is the realization that by recording exterior reality [Chris] Marker has documented an intangible interior reality.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 30, 2020
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)
92%
“It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that what Bergman has done here structurally is a revolutionary achievement.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 30, 2020
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Bike Boy (1967)
“More than once, Bike Boy [Joe] Spencer breaks down in the improvisation and allows his bullish emotions to show through. That's cinema.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 30, 2020
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