Happenings of 1968
The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
Essential Films of 1968
Favorites
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Love Bug
Once Upon a Time in the West
Planet of the Apes
Honorable mention
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All ages
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (note : all ages except for the part with the Kid Catcher. truly terrifying; the stuff of nightmares)
The Love Bug
Guilty pleasures
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Holiday
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Want to see
Bullitt
David Goldman’s Diary (banal life of a screenwriter)
Faces
If… (schoolboy satire)
High School
Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker music documentary)
Night of the Living Dead
The Odd Couple
Oliver!
The Producers
Rosemary’s Baby
The Thomas Crown Affair
Where Eagles Dare
Yellow Submarine
Not worth the time
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Essential music of 1968
Albums
The Beatles - White Album
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Honorable mention
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The songs you just gotta hear
Across the Universe - The Beatles
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Don’t Pass Me By - The Beatles
Fist City - Loretta Lynn
Jackson - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Penny Lane - The Beatles
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Overrated, disappointing, or underwhelming
The Rolling Stones - Beggar’s Banquet
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