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Showing 120 works across all media from 1962

Lawrence of Arabia

Directed by David Lean
1962 · United Kingdom

There is no better argument for seeing a film on the largest screen you can find: Lean's desert swallows the frame, and a British officer dissolves inside it over nearly four hours.

★ 9.8

Pale Fire

1962 · 315 pages

A dead poet's 999 lines arrive wrapped in footnotes by a neighbor certain the poem is about his own lost northern kingdom. The ingenuity is total and the grief underneath is real.

★ 8.4

Harakiri

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
1962

Kobayashi took the samurai film apart from the inside: an old warrior asks to die in a lord's courtyard, and what he says first dismantles the entire code of honor.

★ 8.2
Marilyn Diptych

Marilyn Diptych

1962 · Tate Modern, London

Warhol silkscreened a publicity photo fifty times just after Monroe died, bright on one half and smudging away to nothing on the other.

★ 8.0

Cleo from 5 to 7

Directed by Agnes Varda
1962

Varda was the one woman the New Wave could not leave out, and this is her breakthrough: ninety minutes of a singer walking Paris, waiting on news.

★ 8.0

Silent Spring

1962 · 378 pages

Carson opens on a town where the birds have stopped singing, then lays out what pesticides do to water, soil, and human bodies. The chemical industry attacked her and the law changed.

★ 7.9

The Golden Notebook

1962 · 672 pages

Anna Wulf keeps four notebooks: Africa, the Communist Party, fiction drawn from her love affair, and a private diary. Lessing made a woman's inner life the whole subject of a serious novel.

★ 7.0