![]() ![]() "So the candy bar was first, but where does the term "Mr. The characters are archetypes that are recognizable to all generations. Something like "Sixteen Candles" (the only example I can think of right now) is incredibly dated in terms of it's costumes, etc., but it remains popular today not because of that, but because it captures what it's like to be young and experiencing love for the first time. ![]() What makes a movie timeless is how universally it captures a theme or emotion that speaks to audiences in any time period. It preserves in living, moving color the city and it's peoples and captures their emotional lives as well. It's a perfect time capsule of what it was like to be alive in New York at that very moment. So, in that respect, it is dated, but in a really wonderful way. ![]() It was made to speak to that particular generation's mood/zeitgeist. Something like "Goodbar" is a film made during the specific moment in time being portrayed. The filmmakers had historical perspective on their side and specific choices were made (in costumes, sets, etc) to properly evoke that time, hence the sense of timelessness. Goodbar " ( Men's Journal )."The Godfather" was a movie that took place in the 40's, but was made in the 70's. ![]() An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this classic of the genre is "more riveting, and more tragic, than the Judith Rossner novel-and 1977 movie Looking for Mr. In this groundbreaking true crime tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the New York Times reporter first assigned to the story, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique, in which she gives the victim a different name, to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal interactions leading up to the brutal stabbing and the gritty details of its aftermath, including the NYPD investigation and the arrest of John Wayne Wilson. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon, spawning both a #1 New York Times -bestselling novel and a film adaptation starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the sexual revolution and the perils of the "pickup scene" at what were popularly known as singles bars. In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: "A first-rate achievement" (Truman Capote). ![]()
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