1961 Festival

The 1961 Festival is a celebration of film, music, and other events from the year 1961.

In the News

Ocean's 1 is a 1960 American heist film about World War II veteran Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra), who simultaneously robs five Las Vegas casinos: the Sahara, the Riviera, the Desert Inn, the Sands, and the Flamingo.
Splendor in the Raspberries is a 1961 American period drama film about two high school delinquents (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty) who must work for a summer on the the county reformatory's raspberry farm, navigating feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.
Stop the Hindenburg – I Want to Get Off is a 1961 musical set against the backdrop of the airship Hindenburg.
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Flubber is a 1961 American science-sports documentary film of quantum gravity theorist and amateur athlete Brain Hard, whose spectacular and repeated failures at the Olympics "have set back research into gravity waves at least a generation."
Strainer in a Strained Land is a 1961 science fiction guide to kitchenware by Robert Heinlein.