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10 Movies From 1966 That Are Now Considered Classics

This is a Collider ranking of the ten best films from 1966, a year the piece frames as a hinge point between fading Old Hollywood and the more experimental, globally adventurous cinema that followed. It runs through titles like Django, Tokyo Drifter, Cul-de-Sac, Fahrenheit 451, The Battle of Algiers, Andrei Rublev, Blow-Up, A Man for All Seasons, and Persona, before crowning The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as the year's most influential film. Worth keeping as a quick reference list of underrated and canonical 1966 releases with brief context on why each still matters.

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A Manson Murder Investigation 20 Years In the Making: ‘There Are Still Secrets’

This is an interview with Tom O'Neill about his two-decade odyssey researching CHAOS, his book arguing that the standard Manson murders narrative concocted by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi conceals darker, unresolved connections—particularly Manson's ties to CIA mind-control researcher Jolly West and MKUltra-era experiments in the Haight-Ashbury scene. O'Neill discusses how the reporting spiraled beyond his control, unearthing suppressed police evidence, terrified and hostile sources, and unresolved leads he ultimately had to publish without tidy conclusions, while wrestling with the ethical risk of feeding conspiracy paranoia rather than genuine accountability. It's worth keeping for its candid look at the messy, obsessive process of long-form investigative reporting and its skepticism toward tidy true-crime narratives generally.

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