The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Directed by Wes Anderson

Essentially an homage to golden-age Hollywood rise-and-fall epics like Magnificent Ambersons but with a large dose of whimsy. The movie is packed with stylistic ideas that at the time no one had really seen put together in this way.  The writing, like that of his peers Noah Baumbach and Whit Stillman, seems most influenced by the light comedic air of 60s french film.  The retro style, very fresh and inventive at the time, is what Wes Anderson has come to be known for.  This is the original vision where it all first really came together.  And it stands as probably his best film to this day.

It actually manages to deal with some real human themes that ring very true.  The characters all yearn for some idealized past time in their past when everything seemed right.  But they learn that as much as you may want to, the past is gone, you can't go back to it.  In a way, Wes Anderson's idealized 60s/70s style mirrors the character's trip into nostalgia.  He is taking us along on his own nostalgia trip.  But like the Tenenbaum family have to eventually move on from rumination on the past, he acknowledges the past while moving on to something new.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Directed by Arthur Penn

The famous outlaws are given a revisionist treatment that attempts to give them some moral justification and emotional depth that seems to sit more comfortably in the 60s than the 30s.  Watching it today, when we are used to seeing multi-dimensional difficult characters, it's all a little too much to be very believable.  And god, Faye Dunaway is just awful.  She can never just play the part in a way that serves the overall film.  Every scene she's in she tries to steal it with a bunch of pretentious over-acting.

At the time it was seen as shockingly violent.  As much as I hate to build the impression that older things can't measure up to that of today, these days it would merely be par for the course.  No child of the 80s or later would even flinch at anything shown here.

Marooned (1969)

Directed by John Sturges

Massively underrated and largely forgotten movie.  Directed by the dependable John Sturges shortly after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Nowadays, the reputation of this film seems largely formed by science fiction fans watching it and their subsequent massive disappointment that it's not Star Wars.  There's no swash-buckling space operatics to be found here, this is a tense ship wreck drama set in space.  It is a realistic sort of science fiction with effects done to the standards of the time.

It was later recut and re-released by some purveyor of ultra-budget home video movies.  This version was later on MST3K.  This probably didn't help the movie's reputation.