In his novel The Go-Between (1953) L.P. Hartley wrote the since much quoted line: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Put most simply, the topic of this tenth anniversary edition of Cinephile attempts to wrangle with the question of how a specific moment in the past--the 1960s--can at once seem both distant and close. This issue seeks to explore why there is such persistant cultural fascination with this period of time, one which occurred nearly half a century ago. The essays in Cinephile 11.1 explore the manifold visions of the 1960s that have, and continue to, proliferate in film and television. The distinctive art, fashion, music, and cinema of the era, as well as the associated sense of freedom, rebellion, and unharnessed creative expression, serve as both academic and artistic inspiration for this issue.