It’s been a little more than five months since the last installment of our History of Film series, and in that short time Movie Mezzanine has undergone some significant changes. This includes partnerships with Letterboxd and others, accreditation on Rotten Tomatoes, and the hiring of our first Reviews Editor in Josh Spiegel. What hasn’t happened in 2014, however, is this ongoing feature. Today that’s going to change.
For those who are new to this series, History of Film is designed to examine each decade of cinema, ten films at a time (see our results from the 00s, 90s, 80s and 70s). In an attempt to present a multiplicity of voices, we’ve reached out to a plethora of people in the film industry. Thankfully, a whole host of gifted and esteemed individuals responded rather enthusiastically, happy to contemplate the cineamatic greatness that was the 1960s for a moment. So what follows is a collection of ballots from Movie Mezzanine staff and friends — from filmmakers to film critics to festival programmers to a publicist (yes, even a publicist).
Of course, the most integral part of this process is you, the reader. Throughout the month of June we’ll be accepting ballots from anyone and everyone interested in submitting their top ten list in the comment section. Come the end of the month we’ll tally the ballots up and highlight the ten most popular films from the 1960s (as voted on by all of us). Those ten films will then each individually be written about by a writer on our staff. To see a past example of how we’ve done this, go here. We hope you enjoy.
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Sam Fragoso, Founder
1.) The Apartment
2.) Breathless
3.) Lawrence of Arabia
4.) 8 ½
5.) Psycho
6.) The Graduate
7.) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
9.) To Kill A Mockingbird
10.) Cool Hand Luke
Tom Clift, Co-Founder
1.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3.) Lolita
4.) Once Upon a Time in the West
5.) Psycho
6.) From Russia With Love
7.) Rosemary’s Baby
8.) Bonnie and Clyde
9.) The Apartment
10.) Batman: The Movie
Jake Cole, DVD Editor
1.) Playtime
2.) Eros + Massacre
3.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
5.) Repulsion
6.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
7.) Red Desert
8.) The Apartment
9.) The House is Black
10.) Chimes at Midnight
Josh Spiegel, Reviews Editor
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Lawrence of Arabia
3.) Peeping Tom
4.) Psycho
5.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6.) The Producer
7.) The Apartment
8.) The Graduate
9.) Mary Poppins
10.) A Thousand Clowns
Colin Biggs, Newswire Editor
1.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.) Lawrence of Arabia
3.) The Graduate
4.) Night of the Living Dead
5.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6.) La Dolce Vita
7.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8.) The Apartment
9.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10.) Au Hasard Balthazar
Christopher Runyon, Assistant Editor
1.) Lawrence of Arabia
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3.) To Kill a Mockingbird
4.) La Jetée
5.) Jules et Jim
6.) Persona
7.) The Exterminating Angel
8.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9.) 8 ½
10.) Psycho
Daniel Schindel, Reviewer
1.) The Apartment
2.) The Shop On Main Street
3.) The Pawnbroker
4.) Seconds
5.) Army of Shadows
6.) Z
7.) Once Upon a Time in the West
8.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
9.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10.) Pierrot le Fou
Andrew Crump, Reviewer
1.) 8 ½
2.) Onibaba
3.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5.) The Exterminating Angel
6.) Pierrot le Fou
7.) Cool Hand Luke
8.) Three Outlaw Samurai
9.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
10.) Village of the Damned
Monica Castillo, Reviewer
1.) Lawrence of Arabia
2.) Bonnie and Clyde
3.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4.) 8 ½
5.) Pierrot le Fou
6.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
7.) The House is Black
8.) Planet of the Apes
9.) Psycho
10.) Lucia
Kristen Sales, Reviewer
1.) Psycho
2.) Lawrence of Arabia
3.) 8 ½
4.) Le Samourai
5.) Andrei Rublev
6.) Once Upon a Time in the West
7.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.) Pierrot le Fou
9.) The Exterminating Angel
10.) The Battle of Algiers
Amir Soltani, Reviewer
1.) The Leopard
2.) Psycho
3.) The House is Black
4.) Persona
5.) Jules et Jim
6.) La Jetée
7.) Eros + Massacre
8.) Titicut Follies
9.) Z
10.) Belle de Jour
Zeba Blay, Reviewer
1.) Psycho
2.) La Noire, de…
3.) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
4.) Come Back, Africa
5.) In Cold Blood
6.) Nothing But a Man
7.) Memories of Undevelopment
8.) Night of the Living Dead
9.) Black Sunday
10.) Valley of the Dolls
Matt Hughes, Essayist
1.) La Dolce Vita
2.) Playtime
3.) La Collectionneuse
4.) Winter Light
5.) Faces
6.) L’avventura
7.) L’eclipse
8.) Marketa Lazarova
9.) Red Desert
10.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Noah Gittell, Editorialist
1.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3.) Lolita
4.) Hud
5.) The Sound of Music
6.) A Hard Day’s Night
7.) Bonnie and Clyde
8.) The Apartment
9.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10.) Charade
Jake Mulligan, Contributor
1.) The Saragossa Manuscript
2.) Jules et Jim
3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.) Weekend
5.) Au Hasard Balthazar
6.) Persona
7.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8.) Yo Yo
9.) The Trial
10.) 8 ½
Fernando Croce, Contributor
1.) Gertrud
2.) Mouchette
3.) Viridiana
4.) Marnie
5.) Chimes at Midnight
6.) Once Upon a Time in the West
7.) Scorpio Rising
8.) The Color of Pomegranates
9.) The Naked Kiss
10.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Jesse Knight, Contributor
1.) Through a Glass Darkly
2.) The Graduate
3.) Daisies
4.) Pierrot le Fou
5.) Once Upon a Time in the West
6.) The Apartment
7.) Psycho
8.) 8 ½
9.) The Servant
10.) Au Hasard Balthazar
Brogan Morris, Contributor
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Point Blank
3.) Bande a Part
4.) Lawrence of Arabia
5.) Psycho
6.) The Trial
7.) Playtime
8.) Harakiri
9.) The Leopard
10.) The Hill
Michał Oleszczyk, Contributor
1.) Once Upon a Time in the West
2.) Night of the Living Dead
3.) Psycho
4.) Blow-Job
5.) In the Heat of the Night
6.) The Apartment
7.) Advise and Consent
8.) Lawrence of Arabia
9.) Onibaba
10.) The Hill
Tina Hassannia, Contributor
1.) Playtime
2.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
3.) Blow-Up
4.) Repulsion
5.) The House is Black
6.) Army of Shadows
7.) Cléo de 5 à 7
8.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9.) Une Femme Mariée
10.) Psycho
Forrest Cardamenis, Contributor
1.) Last Year at Marienbad
2.) Persona
3.) Dog Star Man
4.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5.) Contempt
6.) La Jetée
7.) The House is Black
8.) The Exterminating Angel
9.) The Birds
10.) Andrei Rublev
Charles Nash, Contributor
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Repulsion
3.) Psycho
4.) Pierrot le Fou
5.) Persona
6.) Bonnie and Clyde
7.) Peeping Tom
8.) Eyes Without a Face
9.) High and Low
10.) Le Samourai
Ryan McNeil, Contributor
1.) The Apartment
2.) Psycho
3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.) Rosemary’s Baby
5.) Persona
6.) 8 ½
7.) Lawrence of Arabia
8.) Breathless
9.) Bonnie and Clyde
10.) West Side Story
James Berclaz-Lewis, Contributor
1.) Winter Light
2.) Le Mépris
3.) The Battle of Algiers
4.) Eyes Without a Face
5.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
6.) High School
7.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.) Peeping Tom
9.) Ivan’s Childhood
10.) Late Autumn
Russell Hainline, Contributor
1.) Rosemary’s Baby
2.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3.) The Apartment
4.) The Wild Bunch
5.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
6.) Oliver!
7.) A Shot in the Dark
8.) Lawrence of Arabia
9.) Mary Poppins
10.) Repulsion
Kyle Turner, Columnist
1.) Peeping Tom
2.) A Hard Day’s Night
3.) The Innocents
4.) Daisies
5.) The Graduate
6.) The Manchurian Candidate
7.) Le Samourai
8.) 8 ½
9.) Ivan’s Childhood
10.) Vivre sa Vie
Scott Nye, List-Maker
1.) The Young Girls of Rochefort
2.) Last Year at Marienbad
3.) Persona
4.) Le bonheur
5.) La Dolce Vita
6.) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7.) The Patsy
8.) Contempt
9.) The Servant
10.) The Hawks and the Sparrows
Alexandra Kittle, Illustrator
1.) The Apartment
2.) Daisies
3.) The Haunting
4.) The Producers
5.) Barbarella
6.) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
7.) True Grit
8.) Seconds
9.) Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told
10.) Onibaba
Friends of Movie Mezzanine
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
1.) Breathless
2.) Psycho
3.) The Hustler
4.) La Jetée
5.) The Manchurian Candidate
6.) A Hard Day’s Night
7.) Titicut Follies
8.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
9.) Shame
10.) Night of the Living Dead
Daniel Mecca, The Film Stage
1.) 8 ½
2.) Cool Hand Luke
3.) Lawrence of Arabia
4.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5.) The Leopard
6.) The Battles of Algiers
7.) Persona
8.) Seconds
9.) Hud
10.) La Jetée
Matthew Buchanan, Co-founder of Letterboxd
1.) The Graduate
2.) Psycho
3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.) Night of the Living Dead
5.) Rosemary’s Baby
6.) To Kill A Mockingbird
7.) The Wild Bunch
8.) Band of Outsiders
9.) The Birds
10.) The Great Escape
Nathaniel Rogers, The Film Experience
1.) West Side Story
2.) Persona
3.) Psycho
4.) The Sound of Music
5.) Bonnie & Clyde
6.) Hud
7.) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
8.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
9.) Belle de Jour
10.) The Manchurian Candidate
Calum Marsh, Everyone
1.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2.) An Autumn Afternoon
3.) The Bellboy
4.) Blow-Up
5.) The Exiles
6.) Faces
7.) The Gospel According To Saint Matthew
8.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9.) Playtime
10.) Point Blank
K.C. McLeod, Founder of Vyer Films
1.) Faces
2.) The Virgin Spring
3.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4.) Blow-Up
5.) Cool Hand Luke
6.) The Battle of Algiers
7.) Knife in the Water
8.) Bonnie and Clyde
9.) The Graduate
10.) Contempt
Joshua Moore, Filmmaker and Programmer for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
1.) The Graduate
2.) Cléo de 5 à 7
3.) The Misfits
4.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5.) Vivre Sa Vie
6.) Repulsion
7.) Persona
8.) The Apartment
9.) Jules et Jim
10.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Nell Minow, The “Movie Mom”
1.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.) A Hard Day’s Night
3.) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4.) The Apartment
5.) Tom Jones
6.) In the Heat of the Night
7.) Two for the Road
8.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
9.) Z
10.) The Graduate
Adam Kempenaar, Host of “Filmspotting”
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Jules et Jim
3.) 8 ½
4.) The Apartment
5.) The Man Show Liberty Valance
6.) The Graduate
7.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.) Rosemary’s Baby
9.) The Wild Bunch
10.) Easy Rider
Susan Wloszczyna, RogerEbert.com
1.) Lawrence of Arabia
2.) Georgy Girl
3.) Blow-Up
4.) Spartacus
5.) Mary Poppins
6.) A Hard Day’s Night
7.) Two for the Road
8.) The Graduate
9.) Bonnie and Clyde
10.) Night of the Living Dead
David Ehrlich, The Dissolve
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) La Jetée
3.) La Dolce Vita
4.) Jules et Jim
5.) Au Hasard Balthazar
6.) L’Eclisse
7.) Army of Shadows
8.) Yo Yo
9.) Woman in the Dunes
10.) The Boxer
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
1.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2.) The Miracle Worker
3.) The Manchurian Candidate
4.) Lolita
5.) Where the Boys Are
6.) The Parent Trap
7.) Darling
8.) A Hard Day’s Night
9.) The Leopard
10.) The Wild Child
Allison Loring, Film School Rejects
1.) The Graduate
2.) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3.) A Hard Day’s Night
4.) Bonnie and Clyde
5.) Breakfast at Tiffany’s
6.) Goldfinger
7.) The Parent Trap
8.) Bye Bye Birdie
9.) Mary Poppins
10.) The Absent-Minded Professor
Christopher Campbell, Non Fics
1.) The Apartment
2.) 8 ½
3.) One, Two, Three
4.) Don’t Look Back
5.) To Kill a Mockingbird
6.) Medium Cool
7.) Lonely Boy
8.) The Battle of Algiers
9.) Pierrot le Fou
10.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Scott Mendelson, Forbes
1.) From Russia With Love
2.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3.) Psycho
4.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5.) A Shot In the Dark
6.) Night of the Living Dead
7.) Midnight Cowboy
8.) The Manchurian Candidate
9.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
10.) Batman: The Movie
Peter Labuza, Author of “Approaching the End: Imaging Apocalypse In American Film”
1.) Zapruder Film
2.) Father
3.) Woman of the Dunes
4.) The Battle of Algiers
5.) Black Girl
6.) Charulata
7.) The Housemaid
8.) Daisies
9.) Memories of Underdevelopment
10.) Two Stage Sisters
Brandon Rohwer, A Great Publicist
1.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2.) Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3.) Psycho
4.) Two for the Road
5.) The Manchurian Candidate
6.) In the Heat of the Night
7.) Rosemary’s Baby
8.) Head
9.) The Battle of Algiers
10.) I Am Cuba
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
1.) The Leopard
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3.) Our Mother’s House
4.) Contempt
5.) Hawks and the Sparrows
6.) Red Desert
7.) El Cid
8.) Last Summer
9.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10.) Shame
Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com
1.) Persona
2.) Faces
3.) Playtime
4.) The Apartment
5.) Le Samourai
6.) Lawrence of Arabia
7.) The Graduate
8.) Live a Little Love a Little
9.) A Hard Day’s Night
10.) Andrei Rublev
Erik Childress, WGN Radio
1.) Lawrence of Arabia
2.) Once Upon A Time In The West
3.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4.) The Great Escape
5.) Psycho
6.) The Apartment
7.) Bonnie and Clyde
8.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9.) To Kill a Mockingbird
10.) Rosemary’s Baby
Thomas Elrod, The Critical Press
1.) Playtime
2.) Chimes at Midnight
3.) Blow-Up
4.) The Birds
5.) Last Year at Marienbad
6.) Breathless
7.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.) The Apartment
9.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
10.) Shoot the Piano Player
Kevin B. Lee, Video Essayist & Filmmaker
1.) Playtime
2.) A Touch of Zen
3.) The Hour of the Furnaces Part I: Neocolonialism and Violence
4.) The House Is Black
5.) The Color of Pomegranates
6.) L’Eclisse
7.) Pierrot le fou
8.) Au Hasard Balthazar
9.) Daisies
10.) Stage Sisters
Danny Bowes, RogerEbert.com
1.) Breathless
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3.) Once Upon A Time in the West
4.) Lawrence of Arabia
5.) Last Year at Marienbad
6.) Bonnie and Clyde
7.) Mughal-e-Azam
8.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
9.) Jewel Thief
10.) The Exterminating Angel
Alex Ross Perry, Filmmaker
1.) Psycho
2.) L’amour fou
3.) Jules and Jim
4.) High and Low
5.) Repulsion
6.) Dark of the Sun
7.) If….
8.) The World’s Greatest Sinner
9.) Who are you, Polly Magoo?
10) Night of the Living Dead
Kenji Fujishima, In Review Online
1.) Playtime
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3.) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
4.) Peeping Tom
5.) Andrei Rublev
6.) Persona
7.) Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.) Army of Shadows
9.) Au Hasard Balthazar
10.) Red Desert
Andrew Welch, To Be Cont’d
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Psycho
3.) Breathless
4.) 8 1/2
5.) Andrei Rublev
6.) Lawrence of Arabia
7.) Persona
8.) Jules et Jim
9.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jordan Hoffman, ScreenCrush
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Winter Light
3.) Lawrence of Arabia
4.) Breathless
5.) One, Two, Three/From Russia With Love
6.) Take the Money and Run
7.) Shakespeare Wallah
8.) Ikarie XB-1
9.) King of Kings
10.) The Plot Against Harry
Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
1.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.) 8 ½
3.) Weekend
4.) My Night at Maud’s
5.) Two for the Road
6.) Belle de Jour
7.) Daisies
8.) The Apartment
9.) The Party
10.) Valley of the Dolls
Keith Phipps, The Dissolve
1.) The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3.) Petulia
4.) Once Upon a Time in the West
5.) 8 ½
6.) Psycho
7.) Playtime
8.) Point Blank
9.) Stolen Kisses
10.) Night Of The Living Dead
Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) The Apartment
3.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4.) Once Upon a Time in the West
5.) Repulsion
6.) The Graduate
7.) Psycho
8.) Breathless
9.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10.) The Wild Bunch
Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Au Hasard Balthazar
3.) 8 ½
4.) High and Low
5.) Lawrence of Arabia
6.) Last Year at Marienbad
7.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
8.) Once Upon a Time in the West
9.) Contempt
10.) The Graduate
Ethan Anderton, First-Showing
1.) 8 ½
2.) The Graduate
3.) Le Samourai
4.) La Dolce Vita
5.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
6.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7.) The Odd Couple
8.) Breathless
9.) The Apartment
10.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Matt Prigge, Metro US
1.) Pierrot le fou
2.) Playtime
3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.) Two for the Road
5.) The Knack
6.) High and Low
7.) Heaven and Earth Magic
8.) The Leopard
9.) Marketa Lazarova
10.) Repulsion
A.A. Dowd, The AV Club
1.) Playtime
2.) Psycho
3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.) Last Year At Marienbad
5.) Repulsion
6.) The Apartment
7.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8.) The Manchurian Candidate
9.) Harakiri
10.) Valentin de las Sierras
Matt Goldberg, Collider
1.) The Graduate
2.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3.) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4.) High and Low
5.) Rosemary’s Baby
6.) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7.) The Manchurian Candidate
8.) Persona
9.) The Guns of Navarone
10.) Batman: The Movie
86 thoughts on “History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1960s”
I thought for sure I’d be the only one to pick BATMAN: THE MOVIE! Oddly enough, all three of us put at at #10.
1. Dr Strangelove, 2. Breathless, 3. Harakiri, 4. Play Time, 5. The Graduate, 6. Psycho, 7. Marnie, 8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 9. The Apartment, 10. Peeping Tom – 1960s is the decade with most blind spots though.
1. Gertrud 2. The Color of Pomegranates 3. Lawrence of Arabia 4. Branded to Kill 5. The Trial 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey 7. Andrei Rublev 8. Once Upon a Time in the West 9. A Hard Day’s Night 10. La dolce vita
Great assortment of lists as always folks.
Here’s my top 10
1. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
2. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)
3. Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)
4. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
5. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
6. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
8. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)
9. Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
10. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965)
Also, it needs to be pointed out again how awesome Alex Kittle’s illustration banner is, because it’s really great.
Seconded.
Thanks so much!
1) Persona
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3) Mahanagar
4) Lawrence of Arabia
5) Andrei Rublev
6) Last Year at Marienbad
7) Marketa Lazarova
8) The Battle of Algiers
9) Cléo from 5 to 7
10) Mughal-E-Azam
These were such fun to read! Here’s mine:
1. Persona 2. High School 3. Lolita 4. The Housemaid 5. Rosemary’s Baby 6. Psycho 7. Mary Poppins 8. The Producers 9. The Innocents 10. Rapture
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Persona
4. Psycho
5. 8 ½
6. Jules and Jim
7. Lolita
8. Repulsion
9. Belle de Jour
10. Once Upon a Time in the West
Loving these lists, here’s mine…
1. Marketa Lazarová
2. Profound Desires Of The Gods
3. Playtime
4. Mahanagar
5. Winter Light
6. Diamonds Of The Night
7. The Birds
8. Une Femme Est Une Femme
9. Woman Of The Dunes
10. Innocent Sorcerers
I enjoyed doing the 1970s, so here’s my list for the ’60s:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2. Contempt (Godard)
3. I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
4. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)
5. Psycho (Hitchcock)
6. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
7. Persona (Bergman)
8. La Jetee (Marker)
9. Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
1. Psycho 2. The Apartment 3. The Haunting 4. Bonnie and Clyde 5. Lawrence of Arabia 6. Dr. Strangelove 7. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 8. Once Upon a Time in The West 9. My Life to Live 10. My Fair Lady
1) The Battle of Algiers
2) The Wild Bunch
3) Lawrence of Arabia
4) Where Eagles Dare
5) Playtime
6) The Train
7) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
8) High and Low
9) The Birds
10) Play Dirty
1. Pierrot le Fou
2. High and Low
3. Playtime
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Graduate
6. The Apartment
7. The Wild Bunch
8. A Hard Day’s Night
9. Charade
10. The Exterminating Angel
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey
02. Last Year at Marienbad
03. The Birds
04. Persona
05. La jetée
06. Psycho
07. Rosemary’s Baby
08. Gate of Flesh
09. The Silence
10. Contempt
I’m not sure, and maybe i missed it because there are a lot of lists here, but i don’t think a single person put Yojimbo on a list. 0_o
w/e I like Yojimbo, 8 1/2, Week End, Le Samourai, Putney Swope, Charulata, The Leopard, Branded to Kill, Signs of Life, and Blow-Up
I also like One Two Three, Ivan’s Childhood, Through a Glass Darkly, Lawrence of Arabia, I Am Cuba, Gertrud, The Insect Woman, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marketa Lazarova, Cul-De-Sac, 2001, L’Amour Fou, Au Hasard Balthazar, La Jetée, Cléo from 5 to 7, The Graduate, Psycho, The Great Escape and If… about as much as the 10 i threw out earlier, but i guess movie websites and readers really like the number 10 for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Right now,
1. The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Persona
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Yojimbo
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Battle of Algiers
8. Repulsion
9. Andrei Rublev
10. The Apartment
1. Au hasard Balthazar
2. Last Year at Marienbad
3. Andrei Rublev
4. The Trial
5. L’avventura
6. Seconds
7. Play Time
8. The Patsy
9. Diamonds of the Night
10. Ride the High Country
Methinks Michal meant Blow-Up and not…well, not what he wrote instead.
1 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 The Hustler
3 Branded to Kill
4 Band of Outsiders
5 Lawrence of Arabia
6 The Graduate
7 Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
9 Psycho
10 The Manchurian Candidate
I thought that too, but after perusing IMDb, it is actually a movie. An Andy Warhol short from 1963.
I actually talked to him on Twitter last night and he pointed out the same thing! My mistake.
1 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
2 ANDREI RUBLEV
3 ROSEMARY’S BABY
4 CLEO FROM 5 TO 7
5 JULES ET JIM
6 ARMY OF SHADOWS
7 THE SERVANT
8 SECONDS
9 PSYCHO & PEEPING TOM
10 TITICUT FOLLIES
1. The Producers
2. The Wild Bunch
3. One, Two, Three
4. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They
5. Kiss Me, Stupid
6. The Graduate
7. Take the Money and Run
8. The Apartment
9. Charade
10. Yellow Submarine
1. Once Upon A Time in the West
2. Playtime
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. The Graduate
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. 8 1/2
8. Peeping Tom
9. Breathless
10. The Apartment
Haven’t seen much from this decade to be honest but I’ll give it a stab:
1. If…. (1968)
2. Kes (1969)
3. Peeping Tom (1960)
4. Army of Shadows (1969)
5. Soy Cuba (1964)
6. Le Mepris (1963)
7. Peeping Tom (1960)
8 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
9. The Fireman’s Ball (1967)
10. Targets (1968)
1. Death By Hanging
2. The Face of Another
3. Winter Light
4. The Color of Pomegranates
5. The House Is Black
6. My Night at Maud’s
7. The Red and the White
8. Mandabi
9. Charulata
10. An Autumn Afternoon
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. 8 1/2
3. Le Samouraï
4. if….
5. Persona
6. Shoot the Piano Player
7. Shock Corridor OR The Apartment
8. The Wild Bunch
9. Night of the Living Dead
10. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Honourable mentions: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dr Strangelove, Jules et Jim, Psycho, Repulsion, Midnight Cowboy, Cape Fear, Play Time, Yojimbo, Lawrence of Arabia, Charade, The Leopard, The Night of the Iguana.
Alphabetical: 1)Au Hasard Balthazar 2)The Battle Of Algiers 3)Bells Are Ringing 4)The Confrontation 5)The Exterminating Angel 6)The Gospel According To Saint Matthew 7)A Killing In Yoshiwara 8)The Leopard 9)The Rise Of Louis XIV 10)The Suitor
Hoo-boy. Hard decade to narrow down, but…
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
3. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
4. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
5. Report (Conner, 1967)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
8. Wavelength (Snow, 1967)
9. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
10. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo)
Great lists… and no doubt, trying to narrow down the 60’s into a single top 10 list is a real challenge. Here’s mine (with many, many, MANY omissions):
1. PERSONA (’66)
2. FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (’69)
3. LA JETEE (’62)
4. HIGH & LOW (’63)
5. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (’64)
6. SILENCE HAS NO WINGS (’66)
7. DAISIES (’66)
8. FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (’65)
9. EROS + MASSACRE (’69)
10. BLOW-UP (’66)
Also fairly certain that 1966 was one of the best years for cinema… ever.
4.) Blow-Job? You mean Antonioni’s Blow-Up, WTF.
no, he means the Andy Warhol film Blow-Job
You know it’s a good decade for film when Psycho doesn’t make the cut.
10. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
9. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
8. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
7. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Mellvile, 1967)
6. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
4. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanksi, 1968)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
First off, I love three of you guys for putting Batman: The Movie on your list. 🙂
I’ll work up a list soon, but first I want to know if it’s supposed to be favorites or best? I hear the original prompt was “favorite” but this post is titled “best”.
I’d rather not get into the debate between best vs. favorite, but choose what you believe should be on the list. Putting “Favorite” into the headline would look/sound silly. When everything is tallied up we’ll call the post “Our Favorite Movies of the 1960s” and so on.
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey
02. La Jetee
03. Woman in the Dunes
04. Harakiri
05. A Hard Day’s Night
06. Seduced and Abandoned
07. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
08. Psycho
09. Seconds
10. Splendor in the Grass
Picking only 10 films from my favorite decade ever? Let me try…
1. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Winter Light
4. Andrei Rublev
5. Playtime
6. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
7. Persona
8. Au hasard Balthazar
9. Nothing But a Man
10. Marketa Lazarovà
1 Advise and Consent
2 A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs (Oshima) a.k.a. Sing a Song of Sex
3 Porcile
4 The Trial (Welles)
5 Medea (Pasolini)
6 Hawks and Sparrows
7 La Dolce Vita
8 Fuego en Castilla
9 The Testament of Orpheus
10 Burn! (Pontecorvo)
1. Psycho 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Rosemary’s Baby 4. Point Blank 5. Persona 6. Scorpio Rising 7. Mickey One 8. The Servant 9. Dr. Strangelove 10. Repulsion
1. Repulsion
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Playtime
4. The Naked Kiss
5. Psycho
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. The Wild Bunch
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. 2001:A Space Odyssey
Wow. A lot of great films here. Bravo.
Trying to limit myself to one film per director, here is my list.
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3) Army of Shadows (Jean Pierre-Melville, 1969)
4) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
5) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
6) Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
7) Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
8) Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
9) Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
10) Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968)
1. The Apartment
2. Persona
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Belle de Jour
5. Advise and Consent
6. The Manchurian Candidate
7. L’Avventura
8. Chimes at Midnight
9. The Nutty Professor
10. Last Year at Marienbad
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Psycho
3. 8 1/2
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. Persona
6. The Graduate
7. Bonnie and Clyde
8. A Hard Day’s Night
9. Blow-Up
10. Le Samourai
THAT WAS HARD
1. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
3. Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
4. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
6. Donovan’s Reef (John Ford)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
10. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Belle de Jour
4. Psycho
5. Repulsion
6. A Hard Day’s Night
7. Yojimbo
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Le Samourai
10. Jules et Jim
Can I also have someone explain to me the appeal of either 8 1/2 or Playtime. Neither of those do anything for me, but it they seem near the top here.
This is awful. The ’60s is the decade I’m most familiar with. Well, here it goes. Obvious choices ahoy.
1. 8 ½
2. Andrei Rublev
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. A Hard Day’s Night
6. Rosemary’s Baby
7. Night of the Living Dead
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
09. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
10. Pierrot Le Fou
and now I hate myself.
Excellent lists! My own:
1. La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
2. Three (1965, Aleksandar Petrović)
3. Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
4. 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
5. Rocco and his Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)
6. The Red and the White (1967, Miklós Jancsó)
7. My Night at Maud’s (1969, Eric Rohmer)
8. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
10. Return of the Prodigal Son (1967, Evald Schorm)
Chronological, and a bit of a cop out, and two films for 1968.
1. Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol,1960)
2. Pigs and Battleships (Imamura, 1961)
3. Dr. No (Young, 1962)
4. Suzanne’s Career (Rohmer, 1963)
5. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
6. Meet Marlon Brando (Albert and David Maysles, 1965)
7. Violence at Noon (Oshima, 1966)
8. La Chinoise (Godard, 1967)
9. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1968)
9. Petulia (Lester, 1968)
10. Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969)
Love the inclusion of the Zapruder Film and the popularity of Batman 66. Here are ten that no one has mentioned yet, because decades are big.
1. The Loves of a Blonde
2. Jason and the Argonauts
3. Witchcraft Through the Ages
4. Dragon Gate Inn
5. Flicker
6. Salesman
7. The Cloud Capped Star
8. Closely Watched Trains
9. Serene Velocity
10. One Armed Swordsman (actually unseen by me, but it seems the movie that helped invent the kung fu genre and launch contemporary Chinese cinema should at least get a shout out, and begs the usual question about list making. Is our collective purpose to further canonize the same handful of films that we already know we love, and in some way quantify their relative values, or is it to introduce each other to films we haven’t had a chance to pursue yet? For me at least the value is the latter, and peoples’ lists here have pushed me towards eventually looking at tons of things that weren’t on my immediate radar.
One-Armed Swordsman: Kung fu films had been around for quite a while before that movie (the whole Wong Fei-hung series starring Kwan Tak-hing for example) and wuxia (martial art chivalry; the term is sometimes used to designate weapons films) films like that one had been around for decades before as well. Now the combination of that film and the earlier Come Drink with Me (King Hu) certainly helped push Hong Kong cinema into newer territory for the Shaw Brothers creating a wave of wuxia films which then would lead into the kung fu films.
Now it is a good film and certainly fun to watch. It is in my top 20 of 1960s, but not top 10.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Pierrot Le Feu
3. Once Upon A Time In The West
4. If..
5. L’Armee des Ombres
6. Point Blank
7. Le Boucher
8. Seven Days In May
9. L’Eclisse
10. The Wild Bunch
1. Persona
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Marketa Lazarova
4. Blow-Up
5. Playtime
6. The Time Machine
7. Breathless
8. La dolce vita
9. The Housemaid
10. The Innocents
1. The Manchurian Candidate (1960)
2. 8 1/2 (1963)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. The Wild Bunch (1969)
5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
7. The Pawnbroker (1964)
8. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
9. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
10. Easy Rider (1969)
Here’s what I came up with for my top 10 favorites of the ’60s:
1. 2001
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Yojimbo
4. Psycho
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Dragon Inn
7. Underworld USA
8. One-Armed Swordsman
9. Night of the Living Dead
10. True Grit
Looking at my list, it’s a mix of old favorites I’ve loved for 15+ years, and others I’ve only just seen and become enamored with. It’s also harsh to cut it to 10. So many favorites are lurking below that cut-off; I feel bad for them! And there’s always so many movies I haven’t seen yet that might figure in if I did. Lists are always snapshots of the time they were made.
1. 8 ½
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. The Graduate
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7. Red Beard
8. To Kill A Mockingbird
9. La Jetée
10. Charade
1) Lawrence of Arabia (1962: David Lean)
2) Yojimbo (1961: Akira Kurosawa)
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968: Stanley Kubrick)
4) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966: Sergio Leone)
5) Le Samourai (1967: Jean-Pierre Melville)
6) Harakiri (1962: Masaki Kobayashi)
7) Dr. Strangelove (1964: Stanley Kubrick)
8) Playtime (1967: Jacques Tati)
9) The Bellboy (1960: Jerry Lewis)
10) Psycho (1960: Alfred Hitchcock)
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. The Graduate
4. The Apartment
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Army of Shadows
7. The Battle of Algiers
8. Psycho
9. The Manchurian Candidate
10. One, Two, Three
1. One, Two, Three
2. Godzilla vs. Mothra
3. Goldfinger
4. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
5. The Dirty Dozen
6. The Planet of the Apes
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. Romeo & Juliet
10. Yellow Submarine
My favorite actor was Sean Connery, and my favorite actress was Audrey Hepburn. THE director was Stanley Kubrick.
Still the best decade for cinema by some margin.
1.) Persona (Bergman)
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
3.) The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
4.) Medium Cool (Wexler)
5.) Playtime (Tati)
6.) 8 1/2 (Fellini)
7.) Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
8.) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
9.) Hour of The Furnaces (Solanas)
10.) Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)
Honorable mention (the next ten)
Hud (Ritt)
Salesman (Maysles)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (Hill)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
Z (Gavras)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Leone)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea)
I’ve been working in the film industry for 10 years, have a degree in cinema, and have been a judge at multiple film festivals. With that in mind, here are my top ten films of the 1960s:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Psycho
3. Planet of the Apes
4. Rosemary’s Baby
5. Mary Poppins
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. The Music Man
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
9. The Sound of Music
10. Jason and the Argonauts
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Apartment
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. The Manchurian Candidate
10. Psycho
Not thinking too hard about it, and with too many embarrassing blind spots to begin accounting for:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. The Apartment
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Army of Shadows
7. Marnie
8. Rosemary’s Baby
9. Yojimbo
10. Psycho
1. Repulsion
2. Playtime
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Cléo de 5 à 7
5. Rosemary’s Baby
6. 8 ½
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8. Vivre sa vie
9. Psycho
10. The Apartment
1: Night of the Living Dead
2: To Kill a Mockingbird
3: The Magnificent Seven
4: Goldfinger
5: Planet of the Apes
6: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7: The Producers
8: The Manchurian Candidate
9: Psycho
10: Charade
Honourable mentions: The Great Escape, West Side Story, From Russia With Love, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus, The Odd Couple, They’re a Werid Mob, The Sound of Music, The Great Race, In the Heat of the Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1. 8 1/2
2. Andrei Rublev
3. L’avventura
4. Au hasard Balthasar
5. Play Time
6. Breathless
7. Viridiana
8. Persona
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. The Battle of Algiers
Here’s my list:
1. The Apartment
2 Psycho
3. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. The Hustler
6. Little Shop of Horrors
7. Rosemary’s Baby
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Point Blank
10. High and Low
1.) Au Hasard Bathazard (1966)
2.) Persona (1966)
3.) The Graduate (1967)
4.) 8 1/2 (1963)
5.) Dr Strangelove (1964)
6.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
7.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
8.) Once Upon a Time in a West (1968)
9.) Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
10.) Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
1. L’Avventura
2. Winter Light
3. La Dolce Vita
4. 8 1/2
5. Bonnie and Clyde
6. Splendor in the Grass
7. Breathless
8. Night of the Living Dead
9. Belle du Jour
10. Shoot the Piano Player
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Once Upon a Time In The West
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. A Hard Day’s Night
5. Goldfinger
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Producers
8. From Russia with Love
9. La Dolce Vita
10. Jules et Jim
1. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
2. Psycho
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. The Battle of Algiers
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8. Rosemary’s Baby
9. The Birds
10.Peeping Tom
Here’s my Top 10:
1. The Graduate
2. The Apartment
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Psycho
5. The Manchurian Candidate
6. Planet of the Apes
7. For A Few Dollars More
8. The Hustler
9. In The Heat of the Night
10. The Magnificent Seven
01. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
02. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
03. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
04. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
05. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
06. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
07. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
08. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
09. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
10. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
Honorable Mentions: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966), The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967)
1. Playtime
2. L’Eclisse
3. Wild River
4. Contempt
5. Last Year at Marienbad
6. Home from the Hill
7. Au Hasard Balthazar
8. Chimes at Midnight
9. The Nutty Professor
10. Leon Morin, Priest
1. Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polanski)
2. The Cow (1969, Dariush Mehrjui)
3. The Joke (1969, Jaromil Jires)
4. Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
5. Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilova)
6. Kuroneko (1968, Kaneto Shindo)
7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
8. The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Martin Ritt)
10. Days of Wine and Roses (1962, Blake Edwards)
Excellent lists! Thanks for sharing! Here’s my top 10, roughly in order:
Dance of the Vampires (Roman Polanski, 1967)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Blood and Roses (Roger Vadim, 1960)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Succubus (Jess Franco, 1967)
Rape of the Vampire (Jean Rollin, 1968)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965)
The House That Screamed (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1969)
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1. The Leopard (Visconti)
2. 2001 (Kubrick)
3. Blow-up (Antonioni)
4. L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
5. Le Mépris (Godard)
6. La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (Rossellini)
7. Masculin-féminin (Godard)
8. Pierrot le fou (Godard)
9. Le Deuxième Souffle (Melville)
10. Shame (Bergman)
Runners up:
11. Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
12. A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
13. Underworld U.S.A. (Fuller)
14. La Collectionneuse (Rohmer)
15. 2 ou 3 Choses que je sais d’elle (Godard)
16. Vivre sa vie (Godard)
17. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
18. L’Armée des ombres (Melville)
19. Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
20. Age of Consent (Powell)
More runners up:
21. The Birds (Hitchcock)
22. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
23. Red Desert (Antonioni)
24. La Peau douce (Truffaut)
25. Psycho (Hitchcock)
26. Na Nuit chez Maud (Rohmer)
27. Mouchette (Bresson)
28. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
29. Weekend (Godard)
30. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
More and more (!) runners up:
31. Acts of the Apostles (Rossellini)
32. Léon Morin, prêtre (Melville)
33. Plein Soleil (Clément)
34. Persona (Bergman)
35. The Fiancées (Olmi)
36. Au hasard Balthasar (Bresson)
37. Tirez sur le pianiste (Truffaut)
38. Gertrud (Dreyer)
39. La Chinoise (Godard)
40. Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
Will we ever get the results????
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01. Simon of the Desert.
02. Vivre Sa Vie.
03. Flesh.
04. Fists in the Pocket.
05. Midnight Cowboy.
06. The Graduate.
07. Hour of the Wolf.
08. Rosemary’s Baby.
09. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
10. Contempt.
Honorable mentions for: The Fall; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Il Posto; Au Hasard Balthazar; Reflections in a Golden Eye; Judex; Accattone; Onibaba; Purple Noon; The Fire Within; Psycho; Chelsea Girls; I Am Cuba