REVEALED: THE ILX TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1960s IN CINERAMA!

100. The Fireman’s Ball
Milos Forman, 1967
POINTS: 51
VOTES: 2
#1’s: 0

(From Grebt scenes thread) "76. the fireman's ball, when the lights come back on after the brief outage. the prize table has been pillaged and everyone has clearly been misbehaving, and there's a few seconds of perfect, sheepish, guilty silence."

-- lauren

99. The Odd Couple
Gene Saks, 1968
POINTS: 51
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

97 B. A Shot In The Dark
Blake Edwards, 1964
POINTS: 52
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

"While Sellers has good scenes in all of them, the only one I find consistently fine is A Shot in the Dark."

-- Dr Morbius

97 A. Shock Corridor
Samuel Fuller, 1963
POINTS: 52
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

96. My Fair Lady
George Cukor, 1964
POINTS: 53
VOTES: 2
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

"Ha, there's one bit at least, where ahem "audrey starts singing" and the change in voice timbre is GLARINGLY apparent. Ms Hepburn's acting + er "vocal characterisations" in this film are so terrible, possibly it's the worst I've seen her do, nevertheless, her whole act is so charming, and the songs are so likeable & memorable, that it easily wins for me. It's one of my favourite films actually."

-- Pashmina

95. The Magic Christian
Joseph McGrath, 1969
POINTS: 54
VOTES: 2
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

When I was at primary school, there was an ad for this film on the school's "religious notices" board. Basically, a picture of Ringo in a tramps sack.

Quite a few years later, saw the film, and thought "Ah they obviously thought it was a Religious film..."

Yul was good.

-- mark grout

94. Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight
Orson Welles, 1965
POINTS: 54
VOTES: 2
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“Chimes at Midnight -- Welles at his fattest and also his best. This movie is filled with more solidly great moments than, I think, Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil combined."

-- Eric H

“Possibly the hardest movie to see on any of these
ballots, Chimes At Midnight (also called Falstaff, for
some reason: the movie credits use both titles) is in
bad need of a Criterion release, which would surely
consolidate its growing reputation as Welles' greatest
film, and (by a light-year or two) the best
Shakespeare film ever. Centering on the doomed
friendship between young delinquent Prince Hal and old
delinquent Sir John Falstaff, the film can be read as
a subtle critique of all leadership everywhere (after
Sept. 11, comparisons between Hal/Henry V and George
W. Bush were common), a reverie for a lost England
that may have never existed, or simply a meditation on
friendship and betrayal. The terrifyingly vivid battle
scene is the high point for some, but the film's
climax - when the newly crowned Henry coldly dismisses
Falstaff, much to the chagrin of both - is even more
shocking. What makes the film unforgettable is its
beautiful, understated naturalism; the cast is so
successful in making Shakespeare's text seem natural
that it's easy to forget that you're watching a film
based on a couple of 300-year-old plays. Shot on an
all but nonexistent budget, the film puts the lie to
the never-shaken myth of Welles' post-Hollywood
decline; 25 years after his debut, he still had it.”

--Justyn Dillingham

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93. The Leopard
Luchino Visconti, 1963
POINTS: 57
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

"The Leopard is amazing! Burt Lancaster's is one of the classic performance.s It is, however, very long and even more difficult to follow than The Big Sleep."

-- Chuck Tatum

"can i just say that The Leopard is fucking awesome. thanks."

-- ryan

92. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Peter R. Hunt, 1969
POINTS: 59
VOTES: 2
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS REMOVED [email Matt DC if you want an explanation]

91. The Cincinnati Kid
Norman Jewison, 1965
POINTS: 62
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS?

90. Cape Fear
J. Lee Thompson, 1962
POINTS: 62
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“I pity anyone who thinks DeNiro did a better job then Mitchum Cape Fear-wise.”

-- Anthony Miccio

89. A Woman Is A Woman
Jean-Luc Godard, 1961
POINTS: 64
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“It's not my favorite Godard film, but it's a good one nonetheless. A brilliant homage/critique of the "musical" genre, and some the finest soundtrack experimentation I have ever seen/heard in a film. It studies how music is often used to manipulate the audience emotionally, and does so by altering expectations.

The scene where the couple has a silent battle of words using only book titles is enough to justify watching the film.”

-- jay blanchard

“Wow. By far, my favorite Godard film. Then again, I tend to prefer his stuff with more personality - Pierrot, Vivre Sa Vie ...”

-- dean?

“It's great. Very fun, and (perhaps this is what people hate about it) very cute as well. Mind you, cute in the good way, like Anna Karina (swoon & sigh).The scene were she's cooking her breakfast and answering the phone is priceless, IMHO. I've read that "A.W.I.A.W" was a homage to Lubitsch (evident in the surname of Belmondo's character in the film), and perhaps by extension to his #1 acolyte Billy Wilder (I'm not so sure about that). "A.W.I.A.W" was what Wilder's later "Irma La Douce" should have been.”

--General Doinel

88. Cleo From 5-7
Agnes Varda, 1962
POINTS: 67
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“"Cleo" struck me in college, and when I saw it again about 2 years ago, as anything but light. I prefer it to most '60s Godard features.”

-- Dr Morbius

“i am a sucker for the french new wave, and cleo from 5 to 7 is in my top 10 favorites of all time. i just loved it.”

-- todd swiss

87. The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner
Tony Richardson, 1962
POINTS: 68
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“I suppose what I like about "Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" the film is what some might regard as overtly simplistic analogies; the crushing defeat at the end of the race and drudgery of the final scene as metaphor for the class system, etc, etc. I just like the atmosphere of the film, the smell of defeat, the *hopelessness* (and, from the historical perspective, the sheer contrast to the explosion of working-class self-confidence we associate with 1963 onwards, which effectively killed off the kitchen-sink genre in its original form - This Sporting Life coincides with the first flush of Beatlemania, after which such films would be out of favour until the new uncertainties of the early 70s). The spot-on period feel ("take death off the road" says one of the characters when he sees an old banger, echoing that uber-1960 Halas & Bachelor public information film). The mockery of the lie that *everyone* had elevated themselves to a consumer lifestyle (that accelerated sequence mocking TV ads with the Rediffusion star appearing on screen about every four seconds). Ultimately, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner makes me feel as though I'm *there*, and fills in parts of a past discovered through friendships 40 years later. It's a bitter film, the best expression of my (and probably many other people's) nihilist side. It is on the side of humanity, but not on the side of the society in which they had to live at the time; certainly it makes me glad I was born when I was. What was that about "the ability to rage correctly"? This film has it.”

-- robin carmody

“I like it when the pound notes come down the drainpipe.”

-- PJ Miller

86. Planet of The Apes
Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968
POINTS: 68
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“the essentially brilliant thing about the original film is how stoner-y it is... all the odd camera angles and OH-MI-GOD-ness of it all. They don't make films like that anymore.”

-- DV

tchuss.

Mitchum is scary in "Cape Fear", but somehow I still ended up rooting for him - the total corruption used by Peck's character, and the totally natural way in which the police chief agrees to discriminate a man just because he's *suuposedly* got it in for a Respectable Citizen, just made Mitchum seem a lot more sympathetic, which doesn't happen much with child killer/rapist characters. When Mitchum gives that roaring laugh at the end of his late night phone call to Peck's wife, I laughed too.

It struck me as a very right wing movie, tho perhaps this is a shallow judgement and it's reallya *criticism* of right wing authoritarian ideology? I was quite surprised to find out Peck was enough of a leftist to make Nixon's enemy list...

Hell, TONY RANDALL made Nixon's list! They weren't leaving anything to chance.

I didn't know til the TCM doc on Kong creator Merian Cooper that he was also behind Cinerama.

Mitchum is pretty much the only reason to see Cape Fear, a grotty little cheap thriller. His smearing the egg on his chest is indelible.

85. Through A Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman, 1961
POINTS: 71
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“through a glass darkly- bergman is the man, this is one of his greats. cant say much more than that.”
-- todd swiss

84. Le Doulos
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962
POINTS: 72
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

83. Fahrenheit 451
Francois Truffaut, 1966
POINTS: 72
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“Fahrenheit 451- With its interconnecting imagery, comic book color scheme, and contemporary-yet-alien atmosphere. I must admit, I've never been a real fan of the novel, but I thought somehow Truffaut might save this one. He comes close, but overall I've always felt disappointed by this one. But, damn, is it fun to look at. The sequence where the old woman martyrs herself is a masterpiece in its own right. There's one overhead shot where the flames literally seem to engulf the camera. Awesome.”
--Anthony

81 A. Mouchette
Robert Bresson, 1967
POINTS: 74
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“"Mouchette" - I'd forgotten about that hand-biting in the fight in the forest, which got quite a yelp in the audience. And those chiming bells come in at precisely the right split-seconds in the last reel.”
-- Dr Morbius

“it's liable to send you into a long funk but it is beautiful”
-- amateur!st

81 B. The Exterminating Angel
Luis Bunuel, 1962
POINTS: 74
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“i love the exterminating angel.”
-- s1ocki

80. Z
Costa-Gavras, 1969
POINTS: 74
VOTES: 6
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

79. Charade
Stanley Donen, 1963
POINTS: 75
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

78. The Thomas Crown Affair
Norman Jewison, 1968
POINTS: 76
VOTES: 3
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“The original Thomas Crown Affair is pretty wonderful (haven't seen the Brosnan version), with hot young Yaphet Kotto action! But I think the heists go off pretty smoothly. You know what they say, "Lucky in larceny, unlucky in love."”
-- Huk-L

“McQueen looks fucking cool in this picture. And the chess scene is
hilarious. Those two elements alone are enough to sell me on this. Faye
doesn’t look bad either. The kind of movie you wish you woke up in.”
--FIVE-EIGHT

77. Bedazzled
Stanley Donen, 1968
POINTS: 79
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“Cook's devil is this cold-eyed, almost-nerdy, covertly-neurotic bastard, and you squirm when he makes you laugh.”
-- pete s

“Of course, the 1967 film. Eleanor Bron is pretty sexy, I always thought. ... I like all the little bits tucked away in the orig.: "I didn't go to school, and I'm very, ah, uh, ummm, ah..." "Inarticulate." "Yes...I think so..."”
-- eddie hurt

“The scene where Cook is a popstar and all the girls are going insane is hilarious to me no matter the context, I wish I could find that song on a record somewhere.”
-- TOMBOT

I've never seen Lolita or Barry Lyndon, but the only Kubrick movie I could see an argument for not being entertaining is 2001.

PETER SELLERS/GEORGE C. SCOTT/PETER SELLERS/KEENAN WYNN/PETER SELLERS/STERLING HAYDEN/and who could forget...SLIM PICKENS

Yet I did not vote for it.

Great flick, but maybe the problem in this case is that it was released in America by AIP in modified form as "The Conquer Worm" and has gotten spotty reissue since. MGM needs to get off their ass and put it out along with the Leone remasters.

A Taste of Honey
Irma La Douce
In Cold Blood
Satryicon
West Side Story
Last Year in Marienbad

James Blount completely on the money!

100. The Fireman’s Ball
99. The Odd Couple
97 A. A Shot In The Dark
97 B. Shock Corridor
96. My Fair Lady
95. The Magic Christian
94. Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight*
93. The Leopard
92. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
91. The Cincinnati Kid*
90. Cape Fear
89. A Woman Is A Woman
88. Cleo From 5-7
87. The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner
86. Planet of The Apes
85. Through A Glass Darkly
84. Le Doulos
83. Fahrenheit 451
81 A. Mouchette
81 B. The Exterminating Angel
80. Z
79. Charade
78. The Thomas Crown Affair
77. Bedazzled
76. Knife In The Water
75. Barbarella
74. A Fistful of Dollars
73. If….
72. Pierrot Le Fou*
70 A. Billy Liar
70 B. Spartacus
69. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. The Trial*
67. Andrei Rublev*
66. L’Avventura
65. Masculin Feminin*
64. For A Few Dollars More
63. One, Two, Three*
62. Tokyo Drifter
61. To Kill A Mockingbird*
60. Woman In The Dunes
59. Blow-Up
58. Yellow Submarine
57. Le Jetee
56. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
55. Contempt
54. The Pink Panther
53. Shoot The Piano Player
52. Cool Hand Luke
51. Help!*
50. Breakfast At Tiffany’s
49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*
48. Goldfinger
47. Bullitt
46. Alphaville
45. Playtime
44. Carnival of Souls*
43. La Dolce Vita
42. Don’t Look Back
41. The Birds
40. Repulsion**
39. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
38. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
37. Weekend*
36. Mary Poppins
35. Lolita
34. High and Low
33. Point Blank
32. Le Samourai*
31. Easy Rider
30. Branded To Kill
29. Au Hasard Balthazar*
28. 8 ½
27. The Great Escape
26. Peeping Tom
25. The Battle of Algiers
24. Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live**
23. The Hustler*
22. Persona*
21. Night of The Living Dead
20. The Wild Bunch
19. Belle De Jour
18. The Producers
17. Jules and Jim
16. Yojimbo*
15. Once Upon A Time In The West***
14. Lawrence of Arabia
13. A Hard Day’s Night
12. The Apartment
11. Bonnie and Clyde
10. Midnight Cowboy*
9. Rosemary’s Baby*
8. The Graduate
7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part*
6. The Manchurian Candidate*
5. Breathless
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey*
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. Psycho
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb**

Sometime soon i'll post a similar list of 101-228

i may be mistaken here but as far as i know the word "psycho" was not commonly used as an abbreviation for "psychopath" until hitchcock's film (it literally means "mind") it came into common currency, as an abbreviation, after that. also i'm not sure that that "psycho" as a title is referring to hopkins' charater.

This reminds me of a comment on one of the Kubrick threads I didn't use:

"AB and I rewatch 2001 earlier this year at a cinema: at the bit where the space-hostess walks upside down in non-gravity, AB looks at her butt and whispers: "I see in the future they can fly to Jupiter but they still haven't cured VPL." We giggle so much we risk being a. chucked out of cinema b. being lynched by humourless kubricoids around us."

-- mark s

101 Head
102 The bed-sitting room
alfie
104 Irma La douce
105 Last Year At Marienbad
106 The Dirty Dozen
107 The Magnificent seven
108 Fail-safe
109 In the heat of the night
110 take the money and run
111 The President's analyst
112 The sorrow & the pity*
113 The Shop On Main Street
Faces
115 wavelength
Marnie
Winter light
118 Lola
carry on up the khyber
Red Beard
oliver
122 Kwaidan
123 the nutty professor
124 Stolen Kisses
125 Hud
confession of an opium eater
From russia with love
Viva las vegas
129 Salesman
130 ton ton/mousieur gangster*
An Actor's Revenge*
The Flicker*
133 Gertrud
A taste of honey
seppaku/harakiri
136 chronicle of summer
the sound of music
138 Juliet of the spirits
139 high school
The swimmer
141 black girl
the sand pebbles
scattered clouds
144 Guess who's coming to dinner
145 The Pawnbroker
Ride the high country
147 To Sir With Love
Ruined map
149 West Side Story
150 The Spy Who Came In
I'll never forget
the italian job
153 the chelsea girls
The Servant
Simon of the desert
Blast of silence
what's up tiger lily
samurai rebellion
159 paris belongs to us
Il Posto
Burn!
162 the gospel according to St. Mathew
the knack...and how to get it
164 Targets
165 shame
the sundowners
the sword in the stone
the battle of britain
169 A Thousand Clowns
In Cold Blood
Quatermass and the pit
172 skidoo
173 the silence
174 whatever happened to aunt alice?
Last summer
176 Tokyo olyimpiad
177 it's a mad mad world
Life upside down
dr. zhivago
Psych-out
the disorderly orderly
182 les bonnes
Sanjuro
the face of another
The One-armed Swordsman
The young girls of rochefort
187 shadow army
Bad girls go to hell
Barefoot in the park
A Man and A Woman
191 Wait until dark
192 Pigs & Battleships
193 the trip
194 Inherit the wind
How I Won The War
196 Seconds
El dorado
198 the party
Mothlight
heaven and earth magic
201 Saturday night and Sunday
the jungle book
onibaba
204 Two For The Road
Medium Cool
206 sword of doom
when a woman ascends the stairs
signs of life
209 Witchfinder General
210 The naked kiss
211 Mudhoney
212 Petulia
213 Closely observed trains
214 reflections in a golden eye
215 flaming creatures
216 The Wild angels
217 Putney Swope
218 The longest day
modesty blaise
220 ocean's 11
A touch of zen
the masque of red death
bob & carol & ted & alice
224 fantastic voyage
the war game
Satyricon
the russians are coming...
228 The virgin spring
Blue movie
Kes

And Daniel Rf has won the drawing for the card. Big thanks to everyone who voted.

Sometime soon i'll post a similar list of 101-228

Hmm...did my ballot get there? I think it would have come from "ian".

Playtime finishing at only #45 is even more scandalous than the nonsupport for Chelsea Girls, the Masque of the Red Death and Kes; yet like 2001 it should be seen in a theater if at all possible.

I wonder what poster art Doinel would've used for Wavelength.

Dude, you numbered it that way. (checks ballot) Oh of course, you were ranking by points, and I read it as positions. My bad. Luckily, your's was the only ballot done that way, so I can do a recount fairly easily. It will be up next week(and it'll be just a list-no pix). There'll be some definite changes in the results, altough the top 3 will stand. (maybe even the top 5.)

Sorry about the screw-up.

BTW Hobart, I got your ballot, but in the rush to finalize things I forgot to note the #1 on my rankings document. The film did get the 33 points it had coming though.

Once again I'm sorry about the screw-up.

interesting list, overall.

1. Two films have been removed from the Top 100 in exchange for two others.

2. Two films have fallen out of the top ten.

3. The positions of several other films have changed.

I'll be back in a little bit with entries for two new members of the Top 100 and a list of new rankings.

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93.The Dirty Dozen
Robert Aldrich, 1967
POINTS: 54
VOTES: 6

COMMENTS?

Not an especially interesting Aldrich film.

92. The Silence
Ingmar Bergman, 1963
POINTS: 55
VOTES: 3
#1's: 1

COMMENTS?

1. Dr. Strangelove**
2. Psycho
3. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey*
5. Breathless
6. The Manchurian Candidate*
7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part*
8. Bonnie and Clyde
9. Midnight Cowboy*
10. The Apartment
11. a hard day's night
12. The Graduate
13. Rosemary's Baby*
14. Lawrence of Arabia
15. Once Upon A Time In The West***
16. Yojimbo*
17. Jules and Jim
18. The Producers
19. Belle de jour
20. Night of The Living Dead
21. The Wild Bunch
22. Persona
23. The hustler*
24. Vivre Se Vie/My Life to Live**
25. Battle of Algiers
26. Peeping Tom
27. Le Samourai*
28. 8 1/2
29. Point blank
30. Au hasard Balthazar*
31. Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid
The Great Escape
33. Branded To Kill
34. Easy Rider
35. Repulsion**
36. High and Low
37. Lolita
38. Mary poppins*
39. weekend*
40. Help!*
41. Don't Look Back
42. La Dolce Vita
43. Playtime
44. Alphaville
45. Bullitt
46. Goldfinger
47. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
48. Faster pussycat! Kill! Kill!*
49. Breakfast At Tiffany's
50. The Birds
51. Cool Hand Luke
52. The pink panther
53. Contempt
54. Carnival of souls*
55. The Man Who Shot Liberty Val
56. le jetee
57. Yellow submarine
58. Blow-up
59. Woman in the dunes
60. To Kill A Mockingbird*
61. One, two, three*
62. Tokyo drifter
63. Masculin feminin*
64. L'Aventura
65. Andrei rublev*
66. Z
67. The trial*
68. Billy Liar
69. Shoot The Piano Player
70. Pierrot Le Fou*
71. For a few dollars more
72. If…
73. a fist full of dollars
74. Barbarella
75. Knife in the water
76. Who's afraid of virginia woolf?
Charade
78. Bedazzled
79. the thomas crown affair
80. The exterminating angel
Mouchette
82. fahr 451
83. Les Doulos
84. Through a glass darkly
85. Spartacus
86. Planet of The Apes
87. The Loneliness of the long distance runner
88. Cleo From 5-7
89. A Woman Is A Woman
90. Cape fear
91. On her majesty's secret service
92. the silence*
93. The Dirty Dozen
94. Falstaff/chimes at midnight*
95. The magic chistian
96. My Fair lady
97 A Shot in the dark
Shock Corridor
99. The Odd couple
100. the fireman's ball

Still, it's one of the better ones in which you can see Charles Bronson punch out John Cassavettes.

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Where Daddy takes Tuesday Weld clothes shopping

Yes, this is a great/disturbing/wacko scene in Lord Love a Duck... which has a good first half-hour then becomes another desperate would-be-hip Hollywood comedy of the era. Not as painful or interesting as Skidoo, admittedly.

is it better than "Angel, Angel, We're Going Down"?

never heard of this -- let's stick to the 'A' pictures!

http://www.idyllopuspress.com/meanwhile/1447/blogging-angel-angel-down-we-go-aka-cult-of-the-damned/

Watched the CC edition of Medium Cool over the weekend -- the Chicago police riot footage, with Verna Bloom wandering thru in her yellow dress, is a mindblower still, tho I'm mixed on the overtly scripted stuff. Nice single-scene role for Peter Boyle. Also adroit use of that Mothers song about "psychedelic dungeons" and fake hippies.

I guess it might do better than tie for 204th now. Even tho "Look out, Haskell, it's real!" was dubbed in later.

Shirley Clarke's The Connection out on Blu-ray next week

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