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

5. Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
POINTS: 349
VOTES: 16

COMMENTS:

“Godard’s greatest non-Karina film is one of those BIG ICONIC WORLD-CHANGING MASTERPIECES OF THE CINEMATIC FORM, that is actual as great, entertaining, and fun as the reputation suggests. In fact, it’s better.”

--General Doinel

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick, 1968
POINTS: 359
VOTES: 17
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“My Mum worked as a production accounts assistant on 2001 and actually walked around the spinny space hub thing. Very expensive to build - she says tutting. She also said that Kubrick was nowhere near as nuts as Patrick 'Mad As A Hatter' MacGooghan, if that is in any way salacious.”

-- Pete

"2001" is godlike, but you have to accept that it's not like other films.”

&

“I don't think "2001" goes over the heads of people who don't like it. I used to be one of those people. But around the time he died it got shown on TV, I started watching it, and I got sucked in. It's not like other films in that it's really really really slow. Some people like that, other (inferior) people don't.’

-- The Dirty Vicar

3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sergio Leone, 1966
POINTS: 456
VOTES: 21

COMMENTS:

“I once saw a very very early matinee of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (with ice cream and everything) and I have rarely ever been so truly truly happy.”

-- @d@ml

“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly may be my all-time favorite movie, the more I think about it.”

-- El Diablo Robotico

“I just acquired the new double disc DVD of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Amazing! I planned on watching one hour of it tonight so I could do something else later, but I watched all 179 minutes of it. Fucking beautiful.’

&

“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly gets better with each viewing. And what is often forgotten is that it contains one of cinema's more inexplicably haunting depictions of war. Aside from the battle between a couple of liquored-up armies fighting over a useless bridge, the war is nothing but retreating armies, dead bodies, military cemeteries, and prisoner-of-war camps.

“What I didn't know was that Leone was actually depicting a very real part of the Civil War that took place in New Mexico. I always assumed that he was creating a surreal version of the war. Perhaps the scope of what occurred was implicitly larger in Leone's fiction, but it's based in truth.”

-- Gear!

“The title sequence is for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is one of my favorite things ever (the rest of the movie is up there too!).”

-- Spencer Chow

“Leone is the master filmmaker. This is the dress rehearsal to his magnum opus. Therefore, it can’t fail to be anything less than utter, utter genius. A beautifully wrought musing on Conflict, Friendship and Greed – the three central protagonists are cinema gold but Wallach’s Tuco steals the show the moment he screams “You’re the son a thousand fathers… all of them bastards like you.””

--FIVE-EIGHT

2. Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock, 1960
POINTS: 513
VOTES: 23

COMMENTS?

101 Head
102A The bed-sitting room
B.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

COMMENTS?

1. It Happened at the World's Fair
2. It Happened at the World's Fair
3. It Happened at the World's Fair
4. It Happened at the World's Fair
5. It Happened at the World's Fair
6. It Happened at the World's Fair
7. It Happened at the World's Fair
8. It Happened at the World's Fair
9. It Happened at the World's Fair
10. It Happened at the World's Fair

ANYHOO:

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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick, 1964
POINTS: 554
VOTES: 25
#1’s: 2

COMMENTS:

“I've seen it so many times I almost forget it's meant to be a comedy; in a lot of ways it works just as well as a straight thriller. But I never fail to crack up at "Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines!"”

--Justyn Dillingham

so lame.

My gripe: too many African films.

I don't know why it would be a shock that a poll consisting largely of American voters (with a lesser number of Britishes and Australians, and the odd Scandinavian here and there) is dominated by films dominant in American culture.

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