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

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

76. Knife In The Water
Roman Polanski, 1962
POINTS: 80
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

Faye Dunaway: Unlikeliest under-25 insurance investigator evah.

75. Barbarella
Roger Vadim, 1967
POINTS: 85
VOTES: 6
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“It may well be soft core porn disguised as sci fi, but it happens to be soft core porn disguised as sci fi I like. I haven't thought about this film in ages, but I never got anything other than joy out of it.”
-- Nick

“It is one of the best films ever made. EVER. Yes, it is soft core porn disguised as sci fi, combined with brilliant social parody of the sexual revolution and The Pill. And a little bit of Philosophy In The Boudoir thrown in for good measure.

And Anita Pallenberg...

What more could you WANT in a film?

It is one of my three favourite films of all time along with Performance and erm... I forget what the third one is.

Classic. I will whump the arse of anyone who dares disagree with me.

And oh yes, Duran references up the Ying Yang.

"An angel cannot make love... an angel IS love!"”
-- kate

“I fancy Jane. I went out with a girl who looked like her when I was 16.
I dumped her. Don’t ask me why. This film has meant something peculiar to
me ever since. What else do you wanna know?”
--FIVE EIGHT

74. A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone, 1964
POINTS: 87
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

Charade is undeniably a watchable showcase for the charms of its stars, but the silly villains/plot totally defangs the genre mixing. Hitchcock (of whom this is an obv parody, if less juvenile and literal than High Anxiety) could do both in his sleep better.

73. If?.
Lindsay Anderson, 1968
POINTS: 88
VOTES: 3
#1?s: 0

COMMENTS:

If....

72. Pierrot Le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
POINTS: 91
VOTES: 4
#1’s:1

COMMENTS:

“pierrot le fou is hilarious if you're a misanthrope like me’
-- dean!

“Pierrot le Fou: So wonderful. A Jules Verne fantasyland.”
-- -8-(*_*)-8-

“The ultimate Belmondo movie. The ultimate Karina movie. The ultimate Godard movie. The ultimate Coutard movie. The ultimate midget-who-gets-stabbed-in-the-back-with-a-pair-of-scissors movie. Not of all of this is true.”
--General Doinel

The guy who plays The Husband is also excellent in some other Polish movies- The Saragossa Manuscript being one of them.

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70 A. Billy Liar
John Schlesinger, 1963
POINTS: 92
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“The sequence in Billy Liar of Julie Christie walking through the middle of Bradford is one of the most glorious in film history.”
-- Tim

“I still can't watch Billy Liar without getting all misty eyed and wistful.”
-- chris

70 B. Spartacus
Stanley Kubrick, 1960
POINTS: 92
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

"Fistful Of Dollars" does do away with two of "Yojimbo"'s biggest points of sillyness: one, the whole GUN VS SWORD OMG WHO WILL WIN? thing, and the cheerleading "way to go for destroying what's left of our village!" attitude amongst the bartender and the undertaker (well, the latter is at least toned down a bit.) Dunno if that improves or diminishes the thing.

I really wanna see "Charade" and "Bedazzled".

Really, the hokey bits show why he exiled himself and initiated all his projects henceforth.

His cinematographer was an old-school guy who essentially refused to follow Kubrick's direction, so SK basically did his work too. And the DP won an Oscar.

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69. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols, 1966
POINTS: 93
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

68. The Trial
Orson Welles, 1963
POINTS: 94
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“im all about the trial, though that may have something to do with the fact that i finished the book at about 1 am one night and then stayed up to watch the movie in a sort of weird dementia. i think it handles the sort of overtop visuals in a much better way, but theres more room for that because anything with kafka is going to be surreal and ridiculous.”

-- tom cleveland

67. Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969
POINTS: 95
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“Andrei Rublev- another wow! I saw Solaris beforehand, but this was much better. Tarkovsky works better when he isn't bound by a strong narrative, and this one delivered because of that. Kudos to the pagan fire scene, the opening balloon scene, the attack on Vladimir (and that burning bull!); awesome visuals. Also, the camerawork (the long sweeping arcs, the curiousity of it, the erratic overhead shots). Hard to take it all on the first viewing.”

-- mj

“Andrei Rublev, there's this one plan (no narrative role really) where Andrei and another monk are sitting in a tree in the rain, I have no real idea why this particular scene is so sad, but it is.”

-- daria g

Anthony Perkins said one of the first things Welles told him was "Joseph K is guilty as hell!" I like it more than his other '60s films; it's funny.

66. L’Avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960
POINTS: 100
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

65. Masculin Feminin
Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
POINTS: 101
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“I thought Masculin-Feminin was brilliant and accessible, if you like the style. It's somewhat unconventional (though one of the best 'love' stories I recall seeing on-screen) in the camera's proximity - everyone's shot so tight, rarely more than a couple on-screen, there are zero establishing shots, very cinema-verite (I'd love to see the film Godard shot with Albert Maysles right before M-F).

Bonus points for having an amazing soundtrack (I doubt Chantal Goya's tracks from the film are available on CD). Check out the Rialto Pictures trailer (www.rialtopictures.com) - unrepresentative of the film itself but with one of Goya's songs.”

-- milozauckerman

64. For A Few Dollars More
Sergio Leone, 1965
POINTS: 102
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0
COMMENTS:
“For a Few Dollars More. His part is brief, but unforgettable if you're a Kinski fan.”

-- Anthony

“Indio. What a good lad. Seriously, there’s something fascinating about Volonte’s portrayal of el bandito Indio – you can’t keep your eyes off The man. He’s a terrifying figurehead of violence and mania, capable of anything, in the Frank (Blue Velvet) mould. Also, Klaus mother-fucking Kinski! Ah, what joy – keep your eyes on his twitching lip when Van Cleef strikes a match off his hunch. One of the Top 10 scenes in cinema.”

--FIVE EIGHT

63. One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder, 1961
POINTS: 105
VOTES: 4
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“One Two Three is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, mostly due to James Cagney (who is fuckin' amazing). His last leading role, and his last movie for 20 years until Ragtime.”

-- Gear!

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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