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

51. Help!
Richard Lester, 1965
POINTS: 123
VOTES: 7
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“For "Ticket to Ride" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," two of the greatest videos ever made.”
-- Phil Dellio

50. Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Blake Edwards, 1961
POINTS: 124
VOTES: 7
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS?

Eleanor Bron's 2nd appearance! (The Yo La Tengo line quoted by Ken is about Help!)

Luke is good star heroism, too much Christ imagery.

I like first-rate Franz Planer/Philip Lathrop, Martin Balsam, Henry Mancini and 171 E. 71st St.

49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Russ Meyer, 1965
POINTS: 128
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS?

48. Goldfinger
Guy Hamilton, 1964
POINTS: 132
VOTES: 6
#1’s: 0

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47. Bullitt
Peter Yates, 1968
POINTS: 133
VOTES: 5
#1’s: 0

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46. Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
POINTS: 134
VOTES: 7
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“Alphaville--put that in the "search" column for me. It's the only kind of sci-fi i can stand!”
-- jay blanchard

45. Playtime
Jacques Tati, 1967
POINTS: 136
VOTES: 6
#1?s: 0

COMMENTS:

Jacques Tati/Play Time

-- jones (hobartarm...), August 25th, 2004.

44. Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey, 1962
POINTS: 140
VOTES: 6
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“one of the few films where the wooden, characterless acting actually adds to the sense of unease and sheer wrongness. While the central plot twist has been overused (and misused) in many subsequent films, Carnival Of Souls still has a strange, eerie power unlike anything much else I can think of before or since. Director Herk Harvey was apparently influenced by Cocteau. This is apparent in the scenario and atmosphere, but it’s the pulpy horror elements that really lift the film into something more than the sum of its parts. A more experienced director would have maybe given us a competent horror film with “artistic” flourishes – as it is, it’s a bizarre, probably unrepeatable one-off.”
--Matt T.

43. La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini, 1960
POINTS: 140
VOTES: 8
#1’s: 0

COMMENTS:

“"La Dolce Vita" is incredible, a wonderful study of decadence and celebrity, the charms and lures, the shallowness and excess, etc. Far before it's time in the exploration of "paparazzi" (the term paparazzi actually got it's name from a character in La Dolce Vita).”
-- jay blanchard

“I remember the first time I saw it with several friends and we convinced one friend that the word "dolce" meant "crazy" in Italian. Eventually he found out it meant "sweet", but whenever we hang out with him someone will invariably begin talking about some wild event, i.e. a fight at a show, as being "so fucking dolce...you know, crazy." He gets really pissed, so we keep doing it.

Anyway, a wonderful film.”
--Gear!

“Anouk Aimee is truly the most beautiful woman who ever lived.”

-- Spencer Chow

42. Don’t Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker, 1967
POINTS: 141
VOTES: 6
#1’s: 0

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41. The Birds
Alfred Hitchcock, 1963
POINTS: 141
VOTES: 9
#1’s: 0

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40. Repulsion
Roman Polanski, 1965
POINTS: 143
VOTES: 7
#1’s: 2

COMMENTS?

I'm not feeling very articulate today. Perhaps a more articulate person will appear and say it better.

Fellini thought it might be AH's best film (as does Camille Paglia).

Its a very oddly shaped film, but that sort of adds to its appeal.

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39. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy, 1964
POINTS: 146
VOTES: 10

COMMENTS:

“The most heart breaking film because it shows how ordinary love is. We expect a confection, and its center is not cherries but dust .”

-- anthony

“fucking brilliant. One of my five favourite films.”

-- Ian Riese-Moraine

“my favorite moment is when Catherine Deneuve pouts at her mother that she's getting heavy and her mother says (sings) "but all pregnant women are beautiful" and Catherine Deneuve looks in the mirror, smiles, and says "yes, that's true"

“a hiphop versh has been rattling around my head for years now. Usher plays the diamond dealer.”

-- Tracer Hand

38. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill, 1969
POINTS: 149
VOTES: 10

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37. Weekend
Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
POINTS: 151
VOTES: 8
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“The only Godard that I've enjoyed has been Weekend, which was a lot of fun.”

-- polyphonic

Week End has many strange, wonderful, and disturbing moments. It's probably best known for the long scene with the traffic jam. So many ideas in this movie. Poor Emily Bronte gets set on fire. Then there's the egg monologue, the pianist, the political essay set to a man eating a sandwich, etc.

-- Ernest P.

“Probably the most frustrating great film I've ever seen, it shifts back and forth between being brilliant and unwatchable so violently that sometimes it's hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. Godard's great scenes come on like the apocalyptic
trumpet blasts of a Beethoven symphony, but 10-minute chunks of this movie go by that might be more excruciating than 10 minutes spent listening to your roommate's Grateful Dead bootleg collection. I know I'll never forget it, but genius rarely comes in such annoying fits and starts.”

--Justyn Dillingham

“I was at a point in my life where I was about to give up on narrative cinema altogether (as a viewer), and Weekend turned me around. Of course, now that I think of it, that was exactly the OPPOSITE of Godard's intention...but i digress.”

-- jay blanchard

Brilliant. "Ro-land Cas-sard".

36. Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson, 1964
POINTS: 153
VOTES: 6

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35. Lolita
Stanley Kubrick, 1962
POINTS: 154
VOTES: 9

COMMENTS:

“lolita is more or less unfilmable, but the kubrick version works brilliantly as a black comedy. it's my favorite of his films.”

-- J.D.

“"Lolita" is a good example of what goes wrong with Kubrick. He couldn't film it in America, or wouldn't, so it loses all the tanginess of Nabokov. However, on the plus side, the early set pieces are nice, and it's well-cast. So, an interesting failure--he was just too damned cold to make a real go of that novel, and it's a shame.”

-- eddie hurt

“A very funny film, largely because everyone in the cast plays it completely straight. Shelley Winters might seem like a caricature, but she's also the only real innocent in the story; James Mason is as tormented and perpetually aghast as the book's Humbert, even if he doesn't have as much space to rant about it; Sue Lyon ("a face amusingly reminiscent of the young Elvis Presley" - Pauline Kael) is convincingly vulgar and smirky. But the film's real triumph is Peter Sellers' brilliant performance asClare Quilty, who seems almost to belong to some other, greater movie, taking place just out of sight, with the tragedy of Humbert and Lo a mere side attraction.”

--Justyn Dillingham

34. High and Low
Akira Kurosawa, 1963
POINTS: 155
VOTES: 7

COMMENTS:

“The scene that sticks most in my memory is of Mifune obsessively mowing his lawn in his sweat-stained silk shirt. One of the best portraits of anguish EVAH. I also like the fat cop.”

--General Doinel

33. Point Blank
John Boorman, 1967
POINTS: 158
VOTES: 9

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32. Le Samourai
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
POINTS: 161
VOTES: 161
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“What I love about Alain Delon is his ability to hold the same expression regardless of genre or time period.”

-- Gear!