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

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

COMMENTS?

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

COMMENTS?

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

COMMENTS?

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!

31. Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper, 1969
POINTS: 163
VOTES: 9

COMMENTS:

“Chronically overrated, indulgent, dated, ripped off and tired. So what.
It’s a fucking great movie kids. I love the hipster cool look and feel, I
love Jack, I love the hideous ending, I love the drugs and free spirit and
the counterpoint context of Hopper and Fonda’s egomania. Mythmaking
extraordinaire. Envelope pushing for the period. Drenched in the times.
Cinema would I dare to suggest, be the less interesting if this movie
had never got made.”

--FIVE EIGHT

Also, there's an early appearance by that dude from Hill Street Blues.

30. Branded To Kill
Seijun Suzuki, 1967
POINTS: 165
VOTES: 9

COMMENTS:

"I just watched Branded to Kill last night and, jesus. I mean, hallucinatory. Crazy. I can't think of another movie I've seen recently -- and I've seen a lot of good movies recently -- where past a point I had no earthly idea what was going to happen next, and then what happened next always blew my brain apart. There are so many individual genius sequences in there, and they all kind of pile on top of each other. Goddam. I've heard about him for a while, but I guess I didn't really know wtf he was up to."

-- gypsy mothra

“Branded to Kill is utterly great -- picked it up several years back and Sean from SF (who's doing well, last I checked) and I had a good time watching it and playing 'spot the moments where Tarantino bugged out.'“

-- Ned Raggett

I love the fat cop. Does he actually serve any purpose on the squad in the film, or is he merely totemic? And if the latter, is the joke sort of meta?

29. Au Hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson, 1966
POINTS: 169
VOTES: 7
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“So I finally sat down to watch Au Hasard Balthazar for the first time last night. I had heard about it so much that I managed to get a copy (I missed the theatrical rerelease last year), even though I never really dug late period Bresson. During the film's last five minutes I just broke down. Even after having read about it for years I had no idea how incredibly heartbreaking and at the same time beautiful the ending would be. And this is in a film full of just intense, resonant moments, both beautiful and horrible. I really, in all my years of watching, loving and hating films, don't think I've ever been moved by a film like this one has and I can't stop thinking about it.”

-- Jay Vee

28. 8 ½
Federico Fellini, 1963
POINTS: 183
VOTES: 7

COMMENTS:

“La Dolce Vita will get loads of votes, but I like this movie better. Melancholic, autobiographical, sexy, moody, and it has Claudia Cardinale. Reow. It’s visually arresting, fantasist, dreamlike, seductive and bizarre.”

--FIVE EIGHT

“8 1/2 is probably my favorite movie ever but i dont really care for anything else he's done (that i've seen)”

-- ryan

“"8 1/2" is the film that made me decide I wanted to be a filmmaker. Enough said.”

-- jay blanchard

27. The Great Escape
John Sturges, 1963
POINTS: 189
VOTES: 10

COMMENTS:

“i saw the restored print of the great escape last night - fantastic.
i still can't believe they all die in the end, though! i thought in the restored print maybe they could somehow sneak away...”

-- a spectator bird

26. Peeping Tom
Michael Powell, 1960
POINTS: 190
VOTES: 10

COMMENTS:

“Magnificent film; the scene that strikes me right now would be of the old 'Gentleman' in the newsagents, with Mark Lewis just in the side of the later shots. Great piece of 'Englishness', showing what is behind the bluff veneer.”

-- Tom May

“Splendid companion piece to Psycho. I saw it circa '88 at American Museum of the Moving Image, with Powell in attendance, and he was visibly moved at the ovation he received. There were also walkouts.’

-- Dr Morbius

“This is one of my favorite films. I'm not sure it works completely as a Hitchcock style psychological thriller, but it's a more conscious attempt to engage and illustrate pyschoanalysis and film theory - even if it's occasionally corny and ham-fisted. The actual creepiness of Karlheinz Böhm really the film and it's points.

“The Criterion DVD has an *Amazing* commentary track from Laura "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" Mulvey. I very highly recommend it.”

-- Spencer Chow

another review of The Birds, via Ogden Nash: "Leave no Tern Unstoned."

-- General Doinel (deanmartinlive...), December 8th, 2005.

I must be one of the few people who has never seen this movie.

Don't think I'm going to bother now I know the ending..

HAURRAY!!! A HAPPY ENDING!!

I guess calling it "The Lousy Escape" would put people off.

Anyway, Good Luck!

Eurovision factor is high here. Here's a list of 32 films that I (not admittedly a cinemaphile) would be surprised to not see in the top 100 films of the 1960s:

2001: A Space Odyssey, A Hard Day's Night, A Taste of Honey, Battle of Algiers, Belle de Jour, Bonnie and Clyde, Breathless, Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Zhivago, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, In Cold Blood, In The Heat of the Night, Irma La Douce, Jules and Jim, Last Year At Marienbad, Lawrence of Arabia, Midnight Cowboy, Night of The Living Dead, Once Upon A Time In the West, Persona, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, Sanjuro, Satyricon, The Apartment, The Graduate, 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly', The Magnificent Seven, The Producers, The Wild Bunch, West Side Story, Yojimbo

Even considering that I've probably overrated some because I've never seen them, but they're pretty famous (Dr. Zhivago?, the Poitiers? The Graduate?), there's still more than 25 there.

And I've probably missed some foreign-language contenders in the rest, too:

A Man and A Woman, A Touch Of Zen, A Thousand Clowns, Accatone, Alfie, An Actor's Revenge, Bad Girls Go To Hell, Band of Outsiders /bande a part, Blackmail Is My Life, Blast of Silence, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Boccaccio 70, Burn!/Queimada!, Carry On up the Khyber, Charulata, Chronicle of a Summer, Classes Tous Risques, Closely Observed Trains, Coming Apart, Confessions Of A Psycho Cat, Confessions Of An Opium Eater, Cruel Story of Youth, David Holzman's Diary, Days of Wine and Roses, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards, Diary of a Chambermaid, Divorce Italian Style, El Cid, El Dorado, Faces, Fail-Safe, Fantastic Voyage, Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, From Russia With Love, Gamlet/Hamlet, Gate of Flesh, Gertrud, Hatari!, Head, Heaven and Earth Magic, High School, Ho!, How I Won The War, Hud, I'll Never Forget Whatisname, Il Grand Silenzio, Il Posto/The Sound of Trumpets, Inherit the Wind, Invocation of My Demon Brother, Juliet of the Spirits, Kwaidan, La Commare Seca, L'Eclisse, Le Petit Soldat, Life Upside Down / La Vie a L'Envers, Lola, Loves of a Blonde, Marat/Sade, Marnie, Medium Cool, Modesty Blaise, Mondo Trasho, Monterey Pop, Mothlight, Mudhoney, My Night at Maud's, Never on Sunday, Oliver!, Pale Flower, Peep Show, Petulia, Pigs and Battleships, Prelude, Pretty Poison, Psych-Out, Purple Noon/Plein Soliel, Putney Swope, Quatermass & The Pit, Red Angel, Red Beard, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Ride the High Country, Ruined Map, Samurai Rebellion, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Seconds, Seppuku/Harakiri, Shame, Signs of Life, Simon del Desierto, Skidoo, Splendor in the Grass, Stolen Kisses/Baisers Volées, Story of a Prostitute, Sword Of Doom, Sympathy for the Devil/One Plus One, Take the Money and Run, Targets, Teorema, The Bed Sitting Room, The Bellboy, The Bride Wore Black, The Chelsea Girls, The Dirty Dozen, The Disorderly Orderly, The Errand Boy, The Face Of Another, The Flicker, The Gospel According to St Matthew, The Hustler, The Knack...And How To Get It, The Ladies' Man, The Manchurian Candidate,
The Naked Kiss, The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, The Pawnbroker, The Pornographers, The President's Analyst, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, The Servant, The Shooting, The Shop On Main Street, The Silence, The Sorrow and the Pity, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Sundowners, The Swimmer, The Trip, The Virgin Spring, The War Game, The Wild Angels, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Three on a Couch, To Sir with Love, Tokyo Olympiad, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Tony Rome, Triumph Over Violence/Ordinary Facism, Two For The Road, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Viridiana, Viva Las Vegas, Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live, Wait Until Dark, Wavelength, What's Up Tiger Lilly?, "Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?", When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Winter Light, Witchfinder General/The Conquer Worm, Young Torless, Youth of the Beast

Forecast: Fun.

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25. The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965
POINTS: 191
VOTES: 10

COMMENTS:

"The Battle Of Algiers"

24. Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live
Jean-Luc Godard, 1962
POINTS: 192
VOTES: 9
#1’s: 2

COMMENTS:

“My Life to Live is my favorite. It's a good place to start since i started there and i love Godard. i'm no expert on him tho.”

-- ryan

“I’m not one to cry (or even get seriously emotional) when watching films. But there are at least two or three parts of this movie that just kill me. In particular, Nana’s interrogation by the police. Words fail me. It’s a fucking masterpiece.”

--General Doinel

23. The Hustler
Robert Rossen, 1961
POINTS: 198
VOTES: 9
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS?

22. Persona
Ingmar Bergman, 1966
POINTS: 201
VOTES: 9
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“Home to two of the greatest monologues in screen history: Alma’s remembrance of the boys and the beach, and the segment about Elisabet’s child (which was so good Bergman uses it twice)”

--General Doinel

“I love the weird stuff: the prologue, the credit sequence, the frame that burns up.”

--Phil Dellio