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

7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part
Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
POINTS: 321
VOTES: 15
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:

“i watched band of outsiders again last night, the end of that movie always makes me inexplicably happy. the last line of the narration is one of my favorite moments in all of cinema.”

-- J.D.

“A languid, sad, exuberant film. At one point one of its protagonists "wonders if the world is becoming a dream or a dream is becoming the world," which soundslike a parody of French art movie speak - and on one level, it might be, but it's also a suitable epitaph for a man more in love with cinema than the real world.”

--Justyn Dillingham

6. The Manchurian Candidate
John Frankenheimer, 1962
POINTS: 341
VOTES: 14
#1’s: 1

COMMENTS:
“Famously withdrawn after the JFK assassination made it seem a little too relevant, The Manchurian Candidate is, on one level, a wild satire of American paranoia -in places it's even funny. But the humor sucks you in and sets you up to get knocked out: you think you're watching one kind of film, and suddenly you're watching another. By the conclusion, you've landed in what might be the darkest American movie ever made -and then it's over. Case closed, as Gerald Posner would say.”

--Justyn Dillingham

“How good is the Sinatra-Leigh meeting on the train?

“Very, very good. Its strange awkwardness is appealing (and I also liked the fact that I immediately assuming Leigh was part of the plot, and that ultimately nearly everyone was -- even if not true, it is hopefully something the film is trying to encourage you to do, ie trust not one person). I also liked the fact that though I had a guess at the end I didn't have the whole thing figured out.

“It doesn't QUITE flow as a successful film through and through but a lot of it is sheer context. Marcus in the link provided above gives a bit of that sense of the difference then and now, while things like the brainwashing set just seem utterly out of place, a Ken Adam design wrenched from a Bond movie and redressed. In some ways, though, perhaps the brainwashing is (to borrow a term) a plot Macguffin, something needed in order to make/let everything else happen -- not something someone wants a la Hitchcock, but a narrative device without which etc. And to be fair that was Condon's creation rather than Frankenheimer and Axelrod's. Suspend disbelief just enough and it works...and I did like many of the subtle details as well that I picked up, the brief one-sided phone conversation in Spanish, the nod to the ACLU, and so forth.”

-- Ned Raggett

“at first i pretty much disliked it, but its slowly growing on me as i realize how bizarre portions of it are, even outside of the dream sequence. but what does bizarre-ness matter on its own? im beginning to think of it more and more as a satire of mccarthy's worst nightmare, shown as silly and bizarre as that nightmare would be. the dreams themselves are pretty hokey and overthetop, as are any portions involving soviets or chinese?’

-- tom cleveland

“The Manchurian Candidate is a great film - original, daring for its time, blackly funny and quite scary. Plus it has the first martial arts fight scene in any American movie (I think). Which involves Frank Sinatra. So in a way it is responsible for Steven Segal & Jean Claude Van Damme. But I won't hold that against it....”

-- David Nolan

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.”

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“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.’

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“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

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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.