Best Films of The 60s (V2) [Poll][DEAD] - Movies & TV

Hayden

After some new watches and rewatches, my list'll look like this—

1) Breathless
2) La Dolce Vita
3) The Apartment
4) Daisies
5) Persona
6) 8 1/2
7) Andrei Roublev
8) The Colour of Pomegranates
9) Marketa LAzarova
10) Vivre Sa Vie

11) The Saragossa Manuscript
12) Woman In The Dunes
13) Eros + Massacre
14) Funeral Parade of Roses
15) Red Desert
16) Diamonds of The Night
17) L'Eclisse
18) Testament of Orpheus
19) The Leopard
20) 2001: A Space Odyssey

21) Letter Never Sent
22) Once Upon A Time In The West
23) I Knew Her Well
24) L'Avventura
25) Sundays & Cybele
26) Clea From 5 To 7
27) The Naked Island
28) Contempt
29) The Exterminating Angel
30) Blow-Up

31) Memories of Underdevelopment
32) La Notte
33) Ivan's Childhood
34) Playtime
35) Closely Observed Trains
36) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
37) Army of Shadows (note: this might move up a little)
38) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
39) Breakfast At Tiffanys
40) Kes

41) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
42) A Woman Is A Woman
43) Il Posto (this might also move up a little)
44) Viridiana
45) I Am Cuba
46) Kwaidan
47) La Bonheur
48) Trans-Europ-Express
49) A Spring For The Thirsty
50) The Hero

The rest here. (til the 101 point, because La Jetee)

Bach

Gender: Male
Location: Italy

My favourite decade for films!

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. 8 ½
3. Persona
4. Il deserto rosso [Red Desert]
5. Psycho
6. The Birds
7. L'Avventura
8. La Dolce Vita
9. L'Eclisse
10. Tystnaden [The Silence]

11. Såsom i en spegel [Through a Glass Darkly]
12. Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf]
13. Rocco e i suoi fratelli [Rocco and His Brothers]
14. À bout de souffle [Breathless]
15. Belle de Jour
16. Rosemary's Baby
17. Spartacus
18. Midnight Cowboy
19. Fellini - Satyricon
20. Jules & Jim

21. Seconds
22. Viridiana
23. En passion [The Passion of Anna]
24. Le feu follet [The Fire Within]
25. Dr. Strangelove
26. The Apartment
27. Suna no onna [Woman in the Dunes]
28. Tengoku to jigoku [High and Low]
29. I pugni in tasca [Fists in the Pocket]
30. I tre volti della paura [Black Sabbath]

31. Victim
32. Teorema [Theorem]
33. Ivan's Childhood
34. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
35. PlayTime
36. La caduta degli Dei [The Damned]
37. La Notte
38. Blow-Up
39. Pierrot le Fou
40. Giulietta degli spiriti [Juliet of the Spirits]

41. La voie lactée [The Milky Way]
42. Tanin no kao [The Face of Another]
43. Women in Love
44. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
45. Bara no sôretsu [Funeral Parade of Roses]
46. Gertrud
47. Il Gattopardo [The Leopard]
48. Peeping Tom
49. L' année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad]
50. Lawrence of Arabia

51. Flesh
52. La ragazza che sapeva troppo [The Girl Who Knew Too Much]
53. Sei donne per l'assassino [Blood and Black Lace]
54. La Piscine [The Swimming Pool]
55. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle [2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]
56. Nattvardsgästerna [Winter Light]
57. Skammen [Shame]
58. The Servant
59. Fahrenheit 451
60. Mouchette

61. Accattone
62. Il seme dell'uomo [The Seed of Man]
63. Advise & Consent
64. Les yeux sans visage [Eyes Without a Face]
65. Nattlek [Night Games]
66. Riten [The Rite]
67. La frusta e il corpo [The Whip and the Body]
68. Shock Corridor
69. The Graduate
70. The Jungle Book

71. Io la conoscevo bene [I Knew Her Well]
72. Seppuku [Harakiri]
73. One, Two, Three
74. To Kill a Mockingbird
75. El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel]
76. Le journal d'une femme de chambre [Diary of a Chambermaid]
77. Lolita
78. Alphaville
79. Prima della rivoluzione [Before the Revolution]
80. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers]

81. Billy Liar
82. Andrei Rublev
83. Take the Money and Run
84. Planet of the Apes
85. Onibaba
86. Nóż w wodzie [Knife in the Water]
87. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
88. If…
89. Breakfast at Tiffany's
90. Marnie

91. I giorni contati [His Days Are Numbered]
92. Doctor Zhivago
93. Week-end
94. Szegénylegények [The Round-Up]
95. Kwaidan
96. The Colour of Pomegranates
97. Der junge Törless [Young Törless]
98. Il Posto
99. Le procès [The Trial]
100. From Russia with Love
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Hayden

Thanks Bach, excellent list Smile

... I still need to watch The Birds Anxious

Tallying now.

BozoTyrannus

Gender: Male
Age: 32

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AfterHours

Gender: Male
Location: originally from scaruffi.com ;-)

Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969)
Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)
Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)

Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
Marketa Lazarova - Frantisek Vlacil (1967)
Point Blank - John Boorman (1967)
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961)
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel (1961)
The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov (1969)
The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
Peeping Tom - Michael Powell (1960)
Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock (1964)
The Graduate - Mike Nichols (1967)

Double Suicide - Masahiro Shinoda (1969) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Bonnie & Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
Playtime - Jacques Tati (1967)
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
L’Avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte - Robert Aldrich (1965)
Splendor in the Grass - Elia Kazan (1961)
Irma La Douce - Billy Wilder (1963)
Weekend - Jean-Luc Godard (1967)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Sergei Parajanov (1968)
High and Low - Akira Kurosawa (1963) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Gertrud - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1964) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)
The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer (1962)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? - Robert Aldrich (1962)
The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford (1962)
Jules et Jim - Francois Truffaut (1961)
Shock Corridor - Sam Fuller (1963)

The Misfits - John Huston (1961)
Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Alphaville - Jean Luc-Godard (1965) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
The Exterminating Angel - Luis Bunuel (1962)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Sydney Pollack (1969)
Seconds - John Frankenheimer (1966)

La Notte - Michelangelo Antonioni (1961) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
The Hustler - Robert Rossen (1961)
If.... - Lindsay Anderson (1968)
Faces - John Cassavetes (1968)
Petulia - Richard Lester (1968)
Secret Ceremony - Joseph Losey (1968)
Simon of the Desert - Luis Bunuel (1966)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill (1969)

Cool Hand Luke - Stuart Rosenberg (1967)
It'a A Mad Mad World - Stanley Kramer (1963)
Charade - Stanley Donen (1963)
Wild River - Elia Kazan (1960)
Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa (1961)
L'Eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni (1962) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
The Great Race - Blake Edwards (1965)
The Nutty Professor - Jerry Lewis (1963)
The Trial - Orson Welles (1962)
Hell in the Pacific - John Boorman (1968) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***

Au Hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson (1966)
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman (1961)
Red Desert - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
Planet of the Apes - Franklin Schaffner (1968)
Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky (1962)
Madigan - Don Siegel (1968)
Little Shop of Horrors - Roger Corman (1960)
Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)
Mary Poppins - Robert Stevenson (1964)

The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges (1960)
Goldfinger - Guy Hamilton (1964)
Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969)
The Great Escape - John Sturges (1963)
For a Few Dollars More - Sergio Leone (1965) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1967)
Bullitt - Peter Yates (1968)
From Russia with Love - Terence Young (1963)
In The Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison (1967)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)

Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville (1969)
Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard (1963) ***Estimate/Tentative/Needs revisit (maybe by deadline)***
Fantastic Voyage - Richard Fleischer (1966)
Shame - Ingmar Bergman (1968)
The Virgin Spring - Ingmar Bergman (1960)
Pink Panther - Blake Edwards (1963)
My Fair Lady - George Cukor (1964)
Cape Fear - Jack Lee Thompson (1962)
Torn Curtain - Alfred Hitchcock (1966)
Dirty Dozen - Robert Aldrich (1967)
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Last edited by AfterHours on 12/23/2023 02:52; edited 3 times in total

Hayden

AfterHours wrote:

La Jetee - Chris Marker (1962)

That's weird... I wrote out a response to this, but it seems it didn't post Confused

It went something like this:

Thanks Afterhours, always look forward to your lists Smile

Unfortunately, La Jetee (28m) doesn't quality for our overall list, but it is eligible for our shorts lists. I've bumped everything below it up a step, and (as is), your list has 98 entries— if you have two more films you want to slip in, please do Smile

Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call

Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis

POST/LIST EDITED to add Goldfinger at the end and delete the mistaken second entry of L’eclisse.

Here's my list. It's a bit rough but I couldn't make a good ordered list after about 25 no matter how much I tried. Just a general, vague concept of how I subjectively rank them. Some favorites in this decade.

1. The Apartment
2. Persona
3. Charulata
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. The Big City
6. Kes
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8. Dont Look Back
9. Planet of the Apes
10. Au Hasard Balthazar
11. The Hustler
12. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
13. My Fair Lady
14. Yojimbo
15. High and Low
16. Last Year at Marienbad
17. Andrei Rublev
18. 8 1/2
19. Gertrud
20. La Dolce Vita
21. My Night at Maud's
22. Winter Light
23. Jules and Jim
24. The Leopard
25. PlayTime
26. Viridiana
27. Zulu
28. Harakiri
29. Mary Poppins
30. Titicut Follies
31. Psycho
32. Kwaidan
33. To Kill A Mockingbird
34. 2001: A Space Odessey
35. An Autumn Afternoon
36. Irma La Douce
37. Kuroneko
38. Mouchette
39. Rosemary's Baby
40. The Wild Bunch
41. The Coward
42. Vivre Sa Vie
43. Breathless
44. Dr. Strangelove
45. Sanjuro
46. Spartacus
47. One, Two, Three
48. Red Beard
49. Red Desert
50. Breakfast at Tiffany's

51. Once Upon A Time In The West
52. Peeping Tom
53. Le Samurai
54. The Sound of Music
55. The Exterminating Angel
56. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
57. Belle de Jour
58. Cleopatra
59. The Face of Another
60. The Virgin Spring
61. Eyes Without A Face
62. The Young Girls of Rochefort
63. Shame
64. The Manchurian Candidate
65. Salesman
66. Doctor Zhivago
67. L'Avventura
68. Blow-Up
69. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
70. Onibaba
71. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
72. Woman In The Dunes
73. Purple Noon
74. Charade
75. Cleo from 5 to 7
76. Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime
77. La Notte
78. Ivan's Childhood
79. L'eclisse
80. True Grit
81. War and Peace
82. Through A Glass Darkly
83. Pierrot Le Fou
84. The Misfits
85. Rocco and His Brothers
86. The Graduate
87. Chimes at Midnight
88. School For Scoundrels
89. Lolita
90. Shoot The Piano Player
91. Night of the Living Dead
92. The Silence
93. Cool Hand Luke
94. The Great Escape
95. Bonnie and Clyde
96. Devi
97. From Russia With Love
98. The Producers
99. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
100. Goldfinger

5 Directors that dominated that decade per my taste:

Bergman - 6
Antonioni - 6 (This surprised me. So consistent that whole era)
S. Ray - 4 (2 in top 10... Arguably my fave director of the 1960s)
Kurosawa - 4
Kubrick - 4

Top years:
1960 - 15 films
1962 - 15 films
1964 - 12 films
1963 - 11 films

a bigger fan of the early sixties. Not a huge fan of any of the masterpieces of the new hollywood revolution. Some are here on the list but dor some reason not as much as the early 60s hollywood and other international film scenes or movements.
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AfterHours

Gender: Male
Location: originally from scaruffi.com ;-)

Hayden wrote:

AfterHours wrote:

La Jetee - Chris Marker (1962)

That's weird... I wrote out a response to this, but it seems it didn't post Confused

It went something like this:

Thanks Afterhours, always look forward to your lists Smile

Unfortunately, La Jetee (28m) doesn't quality for our overall list, but it is eligible for our shorts lists. I've bumped everything below it up a step, and (as is), your list has 98 entries— if you have two more films you want to slip in, please do Smile

Ah okay, that's fine. Updated to 100 including a couple additional changes Smile

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Best Films
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Hayden

BozoTyrannus wrote:

The number of lists containing L'Eclisse brings me incredible joy

Mercury wrote:

79. L'eclisse
86. L'eclisse

Just wait until you see Mercury's list then Wink

Hayden

Mercury wrote:

Antonioni - 6 (This surprised me. So consistent that whole era)

Not to tack more onto that last post, but I think I figured out why this came as a surprise to you Mr. Green

(Antonioni only had 5 films in the 60s). I was actually thinking of making a post in this thread specifically about Antonioni (I have a note on my computer saying 'Antonioni post', but never figured out quite what to say). Pound-for-pound, he probably had the best output of the decade. Five masterpieces in a row. La Notte was one of my (ten or so) rewatches for this poll (moved up a notch on my list), and I'm hoping to get around to Blowup again sometime soon... it's been whoknowshowlong since I watched it last. Hopefully his entire output of the decade lands our list. Deserves it.

And thanks Afterhours, retallied Smile

— it's odd... I thought I had Double Suicide somewhere on my list, but apparently I don't. Might have to mull that one over... definitely deserves a slot.