Best Films of The 60s (V2) [Poll][DEAD]

[cestuneblague]

So I take it Tomorrow by 11;59 pm EST? Should be able to get something in by then

[Hayden]

[Hayden]

[LedZep]

[Hayden]

Thanks LedZep, updated—

And yeah, Kobayashi's never quite had the mainstream/public/household acclaim of Kurasawa or Ozu for reasons (unexplainable?), yet he's unquestionably one of best directors of his generation (Japan or otherwise). I mean— this isn't exactly a controversial opinion— he holds the #1 film on Letterboxd right now and has a whole slew of Criterion releases— but he's never really put on the pedestal he deserves. He landed two Grand Prixs at Cannes, but it would have been nice for him to have snagged the Palme at some point or another. The fact Harakiri and The Leopard were up against eachother is maddening, but even more infuriating is the fact Kwaidan came runner-up to The Knack ( ) which is almost a crime. I know nothing about his third film in competition— Hymn to a Tired Man— which fell into obscurity despite a decent response. Either way, for someone who has a lot of acclaim, I've always felt he deserves... more? I just find his name doesn't come up as very familiar in Western culture.

That all being said— Samurai Rebellion is a heck of a film. Glad Toshirō Mifune and Kobayashi got at least one collaboration under their belt. (Sidenote, for non-Samurai Mifune, you gotta watch Snow Trail).

Glad to spot The Inheritance on your list too.

[Hayden]

Also, not to jinx it, but I think we have a first—

There's a film that's on everyone's list

(And there's another distinction, but I'll save that one for tomorrow).

Should it... stay that way.

[cestuneblague]

I had a more elaborate write-up but it didn't come out the way I expected, but alas there is many positive things about the 60s in film that should come out in the final list. Again easily the most fascinating decade in terms of the major shift in the industry landscape, with the dissolution of the censorship code (though in all honesty the couple of years before '68 the censors were already being pushed past the breaking point), how european films really dominated much of the cultural discussion in the college and metropolitan scene in the US, how Japan took a really dark and cynical turn near the end of the decade as the Ozu and even the Kurosawa influence started to wane a bit, the rise of Arabic-speaking cinema, turkish-speaking cinema, the seeds of modern Hong Kong cinema and Britian having a major renaissance that started with affecting kitchen-sink B&W dramas to wild technicolor swingin' sixties hedonism (usually with a sense of ominious irony), and the general maturation of the psychological thriller and more naturalist character-based dramas.

[cestuneblague]

Hayden, eh, is it possible to have a half-hour or so grace period? I just went to pick up the word doc with my list and for some bizzare reason I must have deleted it recently, so I'm going to have to type it out again

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

Hayden, I've got both of my lists updated. I wish I would've have started watching more a month ago, so I could have had a strong 100, but I did not.
Hey, I got around to Breathless though!

[cestuneblague]

Top 100


Au Hasard Balthazar (1966; Robert Bresson)
Persona (1966; Ingmar Bergman
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
Red Beard (1965; Akira Kurosawa
Winter Light (1963; Ingmar Bergman)
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (1965; Russ Meyer)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969; Marcel Ophulus)
Fists in the Pocket (1965; Marco Bellochio)
The Cremator (1969; Juraj Herz)
Blood and Black Lace (1964; Mario Bava)
The Face of Another (1966; Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Andrei Rublev (1966; Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968; Sergio Leone)
Repulsion (1965; Roman Polanski)
Woman in the Dunes (1964; Hiroshi Teshigahara)
If… (1968; Lindsey Anderson)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969; Sydney Pollack)
Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
The Misunderstood (1966; Luigi Comencini)
Shame (1968; Ingmar Bermgan)
8 ½ (1963; Federico Fellini)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969; Juraj Jakubisko)
Bullitt (1968; Peter Yates)
Night of the Living Dead (1968; George A. Romero)
Il Sorpasso (1962; Dino Risi)
Midnight Cowboy (1969; John Schlesinger)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969;
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960; Mariko Naruse)
Marketa Lazarova (1967; František Vláči
Viy (1967; Kostiayahan Yershov)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962; Agnes Varda)
Dr Strangelove (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
Viridania (1961; Luis Bunel)
War and Peace (1966; Sergey Bondarchuk)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960; Akira Kurosawa)
Adieu Phillipine (1962; Jacquez Rozier)
Blow-Up (1966; Michelangelo Antoni)
I Knew Her Well (1965; Antonio Pietrangeli)
Peeping Tom (1960; Michael Powell)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969;
Daisies (1966; Vera Chytilova)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)
Playtime (1967; Jacques Tati)
In Cold Blood (1967; Richard Brooks)
Kes (1969; Ken Loach)
My Night at Maud’s (1969; Eric Rohmer)
Kuroneko (1968; Kaneto Shindo)
West Side Story (1961; Wise/Robbins)
Army of Shadows (1969; Jean-Pierre Mellville)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960; Francois Truffant)
The Pornographers (1966; Shohei Imamura)
The Leopard (1963; Luchino Visconti)
The Sword of Doom (1966; Kihachi Okamoto)
El Verdugo (1963; Luis Garcia Berlanga)
Rapture (1965; John Guillermin)
The Producers (1967; Mel Brooks)
The Birds (1963; Alfred Hitchcock)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965; Kon Ichikawa)
Planet of the Apes (1968; Franklin J. Shaffner)
The Battle of Algiers (1966; Gille Pontecorvo)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962; Yasujiro Ozu)
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961; Stanley Kramer)
The Valley of the Bees (1968; František Vláčil
Jules and Jim (1962; Francois Truffant)
Mouchette (1967; Robert Bresson)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962; John Frankenheimer)
Teorama (1968; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Fortune Cookie (1966; Billy WIlder)
Targets (1968; Peter Bogdanovich)
Dragon Inn (1967; King Hu)
Guns of the Trees (1961; Jonas Mekas)
The Apartment (1960; BIlly Wilder)
Faces (1968; John Cassavates)
L’eclisse (1962; Michelangelo Antoni)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964; Richard Lester)
The Tied Up Balloon (1967; Binka Zhelyazkova)
El Dorado (1966; Howard Hawks)
Go Go Second Time Virgin (1969; Koji Wakamatsu)
This NIght I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967; Coffin Joe)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964; Bryan Forbes)
Happiness of Us Alone (1961; Zenzo Matsuyama)
Knife in the Water (1962; Roman Polanski)
Chimes at Midnight (1965; Orson Welles)
Il Posto (1961; Ermanno Olmi)
From Russia with Love (1963;
Dias da Otono (1963; Roberto Galvadon)
Hatari (1962; Howard Hawks)
A Begging and an Ending (1960; Salah Abu Saif)
Momma Roma (1962; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Sult (1966; Henning Carlsen)
Petulia (1968; Richard Lester)
Village of the Damned (1960; Wolf Rilla)
A Pistol for Ringo (1965; Duccio Tessari)
The SIlence (1963; Ingmar Bergman)
Women in Love (1969; Ken Russell)
Twice a Man (1963; Gregory J. Markopolous
Sao Paolo socieded anima (1965; Luiz Sergio Person)
Of the Whales, Moon and Man (1963; Pierre Breault)
Eggshells (1969;
The Misfits (1961; Richard Lester)
Au Pan Coupe (1968; Guy Gilles)
Apa (1966; Istvan Szabo)



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