10 best films of the '60s

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01 Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
02 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
03 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
04 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
05 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
06 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
07 A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
08 Two for the Road (Stanley Donen)
09 The Trial (Orson Welles)
10 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I am looking at a list of major films of the sixties, and only now am I realizing how many important films of the decade I have not seen. But of what I have seen, this is my list.

Psycho
2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
Belle de jour
Dr. Strangelove
In Cold Blood
La Dolce Vita
Persona
Lawrence of Arabia
Z

Honorable mentions (aka alternate candidates for the list): The Apartment, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Alphaville, The Wild Bunch, Blow Up, The Producers, Easy Rider

― Anthony (Anthony F), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

1960: Testament of Orpheus
1961: Yojimbo
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965: Pierrot le fou
1966: Persona
1967: Point Blank
1968: If...
1969: Z

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 14 July 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

One film per director:

01. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
02. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
03. Persona (Bergman)
04. L'Avventura (Antonioni)
05. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
06. Chimes at Midnight (Welles)
07. Gertrud (Dreyer)
08. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard)
09. Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
10. Psycho (Hitchcock)

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ho! (Criminal Face)
Heaven and Earth Magic
Akahige (Red Beard)
Repulsion
The Producers
Belle de jour
Dr. Strangelove
L'Avventura (The Adventure)
Plein soleil (Purple Noon)
Psycho

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Wild Bunch
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Peeping Tom
Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape
Breathless
The Shop on Main Street
Bonnie and Clyde

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

One per director:

1. Playtime (Tati)
2. High & Low (Kurosawa)
3. Once Upon A Time In The West (Leone)
4. Bedazzled (Donen)
5. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer
6. High School (Wiseman)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
8. Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa)
9. Shock Corridor (Fuller)
10. The Death of a Bureaucrat (Alea)

I should probably watch more movies from this decade, given that 1-5 frequently show up in my top 10.

― James Cobo (James Cobo), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

a quite good decade

contempt
firemen's ball
l'avventura
yojimbo
last year at marienbad
dr. strangelove
shop on main street
alphaville
band of outsiders
breakfast at tiffanys

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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