1969's Best Movies: 50 Years Later

Wild Bunch and Army of Shadows

Hope that Mel Gibson remake of the former dies on the vine, and if it doesn’t he’s sharp enough to admit he’s best suited for the Edmond O’Brien role these days.

Here are some '69 favorites I'd rate as highly as many of the Top 2000 finishers:

More (Barbet Schroeder, Luxembourg)
Venus in Furs (Jess Franco, W Germany)
Baby Love (Alastair Reid, UK)
The Price of Power (Tonino Valerii, Italy/Spain)

Applying some Letterboxd filters, here's the entirety of what I've seen from 1969: Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, True Grit, Take the Money and Run, Frosty the Snowman and For the First Time.

I like Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, but they are so much of their moment that they hold me at a bit of a distance, and if I haven't seen more of the films mentioned in this thread, it may be because I regard so much of the cinema from this specific period as being something you had to be there to really get (I wasn't born for another decade). In contrast, I think that even the more zeitgeist-y films from the 70's (Nashville, to pick the most obvious example) are far more pleasurable on a purely cinematic level; I don't feel like I'm missing anything because I wasn't around for Nixon or oil shock or anything like that. It seems to me like quite a few of the movie's we're talking about on this thread wouldn't have been made even 3 years before or after 1969.

All of that said, there is absolutely no excuse why I still haven't watched my long-ago-purchased used DVD of The Wild Bunch.

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with all the movies I've been catching up on I still haven't seen even half of these, there is so much yet to watch

of the films in the poll, I haven't seen Kes, The Color of Pomegranates, Army of Shadows, The Sorrow and the Pity, The Damned, Salesman, Antonio das Mortes, Diaries Notes and Sketches

of the 20 films from 1000-2000 I think I've only seen three

of the ones I did see I really loved My Night at Maud's and Midnight Cowboy

Finally saw Kes. Impressive. Now I need to see it again with subtitles. Especially enjoyed the scene of the phys ed teacher talking the kids through a game of football. Feel like I know that type.

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I wish I voted for My Night at Maud's

there isn't any eric rohmer film I love better