MY TOP 10s OF THE 1960s
1969
1 Andrei Rublev
Russia Tarkovsky,
Andrei
2 My Night at Maud's
France Rohmer, Eric
3 Easy Rider
USA
Hopper, Dennis
4 A Touch of Zen
Taiwan Hu,
King
5 The Wild Bunch
USA
Peckinpah, Sam
6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid USA
Hill, George Roy
7 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
USA Melendez, Bill
8 The Green Wall
Peru
Godoy, Armando Robles
9 Take the Money and Run
USA Allen, Woody
10 Midnight Cowboy
USA
Schlesinger, John
Critical consensus: Andrei Rublev.
1968
1 2001: A Space Odyssey
Britain Kubrick, Stanley
2 Signs of Life
Germany Herzog,
Werner
3 David Holzman's Diary
USA McBride, Jim
4 L'Amour fou
France
Rivette, Jacques
5 Rosemary's Baby
USA
Polanski, Roman
6 Oliver!
Britain
Reed, Carol
7 Planet of the Apes
USA Schaffner,
Franklin J.
8 Once Upon a Time in the West USA-Italy
Leone, Sergio
9 If....
Britain
Anderson, Lindsay
10 Stolen Kisses
France Truffaut,
Francois
Critical consensus: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1967
1 Weekend
France-Italy Godard, Jean-Luc
2 The Red and the White
Hungary-Russia Jancso, Miklos
3 Branded to Kill
Japan Suzuki,
Seijun
4 The Graduate
USA
Nichols, Mike
5 Two or Three Things I Know About Her France
Godard, Jean-Luc
6 One-Armed Swordsman
Hong Kong Chang Cheh
7 Bonnie and Clyde
USA Penn,
Arthur
8 Point Blank
USA
Boorman, John
9 Le Samourai
France
Melville, Jean-Pierre
10 In Cold Blood
USA Brooks,
Richard
Critical consensus: Weekend.
1966
1 Persona
Sweden
Bergman, Ingmar
2 La Guerra est finie
France Resnais, Alain
3 Daisies
Czechoslovakia Chytilová,
Vera
4 Blow-Up
Britain-Italy Antonioni,
Michelangelo
5 Chimes at Midnight
Spain-Switzerland Welles, Orson
6
Seconds
USA
Frankenheimer, John
7 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Italy-Spain
Leone, Sergio
8 A Time for Burning
USA Jersey, Bill
9 Pharaoh
Poland Kawalerowicz,
Jerzy
10 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? USA
Nichols, Mike
Critical consensus: Persona.
1965
1 Loves of a Blonde
Czechoslovakia Forman, Milos
2 Pierrot le fou
France
Godard, Jean-Luc
3 Simon of the Desert
Mexico Bunuel, Luis
4 The Pawnbroker
USA
Lumet, Sidney
5 The Battle of Algiers
Italy-Algeria Pontecorvo, Gillo
6 Tokyo Olympiad
Japan Ichikawa,
Kon
7 The Saragossa Manuscript Poland
Has, Wojciech
8 My Hustler
USA
Warhol, Andy
9 The Round-Up
Hungary Jancso, Miklos
10 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! USA
Meyer, Russ
Critical consensus: Pierrot le fou.
1964
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned Britain
Kubrick, Stanley
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2 I Am Cuba
Russia-Cuba
Kalatozov, Mikhail
3 A Hard Day's Night
Britain Lester, Richard
4 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Italy-France
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
5 Kwaidan
Japan
Kobayashi, Masaki
6 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg France
Demy, Jacques
7 Red Desert
Italy-France Antonioni, Michelangelo
8 The Train
USA-France-Italy Frankenheimer, John
9 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Russia
Paradjanov, Sergei
10 Gates of Flesh
Japan
Suzuki, Seijun
Critical consensus: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
1963
1 8 1/2
Italy
Fellini, Federico
2 Contempt
France
Godard, Jean-Luc
3 High and Low
Japan
Kurosawa, Akira
4 Winter Light
Sweden
Bergman, Ingmar
5 Youth of the Beast
Japan Suzuki, Seijun
6 The Fire Within
France-Italy Malle, Louis
7 Tere Ghar Ke Samne
India
Anand, Vijay
8 The Leopard
Italy-France Visconti, Luchino
9 The Servant
Britain
Losey, Joseph
10 Le Petit Soldat
France Godard, Jean-Luc
Critical consensus: 8 1/2.
1962
1 Ride the High Country
USA Peckinpah, Sam
2 Ivan's Childhood (My Name Is Ivan) Russia
Tarkovsky, Andrei
3 An Autumn Afternoon
Japan Ozu,
Yasujiro
4 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance USA
Ford, John
5 Knife in the Water
Poland Polanski, Roman
6 The Exterminating Angel
Mexico Bunuel, Luis
7 Harakiri
Japan
Kobayashi, Masaki
8 La Jetee
France
Marker, Chris
9 Lawrence of Arabia
Britain Lean, David
10 The Manchurian Candidate
USA
Frankenheimer, John
Critical consensus: Lawrence of Arabia.
1961
1 Last Year at Marienbad
France Resnais, Alain
2 Viridiana
Spain
Bunuel, Luis
3 Jules and Jim
France
Truffaut, Francois
4 Chronicle of a Summer
France Rouch; Morin
5 The Innocents
Britain-U.S. Clayton, Jack
6 Yojimbo
Japan
Kurosawa, Akira
7 Through a Glass Darkly
Sweden Bergman, Ingmar
8 Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets) Italy
Olmi, Ermanno
9 A Woman Is a Woman
France Godard, Jean-Luc
10 The Hustler
USA
Rossen, Robert
Critical consensus: Jules and Jim.
1960
1 L'Avventura
Italy
Antonioni, Michelangelo
2 The Apartment
USA
Wilder, Billy
3 La Dolce Vita
Italy
Fellini, Federico
4 Le Trou
France
Becker, Jacques
5 Shoot the Piano Player
France Truffaut,
Francois
6 Psycho
USA
Hitchcock, Alfred
7 Two Women
Italy
De Sica, Vittorio
8 The Virgin Spring
Sweden Bergman, Ingmar
9 Late Autumn
Japan Ozu,
Yasujiro
10 Inherit the Wind
USA
Kramer, Stanley
Critical consensus: La Dolce Vita.