MAR's Top 100 films of the 1960s (finished)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, From Russia With Love, Doctor Zhivago, Through a Glass Darkly and a Man For All Seasons should all be way higher. Andrei Rublev could have been a bit higher too.

Good placements for Charade, La Notte, Breathless and Butch Cassidy and glad Romeo and Juliet made it at all. The Innocents is a bit high even for me but glad it made it.

And ehhh, I like TGTBATU, I believe it was on the middle of my ballot but no. 1 seems a stretch. I had 2001 first and The Graduate second.

everyone's showing theirs, I may as well show mine

01. Lawrence of Arabia
02. Vivre sa Vie
03. In Cold Blood
04. To Kill a Mockingbird
05. Z
06. Through a Glass Darkly
07. Il Posto
08. Dr. Strangelove
09. Le Bonheur
10. The Battle of Algiers
11. The Sound of Music
12. Persona
13. Seance on a Wet Afternoon
14. Marketa Lazarová
15. Judgment at Nuremberg
16. 8½
17. Cléo from 5 to 7
18. Psycho
19. Midnight Cowboy
20. Army of Shadows
21. La Notte
22. Peeping Tom
23. Tom Jones
24. Kwaidan
25. My Night at Maud's

everything made the cut except for Seance, Peeping Tom, Tom Jones (very unsurprising, I think I'm only one of a dozen people who loved this), and Kwaidan. Kwaidan is the most surprising omission. One of the best ghost movies ever.

Fifteen points on three ballots. 19, 20 and 24. Kobayashi was done dirty in general: I think that his 60s streak is the strongest decade of any director ever. Human Condition 3, Harakiri, The Inheritance (so underseen!), Kwaidan, Samurai Rebellion. He also made something called Hymn to a Tired Man in 1968, but it has never been translated into English and I haven't found any online sightings of the movie.

Very cool list and I'm happy I got to participate this time around. Thanks for an awesome presentation, Martin Stett! I'm looking forward to the 1950s poll.

There's 11 films in the Top 100 that I haven't seen (15 in the Top 110). Marketa Lazarova is already on the top of my watchlist, but now I'm going to have to add the rest to my list as well.

Great job Martin Stett! List is really great, even though the top 5 is incredibly underwhelming for me.

This is one of the best top 100 we've had so far, but not including a single film from Miklos Jancso, arguably the best director of the decade, is extremely disappointing.

Great work, Martin Stett, and thanks again for doing this.

I like the list a lot, and most of my favorites made it. Those highest ballot placements for Persona, Splendor in the Grass, They Shoot Horses don't They and West Side Story are mine.

I'm surprised that Persona didn't make the top 10. And yes, I agree that Rosemary's Baby is good but way too high on the list. My favorite of the top 3 is 2001, which was my 2nd, and would have been my prediction to top the list.

I think you're the only person to vote for any of his films.

(I think you're the only person who has seen any of his films.)

All the Godards were way too low. Band of Outsiders didn’t even make it smh. Did anyone else even vote for it? Cremator and Virgin Spring also very low but Graduate is in the perfect spot. Shocked 2001 wasn’t #1 but I ain’t complaining even tho it’s better than TGTBATU

I’ll post my list too

1. Band of Outsiders
2. Weekend
3. Psycho
4. The Graduate
5. La Chinoise
6. For a Few Dollars More
7. The Virgin Spring
8. Oedipus Rex
9. The Cremator
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

11. Midnight Cowboy
12. A Fistful of Dollars
13. Terra em Transe
14. Hour of the Wolf
15. In Cold Blood
16. Contempt
17. A Woman is a Woman
18. The Servant
19. Vivre Sa Vie
20. The Birds

21. The Apartment
22. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
23. Breathless
24. Lolita
25. The Great Silence


16/25 ain’t bad I guess. Looks like there was no point in updating my ballot to put Oedipus Rex in there, may as well have left it as it was and given Z an extra point to its tally. How did the ones that missed do? Hope I wasn’t the only one who voted for Terra em Transe

This is actually a nice list overall even though there are way too many Hollywood films on there - I ended up voting only for a single American production (Fuller's Naked Kiss) and not out of spite for Hollywood but it simply wasn't up with the times anymore (also not a coincidence many of their best directors started leaving, inlcuding Fuller after Naked Kiss btw). I think pretty much all the films on the list I'd consider boring are American (e.g. The Sound of Music and Marry Poppins send me to sleep). Anyway, cool to see Godard, Antonioni and Bunuel doing relatively good, cool to see Rohmer actually making it, The Leopard at #11 is way higher than I ever expected it. Never knew there were many Visconti fans on here.

I'm pretty sure for the 60's list is the most mainstream list I ever submitted to one of the decades polls. In turn it's nice to see many of them actually made it:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. My Night at Maud's
3. Pierrot le Fou
4. Belle de Jour
5. The Leopard
6. La Jetée
7. Viridiana
8. Andrei Rublev
9. Le Mepris
10. Winter Light ('63)
11. Lawrence of Arabia
12. The Exterminating Angel
13. Teorema
14. La Collectioneuse
15. Dr. Strangelove
16. PlayTime
17. Week End
18. La Dolce Vita
19. Through a Glass Darkly
20. La Notte
21. Blow-Up
22. Breathless
23. An Autumn Afternoon
24. The Naked Kiss
25. L'Eclisse

What a great work!!!


AND Very few Hollywood movies (Some like Charade shouldnt be).

I havent seen half of the movies!!! In fact a dozens of them I never Heard of them (at least in their original name, maybe in South América have other mames).

Please vote for Academy Award Best Foreign film. its a surprise that Many winners havent Made the cut despite being Very famous totales!!!

I m surprise that were not swords AND sandals epic films like Spartacus or El Cid, but Is nice too see little small films like the shop of main street with the nicest granny ever Made (despite the fact I consider trains.... A much superior film)

Only one of those I've seen is Pierrot le Fou, which I found to be boring, pretentious nonsense. Haven't seen it in ages, but lordy was I bored by it. I was bored by Bonnie and Clyde too, but not on the same level. The other Godard movies I've seen are:

Breathless 5/10
A Woman Is a Woman 5/10
Every Man for Himself 3/10
Pierrot le Fou 2/10
Made in U.S.A. 1/10

I haven't seen any of them at all recently, so I can't be very specific about them. I generally just find him so very up his own ass. Oh wow, look at him making up nonsense, like someone shitting on a canvas and calling it modern art. He takes all of the fun out of his movies because the experimentation is all trying to say something in and of itself, instead of using a strong narrative and using experimental aspects to enhance that. I could compare to recent movies I've seen like La Flor (2018) or Red Post on Escher Street (2020), or maybe the anime series Cowboy Bebop (which has an episode titled Pierrot le Fou in tribute to Godard) as stories that experiment with narrative to enhance the fun, instead of suck the air out of the room. I could, but I'd be bad at it, because I have tried to erase all of these Godard films from my memory.

But hey, maybe one of them will surprise me if I ever dare approach him again.