Best Films of The 60s (V2) [Poll][DEAD] - Movies & TV

Hayden

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whiskey /
thick, with scenes of smoke
wine and cheese,
acid trips and the tease
of ruby-red lipstick,
blacklisted pens and
kaleidoscope lights—

it is a flourish of tints,
bold tones, lenses tinged
journalistic to mythos,
these city-light days,
night dotted drunk with twine,
echos, as the spool runs dry,
tapes blurring til worn—

The gist/ rules:

BEA composes a list of our 100 favourite films of the 1960s. (Again! V2!). All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 100. The final list will be 100 films. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines its weight. Films must be longer than 40 minutes. Films must have an international premiere date between January 1st 1960 and December 31st 1969. Documentaries are allowed. Comedy specials will not be accepted.

SUBCATAGORIES
—10 Best Music Scores
Which you may submit up to 25, but the final lists will be the top 10.
(Music scores will only account for original material)

—10 Best Short Films
Which you may submit up to 25, but the final lists will be the top 10*.
(Short films are defined as films between the length of 2-39 minutes)
(This is the first time we have ever done this, and I'm sure there will be hiccups, but for now I'm just going to cross my fingers)
Please feel free to post short films via Youtube in the thread!
(Would love to have a short-film festival vibe— there's plenty to dive into).
*this may be increased depending on the popularity/submission results/public response

The Original list

Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline will be January 27th 2024.

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Hayden

If you're one of the people who posted their 60s list in the 70s final list thread, please repost here Mr. Green

mickilennial

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Hayden

A note that the following—
—Magical Mystery Tour
—Help!
—A Hard Day's Night
—Yellow Submarine
—The Graduate
—A Charlie Brown Christmas
—Head
—New York Eye and Ear Control
—More
—Anna
&
—Blue Hawaii

are eligible for original score.

CA Dreamin

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Location: LA

Hayden wrote:

—10 Best Short Films
Which you may submit up to 25, but the final lists will be the top 10*.
(Short films are defined as films between the length of 2-39 minutes)
(This is the first time we have ever done this, and I'm sure there will be hiccups, but for now I'm just going to cross my fingers)
Please feel free to post short films via Youtube in the thread!
(Would love to have a short-film festival vibe— there's plenty to dive into).
*this may be increased depending on the popularity/submission results/public response

A couple thoughts/questions: It sounds like TV specials are eligible, which I was thinking about going into this. Another question, what about individual short films within anthologies? For example, Spirits of the Dead (1968), a 2-hour horror anthology comprising of three short films, each with a different director. We can vote for the entire anthology film on the features section, but are we also allowed to vote for the three films that make up Spirits of the Dead in the shorts section? They are each on the 40-minute cusp, so it's a grey area.

Spirits of the Dead is just one example. From what I've seen on letterboxd, there were quite a few anthology films like this in the 60s. I haven't actually seen any, though. Spirits of the Dead is on my watchlist. Start recommending shorts, BEA, cause my knowledge of 60s shorts is limited to (off the top of my head) Antoine and Collette, La Jetee, and all those holiday TV specials Laughing

. I'm up for a festival.
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Hayden

CA Dreamin wrote:

Hayden wrote:

—10 Best Short Films
Which you may submit up to 25, but the final lists will be the top 10*.
(Short films are defined as films between the length of 2-39 minutes)
(This is the first time we have ever done this, and I'm sure there will be hiccups, but for now I'm just going to cross my fingers)
Please feel free to post short films via Youtube in the thread!
(Would love to have a short-film festival vibe— there's plenty to dive into).
*this may be increased depending on the popularity/submission results/public response

A couple thoughts/questions: It sounds like TV specials are eligible, which I was thinking about going into this. Another question, what about individual short films within anthologies? For example, Spirits of the Dead (1968), a 2-hour horror anthology comprising of three short films, each with a different director. We can vote for the entire anthology film on the features section, but are we also allowed to vote for the three films that make up Spirits of the Dead in the shorts section? They are each on the 40-minute cusp, so it's a grey area.

Spirits of the Dead is just one example. From what I've seen on letterboxd, there were quite a few anthology films like this in the 60s. I haven't actually seen any, though. Spirits of the Dead is on my watchlist. Start recommending shorts, BEA, cause my knowledge of 60s shorts is limited to (off the top of my head) Antoine and Collette, La Jetee, and all those holiday TV specials Laughing

. I'm up for a festival.

I worked on compiling my 60s shorts list this morning, and came up with a solid 23 Smile

— I'm actually really happy with it, but I'm also assuming I'm about to find a good handful more during the duration of the poll. I'll post some later this week. Have to admit, I think this portion of the poll could be the most exciting. (La Jetee and Antoine & Colette are both on my list).

My initial rules/thoughts on the matter:
—TV specials (not episodes) under 39 minutes will be allowed.
—Music videos will not be allowed.
& (I'll add)
—Anthology films will be classified as films, not individual shorts (unless compiled from elsewhere, but I can't think of any examples of that).

Say... the latest Wes Anderson quad-short series re: Dahl is eventually released as a singular piece— the individual shorts would be allowed to be submitted solo. Otherwise (like Spirits of The Dead), whole feature film.

Applerill

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Okay, let me try a shorts list.

1. What Are Clouds (Pasolini, 1968)
2. Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Nauman, 1968)
3. Winnie the Pooh (Khitruk, 1969)
4. All My Life (Baille, 1966)
5. Hold Me While I’m Naked (Kuchar, 1966)
6. The Big Shave (Scorsese, 197)
7. The Blues According to Lightning Hopkins (Blank, 1968)
8. Viet Flakes (Scneemann, 1965)
9. Time Piece (Henson, 1965)
10. Night Journey (Hammid, 1960)
11. Carrots & Peas (Frampton, 1969)
12. The House is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963)
13. Breakaway (Connor, 1966)
14. Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick (Warhol, 1965)
15. A Scary Time (Clarke, 1960)

BozoTyrannus

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Age: 32

1. L'Eclisse (the greatest movie of all time and I will happily die on this hill)
2. Jules and Jim
3. 8 1/2
4. Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
5. Daisies
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Exterminating Angels
8. Playtime
9. War and Peace
10. L'Avventura
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey
12. Dr. Strangelove
13. Chimes at Midnight
14. The Leopard
15. Woman in the Dunes
16. High and Low
17. My Fair Lady
18. Viridiana
19. Contempt
20. Au Hasard Balthazar
21. Harakiri
22. Last Year at Marienbad
23. Yojimbo
24. Once Upon a Time in the West
25. The Apartment
26. Hour of the Wolf
27. The Silence
28. Psycho
29. La Dolce Vita
30. Rocco and His Brothers
31. Blood and Black Lace
32. Long Day's Journey Into Night
33. The Graduate
34. Eyes Without a Face
35. Peeping Tom
36. The Trial
37. Judgment at Nuremberg
38. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
39. Le Samourai
40. Cleo From 5 to 7
41. Wavelength (long enough! Barely! I think!)
42. The Color of Pomegranates
43. The Producers
44. The Face of Another
45. Charade
46. Marketa Lazarova
47. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
48. The Bad Sleep Well
49. Hamlet (Grigoriy Kozintsev version)
50. To Kill a Mockingbird
51. Wait Until Dark
52. Lion in Winter
53. Yellow Submarine
54. Hiroshima mon amour
55. West Side Story
56. A Hard Day's Night
57. Sorrow and the Pity
58. Andrei Rublev
59. Branded to Kill
60. Weekend
61. The Longest Day
62. From Russia With Love
63. Macario
64. The Round-Up
65. La Notte
66. The Cremator
67. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
68. Lolita
69. Shoot the Piano Player
70. The Taming of the Shrew
71. Lillies of the Field
72. Symbiopsychtaxiplasm: Take One
73. Army of Shadows
74. Persona
75. Simon of the Desert (long enough I think)
76. Magical Mystery Tour
77. Umbrellas of Cherbourg
78. Planet of the Apes
79. Mary Poppins
80. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
81. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
82. Two Women
83. A Fistful of Dollars
84. The Party
85. Red Beard
86. Swiss Family Robinson
87. Cape Fear
88. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
89. Help!
90. Sanjuro
91. Young Girls of Rochefort
92. The Time Machine
93. Goldfinger
94. Z
95. A Shot in the Dark
96. In the Heat of the Night
97. Bullitt
98. In Search of the Castaways
99. Hello, Dolly!
100. The Hustler
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Olli

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my Top 100 https://boxd.it/p2jTu

1. The Time Machine (1960)
2. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
3. The Jungle Book (1967)
4. One, Two, Three (1961)
5. Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
6. Planet of the Apes (1968)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
9. The Birds (1963)
10. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

11. 6 donne per l'assassino (1964)
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
13. Psycho (1960)
14. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
15. Spalovac mrtvol (1969)
16. Cape Fear (1962)
17. Playtime (1967)
18. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
19. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
20. I pugni in tasca (1965)

21. Spartacus (1960)
22. C'era una volta il West (1968)
23. Carnival of Souls (1962)
24. Persona (1966)
25. The Wild Bunch (1969)
26. Dance of the Vampires (1967)
27. Murder Most Foul (1964)
28. Mirage (1965)
29. The Haunting (1963)
30. The Hustler (1961)

31. Une corde un Colt... (1969)
32. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
33. Diabolik (1968)
34. La guerre des boutons (1962)
35. Taste of Fear (1961)
36. The Great Escape (1963)
37. Faccia a faccia (1967)
38. The Apartment (1960)
39. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
40. La resa dei conti (1967)

41. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
42. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
43. Goldfinger (1964)
44. Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
45. Seconds (1966)
46. The Italian Job (1969)
47. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
48. Repulsion (1965)
49. La frusta e il corpo (1963)
50. Blast of Silence (1961)

51. Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
52. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
53. Blow-Up (1966)
54. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
55. Il grande silenzio (1968)
56. The Train (1964)
57. Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
58. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
59. Village of the Damned (1960)
60. Lord of the Flies (1963)

61. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
62. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
63. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
64. Easy Rider (1969)
65. Peeping Tom (1960)
66. From Russia with Love (1963)
67. La donna del lago (1965)
68. The Misfits (1961)
69. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
70. Da uomo a uomo (1967)

71. Pippi Långstrump (1969)
72. Topkapi (1964)
73. Thunderball (1965)
74. Ognuno per sé (1968)
75. Miss Muerte (1966)
76. In Cold Blood (1967)
77. Murder at the Gallop (1963)
78. Dr. No (1962)
79. Le trou (1960)
80. Murder She Said (1961)

81. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
82. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
83. Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
84. Marnie (1964)
85. Il mercenario (1968)
86. La ragazza che sapeva troppo (1963)
87. True Grit (1969)
88. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
89. La maschera del demonio (1960)
90. The Innocents (1961)

91. Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
92. Murder Ahoy (1964)
93. Charade (1963)
94. Bullitt (1968)
95. Il sorpasso (1962)
96. Midnight Lace (1960)
97. El Cid (1961)
98. Femina ridens (1969)
99. Viy (1967)
100. Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)

Hayden

Thanks Olli, Bozo & Charli— tallied Smile

And thanks for the early shorts list Charli. Definitely a good handful on there I want to check out. Watched Time Piece for the first time yesterday— it'll definitely land my list. Just an overall fascinating experience to see Henson in almost this talented-college-film-student-esque state.