The MoFo Top 100 of the 60s: Countdown
 

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the start of the official Movie Forums Top 100 of the Sixties Countdown. Over the next two months I will slowly be revealing to you the results of our member participated forum list.

First of all I will like to say a few thank you to a few people. Thank you to Mark, who helped me put together this fantastic post in the original thread. Thank you to Holden Pike, for all his excellent and informative posts in that thread, I've been busy over the past few months with exams and other commitments, so it was great to have him and many others too fill in for me and keep the thread alive and interesting. And thank you to everyone who sent me a list!

So, here we go, some important facts and figures for you:

- 85 people submitted lists. The majority of these were full, 25 film strong lists. For each list, depending on the user's ranking, a film would be allocated a certain amount of points. 25 points for first place, 24 for second, and so on... right down to 1 point for that film in twenty-fifth place. These points are added up, and the films with the hundred most points will make the cut.

- If a film has the same amount of points a tie will be broken by using the number of lists it was included on. If this is still equal, then the highest it placed on an individual list will break the tie.

- 407 individual films were included on these lists. A 25 film list means the user shares out 325 points between their chosen films. That's nearly 30,000 points in total.

- Each day two films will be posted, beginning with later today when I will post entries #100 and #99. This will happen until we reach the top ten.

- Once the top ten is reached, each day only one film will be posted, until the final day where #1 and #2 are revealed simultaneously. Hopefully building up enough suspense to keep you guys excited.


- Do not reveal your full list until the countdown is over. This is vitally important especially in the early stages of the list, as it spoils the suspense that comes with knowing whether or not certain entries have made the list. If a film is revealed you can tell fellow members where you placed it, why you voted for it, but if possible avoid revealing significant information about the placing of other films. I understand that once we got to the top 10 this rule becomes a little superfluous as the entries become more predictable so I have no problem with people making posts like "I included this film that was never going to make it at #24" at that point, but if you're film is still likely to appear then please do not discuss it, as placement will still be important.

- No gongs.

- Have fun!

As per MoFo tradition, these are the one point films. Films that only appeared one one persons list, and in the 25th spot on that list.

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Death Rides a Horse almost made my list! I never heard of the other ones. And I'm surprised my 25th is not on this list. Maybe mark f voted for it too.

The only 1 pointers I saw were Billy Liar, which I thought was just ok, and The Flim-Flam Man, which I really enjoyed.

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Yeah, Billy Liar is a bit of a surprise for me. Same as Cricket, I wasn't a huge fan but thought it would be made it on the list.

I like A Boy Named Charlie Brown, but I prefer other Peanuts based movies.

Also, aren't we supposed to "traditionally" mock the one pointers? :p

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Am I the only one who choses for the 25th pick a less known movie that won't make the list at all but that I'd like to see somehow represented on this?

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Mothra vs. Godzilla was my original 25th place but I removed it and added another film to my list instead. If I voted for it, it might have been a 1 pointer.

Have you not noticed someone voted for a TV Movie called Rape by Yoko Ono and John Lennon? :p

But yeah, this is normally a mixture of good films that just happened to only get one point, and films that people deliberately put there to make this section. Check the IMDB rating of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

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I wonder what the near misses were.

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Looks like I'm the only one who had The Flim-Flam Man on their list.

No, I put Grass Is Greener there because I figured it wouldn't get any other votes.

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None of those 1-pointers were mine. I think my 25th placed film has a good chance at the list. The only one of those I've seen is Billy Liar.

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I didn't choose a one pointer candidate this time myself. I'm going to check all of them out now on IMDb and see which ones look interesting (I already heard of a few, like The Flim-Flam Man, The Grass Is Greener, Death Rides a Horse, Billy Liar and of course the Dracula film).

Looking forward to the actual start of the countdown!

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Any predictions what will be the first two films? ;)

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I have no idea.

Um...............

I hope Jason and the Argonauts at least made the list somewhere around this point. No one mentioned it other than me so I have no idea how many people would have voted for it.

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100. Woman in the Dunes
99. Woman in the Dunes

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NO ONE else had Carry On Camping? Not even Honeykid? Didn't mean that to sound as disparaging as it did, HK. Well, ok, I did. :p

You po-faced lot. ;D

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Funeral Parade of Roses and Pierrot le Fou

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2 movies I probably haven't seen! :-P

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Dr. Strangelove and Psycho, just to get them out of the way ;)

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Let's do this ! :D

Is that like the British version of Deliverance?

It's literally Deliverance. With Terry Scott.

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Death Rides a Horse was my #25. It's one of my favorite westerns. I didn't actually expect it to be a one-pointer, as it's one of the more well-known spaghetti westerns. Guess I was wrong.

:rotfl:

I think I'd kill to see Carry On... Deliverance with the classic cast.

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Damn it. Somebody else voted for my #25? Way to ruin its chances of a mention, whoever you are. :mad:

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Hehe. We've actually entered the stage where people are mad other people voted for the same films. :D

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I haven't watched either of the first two.

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I thought Black Sunday was pretty bad. Never seen the Trial.

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I guess being bored prompted Daniel to post. :)

Well, Terry Scott was known for a good 20 years as 'the English Ned Beatty'. ;)

Kenny Williams as Burt Reynolds, Barbara Windsor as Jon Voight and Charles Hawtrey as the other bloke.

Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw play the redknecks.

Plenty of "Is that a canoe in your pocket?" gags, as well...

Was meant to watch Black Sunday during my giallo/horror binge, but I never did. The Trial looks promising. Pretty cool layout Daniel.

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Haven't seen either.

I feel like I'm going to be saying that a lot during this list haha

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I like The Trial quite a bit but it was never in consideration for my own list. I've never seen Black Sunday. Bava isn't someone I've really explored at all to be honest, which I should probably rectify at some point.

All the movies I've watched trying to cover everything that might show up, and The Trial pops up. The same thing happened to me on the first day of the 70's countdown with Logan's Run. The Trial looks very good; I'll watch it ASAP.

I liked Black Sunday but not enough to consider voting for it.

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First of all thanks a lot for taking the time to do this Daniel :). Nice layout, looks great.

From the one pointers I've seen Carry On Camping :facepalm:. Sorry Tacitus I know it was always going to be your #1 or your #25 :p. I really want to see Murder A La Mod because it just came up in a biography of Robert Deniro I'm reading. And Rape because its a film called Rape with John Lennon and Yoko Ono :laugh:.

Not seen either of the first two. I was meaning to get to The Trial but didn't end up getting around to any Welles. Will watch that tomorrow probably. Black Sunday looks interesting too.

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I was actually going to predict that The Trial would show up first.

Anyway, I love that film and it was one of the many difficult cuts I had to make. I have it on DVD. It's a brilliant piece of cinema!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKEybkVl0M

Black Sunday seems interesting as well. I haven't schooled myself in the stylish Italian horror films of (amongst others) Mario Bava yet, but I definitely will in the future!

The Breakdown...



5th (21 points), 6th (21 points), 16th (10 points), 18th (8 points)



2x 7th (38 points), 15th (11 points), 20th (6 points), 22nd (4 points)



Both films were tied with another, with all three on 59 points. However the other film only appeared on three lists, meaning that it just missed out on the countdown, finishing in 101st place.

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Black Sunday's gruesomeness is awesome (the film even got banned because of it at one point) is pretty good. Didn't vote for it thought, for obvious reasons.

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By the way, Yoda, traditionally the thread ended up in the review section again, as a result of it having become a sticky. :p

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What was the other film, Daniel?

I thought about putting Black Sunday on my list, but in the end it's just not enough. I don't think I've seen The Trial.

I noticed that too.

Just had to take a pic of it. :p

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Will you be posting the "almost made its" early like MV did Daniel? Or will that be coming later? I say now :p

I will literally never remember to hard code the exception in before stickying these. Never.

Fixed in a few minutes.

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I wonder what the "Reserved" post is for?

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I'm not sure if I should post the other film, or the almost made its, I think that takes away a bit of the suspense.

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Let him post those nearly misses later. I don't want my hope for some of my favorites to be destroyed just yet.

I think that one's kind of up to you. Holden and I are the only list curators that did that, I think. I mostly did it because there were a couple of films on it that I wanted to get official representation on the list.

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The Trial was on my list.

I feel the same. I like the tension to be kept.

The Trial was an OK film for me. 6.5/10. No where near making it, and a bit silly at times. I will say the first half of the film was really good and then it just kind of fell off from there in my opinion.

Of the one-pointers, The Flim-Flam Man is great and deserves to be on the Top 100 itself. I just couldn't find a place for it in my 25, but that always happens to several films I love.
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The other most-interesting film is a surrealist Mexican classic I recommend to everyone - Macario. If Bunuel had directed it, it might have made the Top 100.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypZoapnAWa...s_macario4.jpg
My #25 didn't make either list I'm afraid. As far as Black Sunday and The Trial, they're cult items and we're a cult, so they fit in here, but they wouldn't make my Top 250 of the '60s. :)

I'm guessing the near miss 59 pointer was one of my top picks.

Just thought I'd put in there in case I wanted to use it for something later. I'll probably end up putting the 'misses' their, I think Holden did that with the films outside of the 100 there after the list was finished.

I honestly don't know if I could make a list of 250 films from the 60's I'd even want to see.

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Ahhh list season, I love this time of year.

The one pointers are pretty interesting. The very early De Palma I'd like to see, then Dracula film I've seen recently and enjoyed a big deal. Then a movie I had at the end of my list - Passenger. Was sure nobody else's gonna have it. Death Rides a Horse, glorious spaghetti. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is a film I meant to watch for a long time, but somehow never really got to it. Manos is said to be the worst movie ever made, so is automatically one of the best movies ever made. Have to watch it. Baron Munchausen is an extraordinary film.

Black Sunday - (Beautiful gothic horror with Barbara Steele. Perhaps I underrated it.)
The Trial - (Pretty good Welles film. I've seen it after Citizen Kane and thought it's better, but wasn't mindblown by it.)

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Believe I had Black Sunday at #5 which might have been too low for me, as it's one of my all-time favorite horror films.

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It's great, but there are better Bava films from the 60's. I haven't had any on my list, though, because my list was full of masterpieces.

Yup you did. I have everyone's list saved in a word file, so if anyone wants stuff confirming just ask :)

But fine margins, if you had it one lower, it wouldn't have made it. You were the last person to submit a list with it on, and I remember watching it hang on in the top 100 as we approached the deadline :p

That might be true but I haven't seen enough Bava yet. It's one of my biggest shames. :D

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Oh dear, never seen either. But then that was the same for the 80s, 90s and one of the first 2 from the 70s. I'll get around to them eventually.

I kind of think we should get to see the 101st film, since it was a tie I think it deserves it. But not the other near-misses, for the sake of suspense.

How does 59 points for 100th place compare to other countdowns?

64 - 70s
55 - animated
49 - 80s

So we're looking at quite a high vote count for a film to make it, compared to some of the other lists, possibly more of a consensus, not less as some of us had predicted. Of course, we are looking at different amounts of lists submitted.

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I liked Kill, Baby, Kill better than Black Sunday but neither Bava film made my list. As for The Trial, I've seen it a couple of times but the last time was probably almost a decade ago, so It's due for a re-watch, like most of the movies on my list. It's still a solid adaptation of a great novel that Welles managed to make his own, and I'm happy to have given it some of its points.

That sounds fair to me too, unless many object, I'll go ahead and reveal it?

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As a big Welles fan I should be thrilled to see The Trial in the countdown....I tried watching it twice, but each time I shut it off. I don't know what others see in the film, I didn't see anything much but experimentation.

Me too. I liked Black Sabbath and The Whip and the Body better than Black Sunday, too. Blood and Black Lace was as good as Black Sunday and also the first giallo ever (or one of the very first).

Well; usually I have to wait a while for my first film to arrive but this time it comes right away, I had The Trial at Number 7, tying me with someone else for top spot :highfive: , it's my second favorite Orson Welles film, I find it a surreal masterpiece and glad it made the list.

My review:
I started Black Sunday but the only version Netflix had was dubbed so I turned it off. Haven't seen any of the 1 pointers

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I put Baron Prasil at #25 on my list, so somebody will at least see the title. I guess it was strategic voting, because I found out Mr Minio wasn't going to vote. If he was going to vote, it might have made my top 15. Maybe 10. At least now it gets some recognition.

Do it. It deserves a place on the list. :)

I'd leave it for later, maybe reveal the almost inclusions at the top 50, give em hope. Hopefully em doesn't include me, though

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Not that I particularly object to revealing now though

I suspected HK of that , but I would've given you as a second guess. I have a love hate relationship with the Carry On films. I think I hate them but when I see them on tv I have a wave of nostalgia as the sctors are really great.:D

I keep changing my mind whether I should reveal the #101 film or not, and I think it was harsh that it didn't make it considering it got the same amount of points. So to get it out of the way...

It was:


(Chuck Jones & Ben Washam, 1966)

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2nd (24 points), 4th (22 points), 13th (13 points)

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A BIG THANKS to DanielM for all of his hard work on the countdown! It looks great:) I'm excited to see more!

So here goes my first entry on this list :D

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25. Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960)

How to describe this... well, imagine Buñuel making his own personal version of Bergman's The seventh seal. That would be Macario. And as a fan of these two directors, this one was an instant hit to me.

Also, not in my list but Passenger and I even met happy gypsies and Manos are great stuff as well.

Out of the two first spots in the list I haven't watched any, but both are definitely in my plans. The trial was actually one of the movies I originally wanted to watch for this list.

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The Grinch is very enjoyable. Wasn't close to making my list though.

dammit. Here goes the start of me realising how many favourites I've left off my list. Serves me right for rushing :(

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The more I hear about Macario, the dumber I feel for not having seen it.

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I predict I will have seen about 20% of this list.

I've always loved The Grinch; I had it on my animation list, but not here.

Son of a...


That was me. :mad:

YOU AGAIN?!

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I love The Grinch, we watch it almost every Christmas, but I don't consider a made for TV animated show the same as a theatrical release movie.

must be old age setting in!

:rotfl:

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I had Murder a la Mod at #25. it was just a coincidence that it ended up there, but i was glad it did so it could get some recognition, and it's 1 of 2 movies on my list that i was sure wouldn't make it. I think it's actually my favorite de Palma film. I don't remember a lot about it but I remember there's one sequence at the end that's just sheer brilliance and really exciting filmmaking.

The Trial was my #22. I watched it right before the deadline and thought it was real good.

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The Trial was pretty interesting, very original. And I've not seen Black Sunday

Hey! That's my bag, baby! ;)

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All these comparisons to Bunuel are making me not too excited to see Macario but I'll give it a go.

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If you want another reason not to watch it, it's based on a B. Traven story. :)

36 Hours was my 1-pointer. It's a shame that more people didn't watch it. It's a very good movie.

Not me. My 25th pick was a genuine #25. I wish it could have placed higher on my list.

I seriously considered The Flim-Flam Man for my list. It came very close to being my #25 pick.

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Like I said, I'll check it out sometime. Maybe your likening it to Bunuel films is off the mark. Maybe it turns out it was like them in ways that don't really matter, and unlike them in ways that do. :data:

I watched The Trial, but I thought it was only okay. It never had a chance at making my list.

I would have loved to have found room for The Grinch on my list, but there just weren't enough spaces on the list.