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The MoFo Top 100 of the 60s: Countdown

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The 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.

And remember...

- 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!

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101. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones & Ben Washam, 1966) [59]

100. Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960) [59]
99. The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962) [59]
98. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) [61]
97. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) [61]
96. Birdman of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer, 1962) [61]

95. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961) [63]
94. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962) [63]
93. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964) [63]
92. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) [64]
91. Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967) [64]

90. Oliver! (Carol Reed, 1968) [66]
89. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969) [67]
88. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) [67]
87. From Russia With Love (Terence Young, 1963) [68]
86. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) [69]

85. The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) [69]
84. Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962) [70]
83. The Music Man (Morton DaCosta, 1962) [71]
82. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) [72]
81. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961) [74]

80. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) [76]
79. Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963) [77]
78. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967) [77]
77. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968) [82]
76. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) [84]

75. Late Autumn (Yasujirō Ozu, 1960) [85]
74. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967) [86]
73. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) [87]
72. True Grit (Henry Hathaway, 1969) [88]
71. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967) [89]

70. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) [89]
69. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) [90]
68. The Swimmer (Frank Perry & Sydney Pollack, 1968) [90]
67. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) [96]
66. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) [96]

65. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) [101]
64. Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960) [105]
63. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) [107]
62. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964) [108]
61. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) [110]

60. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965) [112]
59. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) [112]
58. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) [114]
57. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) [116]
56. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) [116]

55. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) [126]
54. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu, 1962) [128]
53. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) [135]
52. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) [136]
51. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) [144]

50. The Hole / Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960) [146]
49. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) [150]
48. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks, 1960) [151]
47. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) [154]
46. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964) [155]

45. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) [157]
44. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969) [158]
43. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) [159]
42. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963) [160]
41. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) [165]

40. My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964) [170]
39. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961) [178]
38. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) [178]
37. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) [185]
36. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) [186]

35. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961) [188]
34. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) [190]
33. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) [191]
32. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961) [204]
31. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) [212]

30. The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) [221]
29. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966) [221]
28. West Side Story (Robert Wise, 1961) [222]
27. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) [230]
26. The Hustler (Richard Rossen, 1961) [239]

25. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) [262]
24. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) [269]
23. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) [281]
22. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) [289]
21. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) [294]

20. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) [296]
19. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) [310]
18. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) [320]
17. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) [320]
16. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) [337]

15. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) [339]
14. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) [384]
13. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) [386]
12. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) [403]
11. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) [414]

10. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) [418]

9. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) [452]

8. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) [453]

7. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) [640]

6. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) [686]

5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) [709]

4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) [755]

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) [811]

2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) [1072]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) [1092]