Favorite films of 1962

I like to keep "favorite" lists short, so I will go with:

To Kill a Mockingbird - sincere, straight shooting performances on a topic that we have still not dealt with and a history that's still subject to denial. It's one of those stories that we don't want to see.

The Longest Day - a big war movie, full of platitudes and a cast of thousands, full of righteousness about a day that's about as important to the world as any day in recent centuries. It's full of self-aggrandizing propaganda, but if any event ever merited that, it's the D Day invasion, so that's OK too.

1. The Trial
2. Hatari
3. The Exterminating Angel
4. Pitfall
5. Harakiri
6. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
7. Carnival of Souls
8. La Jetee
9. Cape Fear
10. Night Creatures / Captain Clegg

If I would have added more than 10, "Harakari" would be on there. I also liked "Cape Fear" and a few others.

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Trial
Le Doulos
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
Harakiri
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ivan's Childhood
La Jetee
Sanjuro (which I enjoy more than Yojimbo)

1. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
2. To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan
3. Harakiri Masaki Kobayashi
4. Dr. No Terence Young
5. Birdman of Alcatraz John Frankenheimer
6. Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Ford
8. The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer
9. Mutiny on the Bounty Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
10. Ride the High Country Sam Peckinpah

(25 'big' films from 1962 still on my watchlist.)

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