The MoFo Top 100 of the 60s: Countdown

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Fear and Loathing in MoFo... The Gunslinger 45's Top 50 Favorite Films

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Finally - someone who agrees with me.

I do like the movie though.

Man 2001 is like the greatest film ever made.. Every time I rewatch it, I just feel even more confident in that statement, and I just feel like watching the film again and again and again. There just isn't anything like it! All hail Kubrick.

Those are my number 20, and 23. In said order. My son Joshua, loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when he was a kid. I remember the day I went into his bedroom, just to realize his discovery of VHS, and alllllllll that video tape inside that cassette. I've never seen so much video tape. That stuff was everywhere. Our copy is now on DVD.

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That says something about your taste.

Pretty cool top, nostromo87. A lot of sleazy goodies there and I like most of them. Of course, I wouldn't put any of them on my list, because there is a lot of films I value more, but it's nice to see a list that looks a little bit different and has Hammer horror, Meyer, Bava and Barbarella on it among others!

Really good, kvlt n trv list, Harry Lime! Arthouse Gods are pleased and the high place of Lawrence evne pleased the Mainstream Gods, so no Wrath of Gods for you today, good sir!

mark f on the other hand has Mainstream Gods so much by his side, he doesn't have to fear Arthouse Gods. His list is so mainstream, even the films there that are not mainstream have contracted the mainstreamness disease and eventually became mainstream.

And here's my list in all its glory:

MR MINIO'S TOP 25 FILMS OF THE 60'S

1. Le révélateur - Philippe Garrel
2. Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais
3. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
4. Red Beard - Akira Kurosawa
5. Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi
6. Naked Island - Kaneto Shindô
7. Diamonds of the Night - Jan Nìmec
8. Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone
9. Andrey Rublyov - Andriej Tarkowski
10. Daises - Vìra Chytilová
11. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone
12. Emotion - Nobuhiko Obayashi
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
14. Winter Light - Ingmar Bergman
15. My Life to Live - Jean-Luc Godard
16. The Eclipse - Michelangelo Antonioni
17. Samurai Rebellion - Masaki Kobayashi
18. War and Peace - Sergei Bondarchuk
19. Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev
20. Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
21. The Face of Another - Hiroshi Teshigahara
22. Inherit the Wind - Stanley Kramer
23. The Bad Sleep Well - Akira Kurosawa
24. Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard
25. Pasa¿erka - Andrzej Munk

25 was such a small number for so many great films made in the best decade in the history of cinema. I didn't even squeeze all my favourite masterpieces there, and there's twice as much almost masterpieces (gotta love my naming) and other valuable, fun, entertaining, awesome... <insert 335454 words here> movies.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

I'm glad my contribution helped get 2001: A Space Odyssey first place on this list, very well deserved. Psycho, while strongly considered, did not make my list. Excellent film.

Here's the list in full:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
3. High and Low (Kurasawa, 1963)
4. Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil, 1967)
5. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
6. My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer, 1969)
7. The Cremator (Herz, 1969)
8. The Saragossa Manuscript (Has, 1965)
9. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
10. Pitfall (Teshigahara, 1962)
11. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962)
12. The Pornographers (Imamura, 1966)
13. 21-78 (Lipsett, 1963)
14. Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)
15. Red Angel (Masumura, 1966)
16. Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
17. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
18. Eros + Massacre (Yoshida, 1969)
19. Death by Hanging (Oshima, 1968)
20. Playtime (Tati, 1967)
21. Daisies (Chytilova, 1966)
22. The Valley of the Bees (Vlacil, 1968)
23. Putney Swope (Downey Sr, 1969)
24. Stray Bullet (Hyun-mok, 1960)
25. The House is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963)

10 (those in bold) out of 25 made it overall. There's plenty I would change now, looking back (I was serious a few pages back about Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, it'd probably be on my list if it were written today). Overall a pretty solid list of films. I suppose I'm a little surprised more didn't make the cut. Marketa Lazarova for example I'd hoped might sneak onto the list at some point.

Great job with the list Daniel.

Glad 2001: A Space Odyssey took the top spot. I'm not as keen on it as I was years ago, but still a visionary piece of science-fiction. I'm still on the boat that Barry Lyndon is the Kube's best, but this is right up there.

Nice!

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The Last Man on Earth, that was a good movie. I don't know if I like it or Omega Man better.

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Those things DO have an outlandish amount of tape in them, don't they?

Super job, Daniel! I admire anybody who does these "Best of" lists. I couldn't do it as I almost flunked math in high school and still struggle when doing the bills.

Destiny, I love both The Last Man on Earth and The Gorgon. Great movies, both. Vincent Price is in my top 5 of all-time favorite actors.

So, here's my list:
1.To Kill a Mockingbird
2.Lawrence of Arabia
3.Cool Hand Luke
4.The Graduate
5.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7.Hud
8.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
9.Once upon a Time in the West
10.Inherit the Wind
11.The Great Escape
12.Goldfinger
13.Dr. Zhivago
14.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
15.In the Heat of the Night
16.The Wild Bunch
17.Spartacus
18.The Birds
19.Father Goose
20.It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
21.Charade
22.Jason and the Argonauts
23.The Haunting
24.Hatari!
25.The Virgin Spring

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had Jason and the Argonauts on their list. I also included [b]Hatari![/B\ It was a fun John Wayne movie and one of a handful of 60's Non-Westerns he did. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to give a vote for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World also. This was one of the most fun lists we've had. Can't wait for the next one!

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Thanks for the great job Daniel, and for the list, seems like plenty of good movies to choose from.

They look even more interesting than some of the films that made it, for some reason.

I don't have time to write anything on the individual films in my list, but here it is, with annotations about placing, green for making the list and red for not:

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) (31st Place)
2. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964) (141st Place)
3. A Countess from Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967) (211th Place, only voter)
4. Late Autumn (Ozu Yasujiro, 1960) (75th Place)
5. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) (158th Place)
6. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961) (232nd Place, only voter)
7. The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963) (170th Place)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) (152nd Place)
9. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) (43rd Place)
10. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962) (240th Place)
11. 7 Women (John Ford, 1966) (272nd Place, only voter)
12. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer, 1963) (282nd Place, only voter)
13. Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub, 1965) (296th Place, only voter)
14. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969) (88th Place)
15. L'Avventura (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1960) (63rd Place)
16. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette, 1960) (318th Place, only voter)
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) (1st Place)
18. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Staub and Danielle Huillet, 1968) (335th Place, only voter)
19. Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford, 1960) (346th Place, only voter)
20. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) (115th Place)
21. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford, 1962) (52nd Place)
22. The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960) (373rd Place, only voter)
23. El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1966) (119th Place)
24. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) (389th Place, only voter)
25. La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962) (80th Place)

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i'm gonna go against the crowd here and say that daniel did a terrible job and should be banned immediately from every posting at this website again. no particular reason, i'm just bored.

I had Psycho at #11. A close fought contest between the top 2! I thought 2001 had some good bits but overall was just silly. Especially the monkeys. However, in honour of its placing first on this countdown I will give it another try and watch it again.

16 of my 25 made the top 100 and I've seen 73/100 which is more than I was expecting.

My list in full:

1. A Taste of Honey (1961)
2. Plein Soleil (1960)
3. Army of Shadows (1969)
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. West Side Story (1961)
7. They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969)
8. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
9. Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
10. Le Trou (1960)
11. Psycho (1960)
12. Le Samourai (1967)
13. if... (1968)
14. Blowup (1966)
15. The Apartment (1960)
16. Peeping Tom (1960)
17. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
18. The Leather Boys (1964)
19. The Innocents (1961)
20. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
21. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
22. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
23. Splendour in the Grass (1961)
24. Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)
25. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Thank you and well done to Daniel for running the list, it's been entertaining.

Time to start watching 50s films for the next decade list...

The next list will be documentaries, right?