LISTS

[CineMaven]

The computer? Duh..of course!!! Why didn't I think of that. I thought I was going to have to walk along Waterloo Bridge.

[ChiO]

You won't need my apples now Chi0.

Apples? It's all about the spinach, baby. The green.

[fxreyman]

Okay List fans, here is my next list. My favorite films from the 1960's. By year, in alphabetical order. Favorite film for each year is bolded.

1960
The Alamo
Elmer Gantry
From the Terrace
The Gallant Hours
The Grass is Greener
Inherit the Wind
The Magnificent Seven
Sink the Bismarck!
Spartacus
The Time Machine

1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Children's Hour
The Comancheros
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Parent Trap
A Raisin in the Sun
Two Rode Together

1962
Cape Fear
Hatari!
Lawrence of Arabia
Lonely Are the Brave
The Longest Day
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Music Man
Ride the High Country
To Kill a Mockingbird

1963
55 Days at Peking
The Birds
Charade
Donovan's Reef
The Great Escape
Hud
Lilies of the Field
McLintock!
Spencer's Mountain
Sunday in New York

1964
The Americanization of Emily
Becket
The Best Man
Dr. Strangelove
Fail-Safe
Goldfinger
Mary Poppins
Seven Days in May
The Train
Zulu

1965
36 Hours
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Bedford Incident
The Flight of the Phoenix
In Harm's Way
Mirage
The Rounders
The Sound of Music

1966
Born Free
Fantastic Voyage
Follow Me, Boys!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A Man for All Seasons
Nevada Smith
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
El Dorado
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Hotel
In Cold Blood
In the Heat of the Night
Point Blank
You Only Live Twice

1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
Bullitt
The Devil's Brigade
The Green Berets
Hang 'Em High
Ice Station Zebra
The Lion in Winter
Planet of the Apes
Where Eagles Dare
Will Penny

1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Downhill Racer
Marooned
Support Your Local Sheriff!
True Grit
The Undefeated
Where Eagles Dare
The Wild Bunch

[ChiO]

Quite the challenge, fxreyman!

My '60s kinda favorites (limited to 10 per year, so some got cut in the 2d Round; alphabetical order, favorite of the year highlighted):

1960
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Eyes Without a Face
The Little Shop of Horrors
Peeping Tom
Psycho
The Savage Eye
The Sinister Urge
Spartacus
Le Trou

1961
Blast of Silence
Cape Fear
The Connection
The Exiles
The Hustler
Last Year at Marienbad
Something Wild
Underworld, U.S.A.
Viridiana
West Side Story

1962
All Night Long
Carnival of Souls
Experiment in Terror
The Exterminating Angel
Lolita
The Manchurian Candidate
Ride the High Country
The Trial
Trial of Joan of Arc
The World's Greatest Sinner

1963
Contempt
55 Days at Peking
The Great Escape
The House Is Black
Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
The Leopard
Night Tide
The Nutty Professor
The Sadist
Shock Corridor

1964
Chimes at Midnight
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
A Hard Day's Night
The Killers
The Naked Kiss
One Potato, Two Potato
Red Desert
Spider Baby
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1965
Angel's Flight
Brainstorm
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Masque of the Red Death
The Pawnbroker
Pierrot le Fou
Simon of the Desert
Vagne Stella dell'Orsa (aka Sandra)

1966
Au hasard Balthazar
The Battle of Algiers
Blow-Up
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The Money Trap
Persona
The Professionals
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967
Bedazzled
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
In Cold Blood
Moucette
Playtime
Point Blank
Le Samourai
Targets
The Young Girls of Rochefort

1968
The Bride Wore Black
Faces
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Monterey Pop
Rosemary's Baby

1969
Andrei Rublev
Army of Shadows
The Learning Tree
Midnight Cowboy
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Plot Against Harry
Take the Money and Run
The Wild Bunch
Z

Edit: Oops! Just realized I put a movie in 1961 that should have been in 1965 (just one of probably many such goofs). Luckily that means adding one to 1961, and 1965 was already short.

[JackFavell]

Gosh, I thought there might be a crossover on your favorites lists, but no! This does give me some movies to start looking at though.

I'm surprised at Umbrellas of Cherbourg ChiO, but I guess I shouldn't be by now. It's a great movie. No I'm not going to say, "It's so romantic. sigh"

[ChiO]

I counted 15 cross-overs.

I need to watch IN HARM's WAY again. So many Preminger movies came thisclose to being on my list, and that one was fxreyman's top for the year. Oh, I wanted THE CARDINAL, EXODUS, ADVISE AND CONSENT and SKIDOO. Well, I consistently like Preminger (except ROSEBUD - awful + sacrilege), but seldom in the '60s upper echelon.

[JackFavell]

I meant a crossover in the favorites for each year. I was really thinking it would be cool if there was one, since you both like such different movies, in general.

[fxreyman]

Hi ChiO,

I must say as white bread as my list is, yours is very eclectic. I have seen many of them, but I guess when you get right down to it, the films I chose are films I grew up with. Being born in 1960, and having come of age in the mid to late 70's, many of these films were being broadcast on television right about the time I was just beginning to understand what I liked and did not like.

Heck, I am still in that mode.

Many of the films I have selected however are westerns, war films, and epics. But as FrankGrimes and I have discussed, the sixties seemed to do this a lot. The studios had to do something to lure folks out of their homes to see big budget, blockbusters and what better way to do this than to create these monstrosities filled with big name stars and extravagant budgets.

But not all of my choices are big budget films, in fact a lot of them are smaller films…..

One word of caution: Beware of In Harms' Way. Even though I love the movie, you may not enjoy it. Basically it is a soap opera with the background of the Pearl Harbor attack and eventually the landings at Guadalcanal. The film also has the distinction of having a cast of mostly older former leading actors and the new generation of actors appearing in films at the time.

[RedRiver]

Since Wilder's THE APARTMENT is one of my favorite movies, period, it goes without saying it tops my 1960 list. THE GRADUATE, another all-time fave, gets my award for 1967. PSYCHO is a great one, of course. And I appreciate the mention of ADVISE AND CONSENT, a thoughtful drama that seems all but forgotten.

[ChiO]

I saw about one-third either on release or when broadcast on '60s-'70s TV or in college. Those that I didn't see then, for the most part, I came to m-u-c-h later. But there are a few 'tweeners.

And some of those I saw in a theater -- Bonnie and Clyde, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, In Cold Blood and The Learning Tree immediately come to mind -- still make me relive the emotion I felt when I first saw them.

[RedRiver]

My friend Jerry and I rode our bikes to see BONNIE AND CLYDE. It was a re-release, so it was summertime! THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER I saw on my sister's birthday. Sis wasn't with us. My brother and I had to rush home to the party! 1967 saw the opening of a plush, new theater in our town. That's where I saw THE GRADUATE, COOL HAND LUKE and others. The first movie to play the new house? EL DORADO! "The big one, with the big two!" I tell that story to people who weren't born in 1967. "And?"

I kind of like the irony of a year that would change American cinema, a new theater to usher it in, yet the grand opening features a John Wayne western! Say goodbye to yesterday.

[Nick]

I've seen 14 Hitchcock films so far so here's my ranking, from the best to the worst.

1. Rope
2. Strangers on a Train
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. The Birds
5. Psycho
6. Dial M for Murder
7. North by Northwest
8. Rear Window
9. Suspicion
10. The Trouble with Harry
11. Spellbound
12. Vertigo
13. Marnie
14. Rebecca

In total, I've seen a mere 105 classical films (1902-1969).

I'm having a hard time making a Top 10 favourites out of them...All I know is that 12 Angry Men, Paths of Glory and M would be included. Some other candidates could be Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Bicycle Thieves, It's a Wonderful Life, The Heiress, Imitation of Life (1934 version), Judgement at Nuremberg, Double Indemnity, Planet of the Apes, Anatomy of a Murder, Sunset Boulevard, The Dark Mirror.

Making a Top 10 worst classic films is all the more easier....

In no particular order:

Man's Castle
Beat the Devil
Hoosier Schoolboy
The Terror of Tiny Town
Vertigo
Rebecca
Kansas City Confidential
The Big Trees
Orchestra Wives
Religious Rackateers

[JackFavell]

Well, Nick those are some interesting lists... I am curious as to what drew you to classic film in the first place?

I would love to know what makes you like the movies on your favorites list, what those films may have in common? and what characteristics do those films in your worst list have in common that make them unbearable to you?

[movieman1957]

With only 105 I'm interested to know what draws you to a film and to our little playground?

[Nick]

I got into classics after seeing some What's My Line episodes online. It got me thinking: "Whoa, super old people could actually be funny back then. Let's see what else I can discover". So I slowly began to try out some films. In the beginning, I chose whatever was freely available on Youtube, just by random. A lot of them were low-budget, while others were more famous. But eventually, I started selecting films from the book "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". It's a good starting point for me to determine what to see next. Btw, I also explained some of this back in my introduction post several months ago.

For every movie I've seen, I try to write a short review about it. Things in common among the movies I like/dislike? Well...I haven't really given that a thought...A well writen plot that is executed well is my preliminary answer.

Here's my commentaries about the films I've seen: http://www.imdb.com/list/x420O3jXXXE/