Sorry it took me so long to get around to this—but of the films I’ve seen here is a general list of 1964 films with #1 at the top the rest just as they came.
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Stopped . . . #1
A Hard Days Night
Becket
Mary Poppins
A Shot in the Dark
Cheyenne Autumn
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Topkapi
Marnie
The Americanization of Emily
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Night of the Iguana
The Killers
The Naked Kiss
Diary of a Chambermaid
Man’s Favorite Sport
Marriage Italian-Style
The Train
The Best Man
That Man From Rio
The Disorderly Orderly
Zulu
Kiss Me Stupid
A Fistful of Dollars
The World of Henry Orient
Seven Days in May
The Masque of the Red Death
Goldfinger
First Men in the Moon
Fail Safe
. . . whew—there are others but I best stop there, and of course there are plenty of films from ’64 that I have yet to see . . .
8 1/2 - Fellini
The Birds-Hitchcock
The Leopard—Visconti
High and Low—Kurosawa
Winter Light—Bergman
The Great Escape—Sturges
Tom Jones—Richardson
Shock Corridor—Fuller
Charade—Donen
The Haunting—Wise
Billy Liar—Schlesinger
Black Sabbath—Bava
The Silence—Bergman
55 Days at Peking—Ray
Donovan’s Reef—Ford
The Damned—Losey
Jason and the Argonauts—Chaffey
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes—Corman
Hud—Ritt
Contempt—Godard
There are a few I had to leave off that I could switch around (From Russia with Love; This Sporting Life; The Servant and The Pink Panther among others) but one has to stop somewhere. I have never had the opportunity to see Judex—something to look forward to.
Red Beard—Kurosawa
Major Dundee—Peckinpah
Pierrot le fou—Godard
Help!—Lester
The Heroes of Telemark—Mann, A.
Juliet of the Spirits—Fellini
Repulsion—Polanski
The Flight of the Phoenix—Aldrich
A High Wind in Jamaica—Mackendrick
The Ipcress File—Fury
Viva Maria!—Malle
Simon of the Desert—Bunel
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold—Ritt
Alphaville-Godard
The Knack . . . and How to Get It-Lester
The War Lord-Schaffner
Dr. Zhivago—Lean
The Hill—Lumet
Sands of the Kalihari—Endfield
Frankenstein — Whale
The Three Penny Opera — Pabst
The Public Enemy — Wellman
Monkey Business — McLeod
Tabu — Murnau
The Smiling Lieutenant — Lubitsch
Le Million — Clair
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Mamoulian
Night Nurse — Wellman
Dracula — Browning
Waterloo Bridge — Whale
Blonde Crazy — Del Ruth
Little Caesar — Le Roy
The Front Page — Milestone
Five Star Final — Le Roy
Pardon Us — Parrott
Street Scene — Vidor
The Miracle Woman — Capra
So much to choose from, I’ll stick with the “classic” noir time frame.
Double Indemnity
Out of the Past
The Third Man
Touch of Evil
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
They Live By Night
Gun Crazy
White Heat
The Big Heat
The Big Sleep
Scarlet Street
Murder My Sweet
A baker’s dozen—ask another time, some of the choices probably would be different.
They Were Expendable (Ford & Montgomery)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)
Roma città aperta (Rossellini)
The Story of G.I. Joe (Wellman)
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
Detour (Ulmer)
I Know Where I’m Going! (Powell & Pressburger)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Blithe Spirit (Lean)
The Southerner (Renoir)
The Clock (Minnelli)
Objective Burma! (Walsh)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin)
Fallen Angel (Preminger)
The Body Snatcher (Wise)
And Then There Were None (Clair)
Hangover Square (Brahm)
A Walk in the Sun (Milestone)
1) Vertigo
2) Rear Window
3) North By Northwest
4) Notorious
5) The 39 Steps
Honorable Mention: The Lady Vanishes; Foreign Correspondent; Shadow of Doubt; Rope; Strangers on a Train; The Man Who Knew Too Much (’56 version); Psycho; The Birds & Frenzy. There are others of course but one must stop somewhere.
1964 POLL almost 3 years ago
Sorry it took me so long to get around to this—but of the films I’ve seen here is a general list of 1964 films with #1 at the top the rest just as they came.
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Stopped . . . #1
A Hard Days Night
. . . whew—there are others but I best stop there, and of course there are plenty of films from ’64 that I have yet to see . . .Becket
Mary Poppins
A Shot in the Dark
Cheyenne Autumn
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Topkapi
Marnie
The Americanization of Emily
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Night of the Iguana
The Killers
The Naked Kiss
Diary of a Chambermaid
Man’s Favorite Sport
Marriage Italian-Style
The Train
The Best Man
That Man From Rio
The Disorderly Orderly
Zulu
Kiss Me Stupid
A Fistful of Dollars
The World of Henry Orient
Seven Days in May
The Masque of the Red Death
Goldfinger
First Men in the Moon
Fail Safe
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1963 Poll almost 2 years ago
8 1/2
- Fellini-HitchcockThe Birds
The Leopard—Visconti
High and Low—Kurosawa
Winter Light—Bergman
The Great Escape—Sturges
Tom Jones—Richardson
Shock Corridor—Fuller
Charade—Donen
The Haunting—Wise
Billy Liar—Schlesinger
Black Sabbath—Bava
The Silence—Bergman
55 Days at Peking—Ray
Donovan’s Reef—Ford
The Damned—Losey
Jason and the Argonauts—Chaffey
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes—Corman
Hud—Ritt
Contempt—Godard
There are a few I had to leave off that I could switch around (From Russia with Love; This Sporting Life; The Servant and The Pink Panther among others) but one has to stop somewhere. I have never had the opportunity to see Judex—something to look forward to.
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Last Film Seen in 2011. First Film Seen/To Be Seen in 2012 over 1 year ago
Last of 2011: “The Lady Eve”
First of 2012: “The Big Lebowski”
I spent a large chunk of my holiday days off watching favorites.
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1965 Poll over 1 year ago
1. Chimes at Midnight—Welles
Red Beard—Kurosawa
Major Dundee—Peckinpah
Pierrot le fou—Godard
Help!—Lester
The Heroes of Telemark—Mann, A.
Juliet of the Spirits—Fellini
Repulsion—Polanski
The Flight of the Phoenix—Aldrich
A High Wind in Jamaica—Mackendrick
The Ipcress File—Fury
Viva Maria!—Malle
Simon of the Desert—Bunel
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold—Ritt
Alphaville-Godard
The Knack . . . and How to Get It-Lester
The War Lord-Schaffner
Dr. Zhivago—Lean
The Hill—Lumet
Sands of the Kalihari—Endfield
I am certain that I left something out—but . . .
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1931 Poll over 1 year ago
1) City Lights — Chaplin
2) M — Lang
Frankenstein — Whale
The Three Penny Opera — Pabst
The Public Enemy — Wellman
Monkey Business — McLeod
Tabu — Murnau
The Smiling Lieutenant — Lubitsch
Le Million — Clair
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Mamoulian
Night Nurse — Wellman
Dracula — Browning
Waterloo Bridge — Whale
Blonde Crazy — Del Ruth
Little Caesar — Le Roy
The Front Page — Milestone
Five Star Final — Le Roy
Pardon Us — Parrott
Street Scene — Vidor
The Miracle Woman — Capra
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What is your favorite film noir about 1 year ago
So much to choose from, I’ll stick with the “classic” noir time frame.
Double Indemnity
Out of the Past
The Third Man
Touch of Evil
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
They Live By Night
Gun Crazy
White Heat
The Big Heat
The Big Sleep
Scarlet Street
Murder My Sweet
A baker’s dozen—ask another time, some of the choices probably would be different.
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1945 Poll about 1 year ago
Everything else in no particular order:
They Were Expendable (Ford & Montgomery)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)
Roma città aperta (Rossellini)
The Story of G.I. Joe (Wellman)
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
Detour (Ulmer)
I Know Where I’m Going! (Powell & Pressburger)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Blithe Spirit (Lean)
The Southerner (Renoir)
The Clock (Minnelli)
Objective Burma! (Walsh)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin)
Fallen Angel (Preminger)
The Body Snatcher (Wise)
And Then There Were None (Clair)
Hangover Square (Brahm)
A Walk in the Sun (Milestone)
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Top 5 Hitchcock about 1 year ago
1) Vertigo
2) Rear Window
3) North By Northwest
4) Notorious
5) The 39 Steps
Honorable Mention: The Lady Vanishes; Foreign Correspondent; Shadow of Doubt; Rope; Strangers on a Train; The Man Who Knew Too Much (’56 version); Psycho; The Birds & Frenzy. There are others of course but one must stop somewhere.
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