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Top Ten Lists 1960-1969

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-- 1960s --

#1: 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#2: Jules and Jim (dir: François Truffaut)
#3: Midnight Cowboy (dir: John Schlesinger)
#4: Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#5: Bonnie and Clyde (dir: Arthur Penn)
#6: Rosemary's Baby (dir: Roman Polanski)
#7: In Cold Blood (dir: Richard Brooks)
#8: Repulsion (dir: Roman Polanski)
#9: Lawrence of Arabia (dir: David Lean)
#10: Z (dir: Costa-Gavras)

#11: Dr. Strangelove (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#12: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir: Mike Nichols)
#13: if... (dir: Lindsay Anderson)
#14: A Long Day's Journey into Night (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#15: Contempt (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
#16: Belle de Jour (dir: Luis Buñuel)
#17: Persona (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#18: West Side Story (dir: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
#19: To Kill a Mockingbird (dir: Robert Mulligan)
#20: The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah)
#21: Lolita (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#22: (dir: Federico Fellini)
#23: Blow-Up (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
#24: The Pawnbroker (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#25: A Shot in the Dark (dir: Blake Edwards)
#26: Judgment at Nuremberg (dir: Stanley Kramer)
#27: The Manchurian Candidate (dir: John Frankenheimer)
#28: Fail-Safe (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#29: Doctor Zhivago (dir: David Lean)
#30: A Thousand Clowns (dir: Fred Coe)
#31: Inherit the Wind (dir: Stanley Kramer)
#32: Peeping Tom (dir: Michael Powell)
#33: The Graduate (dir: Mike Nichols)
#34: The Producers (dir: Mel Brooks)
#35: Becket (dir: Peter Glenville)
#36: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir: Sergio Leone)
#37: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir: Robert Aldrich)
#38: Shoot the Piano Player (dir: François Truffaut)
#39: The Silence (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#40: The Trial (dir: Orson Welles)
#41: Birdman of Alcatraz (dir: John Frankenheimer)
#42: Yojimbo (dir: Akira Kurosawa)
#43: Romeo and Juliet (dir: Franco Zeffirelli)
#44: Days of Wine and Roses (dir: Blake Edwards)
#45: Charade (dir: Stanley Donen)
#46: A Hard Day's Night (dir: Richard Lester)
#47: A Man for All Seasons (dir: Fred Zinnemann)
#48: Marat/Sade (dir: Peter Brook)
#49: The Great Escape (dir: John Sturges)
#50: Spartacus (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

 


-- 1969 --

#1:  Midnight Cowboy (dir: John Schlesinger)
#2:  Z (dir: Costa-Gavras)
#3:  if... (dir: Lindsay Anderson)
#4:  The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah)
#5:  Medium Cool (dir: Haskill Wexler)
#6:  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (dir: George Roy Hill)
#7:  They Shoot Horses Don't They (dir: Sydney Pollack)
#8:  Easy Rider (dir: Dennis Hopper)
#9:  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (dir: Peter R. Hunt)
#10:  Take the Money and Run (dir: Woody Allen)

 

-- 1968 --

#1:  2001: A Space Odyssey (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#2:  Rosemary's Baby (dir: Roman Polanski)
#3:  The Producers (dir: Mel Brooks)
#4:  Romeo and Juliet (dir: Franco Zeffirelli)
#5:  The Thomas Crown Affair (dir: Norman Jewison)
#6:  Once Upon a Time in the West (dir: Sergio Leone)
#7:  The Lion in the Winter (dir: Anthony Harvey)
#8:  Charly (dir: Ralph Nelson)
#9:  Bullett (dir: Peter Yates)
#10:  Night of the Living Dead (dir: George A. Romero)

 

-- 1967 --

#1:  Bonnie and Clyde (dir: Arthur Penn)
#2:  In Cold Blood (dir: Richard Brooks)
#3:  Belle de Jour (dir: Luis Buñuel)
#4:  The Graduate (dir: Mike Nichols)
#5:  In the Heat of the Night (dir: Norman Jewison)
#6:  The President's Analyst (dir: Theodore J. Flicker)
#7:  Play Time (dir: Jacques Tati)
#8:  Fahreneit 481 (dir: François Truffaut)
#9:  Cool Hand Luke (dir: Stuart Rosenberg)
#10:  Casino Royale (dir: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, and Val Guest)

 

-- 1966 --

#1:  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir: Mike Nichols)
#2:  Persona (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#3:  Blow-Up (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
#4:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir: Sergio Leone)
#5:  A Man for All Seasons (dir: Fred Zinnemann)
#6:  Marat/Sade (dir: Peter Brook)
#7:  The Fortune Cookie (dir: Billy Wilder)
#8:  What's Up Tiger Lily (dir: Woody Allen)
#9:  For a Few Dollars More (dir: Sergio Leone)
#10:  Alfie (dir: Lewis Gilbert)

 

-- 1965 --

#1:  Repulsion (dir: Roman Polanski)
#2:  The Pawnbroker (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#3:  Doctor Zhivago (dir: David Lean)
#4:  A Thousand Clowns (dir: Fred Coe)
#5:  Mirage (dir: Edward Dmytryk)
#6:  Hush ... Hush Sweet Charlotte (dir: Robert Aldrich)
#7:  The Sound of Music (dir: Robert Wise)
#8:  Pierrot le Fou (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
#9:  Othello (dir: Stuart Burge)
#10:  Help! (dir: Richard Lester)

 

-- 1964 --

#1:  Dr. Strangelove (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#2:  A Shot in the Dark (dir: Blake Edwards)
#3:  Fail-Safe (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#4:  Becket (dir: Peter Glenville)
#5:  A Hard Day's Night (dir: Richard Lester)
#6:  The Pink Panther (dir: Blake Edwards)
#7:  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir: Jacques Demy)
#8:  My Fair Lady (dir: Robert Stevenson)
#9:  Topkapi (dir: Jules Dassin)
#10:  Goldfinger (dir: Guy Hamilton)

 

-- 1963 --

#1:  Contempt (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
#2:  (dir: Federico Fellini)
#3:  The Silence (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#4:  The Trial (dir: Orson Welles)
#5:  Charade (dir: Stanley Donen)
#6:  The Great Escape (dir: John Sturges)
#7:  From Russia with Love (dir: Terence Young)
#8:  The Haunting (dir: Robert Wise)
#9:  America, America (dir: Elia Kazan)
#10:  Hud (dir: Martin Ritt)

 

-- 1962 --

#1:  Lawrence of Arabia (dir: David Lean)
#2:  A Long Day's Journey into Night (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#3:  To Kill a Mockingbird (dir: Robert Mulligan)
#4:  Lolita (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#5:  The Manchurian Candidate (dir: John Frankenheimer)
#6:  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir: Robert Aldrich)
#7:  Birdman of Alcatraz (dir: John Frankenheimer)
#8:  Days of Wine and Roses (dir: Blake Edwards)
#9:  Cape Fear (dir: J. Lee Thompson)
#10:  The Longest Day (dir: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki)

 

-- 1961 --

#1:  Jules and Jim (dir: François Truffaut)
#2:  West Side Story (dir: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
#3:  Judgment at Nuremberg (dir: Stanley Kramer)
#4:  Yojimbo (dir: Akira Kurosawa)
#5:  One, Two, Three (dir: Billy Wilder)
#6:  The Guns of Navarone (dir: J. Lee Thompson)
#7:  The Hustler (dir: Robert Rossen)
#8:  A Raisin in the Sun (dir: Daniel Petrie)
#9:  The Misfits (dir: John Huston)
#10:  Breakfast at Tiffany's (dir: Blake Edwards)

 

-- 1960 --

#1:  Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#2:  Inherit the Wind (dir: Stanley Kramer)
#3:  Peeping Tom (dir: Michael Powell)
#4:  Shoot the Piano Player (dir: François Truffaut)
#5:  Spartacus (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
#6:  The Apartment (dir: Billy Wilder)
#7:  L'Avventura (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
#8:  Elmer Gantry (dir: Richard Brooks)
#9:  The Sundowners (dir: Fred Zinnemann)
#10:  Village of the Damned (dir: Wolf Rilla)

 


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David Perry
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