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Zach’s Favorite Films of the 1960s

1969

  1. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits, USA)
  2. BOY (Nagisa Ōshima, Japan)
  3. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  4. THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (Shadi Abdel Salam, Egypt)
  5. THE PASSION OF ANNA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  6. TRACCE DI TRACCE (Paolo Gioli, Italy)
  7. INVASIÓN (Hugo Santiago, Argentina)
  8. MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (François Truffaut, France/Italy)
  9. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer, France)
  10. USKI ROTI (Mani Kaul, India)
  11. SORROWS (Gregory J. Markopoulos, Switzerland)
  12. THE COW (Dariush Mehrjui, Iran)
  13. FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan)
  14. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. SALESMAN (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, USA)
  16. BLUES (Larry Gottheim, USA)
  17. THE BLUES ACCORDIN’ TO LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS (Les Blank, USA)
  18. PLAY DIRTY (André De Toth, UK)
  19. LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  20. THE CONFRONTATION (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary)
  21. OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (Lawrence Jordan, USA)
  • LAW AND ORDER (Frederick Wiseman, USA)

1968

  1. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, UK/USA)
  2. SHAME (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  3. SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (William Greaves, USA)
  4. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Italy/West Germany)
  5. PUTNEY SWOPE (Robert Downey, USA)
  6. VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (Bruce Baillie, Mexico)
  7. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
  8. EXPERIMENTS IN MOTION GRAPHICS (John Whitney Sr., USA)
  9. HIGH SCHOOL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  10. PETULIA (Richard Lester, USA)
  11. TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  12. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  13. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  14. LA REPRISE DU TRAVAIL AUX USINES WONDER (Jacques Willemont, France)
  15. PRETTY POISON (Noel Black, USA)
  16. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polanski, USA)
  17. L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  18. SAUTE MA VILLE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  19. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (Jean-Luc Godard, UK)
  20. OFFON (Scott Bartlett, USA)
  21. PLANET OF THE APES (Franklin J. Schaffner, USA)
  22. IF.... (Lindsay Anderson, UK)
  23. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Lione, Italy/Spain/USA)
  24. THE PARTY (Blake Edwards, USA)
  • HAND CATCHING LEAD (Richard Serra, USA)
  • FUNNY GIRL (William Wyler, USA)
  • THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES (Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas, Argentina)
  • THE SWIMMER (Frank Perry, USA)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France)
  2. REPORT (Bruce Conner, USA)
  3. SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  4. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, France)
  5. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X (Madeline Anderson, USA)
  7. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  8. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  9. PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  10. BONNIE AND CLYDE (Arthur Penn, USA)
  11. EL DORADO (Howard Hawks, USA)
  12. TITICUT FOLLIES (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  13. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France/Italy)
  14. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
  15. THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANGIDOR (Jean-Louis Roy, Switzerland)
  16. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary)
  17. DRAGON INN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  18. ENTRANCED EARTH (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
  19. 23RD PSALM BRANCH (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  20. LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
  21. DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride, USA)
  22. WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  • DON’T LOOK BACK (D.A. Pennebaker, UK)
  • WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada/USA)

1966

  1. LA RELIGIEUSE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  3. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  4. BREAKAWAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
  5. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  6. THE ROUND-UP (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary)
  7. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  8. HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! (Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, USA)
  9. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  10. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  11. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France/Senegal)
  12. SEVEN WOMEN (John Ford, USA)
  13. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France/Sweden)
  14. WINGS (Larisa Shepitko, USSR)
  15. THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN (Juleen Compton, USA)
  16. TORN CURTAIN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  • THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  • THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria/Italy)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Switzerland/Spain/France)
  3. I KNEW HER WELL (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy/France/West Germany)
  4. IN HARM’S WAY (Otto Preminger, USA)
  5. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  6. THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (Wojciech Has, Poland)
  7. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1964

  1. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK/USA)
  2. YEARNING (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  3. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (Richard Lester, UK)
  4. SEVEN UP! (Paul Almond, UK)
  5. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba/USSR)
  6. RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  7. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  8. THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY (Frank Tashlin, USA)
  9. MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT? (Howard Hawks, USA)
  10. THE PATSY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  11. THE MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1963

  1. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  3. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
  4. SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  5. HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  6. THE SILENCE (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  7. MURIEL (Alain Resnais, France/Italy)
  8. CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (Robert Drew, USA)
  9. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  10. THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  11. DONOVAN’S REEF (John Ford, USA)
  12. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, Italy/France)
  13. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
  14. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  15. THE SWORD IN THE STONE (Wolfgang Reitherman, USA)
  • WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  • CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Italy)
  • X – THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (Roger Corman, USA)

1962

  1. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  2. ADVISE & CONSENT (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. THE TRIAL (Orson Welles, France/Italy/West Germany)
  4. ADIEU PHILIPPINE (Jacques Rozier, France)
  5. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE (John Ford, USA)
  6. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
  7. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  8. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  9. THE THIRD LOVER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  10. CLÈO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, France/Italy)
  11. MAMMA ROMA (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  12. FAMILY DIARY (Valerio Zurlini, Italy)
  13. PAT’S BIRTHDAY (Robert Breer, USA)
  14. THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (James Blue, Algeria)
  15. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, France)
  16. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  • LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean, UK)
  • JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut, France)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France/Italy)
  2. LÉON MORIN, PRIEST (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  3. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (Elia Kazan, USA)
  4. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  5. CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, France)
  6. YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  7. THE LADIES MAN (Jery Lewis, USA)
  8. THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (Ritwik Ghatak, India)
  9. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Blake Edwards, USA)
  10. THE INNOCENTS (Jack Clayton, UK)
  11. TWO RODE TOGETHER (John Ford, USA)
  12. THE ERRAND BOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  13. THE CONNECTION (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  • EL CID (Anthony Mann, Italy/USA)

1960

  1. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
  2. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
  3. PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (Charles Walters, USA)
  4. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  6. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
  7. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  • L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France)
  • THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
  • LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  • EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju, France/Italy)
  • THE VIRGIN SPRING (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)