1960's Best Movies: 60 Years Later

Oh wow impossible

L'Avventura, Breathless or Psycho... What a choice...

Including stuff I love but wouldn't call "great" I could go for

The Apartment
Breathless
La Dolce Vita
Late Autumn
The Magnificent Seven
Peeping Tom
Psycho
maybe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Shoot the Piano Player
Spartacus

have wanted to see the Naked Island for ages, should get round to that

If I did pick it would be Ozu or Hitchcock I think but it'd be kind of a lie

Would like to split a vote btwn Peeping Tom, Psycho, Le Trou, The Apartment, and Lang's MIA The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.

also needed: Sergeant Rutledge, The Bellboy

No hesitation on A Cloud-capped Star.

Antonioni, Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse* and Goddard (esp the latter) made better films

* Ascends is regarded as his best but I go for Yearning, made a few years later..

Sure but that doesn't mean I don't love these particular films. I don't think Psycho is Hitchcock's best either, but it's arguable.

I'll take Eclipse over L'Avventura, but I watched the latter for the sixth or seventh time last month without moving a millimeter, newly awed by Antonioni's compositional instincts. There's scarcely a dull shot, and those shots serve the material.

1. Psycho
2. The Apartment
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Shoot the Piano Player

Weren't The Virgin Spring and Two Women both 1960? I guess I can see the latter not making the list, but I'd be surprised if, say, The Time Machine (which I like) made it ahead of the former.

1. Shoot the Piano Player
2. The Apartment
3. Psycho
4. Peeping Tom
5. Spartacus

I've tried and tried with L'Avventura, and, compared to Godard's mid-'60s films, I'm not as big on Breathless.

The Ghost of John Wayne is campaigning for The Alamo as we speak

La Dolce Vita for me

Psycho, Eyes Without a Face and Shoot the Piano Player

My top 5:

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, France)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis, USA)

I admit to never having seen Spartacus and, probably, not seeing it in the future.

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I don't think Psycho is Hitchcock's best either, but it's arguable.

it's great and it's not even in his top 13

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This one was too hard, didn't vote.

I take the lack of consensus to be a sign of a great selection of films.

it was hard to decide. ended up voting for La Dolce Vita

Of the ones i've seen, Strangers When We Meet

Time for the showdown: The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)

Spartacus is pretty damn gay, Juanita.

I mean, I saw *that* scene in The Celluloid Closet.

didn’t realize how prominent Eyes Without a Face has been in horror film history. The scenes of Christiane walking around the house in her mask in a reverie, contemplating her misery and her next steps were most meaningful to me. The scenes involving surgery not as much. Leos Carax referenced the film in Holy Motors and cast Edith Scob (Christiane) as the chauffeur

Yes and also it seems to be the inspiration for Jess Franco’s ‘The Awful Dr. Orloff’ and thus for all subsequent Spanish horror films

Don't know if I'd have voted for either, but Rocco and His Brothers and The Bad Sleep Well both have some amazing sequences. The cake scene in the latter is stunningly dramatic at the same time it's completely absurd.