1967 Poll 2.0

[greennui]

Pick your favourite movies of 1967 (according to IMDB), up to 20 films.

20-film ballots must be ranked as follows (with point totals assigned):
Five tiers 5-4-3-2-1
Four tiers 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5
Three tiers 5-3-1
Two tiers 4-2
One tier (aka unranked) 3

Ballot totals that aren't divisible by the number of tiers must be unranked. So 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 film ballots are unranked.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Playtime - Jacques Tati
La Musica - Marguerite Duras
La Collectioneuse - Eric Rohmer
Accident - Joseph Losey
The Young Girls of Rochefort - Jacques Demy

Belle De Jour - Luis Bunuel
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator - Dusan Makavajev
Weekend - Jean-Luc Godard
Trans-Europ-Express- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Point Blank - John Boorman
The Fireman's Ball - Milos Foreman
Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melleville

[sally]

this is totally czechoslovakia's year, could have easily done a top 20 with just them alone

the plea - tengiz abuladze
skinny and others - henryk kluba
heraclitus the dark - patrick deval
passing the meridian - josé maría arzuaga
bullets don't come back - nikos foskolos
homebound - lee man-hee
hotel for strangers - antonín máša
the end of august at the hotel ozone - jan schmidt
on paper wings - matjaž klopčič
the nun's night - karel kachyňa
marketa lazarová - františek vláčil
love affair, or the case of the missing switchboard operator - dušan makavejev
great green valley - merab kokochashvili
brief encounters - kira muratova
the return of the prodigal son - evald schorm
entranced earth - glauber rocha
the feast - đorđe kadijević
i even met happy gypsies - aleksandar petrović
the departure - jerzy skolimowski
the red and the white - miklós jancsó

[flip]

imdb keeps changing the years on all their films...

July Rain (Marlen Khutsiyev)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
Risky Business (Andre Cayatte)

Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)
The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
Trans-Europ Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Playtime (Jacques Tati)

Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
Ten Thousand Days (Ferenc Kosa)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Alexander Petrovic)

Report (Bruce Conner)
The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman)
The Night of the Generals (Anatole Litvak)
Will Penny (Tom Gries)

Black Trip 2 (Aldo Tambellini)
Wait Until Dark (Terence Young)
Hour of the Gun (John Sturges)
Point Blank (John Boorman)

[St. Gloede]

Incredible year, every film on my top 20 is a masterpiece, with the top runner-up likely being the best action comedy of all time (along with Le magnifique):

Belle de jour (1967, Luis Bunuel)
Edipo re / Oedipus Rex (1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Week End (1967, Jean Luc Godard)

Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Days (1967, Ferenc Kosa)
La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Incident (1967, Larry Peerce)
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle / Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)

La collectionneuse (1967, Eric Rohmer)
Oi voskoi / The Shepherds of Calamity (1967, Nikos Papatakis)
Le vieil homme et l'enfant / The Two of Us (1967, Claude Berri)
Honô to onna / Flame and Women (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)

Mali vojnici / Playing Soldiers (1967, Bahrudin 'Bato' Cengic)
Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke)
Privilege (1967, Peter Watkins)
Svatba jako remen / Wedding Under Supervision (1967, Jirí Krejcík)

Csillagosok, katonák / The Red and the White (1967, Miklós Jancsó)
The Night of the Generals (1967, Anatole Litvak)
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi / Japan's Longest Day (1967, Kihachi Okamoto)
Satsujin kyo jidai / The Age of Assassins / Epoch of Murder Madness (1967, Kihachi Okamoto)

Top Runner Ups - All of which would usually have made the top 10-20 in a normal year:

Happy End (1967, Oldrich Lipský)
Korotkie vstrechi / Brief Encounters (1967, Kira Muratova)
Noc nevesty / The Nun's Night (1967, Karel Kachyna)
Kristove roky / Crucial Years (1967, Juraj Jakubisko)
Film ou Visa de censure numéro X (1967, Pierre Clémenti)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
Koruto wa ore no pasupoto / A Colt is My Passport (1967, Takashi Nomura)
Marketa Lazarová (1967, Frantisek Vlácil)
Katz und Maus / Cat and Mouse (1967, Hans Jürgen Pohland)
A Margem (1967, Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias)

The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
Jôen / The Affair (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Skupljaci perja / I Even Met a Happy Gypsy (1967, Aleksandar Petrovic)
Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu / Samurai Rebellion (1967, Masaki Koboyashi)
Koroshi no rakuin / Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967, Dusan Makavejev)
Viy (1967, Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Yershov)
Praznik / The Feast (1967, Djordje Kadijevic)
Pension pro svobodné pány / Boarding House for Bachelors (1968, Jirí Krejcík)
Romance pro kridlovku / Romance for Bugle (1967, Otakar Vávra)

Other Great Films:

Poor Cow (1967, Ken Loach)
Vedreba / The Plea (1967, Tengiz Abuladze)
Oscar (1967, Edouard Molinaro)
Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)
Utószezon / Late Season (1967, Zoltán Fábri)
Kad budem mrtav i beo / When I Am Dead and Gone (1967, Zivojin Pavlovic)
A ciascuno il suo / We Still Kill the Old Way (1967, Elio Petri)
La musica (1967, Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
Návrat ztraceného syna / Return of the Prodigal Son (1967, Evald Schorm)

In the Heat of the Night (1967, Norman Jewison)
Le grand Meaulnes / The Wanderer (1967, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco)
Ukradená vzducholod / The Stolen Airship (1967, Karel Zeman)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, Roger Corman)
La Cina è vicina / China is Coming (1967, Marco Bellocchio)
Ai no kawaki / Thirst for Love (1967, Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
Clouds at Sunset (1967, Masahiro Shinoda)
Na papirnatih avionih / Paper Planes (1967, Matjaz Klopcic)

Nezhnost / Tenderness (1967, Elyer Ishmukhamedov)
Panna zázracnica / Miraculous Virgin (1967, Stefan Uher)
Hotel pro cizince / Hotel for Strangers (1967, Antonin Masa)
Dance of the Vampires / The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967, Roman Polanski)
O Caso dos Irmãos Naves / Case of the Naves Brothers (1967, Luís Sérgio Person)
I Crudeli / Hellbenders (1967, Sergio Corbucci)
The Dirty Dozen (1967, Robert Aldrich)
Echoes of Silence (1967, Peter Emmanuel Goldman)
Lo straniero / The Stranger (1967, Luchino Visconti)
10.000 dollari per un massacro (1967, Romolo Guerrieri)

[rischka]

the young girls of rochefort - demy ♥♥♥
two in the shadow (scattered clouds) - naruse
the plea - abuladze
the red and the white - jancso
marketa lazarova - vlacil

playtime - tati
great green valley - kokochashvili
dragon inn - hu
crosses over the wasteland - mariscal
bullets don't come back - foskolos

branded to kill - suzuki
july rain - khutsiyev
return of the prodigal son - schorm
i even met happy gypsies - petrovic
homebound - lee

point blank - boorman
au pan coupe (wall engravings) - gilles
the end of august at the hotel ozone - schmidt
jewel thief - anand
the whisperers - forbes

it's not final, i'll find some stuff to watch. i've been curious about privilege (watkins) for decades

[greennui]

Elvira Madigan 1967 Directed by Bo Widerberg
Two in the Shadow 1967 乱れ雲 Directed by Mikio Naruse
Wall Engravings 1967 Au pan coupé Directed by Guy Gilles
The Red and the White 1967 Csillagosok, Katonák Directed by Miklós Jancsó
Accident 1967 Directed by Joseph Losey
Breakaway 1967 Directed by Bruce Conner
Dante’s Inferno 1967 Directed by Ken Russell
Love for an Idiot 1967 痴人の愛 Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Point Blank 1967 Directed by John Boorman
Wait Until Dark 1967 Directed by Terence Young

Romy: Anatomy of a Face 1967 Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts Directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
9 Variations on a Dance Theme 1967 Directed by Hilary Harris
Fuses 1967 Directed by Carolee Schneemann
Juliet in Paris 1967 Juliet dans Paris Directed by Claude Miller
Bolero 1967 Directed by Albie Thoms
Railroad 1967 Eisenbahn Directed by Lutz Mommartz
Crosses Over the Wasteland 1967 Cruces Sobre el Yermo Directed by Alberto Mariscal
Belle de Jour 1967 Directed by Luis Buñuel
Oedipus Rex 1967 Edipo re Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
La Collectionneuse 1967 Directed by Éric Rohmer

[rischka]

Crosses Over the Wasteland 1967 Cruces Sobre el Yermo Directed by Alberto Mariscal

how did i forget this. i'm glad more people are seeing it finally

sry one armed swordsman

[Lencho of the Apes]

Preliminary choices:

Crisol - Mariscal
Cruces Sobre El Yermo - Mariscal
Juego De Mentiras - Burns
Terra Em Transe - Rocha
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse - Mojica Marins

Los Caifanes - Ibañez
Damiana Y Los Hombres - Bracho
The End Of August at The Hotel Ozone
La Soldadera - Bolaños
Wavelength

Bullets Don't Come Back - Foskolos
Japan's Longest Day
Morir Un Poco - Covacevich
Paranoia - Ditvoorst
Spider Baby

Quatermass And The Pit/Five Million Years To Earth
Que Hombre Tan Sin Embargo
The Stolen Airship - Zeman
The Whisperers - Forbes
The White Bus - Anderson

(Honorable mentions)
David Holzman's Diary
Pasando El Meridiano
Viy

[rischka]

coffin joe! i almost put spider baby

also david holzman's diary. equal parts amazing and annoying

[frisson]

I already compiled lots of films which I plan on seeing, I'll post the list later (for realsies, this time. I finally have time to watch films now)

Cool Hand Luke, dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Belle de Jour, dir. Luis Buñuel
Cruces Sobre el Yermo, dir. Alberto Mariscal
PlayTime, dir. Jacques Tati

Eighteen Years in Prison, dir. Tai Katō
A Colt is my Passport, dir. Takashi Nomura
Crisol, dir. Alberto Mariscal
The Talking Bird / Con sáo biết nói, dir. Ngo Manh Lan

Harvest, dir. Carroll Ballard
Point Blank, dir. John Boorman
We Still Kill the Old Way / A ciascuno il suo, dir. Elio Petri
Los Caifanes, dir Juan Ibáñez

Le Samouraï, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
The College Girl Murders / Der Mönch mit der Peitsche, dir. Alfred Vohrer
The Mirror and the Lichee / Xin chen san wu niang, dir. Kao Li
Koń, dir. Witold Giersz

Branded to Kill, dir. Seijun Suzuki
Samadhi, dir. Jordan Belson
7362, dir. Pat O'Neill
Weekend, dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[Silga]

Provisional list:

The Producers (Mel Brooks)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet)
Who's Minding the Mint? (Howard Morris)
Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell)

[Lencho of the Apes]

more people are seeing it finally

Almost broken a hundred views at LB!

[flip]

it will be funny if playtime doesn't win this, given our anniversary poll results...

[St. Gloede]

Is Crisol available with English subtitles anywhere?

[karl]

Maybe I should see it again, but I'll take Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle over Playtime any day.

Mouchette (Bresson)
Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi)
The Red and the White (Jancso)
The Plea (Abuladze)
Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil)
The Firemen's Ball (Forman)
Oedipus Rex (Pasolini)
Two in the Shadow (Naruse)
White, White Storks (Khamraev)
The Commissar (Askoldov)
Love Affair (Makavejev)
In the Town of S. (Kheifits)
Flame in the Valley (Kim)
Martyrs of Love (Nemec)
The Country of St. Patrick (Spata)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Petrovic)
July Rain (Khutsiev)
Beginning of an Unknown Era (Smirnov & Shepitko)
The Unforgettable (Solntseva)
The Birch Tree (Babaja)

...would be my twenty just now.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I thought Trans-Europ-Express was 1966... I'm editing my list to include it. Formative for me.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Is Crisol available with English subtitles anywhere?

Not that I know of... if somebody knows otherwise, they'll step forward.

[St. Gloede]

I thought Trans-Europ-Express was 1966... I'm editing my list to include it. Formative for me.

'66 now according to IMDb, was '67 at some point.

[rischka]

la soldadera (bolaños) cinematography by the great alex phillips. in the words of lencho - it's grim, kim (??) this scene recalled for me enamorada - very different context

a powerful neorealist look at women's roles in the mexican revolution. beware, they're often treated worse than dogs. a far cry from la cucaracha maria felix

meanwhile mexico has very likely elected a woman head of state today. ¡Viva México! i could vote for this but i can't say i enjoyed it much

[frisson]

meanwhile mexico has very likely elected a woman head of state today.

yeah! went to vote for her today, in fact

[rischka]

meanwhile mexico has very likely elected a woman head of state today.

yeah! went to vote for her today, in fact

awesome

[frisson]

here's my watchlist (so far) for this year—as always, I don't plan on watching all of these films, but I'll pick and choose whatever I'm in the mood for.

I haven't checked if all of these have subs, or if their IMDb pages state they were all made in 1967.

letterboxd link with the list, for those who use it:
https://boxd.it/vWHh6$P1htLmWtYeAvB1H7

for those who don't...:

Spoiler!

Asia
Le petit prince du peuple — Sihanouk (Cambodia)
King Drummer — Inoue (Hong Kong)
The Pearl Phoenix — Fan (Hong Kong)
Boond Jo Ban Gayee Moti — Rajaram Vankudre (India, Hindi)
Ram Aur Shyam — Chanakya (India, Hindi)
Wahan Ke Log — Nisar Ahmad Ansari (India, Hindi)
Badrinath Yatra — Desai (India, Hindi)
Bama Vijayam — Balachander (India, Tamil)
Bhaktha Prahlada — Narayana Rao (India, Telugu)
Siyavosh at Persepolis — Rahnema (Iran)
The Night It Rained — Shirdel (Iran)
Acorn — Afshar Naderi (Iran)
Three Days and a Child — Uri Zohar (Israel)
Sing a Song of Sex — Ōshima (Japan)
Galaxy — Adachi (Japan)
Portrait of Chieko — Nakamura (Japan)
Safar Barlek — Barakat (Lebanon)
Homebound — Man-hee (S. Korea)
Space Monster Wangmagwi — Hyeok-Jin (S. Korea)
Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train — Hyun-mok (S. Korea)
The Goddess of Mercy — Sang-ok, Won-sik (S. Korea)
A Swordsman — Kwon-taek (S. Korea)
Traces — Sang-ok (S. Korea)
The Truck Driver — Vučinić (Syria)
Lonely Seventeen — Ching-jui (Taiwan)
Smoke — Trần Vũ (Vietnam)


Europe
The Tied Up Balloon — Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria)
The Prime of Life — Jakubisko (Czechoslovakia)
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart — Carlsen (Denmark)
Girl of Finland — Niskanen (guess...)
Between Sweet and Salt Water — Brault (France)
When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn — Olsen (Germany)
Bullets Don't Come Back — Foskolos (Greece)
Nyár a hegyen — Bacsó (Hungary)
De cuerpo presente — Eceiza (Spain)
Next Fall — Eceiza (Spain)
Elvira Madigan — Widerberg (Sweden)
Great Green Valley — Kokochashvili (USSR, Georgia)
The Plea — Abuladze (USSR, Georgia)
235 000 000 — Brauns (USSR, Latvia)
Viy — Kropachyov, Ershov (USSR, Russia)
Tenderness — Ishmukhamedov (USSR, Russia)
On Paper Wings — Klopčič (Yugoslavia, Slovenia)


North America
Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak — Brown (Canada)
La soldadera — Bolaños (Mexico)
Damiana and the Men — Bracho (Mexico)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner — Kramer (USA)
The Great Blondino — Nelson, T. Wiley (USA)
Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake — Ellen Bute (USA)
The Big Mouth — Lewis (USA)


South America
A Margem — Ribeiro Candeias (Brazil)
Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz — Gil Soares (Brazil)
The Boy and the Wind — Hugo Christensen (Brazil)


Oceania
Desert People — Dunlop (Australia)

[wba]

As St. Gloede stated, this is an incredible year.
In my opinion one of the finest in film history.

Films seen: 130+


Final List

five tiers

Midaregumo “Scattered Clouds“ (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
Mädchen Mädchen “Girls, Girls“ (Roger Fritz, West Germany)
Astérix le Gaulois “Asterix the Gaul“ (Ray Goossens, Belgium/France)

Dio perdona... Io no! “God Forgives... I Don't!“ (Giuseppe Colizzi, Italy/Spain)
Heisses Pflaster Köln “Walk the Hot Streets“ (Ernst Hofbauer, West Germany)
Hakob Hovnatanyan (Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union)
Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbahn “When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn“ (Rolf Olsen, West Germany)

Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. “Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator“ (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu “Samurai Rebellion“ (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
Long men kezhan “Dragon Inn“ (King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Du bei dao “The One-Armed Swordsman“ (Cheh Chang, Hong Kong)

Csillagosok, katonák “The Red and the White“ (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary/Soviet Union)
Edipo Re “Oedipus Rex“ (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
Custer of the West (Robert Siodmak, UK/France/Spain/USA)
Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen “The Devil's Girls“ (Rolf Olsen, West Germany/Italy)

48 Stunden bis Acapulco “48 Hours to Acapulco“ (Klaus Lemke, West Germany)
Un dollaro tra i denti “A Stranger in Town“ (Luigi Vanzi, Italy/USA)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, France/Italy)
Chijin no ai “Love for an Idiot“ (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)


20 Runner Ups

Komissar “The Commissar“ (Aleksandr Askoldov, Soviet Union)
Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico “Mexican Slayride“ (Riccardo Freda, Italy/France/Spain)
La permission “The Story of a Three Day Pass“ (Melvin Van Peebles, France)
Terra em Transe “Entranced Earth“ (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
Les demoiselles de Rochefort “The Young Girls of Rochefort“ (Jacques Demy, France)
Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra “Argoman the Fantastic Superman“ (Sergio Grieco, Italy/Spain)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, USA)
Dance of the Vampires (Roman Polanski, UK)
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, Czechoslovakia)
Koroshi no rakuin “Branded to Kill“ (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)

Sabine 18 (Marran Gosov, West Germany)
Das Geständnis eines Mädchens “Confession of a Girl“ (Jürgen Büchmann, West Germany)
Jutro “The Morning“ (Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic, Yugoslavia)
Ad ogni costo “Grand Slam“ (Giuliano Montaldo, Italy/Spain/West Germany)
In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, USA)
Le samouraï “The Samurai“ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, USA)
10.000 dollari per un massacro “ $10,000 for a Massacre“ (Romolo Guerrieri, Italy)
Tanja - Die Nackte von der Teufelsinsel (Julius Hofherr, West Germany)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, France)


10 More Great Films

Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
Der Findling (George Moorse, West Germany)
Dio non paga il sabato “Kill the Wicked“ (Tanio Boccia, Italy/Spain)
Iyulskiy dozhd “July Rain“ (Marlen Khutsiev, Soviet Union
Carmen, Baby (Radley Metzger, USA/West Germany/Yugoslavia)
Per 100.000 dollari t'ammazzo “Vengeance Is Mine“ (Giovanni Fago, Italy)
Duan chang jian “Trail of the Broken Blade“ (Cheh Chang, Hong Kong)
Pfeiffer (Marran Gosov, West Germany)
Robbery (Peter Yates, UK)
Spur eines Mädchens “Trace of a Girl“ (Gustav Ehmck, West Germany)

[St. Gloede]

As St. Gloede stated, this is an incredible year.
In my opinion one of the finest in film history.

Films seen: 130+


Final List

five tiers

Midaregumo “Scattered Clouds“ (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
Mädchen Mädchen “Girls, Girls“ (Roger Fritz, West Germany)
Astérix le Gaulois “Asterix the Gaul“ (Ray Goossens, Belgium/France)

Dio perdona... Io no! “God Forgives... I Don't!“ (Giuseppe Colizzi, Italy/Spain)
Heisses Pflaster Köln “Walk the Hot Streets“ (Ernst Hofbauer, West Germany)
Hakob Hovnatanyan (Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union)
Wenn es Nacht wird auf der Reeperbahn “When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn“ (Rolf Olsen, West Germany)

Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. “Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator“ (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu “Samurai Rebellion“ (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
Long men kezhan “Dragon Inn“ (King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Du bei dao “The One-Armed Swordsman“ (Cheh Chang, Hong Kong)

Csillagosok, katonák “The Red and the White“ (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary/Soviet Union)
Edipo Re “Oedipus Rex“ (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
Custer of the West (Robert Siodmak, UK/France/Spain/USA)
Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen “The Devil's Girls“ (Rolf Olsen, West Germany/Italy)

48 Stunden bis Acapulco “48 Hours to Acapulco“ (Klaus Lemke, West Germany)
Un dollaro tra i denti “A Stranger in Town“ (Luigi Vanzi, Italy/USA)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, France/Italy)
Chijin no ai “Love for an Idiot“ (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)


20 Runner Ups

Komissar “The Commissar“ (Aleksandr Askoldov, Soviet Union)
Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico “Mexican Slayride“ (Riccardo Freda, Italy/France/Spain)
La permission “The Story of a Three Day Pass“ (Melvin Van Peebles, France)
Terra em Transe “Entranced Earth“ (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
Les demoiselles de Rochefort “The Young Girls of Rochefort“ (Jacques Demy, France)
Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra “Argoman the Fantastic Superman“ (Sergio Grieco, Italy/Spain)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, USA)
Dance of the Vampires (Roman Polanski, UK)
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, Czechoslovakia)
Koroshi no rakuin “Branded to Kill“ (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)

Sabine 18 (Marran Gosov, West Germany)
Das Geständnis eines Mädchens “Confession of a Girl“ (Jürgen Büchmann, West Germany)
Jutro “The Morning“ (Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic, Yugoslavia)
Ad ogni costo “Grand Slam“ (Giuliano Montaldo, Italy/Spain/West Germany)
In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, USA)
Le samouraï “The Samurai“ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, USA)
10.000 dollari per un massacro “ $10,000 for a Massacre“ (Romolo Guerrieri, Italy)
Tanja - Die Nackte von der Teufelsinsel (Julius Hofherr, West Germany)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, France)


10 More Great Films

Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
Der Findling (George Moorse, West Germany)
Dio non paga il sabato “Kill the Wicked“ (Tanio Boccia, Italy/Spain)
Iyulskiy dozhd “July Rain“ (Marlen Khutsiev, Soviet Union
Carmen, Baby (Radley Metzger, USA/West Germany/Yugoslavia)
Per 100.000 dollari t'ammazzo “Vengeance Is Mine“ (Giovanni Fago, Italy)
Duan chang jian “Trail of the Broken Blade“ (Cheh Chang, Hong Kong)
Pfeiffer (Marran Gosov, West Germany)
Robbery (Peter Yates, UK)
Spur eines Mädchens “Trace of a Girl“ (Gustav Ehmck, West Germany)

Also worth noting that while we both feel this way, our top 20s only have 1 film in common. Another testament to just how great and diverse this year was.

[wba]

Also worth noting that while we both feel this way, our top 20s only have 1 film in common. Another testament to just how great and diverse this year was.

Yes, it's really deep and there's so much more to explore!!!
I personally believe that cinema peaked between 1967-1969 and it will never again get as good as that.

[St. Gloede]

Also worth noting that while we both feel this way, our top 20s only have 1 film in common. Another testament to just how great and diverse this year was.

Yes, it's really deep and there's so much more to explore!!!
I personally believe that cinema peaked between 1967-1969 and it will never again get as good as that.

Hopefully not, but I can't see any signs of this period ever coming back.

I'd expand the range a little and say mid-60s to mid-70s, with a softer circle around it from the late 50s to the beginning of the 80s, but yes, this is really when cinema - or the kind of cinema I am into at least - was truly on fire. New waves around the world, creatives being given so much freedom - even in Hollywood.

There are obviously key countries that peaked later, China, Iran, etc. blowing up in the 80s, Romania in the 00s to present, and South Korea in the 90s/00s. Most of Africa, sans Egypt, also had a very slim output in the 60s. But this was a period where the freedom of cinema was felt so many places at once.

Interestingly, this is also my favourite period for music, and there specifically - 66-69/70.

[wba]

It just feels to me like filmmakers all over the world were truly feeling a unique kind of creative freedom from 1967 to 1969: everything seemed possible. Like there would be a new kind of cinema in the future and this was just the beginning. Of course that never happened, but at least we have the great films from those years.

Apart from that I think cinema was in general most interesting during the silent period and I also adore the transition to sound from 1927 to 1933.

[St. Gloede]

Apart from that I think cinema was in general most interesting during the silent period and I also adore the transition to sound from 1927 to 1933.

The end of the silent period is definitely comparable in a way, though with less (now available) films. A secret wish of mine would be to see an alternative reality where sound wouldn't be discovered/integrated for another, or at least a few more years. Those final 3 years of the 20s felt like it was close to seeing it's "medium" perfected and so many filmmakers were embracing a freedom of the moving camera. Then that was brought back into a box for a while due to sound stages and complications with audio.

[nrh]

A secret wish of mine would be to see an alternative reality where sound wouldn't be discovered/integrated for another, or at least a few more years.

which is sort of what happened in japan, where you get a number of quite interesting hybrid practices running simultaneously. it was very interesting during the recent shimizu series to see a late silent like japanese girls at the harbor and an early sound film like a woman crying in spring that were made the same year. and of course a whole host of movies where very limited soundtracks co-exist with intertitles and other silent techniques.