1960 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1960 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Deadline for 1960 ballots will be Monday, October 31st at around midnight EDT.

[flip]

i feel like my viewing for 1960 is a lot more conventional/canon than for most other years (and hence so is my list right now), i should explore what others will suggest in this thread


Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda)
Macario (Roberto Gavaldon)
Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet)
3/60: Baume im Herbst (Kurt Kren)

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Zazie dans le Metro (Louis Malle)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)

The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-Young)
Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)

The Loaf of Bread (Jan Nemec)
Lines: Vertical (Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren)
Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)

[nrh]

a year where i know i've watched a lot and have pretty much no notes on what.

Goliath and the Dragon (Vittorio Cottafavi)
The Enchanting Shadow (Li Han-Hsiang)
Parakh (Bimal Roy)
The Bell Boy (Jerry Lewis)
Cinderfella (Frank Tashlin)

Khudita Pashan (Tapan SInha)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher)
The House of Usher (Roger Corman)

Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford)
Devi (Satyajit Ray)
The Grass is Greener (Stanley Donen)
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
One Way Ticket to Love (Masahiro Shinoda)

Dry Lake (Masahiro Shinoda)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
The Westerner: Jeff (Sam Peckinpah)
The Westerner: School Days (Andre de Toth)
Bells are Ringing (Vincente Minneli)

[Lencho of the Apes]

How nice, I finally have a concrete reason to watch Beyond The Time Barrier. For some reason, the only 1960s on my drive are by Roger Corman, but there's a shit-tonne of goodies available.

Starting out with these:

La Sombra Del Caudillo - Bracho
Cada Quien Su Vida - Bracho
Testament Of Orpheus - Cocteau
The Savage Innocents - Ray
1000 Eyes Of Dr Mabuse - Lang
Zazie dans Le Metro - Malle

Everything Goes Wrong - Suzuki
Eyes Without A Face - Franju
Long Night Of '43 - F Vancini
Macario - Gavaldon
The Young One - Bunuel
The Naked Island - Shindo
The Approach Of Autumn - Naruse
The Virgin Spring - Bergman

[sally]

america as seen by a frenchman - françois reichenbach
description d'un combat - chris marker
when a woman ascends the stairs - naruse
late autumn - ozu
the wild wild rose - wong tin-lam
a drifting story - gwon yeong-sun
bad luck - andrzej munk
el cochecito - marco ferreri
messalina - vittorio cottafavi
goliath and the dragon - vittorio cottafavi
era notte a roma - roberto rossellini
romeo, juliet and darkness - jiří weiss
the 1000 eyes of dr mabuse - fritz lang
nobody's calling - kazimierz kutz
the ninth circle - france štiglic
hell is a city - val guest
il bell'antonio - mauro bolognini
l'amour existe - maurice pialat
the cloud-capped star - ritwik ghatak

[rischka]

ummm

the enchanting shadow -li
late autumn -ozu
el cochecito -ferreri
fuefukigawa -kinoshita
approach of autumn -naruse
cada quien su vida -bracho
1000 eyes of dr mabuse -lang
the sun's burial -oshima
messalina -cottafavi
khudita pashan/hungry stones -sinha
bad luck -munk
le trou -becker
the savage innocents -ray
classe tous risques -sautet
eyes withOUT a face -franju :p

i should rewatch a bunch of films. i can probably make 20 this time

[St. Gloede]

My top 20:

Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)
La Dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Akibiyori / Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu)
Tirez sur le pianiste / Shoot the Piano Player (1960 François Truffaut)

L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Le trou / The Hole (1960, Jacques Becker)
Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
Zazie dans le métro (1960, Louis Malle)

Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Rocco and His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Jungfrukällan / The Virgin Spring (1960, Ingmar Bergman)
Jigoku (1960, Nobuo Nakagawa)

Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki / When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)
1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse, Die / The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960, Fritz Lang)
La ciociara / Two Women (1960, Vittorio De Sica)
The Young One (1960, Luis Bunuel)

Devi / The Goddess (1960, Satyajit Ray)
Niewinni czarodzieje / Innocent Sorcerers (1960, Andrzej Wajda)
Dama s sobachkoy / The Lady with the Little Dog (1960, Iosif Kheifits)
Neotpravlennoye pismo / Letter Never Sent (1960, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Honourable mentions:

Holubice / The White Dove (1960, Frantisek Vlácil)
Aru kyouhaku / Intimidation (1960, Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Dokuritsu gurentai nishi-e / Westward Desperado (1960, Kihachi Okamoto)
Wild River (1960, Elia Kazan)
Wspólny pokój / One Room Tenants (1960, Wojciech Has)
El esqueleto de la señora Morales / Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960, Rogelio A. González)
Kapò (1960, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ankokugai no taiketsu / The Last Gunfight (1960, Kihachi Okamoto)
Musume tsuma haha / Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960, Mikio Naruse)
Macario (1960, Roberto Gavaldón)
Classe tous risques / Consider All Risks (1960, Claude Sautet)
Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960, Marcel Carné)
Nihon no yoru to kiri / Night and Fog in Japan (1960, Nagisa Ôshima)
Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
Moderato cantabile (1960, Peter Brook)
Fuefukigawa / The River Fuefuki (1960, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Nikt nie wola / Nobody's Calling (1960, Kazimierz Kutz)
The Unforgiven (1960, John Huston)
La maschera del demonio / Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava)
Plein soleil / Purple Noon (1960, René Clément)
Home from the Hill (1960, Vincente Minnelli)
Hito mo arukeba / Room for Rent (1960, Yûzô Kawashima)
The Sundowners (1960, Fred Zinnemann)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960, John Ford)
The Entertainer (1960)
Tunes of Glory (1960, Ronald Neame)
Description d'un combat / Third Side of the Coin (1960, Chris Marker)
Boulevard (1960, Julien Duvivier)
Prace / Slingboy (1960, Karel Kachyna)
L'Amérique insolite / America As Seen by a Frenchman (1960, François Reichenbach)
Los golfos / The Delinquents (1960, Carlos Saura)
Rokudenashi / Good-for-Nothing (1960, Yoshishige Yoshida)
The League of Gentlemen (1960, Basil Dearden)
The Time Machine (1960, George Pal)
Djävulens öga / The Devil's Eye (1960, Ingmar Bergman)
Never Let Go (1960, John Guillermin)

[nrh]

if anyone wants movies for october season -

enchanting shadow
khudita pashan/the hungry stones
brides of dracula
eyes without a face
black sunday

are all good options. think there are probably a lot more...

[rischka]

i have watched uchida's master spearman - it looks beautiful/terrible





historical tale of a samurai who refuses to commit seppuku as everyone expects him to hints at uchida's problems with institutions of imperial japan. it moves well and is funny with a charismatic lead performance - i think the literal title is something more like - wine, women and spear i quite liked it. should probably check those shinodas

[nrh]

one movie that didn’t make my list but is very interesting is the early manmohan desai (amar akbar anthony guy) raj kapoor starrer chhalia which apart from other virtues is one of the only Indian mainstream movies to deal with the fallout of partition for decades.

[greennui]

It's been too long since I last saw L'Aventura, La Dolce Vita and all those canonical films

Late Autumn (Yasujirô Ozu)
Plein soleil (René Clément)
Les bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
Blood and Roses (Roger Vadim)
3/60: Trees in Autumn 1960 (Kurt Kren)
Primary (Robert Drew)

[rischka]

having just watched 20+ hrs of ww2, nobody's calling/nikt nie woła might be the cutest thing i've ever seen

[Silga]

Final list:

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet)

The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
The Entertainer (Tony Richardson)

Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)

[rischka]

Romeo, Julie a tma



perfect end for my world at war marathon

[rischka]

omg i bit off all my fingernails. i am done with ww2

[pabs]

Macario (Gavaldon)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Dagburn it, the copy I found of Reichhenbach's "America" movie didn't have any subtitles... so I'm going to watch The Battle Of Blood Island instead.

[rischka]

check the place

i was thinking of watching it again but i suspect it would make me too sad

[ofrene]

completely destroyed by The Cloud-Capped Star what a heartbreaking movie it is...

[sally]

magritte or the object lesson - luc de heusch

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1579 ... x_Z5hnmYkg

[rischka]

sergeant rutledge made me look up my photos from utah last year lol

this was really good. once you get past black men shooting brown men for the white man. like woody says, 'someday' has been a long time coming

[Lencho of the Apes]

I watched that last night too, and it bugged the hell out of me. John Ford at peak liberalism and it's all just skin-deep no pun intended. Details on LB later today probably, I might take a little time writing about it.

[sally]

il vigile - luigi zampa

there's a review on lboxd that says this is the funniest movie they've ever seen.

me watching this movie:

[rischka]

i also watched kurahara's intimidation -- a neat little heist film wrapped up smartly in just over an hour

awaiting yr review lencho

a lot of it was beautiful. it breaks my heart. when i see woody strode i hear john wayne saying, 'my boy, pompey'

maybe i'll watch the frenchman after all

[rischka]

frenchman found a lot of women to ogle. we were visibly more sexist then. i liked the way it was shot and the music even if i felt vaguely mocked at times

nothing was sadder than the WHITE PEOPLE'S MARDI GRAS GOOD LORD this country would be boring w/o black culture

[karl]

OK, I'll play, even though I've probably seen five movies in the last five months, what with being aargh back in aargh Umerkuh and all.

But it's one of the best years in the history of the movies.

In no order, likely final:

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Daughters, Wives, and a Mother
The Approach of Autumn
Innocent Sorcerers
The Bad Sleep Well
Rocco and His Brothers
L'avventura
La Dolce Vita
The Virgin Spring
Le Trou
Late Autumn
Nobody's Calling
The River Feufukei
Waves of the Danube
The Letter Never Sent
The Wedding Day (Mrinal Sen)
The Lady with the Little Dog
Resurrection (Mikhail Shveitser)
Devi
Romeo, Juliet, and Darkness
Everybody Go Home!

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1582 ... hveNK90Z4w

this was kind of cool but really only because it looks like this

[Angel]

Unranked ballot
Akibiyori (Late Autumn)
Deveti krug (The Ninth Circle)
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse)
Era notte a Roma (Escape by Night)
Hell to Eternity
La maschera del demonio (Black Sunday)
Macario
Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen)
Plein soleil (Purple Noon)
Pote tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday)
Strangers When We Meet
Taiyô no hakaba (The Sun's Burial)
The Brides of Dracula
The Magnificent Seven
The Savage Innocents
The Young One
Valurile Dunarii (The Waves of the Danube)
Vyssí princip (Higher Principle)
Ye mei gui zhi lian (The Wild, Wild Rose)
Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (Killing in Yoshiwara)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
À bout de souffle
Arnulf Rainer
Inherit the Wind
Jungfrukällan
La dolce vita
L'avventura
Le trou
Les yeux sans visage
Meghe Dhaka Tara
Peeping Tom
Psycho
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
The Apartment
Tirez sur le pianiste
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru

Wanted
Bayn el samaa wa el ard
Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Ke lian tian xia fu mu xin
Le bois des amants
Nie Er
Walk Like a Dragon
Zelyonyy furgon

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1583 ... J7d19sqRoQ

this is sort of odd but i liked it. from what i could tell google-translating japanese wikipedia, kawashima did the location shooting