Your favorite films from the 1960's

[ozguy]

I'm watching Wait Until Dark now on TCM. Hi Oz

Let me know what you thought of it. There's one scene in particular that frightened the crap outta me ... you'll know it when you come to it.

And of course, there's Audrey Hepburn ... divine, divine, divine!!!

 

[ozguy]

Just thought of another Sidney Poitier movie from the 60's that I really loved .... A Patch of Blue.

Awesome actor, that man!

 

[zoltanspawn]

A few of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

Fellini's Satyricon, Juliet of the Spirits
Belle de Jour
Mughal-e-Azam
The Battle of Algiers
Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam
Persona
Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik

 

[gsdx]

There's one scene in particular that frightened the crap outta me

I know the scene you mean. Scared the crap out of me, too. . . the first time. Haven't seen it in ages.

 

[ozguy]

I keep thinking of more favourites lol ....

Up The Down Staircase

Irma La Douce

The Great Escape

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet .... I fantasized about Leonard Whiting's bum for years after seeing that movie!

 

[gsdx]

Up The Down Staircase

I miss Sandy Dennis. She was also great in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Did you ever see her in The Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon? (1970)

 

[altlover85]

She was really great in WAOVW! She played a lesbian in some movie too.

 

[Sweetwater]

Wow! I was going to post that but I didn't think anybody would even know what I was talking about.

"Homer Schmidt! Build us a shhhhhaple!"

Haha! I didn't know if anybody would know it either. I love the song "Aaaa-aamen, Aaa-aamen....." If I'm not mistaken that role made Sidney Poitier the first African-American to recieve the Best Actor Oscar.

 

[SirJude]

A lot of the ones already mentioned plus
The Umbrellas of Cherborg
Amarcord

 

[construct]

Well, since we're talking about favorite films rather than great films, Here are a few that I go back to again and again. (I decided to include 1970 since I wanted to mention two of them.)

Warhol/Morrissey films: Vinyl, My Hustler, I a Man, Flesh, and Trash
If . . . .
El Topo

You guys have mentioned a lot of great (and not-so-great) films in my opinion, but I'd add four more.

Bergman's "faith trilogy": Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence
The Gospel According to St. Matthew

 

[Adrock-JD]

Psycho
The Birds
Doctor Zhivago
The Sound of Music
Rosemary's Baby
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Cowboy

 

[sissyboy]

Cat Ballou
The Hallelujah Trail
Torn Curtain
Barbarella
McClintock!
The Producers
Evil Roy Slade(this may have been early 70s)
Batman(the one with Lee Meriweather playing Catwoman)
Caprice
Pillow Talk
Speedway
The Lion in Winter
It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World

 

[teadrinker]

I had a quick flick through the Wikipedia 1960's films; there are only two stand-outs for me:

2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove

Both works of genius. I've seen all the 1960's James Bond movies, but they've all blurred together into an amorphous mass in my brain and I couldn't really tell you which was which.

And wonderful although it was to see Evil Roy Slade mentioned (brilliant!) it was made in 1972.

-T.

 

[bike10]

A decade of great and lasting films. My favorite is In the Heat of the Night.

 

[zoltanspawn]

El Topo

1970? Close enough.

Bergman's "faith trilogy": Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence

Can you pick just one? The Silence is my favorite of the three.

 

[T-Rexx]

The Pink Panther (1963) - The car chase in front of the trattoria still makes me laugh.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnf4v5mqHes[/ame]

 

[CowboyBob]

There's a lot of great movies mentioned here I haven't seen in a long time. I'll have to check them out again. Thanks for reminding me.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wait Until Dark (I've never seen that one, I'll have to check it out)
Planet of the Apes
Fahrenheit 451
Lilies of the Field (I love Sidney Poitier! He's been in a lot of classics.)
Bunny Lake Is Missing
This Property is Condemned
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

Dr. No (how could I forget about the James Bond classics? I haven't seen them for ages)
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

There were A LOT of great movies fron the 1960's. Will the current crop of movies hold up as well?

 

[CowboyBob]

Some actors in the 1960's had a huge body of work and starred in landmark films.

Sidney Poitier, Sandy Dennis, Katharine Ross, Jon Voight stand out as stars of the 1960's who were in several major productions but weren't heard much from in later years.

 

[construct]

Can you pick just one? The Silence is my favorite of the three.

If I were to pick just one, it would be Winter Light, but I think all three qualify as "great films." I like it because its style so completely comports with its substance, and the mistress's long, long monologue at the midpoint of the film is incredibly daring and pays off. It's interesting that Through a Glass Darkly won the Oscar for best foreign language film, but neither of us thought it was the best of the three.

 

[construct]

I thought El Topo was from '69?

Nope. 1970. As was the Warhol/Morrissey film Trash which starred Joe D'Alessandro and Holly Woodlawn in absolutely brilliant performances. Any movie that opens with a closeup of Joe's naked butt while he's receiving a blow-job from Geri Miller gets my attention, and Holly masturbating with a bottle grabs my attention as well. Every scene is memorable--Andrea Feldman asking Joe for acid and going nuts when he doesn't have any, Holly injecting drugs into a high school boy who passes out immediately, Jane Forth's chatterbox reaction to Joe's breaking into her house, the social worker wanting to buy Holly's shoes to make into a lamp. It's all funny and jaw-dropping at the same time.