1962

1. Lawrence of Arabia- David Lean
2. La Jetée- Chris.Marker [short]
3. Advise and Consent- Otto Preminger
4. Vivre Sa Vie- Jean-Luc Godard
5. The Exterminating Angel- Luis Buñuel
6. Lolita- Stanley Kubrick
7. The Manchurian Candidate- John Frankenheimer
8. The Trial of Joan of Arc- Robert Bresson
9. Blonde Cobra- Ken Jacobs and Bob Fleischner [short]
10. Cleo From 5 to 7- Agnès Varda
11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- John Ford
12. Ride the High Country- Sam Peckinpah
13. Le Doulos- Jean-Pierre Melville
14. Knife in the Water- Roman Polanski
15. Carnival of Souls- Henry “Herk” Harvey
16. Sanjuro- Akira Kurosawa
17. Dr. No- Terence Young
18. Cape Fear- J. Lee Thompson
19. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner- Tony Richardson
20. To Kill a Mockingbird- Robert Mulligan

Ripe for re-appraisal: L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni), Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky), The Music Man (Morton Da Costa), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)

Need to see: Antoine et Colette (Francois Truffaut), An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), La Commare Secca (Bernardo Bertolucci), Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith), The Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards), Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini), I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi), Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi), Hatari! (Howard Hawks), Hell Is For Heroes (Don Siegel), I Am Two (Kon Ichikawa), Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller), Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada), Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Mondo Cane (Cavara/Jacopetti/Prosperi), Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara), Requiem For a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson), Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon), The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), The Third Lover (Claude Chabrol), Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli), A Wanderer’s Notebook (Mikio Naruse), The World’s Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Lawrence of Arabia
Cannes, Palme d’Or: O Pagador de Promessas (Anselmo Duarte)
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Family Diary and Ivan’s Childhood
Berlin, Golden Bear: A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger)