Sunday, August 5, 2007

1965

1. The War Game- Peter Watkins
2. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold- Martin Ritt
3. Repulsion- Roman Polanski
4. Chimes at Midnight- Orson Welles
5. Pierrot le Fou- Jean-Luc Godard
6. The Saragossa Manuscript- Wojciech Has
7. Faster, Pussycat... Kill! Kill!- Russ Meyer
8. Red Beard- Akira Kurosawa
9. Time Piece- Jim Henson [short]
10. Battle of Algiers- Gillo Pontecorvo
11. Help!- Richard Lester
12. Simon of the Desert- Luis Buñuel
13. Juliet of the Spirits- Federico Fellini
14. Thunderball- Terence Young
15. Alphaville- Jean-Luc Godard
16. Darling- John Schlesinger
17. For a Few Dollars More- Sergio Leone

Other notable shorts: The Dot and the Line (Chuck Jones)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein), The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison), The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)

Need to see: The 10th Victim (Elio Petri), Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda), Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger), The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis), Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio), A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick), The Hill (Sidney Lumet), In Harm’s Way (Otto Preminger), It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo), The Knack, and How to Get It (Richard Lester), The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker), Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger), The Loved One (Tony Richardson), Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah), Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev), Mickey One (Arthur Penn), Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub), Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima), Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks), Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman), The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso), Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda), Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti), Six in Paris (Chabrol/Douchet/Godard/Pollet/Rohmer/Rouch), Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki), Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa), Vinyl (Andy Warhol)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Knack… and How to Get It
Venice, Golden Lion: Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Alphaville

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