1966

1. Seconds- John Frankenheimer
2. Blowup- Michelangelo Antonioni
3. Au Hasard Balthasar- Robert Bresson
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- Sergio Leone
5. The Face of Another- Hiroshi Teshigahara
6. Persona- Ingmar Bergman
7. War of the Gargantuas- Ishiro Honda
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Mike Nichols
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!- Chuck Jones [short]
10. Chelsea Girls- Andy Warhol
11. Masculine-Feminine- Jean-Luc Godard
12. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade- Peter Brook
13. Come Drink With Me- King Hu
14. Sword of Doom- Kihachi Okamoto
15. Georgy Girl- Silvio Narizzano
16. Fahrenheit 451- Francois Truffaut

Other notable shorts: Castro Street (Bruce Baillie)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais), Lord Love a Duck (George Axelrod), Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: 7 Women (John Ford), Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene), Breakaway (Bruce Conner), The Chase (Arthur Penn), Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski), La Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville), Dragon Inn (King Hu), The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown), Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki), Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer), The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Hold Me While I’m Naked (George Kuchar), Kill, Baby… Kill! (Mario Bava), A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch), The Naked Prey (Cornel Wilde), The Nun (Jacques Rivette), Patriotism (Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), The Professionals (Richard Brooks), The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Robert Rosselini), Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Jean Eustache), They’re a Weird Mob (Michael Powell), Three on a Couch (Peter Kubelka), Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki), Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock), Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka), Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge), Young Törless (Volker Schlondorff)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: A Man For All Seasons
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) A Man and a Woman and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Pietro Germi)
Venice, Golden Lion: Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Cul-de-Sac