1. Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone 2. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville 3. My Night at Maud's- Eric Rohmer 4. The Wild Bunch- Sam Peckinpah 5. Medium Cool- Haskell Wexler 6. Andrei Rublev- Andrei Tarkovsky 7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Peter R. Hunt 8. Model Shop- Jacques Demy 9. Hi, Mom!- Brian De Palma 10. The Milky Way- Luis Buñuel 11. La Femme Infidèle- Claude Chabrol 12. Le Boucher- Claude Chabrol 13. Salesman- David and Albert Maysles 14. Mississippi Mermaid- Francois Truffaut 15. The Plot Against Harry- Michael Roemer 16. Take the Money and Run- Woody Allen 17. The Passion of Anna- Ingmar Bergman 18. The Wild Child- Francois Truffaut 19. Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger 20. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?- Sydney Pollack 21. Katzelmacher- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Ripe for re-appraisal: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky), The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Putney Swope (Robert Downey) Need to see: Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha), The Arrangement (Elia Kazan), The Bed-Sitting Room (Richard Lester), The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (Les Blank), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo), Cherry, Harry and Raquel! (Russ Meyer), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Fuego (Armando Bo), Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard), The Gladiators (Peter Watkins), Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu), The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), Ice (Robert Kramer), Kes (Ken Loach), Love Is Colder Than Death (R.W. Fassbinder), Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker), The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel-Salam), Stereo (David Cronenberg), Still (Ernie Gehr), Suspect (Mike Hodges), This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol), Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (Ken Jacobs), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel), The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Midnight Cowboy Cannes, Grand Prix: if… (Lindsay Anderson) Berlin, Golden Bear: Early Works (Želimir Žilnik)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanley Kubrick 2. Shame- Ingmar Bergman 3. The Producers- Mel Brooks 4. Faces- John Cassavetes 5. L'Amour Fou- Jacques Rivette 6. War and Peace- Sergei Bondarchuk 7. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One- William Greaves 8. The Sixth Face of the Pentagon- Chris Marker and François Reichenbach [short] 9. Yellow Submarine- George Dunning 10. Who's That Knocking at My Door?- Martin Scorsese 11. Night of the Living Dead- George A. Romero 12. David Holzman’s Diary- Jim McBride 13. The Immortal Story- Orson Welles 14. High School- Frederick Wiseman 15. Stolen Kisses- Francois Truffaut 16. Romeo and Juliet- Franco Zeffirelli 17. if…- Lindsay Anderson 18. Hour of the Wolf- Ingmar Bergman 19. Planet of the Apes- Franklin J. Schaffner 20. Golden Swallow- Chang Cheh 21. Petulia- Richard Lester 22. Where Eagles Dare- Brian G. Hutton 23. Rosemary’s Baby- Roman Polanski 24. Bullitt- Peter Yates 25. The Lion in Winter- Anthony Harvey 26. Vixen!- Russ Meyer 27. Greetings- Brian De Palma Other notable shorts: Saute ma ville (Chantal Akerman) Ripe for re-appraisal: Barbarella (Roger Vadim), Head (Bob Rafaelson), The Party (Blake Edwards), Sympathy For the Devil/One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard) Need to see: Benjamin (Michel Deville), Les Biches (Claude Chabrol), The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer), Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet), The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet), The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves), Coogan’s Bluff (Don Siegel), Countdown (Robert Altman), Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima), Flesh (Paul Morrissey), The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci), Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman), The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas), Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev), Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime (Alain Resnais), Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto), The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich), Madigan (Don Siegel), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea), Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci), Play Dirty (Andre de Toth), Pretty Poison (Noel Black), The Profound Desire of the Gods (Shohei Imamura), Signs of Life (Werner Herzog), Spirits of the Dead (Roger Vadim/Louis Malle/Federico Fellini), The Swimmer (Frank Perry), Targets (Peter Bogdanovich), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger), T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits), The Virgin of Pessac (Jean Eustache) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Oliver! (Carol Reed) BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Graduate (Mike Nichols) Venice, Golden Lion: Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge) Berlin, Golden Bear: Who Saw Him Die? (Jan Troell)
1. Belle de Jour- Luis Buñuel 2. Play Time- Jacques Tati 3. Weekend- Jean-Luc Godard 4. Point Blank- John Boorman 5. Privilege- Peter Watkins 6. Mouchette- Robert Bresson 7. Le Samouraï- Jean-Pierre Melville 8. The Young Girls of Rochefort- Jacques Demy 9. Two For the Road- Stanley Donen 10. The President's Analyst- Theodore J. Flicker 11. Branded to Kill- Seijun Suzuki 12. The Shooting- Monte Hellman 13. The Red and the White- Miklos Jancso 14. La Chinoise- Jean-Luc Godard 15. The Bride Wore Black- Francois Truffaut 16. The Fireman’s Ball- Milos Forman 17. The Fearless Vampire Killers- Roman Polanski 18. Bonnie and Clyde- Arthur Penn 19. Two or Three Things I Know About Her- Jean-Luc Godard 20. Wait Until Dark- Terence Young 21. In Cold Blood- Richard Brooks Notable shorts: Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage), The Big Shave (Martin Scorsese), The Off-Handed Jape (Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley), Heterodyne (Hollis Frampton) Ripe for re-appraisal: Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev) Need to see: **** (Andy Warhol), 23rd Psalm Branch (Stan Brakhage), Accident (Joseph Losey), La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer), A Countess From Hong Kong (Charlie Chaplin), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), EPCOT (No Director Credited), Fando and Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Hell’s Angels on Wheels (Richard Rush), The Honey Pot (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), How I Won the War (Richard Lester), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift), I Am Curious [Yellow] (Vilgot Sjöman), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Our Mother’s House (Jack Clayton), Poor Cow (Ken Loach), Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker), The Red Mantle (Gabriel Axel), Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston), Report (Bruce Conner), Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi), Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse), The Stranger (Luchino Visconti), The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli), Terra em Transe (Glauber Rocha), The Thief of Paris (Louis Malle), Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman), The Trip (Roger Corman), Up the Down Staircase (Robert Mulligan), Viy (Kropachyov/Yershov/Ptushko), Wavelength (Michael Snow) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison) BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: A Man For All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann) Cannes, Grand Prix: Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni) Venice, Golden Lion: Belle de Jour Berlin, Golden Bear: Le depart (Jerzy Skolimowski)
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
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
1. Woman in the Dunes- Hiroshi Teshigahara 2. A Hard Day's Night!- Richard Lester 3. Band of Outsiders- Jean-Luc Godard 4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg- Jacques Demy 5. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- Stanley Kubrick 6. Red Desert- Michelangelo Antonioni 7. Gertrud- Carl Theodor Dreyer 8. Kiss Me, Stupid- Billy Wilder 9. Man's Favorite Sport?- Howard Hawks 10. Culloden- Peter Watkins 11. The Gospel According to St. Matthew- Pier Paolo Pasolini 12. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors- Sergei Parajanov 13. Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte- Robert Aldrich 14. Becket- Peter Glenville 15. Goldfinger- Guy Hamilton 16. The Naked Kiss- Sam Fuller 17. Zulu- Cy Endfield 18. Diary of a Chambermaid- Luis Buñuel 19. The Soft Skin- Francois Truffaut 20. I Am Cuba- Mikhail Kalatozishvili 21. A Short in the Dark- Blake Edwards 22. A Fistful of Dollars- Sergio Leone Notable shorts: Ingreen (Nathaniel Dorsky) Ripe for re-appraisal: The Killers (Don Siegel), Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda), Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger) Need to see: Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha), Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava), Charulata (Satyajit Ray), Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford), Chumlum (Ron Rice), Couch (Andy Warhol), The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin), A Distant Trumpet (Raoul Walsh), Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage), Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki), Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev), Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), The Man From Rio (Philippe De Broca), Manji (Yasuzo Masumura), A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo), The Patsy (Jerry Lewis), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin), Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi), Seven Days in May (John Frankeheimer), The Train (John Frankenheimer), Twice a Man (Gergory J. Markopoulos), Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney), Window (Ken Jacobs), The World of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill), Yearning (Mikio Naruse) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: My Fair Lady (George Cukor) BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Cannes, Grand Prix: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Venice, Golden Lion: Red Desert Berlin, Golden Bear: Reflections (Metin Erksan)
1. 8 1/2- Federico Fellini 2. The Trial- Orson Welles 3. High and Low- Akira Kurosawa 4. The Silence- Ingmar Bergman 5. The Leopard- Luchino Visconti 6. Charade- Stanley Donen 7. Contempt- Jean-Luc Godard 8. Muriel- Alain Resnais 9. The Birds- Alfred Hitchcock 10. Shock Corridor- Sam Fuller 11. From Russia With Love- Terence Young 12. Hud- Martin Ritt 13. This Sporting Life- Lindsay Anderson 14. An Actor’s Revenge- Kon Ichikawa 15. Winter Light- Ingmar Bergman 16. Jason and the Argonauts- Don Chaffey 17. Billy Liar- John Schlesinger 18. The Haunting- Robert Wise Other notable shorts: Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith), Little Stabs at Happiness (Jack Smith), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage) Ripe for re-appraisal: Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder) Need to see: 4 For Texas (Robert Aldrich), A Cause, A Cause d’Une Femme (Michel Deville), America, America (Elia Kazan), The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer), Barren Lives (Glauber Rocha), The Big City (Satyajit Ray), Black Sabbath (Mario Bava), Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard), Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin), The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Vincente Minnelli), Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola), Donovan’s Reef (John Ford), Eva (Joseph Losey), The Fire Within (Louis Malle), Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi), The House Is Black (Furough Farrohkzad), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura), Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker), Judex (Georges Franju), Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), The Servant (Joseph Losey), Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi), Suzanne’s Career (Eric Rohmer), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga), X- The Thing With the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Tom Jones (Tony Richardson) BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Tom Jones Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Leopard Venice, Golden Lion: Hands Over the City Berlin, Golden Bear: The Devil (Gian Luigi Polidoro)
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)
1. West Side Story- Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 2. The Hustler- Robert Rossen 3. Lola- Jacques Demy 4. Yojimbo- Akira Kurosawa 5. One, Two, Three- Billy Wilder 6. Viridiana- Luis Buñuel 7. Last Year at Marienbad- Alain Resnais 8. The Ladies' Man- Jerry Lewis 9. A Woman Is a Woman- Jean-Luc Godard 10. The Gleiwitz Case- Gerhard Klein 11. Through a Glass Darkly- Ingmar Bergman 12. Shadows- John Cassavetes 13. The Innocents- Jack Clayton 14. Victim- Joseph Losey 15. Judgment at Nuremberg- Stanley Kramer Ripe for re-appraisal: El Cid (Anthony Mann), King of Kings (Nicholas Ray), Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan), Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette) Need to see: Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Alyonka (Boris Barnet), Blast of Silence (Allen Baron), Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch), Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner), Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi), Early Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu), Les Godelureaux (Claude Chabrol), The Human Condition, Part III (Masaki Kobayashi), Homicidal (William Castle), Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico), One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando), Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura), Placido (Luis Garcia Berlanga), Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi), Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi), A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson), Ten Dark Women (Kon Ichikawa), Two Rode Together (John Ford), Underworld USA (Sam Fuller), Vanina Vanini (Roberto Rossellini), Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett), Viva l’Italia! (Roberto Rossellini), Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: West Side Story BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai) Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) The Long Absence (Henri Colpi) and Viridiana Venice, Golden Lion: Last Year at Marienbad Berlin, Golden Bear: La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1. Les Bonnes Femmes- Claude Chabrol 2. Peeping Tom- Michael Powell 3. The Apartment- Billy Wilder 4. L'Avventura- Michelangelo Antonioni 5. Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock 6. Breathless- Jean-Luc Godard 7. La Dolce Vita- Federico Fellini 8. Purple Noon- René Clement 9. Classe Tous Risques- Claude Sautet 10. The Truth- Henri-Georges Clouzot 11. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning- Karel Reisz 12. Shoot the Piano Player- Francois Truffaut 13. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs- Mikio Naruse 14. The Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman 15. Spartacus- Stanley Kubrick Ripe for re-appraisal: The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda), Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman), The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti) Need to see: Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka), The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), Brainwashed (Gerd Oswald), The Cloud Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima), Devi (Satyajit Ray), Home From the Hill (Vincente Minnelli), The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young), The House of Usher (Roger Corman), Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer), The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Khejfits), Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky), Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine), The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang), Le Trou (Jacques Becker), Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame), Wild River (Elia Kazan), The Young One (Luis Bunuel) Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Apartment BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Apartment Cannes, Palme d’Or: La Dolce Vita Venice, Golden Lion: The Crossing of the Rhine (André Cayatte) Berlin, Golden Bear: El Lazarillo de Tormes (César Ardavin)
