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Top Ten Lists 1960-1969

-- 1960s --

-- 1969 --

#1:  Midnight Cowboy (dir: John Schlesinger) #2:  Z (dir: Costa-Gavras) #3:  if... (dir: Lindsay Anderson) #4:  The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah) #5:  Medium Cool (dir: Haskill Wexler) #6:  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (dir: George Roy Hill) #7:  They Shoot Horses Don't They (dir: Sydney Pollack) #8:  Easy Rider (dir: Dennis Hopper) #9:  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (dir: Peter R. Hunt) #10:  Take the Money and Run (dir: Woody Allen)

-- 1968 --

#1:  2001: A Space Odyssey (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #2:  Rosemary's Baby (dir: Roman Polanski) #3:  The Producers (dir: Mel Brooks) #4:  Romeo and Juliet (dir: Franco Zeffirelli) #5:  The Thomas Crown Affair (dir: Norman Jewison) #6:  Once Upon a Time in the West (dir: Sergio Leone) #7:  The Lion in the Winter (dir: Anthony Harvey) #8:  Charly (dir: Ralph Nelson) #9:  Bullett (dir: Peter Yates) #10:  Night of the Living Dead (dir: George A. Romero)

-- 1967 --

#1:  Bonnie and Clyde (dir: Arthur Penn) #2:  In Cold Blood (dir: Richard Brooks) #3:  Belle de Jour (dir: Luis Buñuel) #4:  The Graduate (dir: Mike Nichols) #5:  In the Heat of the Night (dir: Norman Jewison) #6:  The President's Analyst (dir: Theodore J. Flicker) #7:  Play Time (dir: Jacques Tati) #8:  Fahreneit 481 (dir: François Truffaut) #9:  Cool Hand Luke (dir: Stuart Rosenberg) #10:  Casino Royale (dir: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, and Val Guest)

-- 1966 --

#1:  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir: Mike Nichols) #2:  Persona (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #3:  Blow-Up (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni) #4:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir: Sergio Leone) #5:  A Man for All Seasons (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #6:  Marat/Sade (dir: Peter Brook) #7:  The Fortune Cookie (dir: Billy Wilder) #8:  What's Up Tiger Lily (dir: Woody Allen) #9:  For a Few Dollars More (dir: Sergio Leone) #10:  Alfie (dir: Lewis Gilbert)

-- 1965 --

#1:  Repulsion (dir: Roman Polanski) #2:  The Pawnbroker (dir: Sidney Lumet) #3:  Doctor Zhivago (dir: David Lean) #4:  A Thousand Clowns (dir: Fred Coe) #5:  Mirage (dir: Edward Dmytryk) #6:  Hush ... Hush Sweet Charlotte (dir: Robert Aldrich) #7:  The Sound of Music (dir: Robert Wise) #8:  Pierrot le Fou (dir: Jean-Luc Godard) #9:  Othello (dir: Stuart Burge) #10:  Help! (dir: Richard Lester)

-- 1964 --

#1:  Dr. Strangelove (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #2:  A Shot in the Dark (dir: Blake Edwards) #3:  Fail-Safe (dir: Sidney Lumet) #4:  Becket (dir: Peter Glenville) #5:  A Hard Day's Night (dir: Richard Lester) #6:  The Pink Panther (dir: Blake Edwards) #7:  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir: Jacques Demy) #8:  My Fair Lady (dir: Robert Stevenson) #9:  Topkapi (dir: Jules Dassin) #10:  Goldfinger (dir: Guy Hamilton)

-- 1963 --

#1:  Contempt (dir: Jean-Luc Godard) #2:  8½ (dir: Federico Fellini) #3:  The Silence (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #4:  The Trial (dir: Orson Welles) #5:  Charade (dir: Stanley Donen) #6:  The Great Escape (dir: John Sturges) #7:  From Russia with Love (dir: Terence Young) #8:  The Haunting (dir: Robert Wise) #9:  America, America (dir: Elia Kazan) #10:  Hud (dir: Martin Ritt)

-- 1962 --

#1:  Lawrence of Arabia (dir: David Lean) #2:  A Long Day's Journey into Night (dir: Sidney Lumet) #3:  To Kill a Mockingbird (dir: Robert Mulligan) #4:  Lolita (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #5:  The Manchurian Candidate (dir: John Frankenheimer) #6:  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir: Robert Aldrich) #7:  Birdman of Alcatraz (dir: John Frankenheimer) #8:  Days of Wine and Roses (dir: Blake Edwards) #9:  Cape Fear (dir: J. Lee Thompson) #10:  The Longest Day (dir: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki)

-- 1961 --

#1:  Jules and Jim (dir: François Truffaut) #2:  West Side Story (dir: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins) #3:  Judgment at Nuremberg (dir: Stanley Kramer) #4:  Yojimbo (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #5:  One, Two, Three (dir: Billy Wilder) #6:  The Guns of Navarone (dir: J. Lee Thompson) #7:  The Hustler (dir: Robert Rossen) #8:  A Raisin in the Sun (dir: Daniel Petrie) #9:  The Misfits (dir: John Huston) #10:  Breakfast at Tiffany's (dir: Blake Edwards)

-- 1960 --

#1:  Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #2:  Inherit the Wind (dir: Stanley Kramer) #3:  Peeping Tom (dir: Michael Powell) #4:  Shoot the Piano Player (dir: François Truffaut) #5:  Spartacus (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #6:  The Apartment (dir: Billy Wilder) #7:  L'Avventura (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni) #8:  Elmer Gantry (dir: Richard Brooks) #9:  The Sundowners (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #10:  Village of the Damned (dir: Wolf Rilla)

Analysis by:
David Perry
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