Top 10 Favorite Films: 1960-1969

In order of preference:

1960

1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
4. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
5. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
6. Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame)
7. Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer)
8. The Fall of the House of Usher (Roger Corman)
9. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
10. Never Let Go (John Guillermin)

1961

1. West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins)
2. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
3. The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)
4. King of Kings (Nicholas Ray)
5. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
6. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
7. The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman)
8. Divorce – Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
9. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
10. El Cid (Anthony Mann)

1962

1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
3. The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn)
4. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
5. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
6. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Dr. No (Terence Young)
8. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
9. The Intruder (Roger Corman)
10. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

1963

1. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Hud (Martin Ritt)
4. From Russia With Love (Terence Young)
5. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
6. It’s a Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
7. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
8. This Sporting life (Lindsay Anderson)
9. Irma La Douce (Billy Wilder)
10. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey)

1964

1. Manji (Yasuzo Masumura)
2. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
4. Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis)
5. The Night of the Iguana (John Huston)
6. Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
7. Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
8. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
9. Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
10. The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller)

1965

1. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
2. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Martin Ritt)
3. The Hill (Sidney Lumet)
4. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
5. The Fight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
6. The Great Race (Blake Edwards)
7. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
8. Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel)
9. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
10. The Collector (William Wyler)

1966

1. Persona (Ingmar Berman)
2. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
3. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
4. Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut)
5. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
6. Born Free (James Hill)
7. Django (Sergio Corbucci)
8. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester)
9. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
10. The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise)

1967

1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
2. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston)
4. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
5. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
6. To Sir with Love (James Clavell)
7. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
8. Wait Until Dark (Terence Young)
9. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
10. The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
3. Oliver! (Carol Reed)
4. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
5. Hang ‘Em High (Ted Post)
6. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
7. Funny Girl (William Wyler)
8. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
9. The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)
10. Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller)

1969

1. Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut)
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)
3. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
4. Anne of the Thousand Days (Charles Jarrot)
5. Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
7. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
8. Support Your Local Sheriff! (Burt Kennedy)
9. The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
10. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)