1964 Top Ten List
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Train (John Frankenheimer)
Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Additional 1964 Films By Rating
Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
Nothing but a Man (Michael Roemer)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Killers (Donald Siegel)
Hot Enough for June (Ralph Thomas)
Intentions of Murder (Shōhei Imamura)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Soft Skin (François Truffaut)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)
Black Peter (Milos Forman)
Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō)
Father Goose (Ralph Nelson)
Becket (Peter Glenville)
The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman)
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki)
Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec)
The Night of the Iguana (John Huston)
Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
Dry Summer (Metin Erksan)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Arthur Lubin)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)

if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)