Dan Sallitt's Favorite Films of the 1960s, by International Release Date


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1969

1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (Eric Rohmer, France)
2. THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (Shadi Abdel-Salam, Egypt)
3. BOY (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
4. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
5. MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (Francois Truffaut, France)
 6. TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel, USA)
7. DILLINGER IS DEAD (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
8. ANDREI ROUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
9. STEREO (David Cronenberg, Canada)
10. THE STERILE CUCKOO (Alan Pakula, USA)
11. BLUE MOVIE (Andy Warhol, USA)
12. KATZELMACHER (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
13. L'AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
14. SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT (Daniel Petrie, USA)
15. AGE OF CONSENT (Michael Powell, Australia)
16. LA FEMME INFIDELE (Claude Chabrol, France)
17. SUSPECT (Mike Hodges, UK)
18. THE ARRANGEMENT (Elia Kazan, USA)
19. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent, USA)
20. DEADLOCK (Lamont Johnson, USA)
21. JUSTINE (George Cukor, USA)
22. THE WILD BUNCH (Sam Peckinpah, USA)

1968

1. L'ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
2. JE T'AIME JE T'AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
3. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier, France)
4. PETULIA (Richard Lester, USA)
 5. DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride, USA)
6. BENJAMIN (Michel Deville, France)
7. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, USA)
8. CHARLIE BUBBLES (Albert Finney, UK)
9. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George Romero, USA)
10. PRETTY POISON (Noel Black, USA)
11. THE CONQUEROR WORM (Michael Reeves, UK)
12. LA ROSIERE DE PESSAC (Jean Eustache, France)
13. SHAME (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 14. COOGAN'S BLUFF (Don Siegel, USA)
15. NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (Jack Smight, USA)
16. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)
17. SONG OF SUMMER (Ken Russell, UK)
18. THERESE AND ISABELLE (Radley Metzger, West Germany/USA)
19. THE PARTY (Blake Edwards, USA)
20. HEAD (Bob Rafelson, USA)
21. THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
22. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (Francois Truffaut, France)
23. THE BURNING (Stephen Frears, UK)
 24. LONESOME COWBOYS (Andy Warhol, USA)
25. STOLEN KISSES (Francois Truffaut, France)
26. A TALE OF TWO YAKUZA (Tomu Uchida, Japan)

THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)

1967

1. SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
2. EL DORADO (Howard Hawks, USA)
3. LA COLLECTIONEUSE (Eric Rohmer, France)
4. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
5. STRANGER ON THE RUN (Don Siegel, USA)
6. THE SHOOTING (Monte Hellman, USA)
7. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (Kira Muratova, USSR)
8. LOVE AFFAIR; OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
9. UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE (Robert Mulligan, USA)
10. A COVENANT WITH DEATH (Lamont Johnson, USA)
11. NUDE RESTAURANT (Andy Warhol, USA)
12. THE WIFE OF SEISHU HANAOKA (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
13. I, A MAN (Andy Warhol, USA)
14. TONY ROME (Gordon Douglas, USA)
15. ACCIDENT (Joseph Losey, UK)
16. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
17. TWO WIVES (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
18. LE SAMOURAI (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
19. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
20. TWO FOR THE ROAD (Stanley Donen, USA)
21. TENDERNESS (Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Uzbekistan)
22. A TREATISE ON JAPANESE BAWDY SONGS (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
 23. HELL'S ANGELS ON WHEELS (Richard Rush, USA)

BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
CHINA IS NEAR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France) 

1966

1. THE CHASE (Arthur Penn, USA)
2. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
3. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
4. THE RISE OF LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
5. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
6. SEVEN WOMEN (John Ford, USA)
7. LE PERE NOEL A LES YEUX BLEUS (Jean Eustache, France)
8. EL GRECO (Luciano Salce, Spain/Italy/France)
9. THE STRANGER WITHIN A WOMAN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
 10. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 11. TORN CURTAIN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
12. HARPER (Jack Smight, USA)
13. OUTER AND INNER SPACE (Andy Warhol, USA)
14. DAISIES (Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia)
15. THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
16. MASCULIN, FEMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
17. SAVAGE PAMPAS (Hugo Fregonese, Argentina/Spain/USA)
18. CHELSEA GIRLS (Andy Warhol, USA)
19. FAHRENHEIT 451 (Francois Truffaut, UK)
20. THE WILD ANGELS (Roger Corman, USA)
 21. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
22. LA GUERRE EST FINIE (Alain Resnais, France)

VIOLENCE AT NOON (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
THE WILD RIDER (Franz Josef Spieker, West Germany)
 
1965

1. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
2. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain/Switzerland)
3. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
4. I KNEW HER WELL (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy)
5. IN HARM'S WAY (Otto Preminger, USA)
6. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
7. THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT (Andre Delvaux, Belgium)
 8. THE TENTH VICTIM (Elio Petri, Italy/France)
9. BUS RILEY'S BACK IN TOWN (Harvey Hart, USA)
10. REPULSION (Roman Polanski, UK)
11. MAJOR DUNDEE (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
12. THERE ARE HORSES (Tolomush Okeev, Kyrgysztan)
 13. THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS (Pietro Germi, Italy)
14. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
15. GAMPERALIYA (CHANGES IN THE VILLAGE) (Lester James Peries, Ceylon)
16. THE GREAT RACE (Blake Edwards, USA)
17. FISTS IN THE POCKET (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
18. PLEASURES OF THE FLESH (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
19. SUBARNAREKHA (Ritwik Ghatak, India)
20. THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (Robert Aldrich, USA)
21. THE IPCRESS FILE (Sidney Furie, UK)
22. BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger, USA)
23. BEAUTY #2 (Andy Warhol, USA)

MY HUSTLER (Andy Warhol, USA)
SYLVIA (Gordon Douglas, USA)
WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? (Clive Donner, USA/France)
RED LINE 7000 (Howard Hawks, USA)

1964

1. GERTRUD (Carl Dreyer, Denmark)
2. MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT (Howard Hawks, USA)
3. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
4. INTENTIONS OF MURDER (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
5. LA DÉRIVE (Paula Delsol, France)
 6. CHRONICLE OF A LONELY CHILD (Leonardo Favio, Argentina)
7. THE KILLERS (Don Siegel, USA)
8. SEDUCED AND ABANDONED (Pietro Germi, Italy)
9. NADJA IN PARIS (Eric Rohmer, France)
 10. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI PART IV: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
11. L'APPARTEMENT DES FILLES (Michel Deville, France)
 12. UNE FEMME MARIEE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
13. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
14. YEARNING (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
15. CHEYENNE AUTUMN (John Ford, USA)
16. THE CAVERN (Edgar G. Ulmer, Italy/W. Germany)
17. BANDE A PART (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
18. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Richard Lester, UK)

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Anthony Mann, USA)
 
1963

1. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
2. EVA (Joseph Losey, France/Italy)
3. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
4. A CAUSE, A CAUSE D'UNE FEMME (Michel Deville, France)
 5. MURIEL (Alain Resnais, France)
6. LA CARRIERE DE SUZANNE (Eric Rohmer, France)
7. WHISTLE STOP (Boris Barnet, USSR)
8. THE INSECT WOMAN (Shohei Imamura. Japan)
9. LA BOULANGERE DE MONCEAU (Eric Rohmer, France)
10. THE APE WOMAN (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
11. THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
12. LANDRU (Claude Chabrol, France)
13. THE SILENCE (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
14. A BOY TEN FEET TALL (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
15. LE FEU FOLLET (Louis Malle, France)
16. ADIEU PHILIPPINE (Jacques Rozier, France)
17. AMERICA, AMERICA (Elia Kazan, USA)
18. THE TALE OF WIND AND CLOUDS OF THE SANADA CLAN (Tai Kato, Japan)
19. LES MAUVAISES FREQUENTATIONS (Jean Eustache, France)
20. LA BAIE DES ANGES (Jacques Demy, France)
21  X - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (Roger Corman, USA)
22. MAHANAGAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
23. EL VERDUGO (Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spain)

BYE BYE BIRDIE (George Sidney, USA)

1962

1. JULES ET JIM (Francois Truffaut, France)
2. ADVISE AND CONSENT (Otto Preminger, USA)
3. HELL IS FOR HEROES (Don Siegel, USA)
4. THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey, UK)
5. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
6. HATARI! (Howard Hawks, USA)
7. HARAKIRI (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
8. IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
9. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
10. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, USA)
11. THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL (Jean Renoir, France)
12. L'OEIL DU MALIN (Claude Chabrol, France)
 13. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
14. BARABBAS (Richard Fleischer, Italy)
15. THE MIRACLE WORKER (Arthur Penn, USA)
16. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
17. FLASHING SPIKES (John Ford, USA)
18. NUMBERED DAYS (Elio Petri, Italy)
 19. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polanski, Poland)
20. THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (James Blue, France)
21. MAFIOSO (Alberto Lattuada, Italy)

BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1961

1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
2. ALYONKA (Boris Barnet, USSR)
 3. EL CID (Anthony Mann, USA/Italy)
4. ADORABLE MENTEUSE (Michel Deville, France)
5. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (Elia Kazan, USA)
6. L'ASSASSINO (Elio Petri, Italy)
7. THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES (Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, France)
 8. VANINA VANINI (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
9. VIVA L'TIALIA! (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
10. THE EXILES (Kent MacKenzie, USA)
 11. LÉON MORIN PRÊTRE (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
12. JOAN OF THE ANGELS (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland)
13. DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (Pietro Germi, Italy)
14. PLEINS FEUX SUR L'ASSASSIN (Georges Franju, France)
15. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Ingmar Bergman,.Sweden)
16. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Blake Edwards, USA)
17. TWO LOVES (Charles Walters, USA)
18. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy/France)

THE YOUNG DOCTORS (Phil Karlson, USA)
THE OTHER WOMAN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)

1960

1. LES BONNES FEMMES (Claude Chabrol, France)
2. L'AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
3. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
4.. PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (Charles Walters, USA)
5. THE YOUNG ONE (Luis Bunuel, Mexico/USA)
6. THE WESTERNER: "Brown" (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
7. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET (Richard Quine, USA)
8. THE LADY WITH THE DOG (Josef Heifitz, USSR)
9. SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (John Ford, USA)
10. BANDITS OF ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
11. THE WESTERNER: "Jeff" (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
12. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Francois Truffaut, France)
13. EVENING STREAM (Mikio Naruse and Yuzo Kawashima, USA)
14. FLAMING STAR (Don Siegel, USA)
15. EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju, France)
16. THE CONCRETE JUNGLE (Joseph Losey, UK)
17. CE SOIR OU JAMAIS (Michel Deville, France)
18. THE STEAMROLLER AND THE VIOLIN (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
19. HOME FROM THE HILL (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
20. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
21. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
22. MURDER IN YOSHIWARA (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
23. HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS (George Cukor, USA)
24. THE UNFORGIVEN (John Huston, USA)
25. NORTH TO ALASKA (Henry Hathaway, USA)
26. THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
 27. EL COCHECITO (Marco Ferreri, Spain)
28. WILD RIVER (Elia Kazan, USA)
29. CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (Claude Sautet, France)
30. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
31. A FALSE STUDENT (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
32. WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)

LA PROIE POUR L'OMBRE (Alexandre Astruc, France)
THE TWILIGHT STORY (Shiro Toyoda, Japan)
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (Karel Reisz, UK)
ELMER GANTRY (Richard Brooks, USA)
ADUA AND HER FRIENDS (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy)
PRÉSENTATION OU CHARLOTTE ET SON STEAK (Eric Rohmer, France)

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