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. BOY (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
3. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
4. TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel, USA)
5. THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (Shadi Abdel-Salam, Egypt)
6. DILLINGER IS DEAD (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
7. ANDREI ROUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
8. STEREO (David Cronenberg, Canada)
9. THE STERILE CUCKOO (Alan Pakula, USA)
10. KATZELMACHER (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
11. L'AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
12. SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT (Daniel Petrie, USA)
13. AGE OF CONSENT (Michael Powell, Australia)
14. LA FEMME INFIDELE (Claude Chabrol, France)
15. SUSPECT (Mike Hodges, UK)
16. THE ARRANGEMENT (Elia Kazan, USA)
17. THE WILD CHILD (Francois Truffaut, France)
18. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent, USA)
19. DEADLOCK (Lamont Johnson, USA)
20. JUSTINE (George Cukor, USA)
21. 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. PETULIA (Richard Lester, USA)
4. DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride, USA)
5. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, USA)
6. CHARLIE BUBBLES (Albert Finney, UK)
7. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George Romero, USA)
8. THE PARTY (Blake Edwards, USA)
9. PRETTY POISON (Noel Black, USA)
10. THE CONQUEROR WORM (Michael Reeves, UK)
11. LA ROSIERE DE PESSAC (Jean Eustache, France)
12. SHAME (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 13. COOGAN'S BLUFF (Don Siegel, USA)
14. NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (Jack Smight, USA)
15. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)
16. SONG OF SUMMER (Ken Russell, UK)
17. THERESE AND ISABELLE (Radley Metzger, West Germany/USA)
18. KAKU AND TSUNE (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
 19. HEAD (Bob Rafelson, USA)
20. LONESOME COWBOYS (Andy Warhol, USA)
21. STOLEN KISSES (Francois Truffaut, France)
22. A TALE OF TWO YAKUZA (Tomu Uchida, Japan)

THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)

1967

1. LA COLLECTIONEUSE (Eric Rohmer, France)
2. SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
3. EL DORADO (Howard Hawks, USA)
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. LE SAMOURAI (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
18. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
19. TWO FOR THE ROAD (Stanley Donen, USA)
20. TENDERNESS (Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Uzbekistan)
21. A TREATISE ON JAPANESE BAWDY SONGS (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
 22. 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. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 10. TORN CURTAIN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
11. HARPER (Jack Smight, USA)
12. OUTER AND INNER SPACE (Andy Warhol, USA)
13. DAISIES (Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia)
14. THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
15. MASCULIN, FEMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
16. SAVAGE PAMPAS (Hugo Fregonese, Argentina/Spain/USA)
17. CHELSEA GIRLS (Andy Warhol, USA)
18. FAHRENHEIT 451 (Francois Truffaut, UK)
19. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
 20. 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 GREAT RACE (Blake Edwards, USA)
8. PLEASURES OF THE FLESH (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
9. THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT (Andre Delvaux, Belgium)
 10. THE TENTH VICTIM (Elio Petri, Italy/France)
11. BUS RILEY'S BACK IN TOWN (Harvey Hart, USA)
12. REPULSION (Roman Polanski, UK)
13. MAJOR DUNDEE (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
14. THERE ARE HORSES (Tolomush Okeev, Kyrgysztan)
 15. THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS (Pietro Germi, Italy)
16. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
17. FISTS IN THE POCKET (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
18. RED LINE 7000 (Howard Hawks, USA)
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)
 
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. CHRONICLE OF A LONELY CHILD (Leonardo Favio, Argentina)
6. THE KILLERS (Don Siegel, USA)
7. YEARNING (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
8. SEDUCED AND ABANDONED (Pietro Germi, Italy)
9. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI PART IV: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
10. UNE FEMME MARIEE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
11. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
12. CHEYENNE AUTUMN (John Ford, USA)
13. THE CAVERN (Edgar G. Ulmer, Italy/W. Germany)
14. BANDE A PART (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
15. 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. THE APE WOMAN (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
10. THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
11. LA BOULANGERE DE MONCEAU (Eric Rohmer, France)
12. THE SILENCE (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
13. A BOY TEN FEET TALL (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
14. ADIEU PHILIPPINE (Jacques Rozier, France)
15. AMERICA, AMERICA (Elia Kazan, USA)
16. THE TALE OF WIND AND CLOUDS OF THE SANADA CLAN (Tai Kato, Japan)
17. LES MAUVAISES FREQUENTATIONS (Jean Eustache, France)
18. LA BAIE DES ANGES (Jacques Demy, France)
19. MAHANAGAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
20. EL VERDUGO (Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spain)

BYE BYE BIRDIE (George Sidney, USA)

1962

1. ADVISE AND CONSENT (Otto Preminger, USA)
2. JULES ET JIM (Francois Truffaut, France)
3. HELL IS FOR HEROES (Don Siegel, USA)
4. THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey, UK)
5. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
6. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
7. HATARI! (Howard Hawks, USA)
8. HARAKIRI (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
9. IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
10. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
11. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, USA)
12. THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL (Jean Renoir, France)
13. BARABBAS (Richard Fleischer, Italy)
14. THE MIRACLE WORKER (Arthur Penn, USA)
15. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
16. FLASHING SPIKES (John Ford, USA)
17. NUMBERED DAYS (Elio Petri, Italy)
 18. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polanski, Poland)
19. THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (James Blue, France)
20. 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. VANINA VANINI (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
8. VIVA L'TIALIA! (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
9. THE EXILES (Kent MacKenzie, USA)
10. LEON MORIN, PRETRE (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
11. JOAN OF THE ANGELS (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland)
12. DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (Pietro Germi, Italy)
13. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Ingmar Bergman,.Sweden)
14. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Blake Edwards, USA)
15. TWO LOVES (Charles Walters, USA)

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

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