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1972:
1.) "Cabaret"
2.) "Ulzanas' Raid"
3.) "Sleuth"
4.) "What's Up. Doc?"
5.) "The Godfather"
6.) "Frenzy"
7.) "The Poseidon Adventure"
8.) "Jeremiah Johnson"
9,) "Daughters of Darkness"--A lady is thought to be a hotels' guest from 40 years ago, & a newlywed couple vacations where a series of murders has occurred in Belgium. Film takes off from there.
10.) "Frogs"--Ray Milland & a young Joan Van Ark in this reptilian horror film from A.I.P.
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1971: mostly unconventional choices:
1.) "Duel"--In the U.S., a television movie, got theatrical release overseas. Lean. mean thriller about whether a man will be driven off the road or not. Dennis Weaver is the person trying to avoid the thing that wants him out of the way. One of Steven Spielberg's first credits.
2.) "The Beguiled"--Clint Eastwood's a wounded Northern soldier in the South just after the Civil War has ended. He meets a young lady from a girls only Finishing school. Events develop from there. Based on Thomas Cullinans' novel.
3.) "And Now For Something Completely Different"--Monty Python. Nuff said.
4.) "Diamonds Are Forever"--Sean Connery's second to last Bond.
5.) "Directed by John Ford"--documentary with John Wayne. James Stewart, & Henry Fonda looking back at Fords' cinematic legacy.
6.) "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"--Underrated, little known Vincent Price horror film.
7.) "Cold Turkey"--A whole town tries to quit smoking for a cash reward.
8.) "Skin Game"--Three Old West card sharps team up for a con.
9.) "The French Connection"--Gene Hackman and a Mean car chase.
10.) "Klute"--Jane Fonda is a call girl in this thriller.
Find-- Animated 1971 version of "A Christmas Carol". Runs about 29 minutes & won the 1971 Best Short Film Oscar. Is on YT.
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LawrenceA-"Entertaining Mr. Sloane" is a wild black comedy with Peter McEnery, Beryl Reid, & Harry Andrews (am not certain of third actor). It involves a gigoloish McEnery seducing Reid for a place to stay, then pitting Reid against her brother Andrews to see what happens. If I say more I'll spoil the film. Film got mixed reviews on release. Is worth watching.
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1970:
1.) "M.A.S.H."
2.) "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"
3.) "Little Big Man"--Rambling comedic, anti-Vietnam western with sterling performances, especially Faye Dunaway & Richard Mulligan.
4.) "Patton"
5.) "Darling Lili"--underappreciated Julie Andrews film.
6.) "A Man Called Horse"--good western.
7.) "Two Mules For Sister Sara"--Shirley MacLaine runs over Clint Eastwood in this comic western; last shot is hilarious.
8.) "Soldier Blue"--Bloody western. Candice Bergen is a better actress than she's given credit for.
9.) "I Never Sang for My Father"
10.) "The Owl and the Pussycat--George Segal/Barbra Streisand comedy that's unexpectedly funny.
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I'm surprised someone hasn't posted this already--but Errol Flynn's 1954 production of " William Tell". It was the second film he made after he left Warner Brothers (1953's "Crossed Swords" was the first); Flynn provided half the financing, the rest coming from The Italian Government & some coming from Warner Bros. He shot 30-40 minutes of footage, then ran out of money and could not get financing to complete the film*
Who knows where the footage is? Naples, Rome, the Warner Bros. vaults? Maybe someone will find and show it some day.
*---Information from Jeanine Basingers' "The Star System", 2008.
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1960--1969 Favorites:
1.) "Breakfast at Tiffanys'
2.) "The Birds"
3.) "How to Steal A Million"
4.) "Star!"
5,) "The Lion In Winter"
6.) "Dr. No"
7.) "Masque of the Red Death"
8.) "Zulu"
9.) "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
10.) "Psycho"
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1969: The year I've seen fewest films in the sound era,
1.)"Z"
2.) "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"
3.) "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"--Jane Fondas' breakout film for being recogniized for acting ability.
4.) "Sweet Charity"--up here on the strength of Bob Fosses' direction, Shirley MacLaine, & Chita Rivera.
5.) "Support Your Local Sherriff"--James Garner is always amusing, and one of Walter Brennans' last performances.
6.) "The Stalking Moon"--Noirish Western.
7.) "Midnight Cowboy"--Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight are unforgettable--only "X" rated film to win Best Picture.
8.) "The Night They Raided Minsky's--Unrecognized musical that captures the seedy atmosphere of Vaudeville.
9.) "Cactus Flower"--I love Goldie Hawn, and her official debut won an Oscar.
10.) "MacKenna's Gold"--overlong Western that's still a fun watch.
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The lost footage of "The Wicker Man" (1973).
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1968:
1.) "Pretty Poison"--Anthony Perkins & Tuesday Weld are pitch perfect in their performances. Beverly Garland is memorable.
2.) "The Lion in Winter"--Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn are a wonder to hear and see.
3.) "2001; A Space Odyssey"--Not my favorite, but as others have said, too influential to ignore; the opening, scored to "Also Sprach Zarathrusta" (?) is wonderful.
4.) "Reflections In A Golden Eye"
5.) "Witchfinder General"--I second Swithins' recommendation for the U.K. version.
6.) "Star!"--Underappreciated musical that is finally finding its' audience.
7.) "Once Upon A Time In The West"
8.) "Funny Girl"--Overlong, too much talk, but did introduce Barbra Streisand to the screen--& can she sing!
9.) "The Scalphunters"--Funny western with Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, & Shelley Winters.
10.) tie--"The Stalking Moon"--Gregory Peck reclaims Eva Marie Saint & son from Apaches, & Apaches want them back: "Negatives"--with Glenda Jackson, Peter McEnery, & Diane Cilento as three people into role-playing. If the name "Hawley Harvey Crippen" means nothing to you, Wiki it before seeing "Negatives": if I hadn't recognized the name, I would have been hopelessly lost. A copy of "Negatives" is on YT.
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1967: Audrey leaves after this year (for a while); our old friend Katharine returns:
1.) "Two For The Road"
2.) " Wait Until Dark"
3.) "The Producers"
4.) "Quatermass and the Pit"--was so titled the first time I saw the film.
5.) "The Dirty Dozen"
6.) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
7.) "Thoroughly Modern Millie"--From the lyrics of the title song, Julie Andrews was already trying to get rid of her virginal image.
8.) "The Taming of the Shrew"--Elizabeth proves a fine farceur, and a capable Shakespearean actress, in maybe the least poetic of his plays.
9.) 'In The Heat of The Night"--Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (who won Best Supporting Actor Oscar) are very good as a Northern and Southern police chief, respectively.
10.) "You Only Live Twice"
Find--"The Big Shave", a 1967 short film by Martin Scorsese. I took it as a comment on the Vietnam War; Warning: film is bloody.
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1966:Westerns, comedies, & a special case (since I'm not sure if this thread will run until the 2000's).
1.) " How To Steal a Million"
2.) "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"--The Burtons best film together.
3.) "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum"--Early Sondheim musical, great fun.
4.) "The Shooting"--Western with Millie Perkins & Warren Oates--can be read as is, or can be taken symbolically.
5.) "Ride the Whirlwind"--This and "The Shooting" were made by director Monte Hellman back-to-back, with almost identical casts.
6.) "Lord Love a Duck"--bitter satire of Southern California isn't a lovable film, but is one of 1966's funniest.
7.) "Harper"--Paul Newman as private eye, with an outstanding supporting cast.
8.) "The Professionals"--Direct western, no symbolism.
9.) "Duel at Diablo"--Sidney Poitier & James Garner in a western--enjoyable.
10.) A Man For All Seasons--Paul Scofield is why this is included.
Special Case--a 2001 Documentary about "The Wicker Man" & how it was made in spite of all obstacles in its' way, & how it became a "midnight movie" college town hit. Search for "The Wicker Man Enigma--I found it in a list of over 300 horror movie videos--#84. Documentary contains major SPOILERSSPOILERS.
LawrenceA--let me know if you want the information used later.
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1965: A few odd choices.
1.) "Repulsion"--Fine horror film; One of the 60's best, IMHO.
2.) "The Loved One"--black comedy that takes off from a funeral.
3.) "The Naked Prey"-- Cornel Wilde is captive of an African tribe. He is set loose to run back to civilization & given a ten minutes headstart--will he make it?
4.) "For a Few Dollars More"--The Spaghetti Western makes its first appearance; Sergio Leone is a director to watch.
5.) "A Patch of Blue"--performances by Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, & Elizabeth Hartman put APOB in my top ten.
6.) "Cat Ballou"--enjoyable western spoof with good performances
7.) "Major Dundee"--again, early Sam Peckinpah, which I prefer to the bloodier films he made later.
8.) "Ship of Fools"--Messagey Kramer film, but Vivien Leigh is very good in her last filmed performance.
9.) "The Hallelujah Trail"--uneven comedy that has comic sparks between Burt Lancaster & Lee Remick, fine support from Brian Keith, and a score by Elmer Bernstein that supplies laughs where the script fails to do so.
10.) "The Sound of Music"--Yes, I know it's really "The Sound of Mucus", but I can't discount the music and the sinister underpinnings of the plot.
Find--"Incubus"--early William Shatner horror film by the maker of "The Outer Limits" that was filmed in Esperanto (according to YT); it has English subtitles.
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TopBilled--I've re-seen "Crack in the World" on YouTube Paramount Vault webpage--is very worth seeing, restorations are impeccable, from what I've seen.
"I Am Cubas"' long opening zoom shot that makes Monday Night Football dirigible shots look like childs play are amazing. I could not get into the plot; but the camerawork was stunning.
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1964: a few odd choices:
1.) Cheyenne Autumn--John Fords' last great work.
2.) "The Night of the Iguana"--Tennessee Williams & Ava Gardner.
3.) "The Masque of the Red Death"--This is the one film where Roger Corman blew the budget and spent money; and every cent shows on the screen. Beautiful (literally & figuratively) horror film; Price, Hazel Court, and a young Jane Asher show their acting chops. The Color horror film of the 60's.
4.) "Zulu"--A young Michael Caine and 100 some British soldiers ( with a nut to be taken care of and who is a plot loose end) against 4000 Zulus; marvelous, scary, historical film.
5.) "Goldfinger"--A girl is painted to death, among other things.
6.) "The Americanization of Emily"--Romance & cynicism win.
7.) "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"--a raucous to decorous Debbie Reynolds got her only Oscar nomination for this musical, whose events include the sinking of the Titanic.
8.) "Tomb of LIgeia"-- Another Poe story/poem, translated by Corman and company.
9. "Crack in the World"--Scientist wants clean energy, sets off atomic bomb in Reverse to penetrate Earths' core and get magma spewing up just like oil.
10. The Unbearables Tie: Fail-Safe is mentally unbearable (at least for me) because I know the Wrong decision will be made Every time. Fine film, but Depressing, Depressing, Depressing: OR
The Gluteus Maximus number of the Decade, Cleopatra--is Four hours long, and a Chore to sit through after Rex Harrison dies (roughly 3 hours).Oh, my aching (fill in the blank)!
11. "I Am Cuba"-- bore of a film, but camera techniques are amazing
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Mayo did have "attitude", though, which would partially explain her being cast as an Lady; a captain would be seen as a "commoner", & she would have plenty of excuse for sneering, slapping, and insulting him. Plus her before mentioned box-office and sex appeal, that probably clinched her being cast.
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LawrenceA--The Balcony is from a Jean Genet play. The play I don't know the plot of, but in the film, Shelley Winters is the Madam of a "house of ill repute", and she and her Houses customers have their fun while a revolution sweeps the country (unspecified) they're in. She is asked by the countrys' chief of police to impersonate the missing queen of the country. There's symbolism by the ton, and a long kiss between Winters and Grant. It's been twenty years since I've seen this: it made more sense than this post. The film was released on DVD in 2000; I don't know if it's still available or not.
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1963: The supernatural & ambiguous finishes:
1.) "The Haunting"--Arguably The best adaptation of a ghost story, and a film which gave me nightmares when I first saw it as a teen (Shirley Jacksons' book is ****good also.).
2.) "The Birds"--Another Hitchcock classic, with then state of the art Special Effects & a very effective score of bird noises composed by Bernard Herrman.
3.) "From Russia With Love--Sean Connery as Bond. Nuff said.
4.) "Dementia-13"--Strange title, but supernatural thriller from Francis Ford Coppola. Luana Anders is a standout.
5.) "The Great Escape"
6.) "Hud"--Great performances put this film in the top ten.
7.) "The Haunted Palace"--Good film, even though I prefer Poe.
8.) "The Balcony"--Shelley Winters & Lee Grant star in this adaptation of Jean Genets' play.
9.) "How The West Was Won"--the music score puts this in the top ten, along with Thelma Ritter's too brief part.
10.) "Charade"--Was a favorite before I found TCM.
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Hitchcock's 1956 remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" before the 1934 original.
Bela Lugosis' 1931 Dracula before the 1922 German version "Nosferatu".
Merle Oberons' 1944 version of "The Lodger" before the 1926 Hitchcock version.
1975's "Rooster Cogburn", which is just "The African Queen" (1951) set in the Old West.
Christopher Lee's Frankensteins' Monster (1957) before Boris Karloff's (1931).
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"Valley of the Dolls"
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1962: The formalized Western says Goodbye:
1.) "Ride the High Country"
2.) "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
3.) "Lonely Are The Brave"--Not a good time movie;the ending is like a slap in the face.
4.) "The Miracle Worker"
5.) "Dr. No"
6.) "The Pit and the Pendulum"
7.) "Advise and Consent"
8.) "The Manchurian Candidate"--Fantastic political thriller with excellent performances by all--Angela Lansbury & Laurence Harvey are standouts.
9.) "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
10.) "Billy Rose's Jumbo"
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I think it's a Michael York film. Set in WW I or II. York made some interesting film choices in the early 70's: "Something for Everyone" (1970), "England Made Me" (1972), "Cabaret" (1972); check it out if it's coming up on a channel near you--TCM isn't showing it (unless I missed it in the March schedule). Let us know how it is.
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1961:Most have been discussed.
1.) "Breakfast at Tiffanys"
2.) "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"
3.) "Judgment at Nuremberg"--The closest my father came to discussing WW II with me was insisting I watch this film.
4.) "One, Two, Three--dialogue is delivered at machine gun speed in this Billy Wilder acidic comedy.
5.) "The Day The World Caught Fire"--What if two nuclear bombs were set off at different ends of the world at the same moment? Cynical (listen to the press room dialogue), lean, mean noir/anti nuke/disaster film is overlooked, maybe because of a dependence on stock footage. I saw the BFI restoration available on YT. Recommended, especially if TCM has never shown it.
6.) "Victim"--Noirish film still packs a punch; Dirk Bogarde is especially good.
7.) "The Innocents"--Wonderful are they ghosts/or is the governess hallucinating? film. Deborah Kerr should have tied for the Oscar.
8.) "The Deadly Companions"--Early Sam Peckinpah. Maureen O'Hara sings the title song as well as stars in the film.
9.) "The Guns of Navarone"
10.) "The Misfits"
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1973: A new Bond:
1.) "The Sting"--Ragtime music, Newman, Redford, & a con game--lightweight but fun.
2.) "The Wicker Man"--Citizen Kane of horror films ( not my quote, But I agree with the opinion!)
3.) "The Three Musketeers"--Delightful Richard Lester film; the title three are fine, & Raquel Welch shows a flair for slapstick.
4.) "The Exorcist"--gave me nightmares after I first saw it; Not a pleasant viewing experience, but its' effect on the Horror genre can't be ignored.
5.) "Live and Let Die"--wonderful title song; film is overlong, but a fun watch.
6.) "Don't Look Now"--Nicolas (sp?) Roeg thriller is sexy and ominous--a mood of dread permeates the whole film.
7.) "Breezy"--Early Clint Eastwood directing effort. A small, sweet film that was overlooked.
8.) "Paper Moon"
9.) "Theatre of Blood"--Vincent Price as an actor who kills critics who've given him Bad reviews--in Shakespearean ways.
10.) "Robin Hood"