CinemaInternational Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 We're about a week removed from the release of Once upon a Time in Hollywood, set in 1969 and one of the most anticipated award films of the year. because of that and because it is 50 year ago this year, I'd like to just do a favorite films of the year thread for it. Feel free to discuss any film you wish! Personal top picks alphabetically: Alice's Restauraunt Anne of the Thousand Days Cactus Flower Easy Rider Goodbye Columbus Goodbye Mr Chips The Gypsy Moths (airing late tonight) Hello Dolly Kes Mississippi Mermaid My Night at Maud's On Her Majesty's Secret Service The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Sterile Cuckoo Support Your Local Sheriff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Here are my top 25 picks, out of 123 movies seen: The Wild Bunch Midnight Cowboy On Her Majesty's Secret Service Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Z They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Fellini Satyricon Take the Money and Run Easy Rider Army of Shadows Salesman The Magic Christian Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Alice's Restaurant Play Dirty The Gypsy Moths Death of a Gunfighter Blind Beast Journey to the Far Side of the Sun What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? A Dream of Kings Burn! Last Summer True Grit 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen444 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I would second some of the choices here: Alice's Restaurant - The scene with Harvey Keitel is unforgettable. Easy Rider (seen in the theater with quality sound) Goodbye Columbus - Richard Benjamin underrated. Sterile Cuckoo - A young Liza. Goodbye Mr. Chips Midnight Cowboy - a memorable movie for so many reasons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 In the Essentials thread, I reviewed four films from 1969. It was one of my monthly themes. I covered PENDULUM, an interesting picture with George Peppard and Jean Seberg. I also reviewed ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, which is my favorite Bond film. I looked at IN SEARCH OF GREGORY, a seldom seen comedy with Julie Christie and John Hurt. And then I did a TV movie called Silent Night Lonely Night which is based on an outstanding play by Robert Anderson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 12 minutes ago, Stephen444 said: Alice's Restaurant - The scene with Harvey Keitel is unforgettable. I'm not so sure, since I don't remember it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 My 10 best movies of 1969: #1 In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, USA) #2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, USA) #3 Satyricon (Frederico Fellini, Italy) #4 High School (Frederick Wiseman, USA) #5 The Butcher (Calude Chabrol, France) #6 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, USA) #7 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, USA) #8 The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paravanov, USSR) #9 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy) #10 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, USA) I could easily be talked into replacing any of the bottom five with Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 minute ago, sewhite2000 said: My 10 best movies of 1969: #9 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy) I could easily be talked into replacing any of the bottom five with Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR) The Conformist is a 1970 film. Andrei Rublev is a 1966 film, although that's a frequently debated point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Jesus, that was fast! Well, let me re-ponder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhov Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 My top 5 of 1969- 1. The Cremator 2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 4. Fellini Satyricon 5. Midnight Cowboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Looks like I can't argue about The Conformist. I can't find a premiere on imdb in any country earlier than early 1970. Not sure what I was thinking. I'm gonna stick by Andrei Rublev, which imdb says had a very limited showing in December, 1966, but didn't make its official premiere in Moscow until February, 1969. So, I would probably have to throw out The Conformist, move The Wild Bunch up one and put Rublev at No. 10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen444 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Many I like already mentioned. And I'd add---- BRIDGE AT REMAGEN THE CHAIRMAN THE ILLUSTRATED MAN THE LEARNING TREE POPI Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det Jim McLeod Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Here's a few not mentioned: Salesman - great Maysles brothers documentary, about Bible salesman. Stark view of real life Willy Loman types. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice- funny and sharp satire of middle aged couples trying be hip with the sexual revolution A Boy Named Charlie Brown-first and best of the "Peanuts" big screen movies as our neurotic loser/hero goes to the big city for a spelling bee. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said: Here's a few not mentioned: Salesman - great Maysles brothers documentary, about Bible salesman. Stark view of real life Willy Loman types. That was #11 on my list above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 My favorite 1969: Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice. A Boy Named Charlie Brown *Great picks Det. Jim McLeod! Cactus Flower Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid So apparently my list is very short. I haven't seen many films from 1969 it seems. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownShoes Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Not yet mentioned, but deserving of it: Downhill Racer - Michael Ritchie's portrait of a single-minded Olympic skier, well-played by Robert Redford. Age of Consent - featuring a very young and very full-bodied and naked Helen Mirren, this final Michael Powell movie is based on the biography of artist Norman Lindsay. Castle Keep - highly entertaining war movie from Sidney Pollack starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Scott Wilson and Bruce Dern. Medium Cool - Haskell Wexler's now cult film about the violence surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Reivers - one of Steve McQueen's less-remembered films. Features a fine performance from a youngster named Mitch Vogel Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Robert Redford again, this time as a tough small town lawman dealing with a renegade Indian played by Robert Blake. Women in Love - Ken Russell's treatment of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Featured full frontal male nudity for just about the first time in a major production. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen444 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 2 hours ago, BrownShoes said: Not yet mentioned, but deserving of it: The Reivers - one of Steve McQueen's less-remembered films. Features a fine performance from a youngster named Mitch Vogel Women in Love - Ken Russell's treatment of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Featured full frontal male nudity for just about the first time in a major production. Definitely these two. Especially "Women in Love" Probably Russells most lucid film on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSuzie Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 There's also probably the only Clint Eastwood movie that almost nobody likes - Paint Your Wagon. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Somnambula Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 2 hours ago, speedracer5 said: A Boy Named Charlie Brown I have not seen many of the Peanuts movies. The rumor mill claims Apple TV+ has rights to all the Peanuts library. New stuff is coming. Snoopy is going to the moon. "One small step for a dog. One giant leap for dog-kind." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 "...Ponderosa Pine, ooo" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 two others came to mind, not cinematic art, but enjoyable comedies: Don't Drink the Water and If It's Tuesday This Must be Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 The Wild Bunch Midnight Cowboy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Burn! True Grit Marlowe Shame, Shame, everybody knows your name The Honeymoon Killers Support Your Local Sheriff! 100 Rifles Age Of Consent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, cigarjoe said: The Honeymoon Killers That was on my old Top Ten of '69 list, but when I looked it up, IMDb has it as a 1970 release. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 19 hours ago, sewhite2000 said: My 10 best movies of 1969: #5 The Butcher (Calude Chabrol, France) Here's another that IMDb lists as a 1970 release. Release dates are fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Release dates tangle so easily. Especially now. ON IMDB, you have films that either opened in Europe first or appeared at Film Festivals that hold different dates then the commonly held ones. See for example Fanny and Alexander, The King of Comedy, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Crash, The Hurt Locker, Beginners, all listed a yearbefore their commonly held date on IMDB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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