skimpole Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Here's my top 10 for 1965: Help! The Flight of the Phoenix Charulata* Pierrot le Fou Le Bonheur Alphaville Chimes of Midnight Repulsion Doctor Zhivago The Brick and the Mirror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER a.k.a. MARS INVADES PUERTO RICO BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER BLOODY PIT OF HORROR COLOR ME BLOOD RED CURSE OF THE FLY THE DEFILERS THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER MONSTER A GO-GO! MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY NIGHTMARE CASTLE PLANET ON THE PROWL SPACEFLIGHT IC-1 TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE CURSE OF THE VOODOO HARUM SCARUM SPACE PROBE TAURUS and of course DR. ZHIVAGO. I don't know THE BRICK AND THE MIRROR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 To these lists, I would simply add "Wild, Wild Planet". Part of Antonio Margheriti's Italian Sci-Fi Gamma I Quadrilogy. It is out of this world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 These are my favorites from that year. There are some major 1965 releases like Dr. Zhivago that I haven't seen, so they're not listed (and who knows if it would be listed had I seen it). Listed in no particular order: 1. Cat Ballou 2. Inside Daisy Clover 3. The Sound of Music 4. That Darn Cat! 5. Beach Blanket Bingo (So sue me, I love teen movies) I was looking over a list of 1965 film releases (I can never remember what year things came out) and there are many films I've heard of but haven't seen. There are a few that I have seen (The Great Race, How to Murder Your Wife, and Marriage on the Rocks) that I would never rank on a list. Lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 [...] and of course DR. ZHIVAGO.[...] Hah! Good inclusion- fits in stupendously with all those others you mentioned. (Not that I've seen them, but the titles look promising.) I've not got the most prolific movie-watching background, but to me this list looks pretty dandy: The Collector The Loved One A Thousand Clowns Repulsion Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Cat Ballou Juliet of the Spirits Flight of the Phoenix Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Alphaville I know I gave Alphaville a pretty ho-hum review here, but it has enough interesting ideas and entertaining moments to put it above the others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Hah! Good inclusion- fits in stupendously with all those others you mentioned. (Not that I've seen them, but the titles look promising.) I've not got the most prolific movie-watching background, but to me this list looks pretty dandy: The Collector The Loved One A Thousand Clowns Repulsion Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Cat Ballou Juliet of the Spirits Flight of the Phoenix Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Alphaville I know I gave Alphaville a pretty ho-hum review here, but it has enough interesting ideas and entertaining moments to put it above the others. I still need to see SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 [...]I was looking over a list of 1965 film releases (I can never remember what year things came out) and there are many films I've heard of but haven't seen. There are a few that I have seen (The Great Race, How to Murder Your Wife, and Marriage on the Rocks) that I would never rank on a list. Lol. I second the boo to The Great Race and will add Bunny Lake is Missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I second the boo to The Great Race and will add Bunny Lake is Missing. On paper, The Great Race seems like it should be good: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood. Three actors that I enjoy. Vivian "Ethel Mertz" Vance even has a tiny role. I love Wood's costumes. Lemmon's character is just irritating. The film goes on much too long. I get bored of the film. It was a good idea. It just needed more time in the editing room and Lemmon maybe could have toned it down a bit. After The Apartment, Lemmon's career seemed to go through a strange period. With the exception of Days of Wine and Roses, Lemmon made a lot of forgettable films during the early 1960s. He didn't seem to get back on track until The Fortune Cookie. My absolute most loathed role of his though is that of the landlord in Under the Yum Yum Tree. I hated that movie. I haven't seen Bunny Lake is Missing. Though, I really like the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 My actual 1965 list is: 1. DR. ZHIVAGO (I know, I know) 2. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 3. REPULSION 4. THE HILL 5. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE 6. RED BEARD 7. JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 8. THE COLLECTOR 9. CAT BALLOU 10. A THOUSAND CLOWNS Runner-ups: THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET, SWORD OF THE BEAST, THE LOVED ONE, SAMURAI ASSASSIN, and THE PAWNBROKER. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxreyman Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 My choices for 1965:The Sound of Music The Bedford Incident In Harm’s Way The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Agony and the Ecstasy Mirage The Flight of the Phoenix Doctor Zhivago 36 HoursMajor Dundee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I still need to see SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS. I need to see it again. It's certainly unique- a bit dazzling. Hard to rank beside others. The sweeping film style, use of color and music make it seem more like an art piece than a movie. It's all very beautifully done. [...]I haven't seen Bunny Lake is Missing. Though, I really like the title. It's one that hooks you in, and I know a lot of people like it, so I wouldn't discourage you. I think my dislike of it is very personal, just because I found it dissatisfying. It struck me just wrong, but depending on your perspective it might be a classic- who knows? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 A few that haven't yet been mentioned-- BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (screenplay by Horton Foote based on his stage play) THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER OPERATION CROSSBOW SHIP OF FOOLS RETURN FROM THE ASHES VON RYAN'S EXPRESS SHENANDOAH THE NANNY THE CINCINNATI KID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 My actual 1965 list is: 1. DR. ZHIVAGO (I know, I know) 2. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 3. REPULSION 4. THE HILL 5. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE 6. RED BEARD 7. JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 8. THE COLLECTOR 9. CAT BALLOU 10. A THOUSAND CLOWNS Runner-ups: THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET, SWORD OF THE BEAST, THE LOVED ONE, SAMURAI ASSASSIN, and THE PAWNBROKER. Go figure- every movie on your list that I didn't mention are ones I haven't seen. (Yeah, even Dr. Zhivago. I'm just all too keen to join the haters on that one.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 And glancing through the Wiki page of 1965 movie releases just now myself, of all the films I'm familiar with on that list, the following have been some of my favorites over these 50 years: THE BEDFORD INCIDENT THE CINCINNATI KID THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX THE HILL THE ROUNDERS THE SATAN BUG And no, it's only coincidental that they all begin the word "The". (...AND, spotting the title DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE on that list reminded me of the time my fellow 13 y/o friend and I were all set to go see that Vincent Price spy spoof UNTIL his mother decided with a title like THAT it would be "much too racy" for him to see, and so I went and saw it alone...boy, times have sure changed, haven't they?!) LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noah80 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 The Sound of Music The Collector That Darn Cat! all three films made lots of money. This month marks the release of That Darn Cat! 50 years ago. So why was 1965 the turning point in terms of classic films? (why not 1964 or 1966?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 The Sound of Music The Collector That Darn Cat! all three films made lots of money. This month marks the release of That Darn Cat! 50 years ago. So why was 1965 the turning point in terms of classic films? (why not 1964 or 1966?) Was '65 the year that the production code officially went away and was replaced with the current G, PG, R, etc system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGGGerald Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER a.k.a. MARS INVADES PUERTO RICO BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER BLOODY PIT OF HORROR COLOR ME BLOOD RED CURSE OF THE FLY THE DEFILERS THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER MONSTER A GO-GO! MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY NIGHTMARE CASTLE PLANET ON THE PROWL SPACEFLIGHT IC-1 TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE CURSE OF THE VOODOO HARUM SCARUM SPACE PROBE TAURUS and of course DR. ZHIVAGO. I don't know THE BRICK AND THE MIRROR. I like this list better. I've seen more from this one than the other ! "FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!KILL! ( surprised that got through the censor lol ) needs to be remade. But, where would you find women who look like that today ?? Russ Meyer, you are sorely missed. Now that was real summer night at the drive in fun right there ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Was '65 the year that the production code officially went away and was replaced with the current G, PG, R, etc system? No. Usually the year 1968 is attributed to the official end of the code. And even though Maltin's guide goes to '65, when you look at the titles on the TCM database, they only have his reviews up through 1960. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickAndNora34 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 The Sound of Music A Patch of Blue Cat Ballou Ship of Fools The Sandpiper Bunny Lake is Missing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 The "best" is always personally subjective. Our favorites from 50 years ago(1965) might be the better query---- Some of MY favorites might be one someone else thinks SUCKS, or maybe nobody's even HEARD of some of the ones(typically foreign films) listed by others. MY list includes the following, and probably not ALL of them, and likely, due to my being 14 years old fifty years ago, and NOT spending a lot of time and money(which there wasn't a lot of) going to the show. I probably, if I really strained my memory, could say I saw about a third of these at the theater. But which ones would be near impossible to pinpoint! A FEW maybe, but not ALL. SHENANDOAH THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL VON RYAN'S EXPRESS HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA BOEING BOEING THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD CAT BALLOU THE NAKED PREY THE ROUNDERS HELP HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE THE CINCINNATTI KID I know there's some missing, but for now...... Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I like this list better. I've seen more from this one than the other ! "FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!KILL! ( surprised that got through the censor lol ) needs to be remade. But, where would you find women who look like that today ?? Russ Meyer, you are sorely missed. Now that was real summer night at the drive in fun right there ! Agree 100%. I like this list a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 1965 isn't a bad choice for the last year of the classic era, although I would use 1966, the last year that Oscars were given for black & white cinematography and black & white art direction. By the way, the late Haskell Wexler won the last Oscar for B&W cinematography, for WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? My list for the 10 best of 1965 is limited to English-language films, with honorable mention to SIMON OF THE DESERT and RED BEARD in the foreign film category. I've included THE TRAIN as a 1965 film (year of Oscar eligibility and American release; shown in France in 1964, which is the date imdb shows for it). Hm, everyone seems to have forgotten the best film of all: 1. KING RAT 2. THE HILL 3. THE TRAIN 4. MIRAGE 5. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 6. A PATCH OF BLUE 7. DARLING 8. THE PAWNBROKER 9. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 10. OTHELLO Honorable mention to THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, THE COLLECTOR, REPULSION, and RETURN FROM THE ASHES. All in all, a solid year. Interesting that my top eight choices and two of the honorable mentions are in black and white. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noah80 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Top grossing films of 1965 (U.S.) From Wikipedia 1. The Sound of Music 2. Doctor Zhivago 3. Thunderball 4. Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 5. That Darn Cat! 6. The Great Race 7. Cat Ballou 8. What's New Pussycat? 9. Shenandoah 10. Von Ryan's Express 11. The Greatest Story Ever Told 12. For a Few Dollars More 13. The Sandpiper 14. A Patch of Blue 15. The Sons of Katie Elder 16. Help! 17. How to Murder Your Wife 18. Darling 19. The Agony and the Ecstasy 20. Do Not Disturb 21. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 22. Ship of Fools 23. The Collector 24. The Train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1965 isn't a bad choice for the last year of the classic era, although I would use 1966, the last year that Oscars were given for black & white cinematography and black & white art direction. By the way, the late Haskell Wexler won the last Oscar for B&W cinematography, for WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? My list for the 10 best of 1965 is limited to English-language films, with honorable mention to SIMON OF THE DESERT and RED BEARD in the foreign film category. I've included THE TRAIN as a 1965 film (year of Oscar eligibility and American release; shown in France in 1964, which is the date imdb shows for it). Hm, everyone seems to have forgotten the best film of all: 1. KING RAT 2. THE HILL 3. THE TRAIN 4. MIRAGE 5. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 6. A PATCH OF BLUE 7. DARLING 8. THE PAWNBROKER 9. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 10. OTHELLO Honorable mention to THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, THE COLLECTOR, REPULSION, and RETURN FROM THE ASHES. All in all, a solid year. Interesting that my top eight choices and two of the honorable mentions are in black and white. King Rat tops my list for 1965 as well. I will save the rest for the Top Ten Films of... thread in Your Favorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 I consider Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors and Red Desert to be 1964 films. The Brick and the Mirror is an Iranian movie about a cabbie who finds that a passenger has (deliberately) left a baby in his taxi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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