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SKIDOO.

My mission here is complete.

There actually were happy times way back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8vOQNvd3c

Midnight Cowboy
2001: A Space Odyssey
Once Upon a Time in the West
Dr. Strangelove
Yojimbo
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Psycho

Oh, sure, THE MAN wants to herd us off his lawn and into his little box. THE MAN don't like us, with our bare feet and long hair, stinking up his little white picket -fence Ratner thread.

Well, we like it there, baby! You can call in the National Goonsquad to tear gas us and bust our heads, but the Ratner thread is here to stay!

HELL NO, WE WON'T GO!

Yikes, where to begin? And where to end? I'll second those already mentioned (except Skidoo, which I still haven't seen), and throw these out there:

L'avventura
La Dolce Vita
Le Trou
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Strangers When We Meet
Il Posto
Through a Glass Darkly
The Hustler
Winter Light
L'eclisse
Advise and Consent
Lolita
Lawrence of Arabia
8 1/2
The Easy Life
Paranoiac
Nothing But a Man
The Battle of Algiers
The Nanny
Mouchette
Persona
Blowup
Closely Watched Trains
Cool Hand Luke
Point Blank
Faces
Shame
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Wild Bunch

I could go on and on and on and on until I'm listing guiltier pleasures like Pollyanna and Ice Station Zebra, but maybe I'd best stop now.

Winter Light?

Nice ideas, but maybe the stuffiest film of all time.

Of those already mentioned, Psycho, They Shoot Horses and Battle of Algiers are right up the top top top of my favourites list (but, obviously, I haven't seen far enough titles from the '60s). Some other favourites that have yet to mentioned are:

The Birds
Rosemary's Baby
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Haunting
West Side Story
Splendor in the Grass
The Children's Hour
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
The Misfits

etc...

My Fair Lady
The Magnificant Seven (one of my dad's favorite)
Planet of the Apes (the last shot is one of my all-time favorite)

Great pix everyone is picking. But riddle me this. Why such a happy number of non-English language pictures from the 60s and when you reference the 80s and 90s thread, there is nary a title by comparison?

20/20 perspective? Or better filmmakers? Or is it that those of us who have been around that bit longer can remember them as first editions?

The Bad Sleep Well
Yojimbo
The Hustler
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Manchurian Candidate
Lawrence of Arabia
High and Low
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bonnie & Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
Rosemary's Baby
Faces
2001: A Space Odyssey
Z

don't forget ... Night of the Living Dead, The President's Analyst, The Manchurian Candidate ...

Sad that it took so long for someone to mention The Manchurian Candidate. And I'll segue from that Welles-inspired direction to one from the master himself, The Trial, another one that should have been mentioned by now.

Not yet mentioned:

ONE, TWO, THREE
CHARADE
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
EL DORADO
ADVISE AND CONSENT
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
THE SATAN BUG (personal choice, let it go)
PLAYTIME
101 DALMATIANS
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY
THE PRODUCERS
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF

More will come to mind later, I'm sure.

Pope, I'd hazard a guess and say that it was because this was such a fertile time for not only international cinema, but the distribution of it. Certainly gaining the most prominence on the cinema scene since early silent cinema. The directors that were coming out of the system at that time were so fresh and original and making things people had never seen before.

Seeing as its Olympics time...

I recently purchased a 1969 Paramount film of Robert Redford's called Downhill Racer with Gene Hackman as his coach.

It was Michael Ritchie's first film. More of a charcter study than about the Olympics but great in that it has that tense docu style that came with so many films of that era. Some wonderful work by Redford as the cocky racer and the cinematography is quite stunning.

It's a largely forgotten film of that era but I recommend it.

was long days journey into night made in the 60's?

butch cassidy is a fine flick, and one i have always thought to be very exemplary of the 1960's (it's allegorical context (if there is one) and its two leads i guess)

what ever happened to baby jane is a real classy exploitation flick now and again...

and was the apartment made in 60? Sorry if these three were already mentioned...

In no order:

The Apartment
Once Upon a Time in the West
Hombre
Whats New Pussycat
Cool Hand Luke
Laurence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
Sparticus
The Hustler
Sound of Music (so I'm a sap)

Shit, what was I thinking please replace Hombre with Wild Bunch

BEDAZZLED.

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