OK here goes. In this thread feel free to suggest and discuss the best films released between 1950 and 1969.
The limit here is currently 100 films BUT if enough people feel they can do lists of 150 or even 200 I will strongly consider making those the limit.

Taking the limit as 100 though

1. 1000
2. 750
3. 500
4. 400
5. 350
6. 320
7. 300
8. 280
9. 260
10. 250
11. 245
12. 240
13. 235
14. 230
15. 225
16. 220
17. 215
18. 210
19. 205
20. 200

25. 175
30. 150
31. 148
32. 146
33. 144
34. 142
35. 140

40. 130
45. 120
50. 110
55. 100
60. 90
65. 80
70. 70
75. 60
80. 50
85. 40
90. 30

95. 20
96. 18
97. 16
98. 14
99. 12
100. 10


Again hope this will put an emphasis on ordering the higher end of the list and won't penalise those who submit smaller lists or give a bias to either the films we've all seen or high ranking films on a few lists.

The deadline for votes is 15th May at the moment and the list will be counted down before the end of the month. Again don't expect a list with enteries as long as displayed on previous votes on here. The final countdown for every set will be 150 or maybe 200 depending on votes but the full list of multiple votes will be made available.

Best places to start...

http://uk.imdb.com/chart/1950s
http://uk.imdb.com/chart/1960s
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/

Official:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Andrey Rublyov (Andrei Rublev)
3. The Seven Samurai
4. 8 1/2
5. Jules et Jim
6. Vertigo
7. Persona
8. The Searchers
9. À bout de souffle
10. Tokyo Story
11. L'avventura
12. Singin' In The Rain
13. Rear Window
14. Dr. Strangelove
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. The Battle of Algiers
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Faces (dir. Cassavetes)
19. Diary of a Country Priest
20. The Apu Trilogy
21. The 400 Blows
22. Some Like It Hot
23. Hiroshima mon amour
24. Touch of Evil
25. The Leopard
26. Bonnie & Clyde
27. Ikiru
28. Rebel Without A Cause
29. The Seventh Seal
30. The African Queen
31. The Night Of The Hunter
32. The Manchurian Candidate
33. Lawrence of Arabia
34. On The Waterfront
35. La dolce vita
36. Ugetsu monogatari
37. Ordet (dir. Dreyer)
38. Belle de jour
39. Blow-Up
40. Rashomon
41. La Strada
42. A Hard Day's Night
43. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
44. Last Year at Marienbad
45. Au hasard Balthazar
46. M. Hulot's Holiday
47. The Conformist
48. Weekend
49. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
50. All About Eve
51. The Producers
52. The Earrings of Madame de...
53. Ma nuit chez Maud
54. Bob le flambeur
55. Tirez sur le pianiste
56. Night and Fog
57. Wild Strawberries
58. Playtime
59. L'eclisse
60. White Heat
61. An Autumn Afternoon
62. Written on the Wind
63. Psycho
64. Masculine-Feminine
65. Los Olvidados
66. Sansho the Bailiff
67. The Hustler
68. Repulsion
69. Chimes at Midnight
70. The Life of Oharu
71. Shadows
72. Throne Of Blood
73. North By Northwest
74. Pickpocket
75. Marnie
76. A Streetcar Named Desire
77. The Exterminating Angel
78. Le Notti di Cabiria
79. The Birds
80. Mouchette
81. Paths of Glory
82. A Face In The Crowd
83. A Star Is Born (dir. Cukor)
84. Long Day's Journey Into Night (dir. Lumet)
85. The Apartment
86. The Wages of Fear
87. Once Upon A Time In The West
88. The Graduate
89. Rosemary's Baby
90. The River (dir. Renoir)
91. Early Summer
92. Umberto D.
93. Strangers On A Train
94. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
95. Night Of The Living Dead
96. Les Cousins
97. Cape Fear
98. Mon Oncle
99. Ace In The Hole (The Big Carnival)
100. Anatomy Of A Murder

33. The Night Of The Hunter



Damn, what a great movie!

How about this gem from 1962?



Or the original The Fly?

SUGGESTIONS:

HIGH NOON

THE DIRTY DOZEN

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

EASY RIDER

OK, like the Music poll i'm going to go through the years with some popular and praised films

1950

All About Eve
Asphalt Jungle, The
Diary of a Country Priest
Flowers of St.Francis, The/Francesco, giullare di Dio
In a Lonely Place
La Ronde
Los Olvidados/The Young and the Damned
Rashomon
Rio Grande
Sunset Blvd.
Un Chant D'Amour
Wagon Master
Harvey
Cinderalla
Annie Get Your Gun
Treasure Island
Cyrano de Bergerac
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Cheaper by the Dozen
Father of the Bride

Officially

30. On The Waterfront
29. Rear Window
28. The African Queen
27. The Battle of Algiers
26. To Kill A Mockingbird
25. A Man for All Seasons
24. Vertigo
23. To Catch a Thief
22. The Graduate
21. The Killing
20. 12 Angry Men
19. Mary Poppins
18. The Producers
17. Wages of Fear
16. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
15. Anatomy of a Murder
14. Roman Holiday
13. Point Blank
12. Bridge on the River Kwai
11. Charade
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
09. Stalag 17
08. Psycho
07. Great Escape
06. Diabolique
05. Night of the Hunter
04. Paths of Glory
03. Hard Day's Night
02. Some Like it Hot
01. Dr. Strangelove

Where is Jean-Luc Godard in this mix for everyone?

I've only seen Contempt (good, but not something i want to see again) and Une Femme Est Une Femme (which I fell in love with just last week)

List under construction:

The Court Jester, 1956
("The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!")

2001: A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick, 1968

The Sound of Music-Robert Wise, 1965

West Side Story

Dude, I have Breathless (À bout de souffle) in the top ten with Weekend and Masculine-Feminine in the middle.

Contempt is overrated, not a fan. I'd also recommend Alphaville as a contender, it has its charms.

This movie could not be any more fun. Great reco, aggie.

Would it help anyone if I were to post the original 499 movie favorites list? I don't know if anyone recovered it pre-crash...it might be beneficial for the continuing crisis polls.

No need, it's in the archieve.

I'd rather people posted personal suggestions instead of just picking off that list. I'll make sure every eligible film on that list is mentioned though.

BTW, big Criterion sale:
http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/studio.cfm?...udioId=2&page=1

1951

Ace in the Hole/The Big Carnival
African Queen, The
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Early Summer
Europa '51/The Greatest Love
Forbidden Games/Jeux Interdits
Le Plaisir/House of Pleasure
Miracle in Milan
Place in the Sun, A
River, The
Strangers on a Train
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Alice in Wonderland
American in Paris, An
Scrooge...aka Christmas Carol, A
Thing from Another World, The ...aka Thing, The
Place in the Sun, A
Lavender Hill Mob, The
Quo Vadis
Man in the White Suit, The
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The

Bird, thanks for the tip. I finally ordered the deluxe Fanny & Alexander set...$35 (incl. tax), compared to Tower Records' $60 + tax pricetag!



Fascinatingly weird....I nearly died watching the traffic jam sequence ...

01. Contempt
02. Lolita
03. The Wild Bunch
04. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
05. La Dolce Vita
06. Rosemary's Baby
07. My Life To Live
08. Jules et Jim
09. Alphaville
10. Dr Strangelove:
11. On The Waterfront
12. Night of the Living Dead
13. Rear Window
14. The Ladykillers
15. Psycho


i'm in a HURRY and also in a godard phase as you can see. the ladykillers with alec guiness is radical. wild bunch & good the bad & the ugly are movies i can rewatych forever ever . fucking fuck.

I haven't seen Guiness in "Ladykillers," but I made the awful mistake of watching the Coen Brothers/Tom Hanks version first. I hope it hasn't ruined it for me.

Seventh Seal

Virgin Spring

Bob Le Flambeur
Le Samourai

off the top of my head. Don't know if these were mentioned or not. Just noticed the thread, when are lists due? Birdisword I think mine will resemble yours quite a bit, we have similar tastes for the period.

May 12ish.

The cack re-make didn't spoil The Ladykillers for me. A fantastic film and one of a handful of Ealing comedy classics that will make my list.


and yes May 12th.

1952

High Noon
Ikiru/To Live/Doomed/Living
Life of Oharu, The Limelight
Othello
Quiet Man, The
Singin' in the Rain
Umberto D.
Jeux interdits/Forbidden Games
Wages of Fear, The/Le Salaire de la peur

Just noticed this thread, cool. I will definitely have a list for this.

Here's a top twelve. This is all you're getting out of me.

01. The Apartment
02. Shock Corridor
03. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
04. Psycho
05. Twelve Angry Men
06. Mon Oncle
07. A Hard Day’s Night
08. Pickup On South Street
09. The Wild Bunch
10. Head
11. Dial 'M' For Murder
12. Goldfinger

This is one of the more egregiously overrated pieces of crap ever. Lacks in camp value what it lacks in every other department.

I don't know, broads with huge tits beating the shit out of people sort of guarantees a great movie.

Charade

Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn. Can't get much better than that.


Accept no imitations like that so-called remake, "The Truth About Charlie" with Mark Wahlberg.

Damn paves...I usually agree with you, but I've never understood the acclaim for The Apartment. Twelve Angry Men as well...and Faster Pussycat?
(feel free to call me out as a dick for this harsh post with no explanation...I hate when people do what I'm doing. )

What don't you like about 12AM and FP? The latter is as good as any American feature of the mid 60s. A really bad time for American movies.

I can't really properly defend those movies, Elemeno, particularly "The Apartment" and "Twelve Angry Men." "Faster Pussycat," on the other hand, is more of an acquired taste. I happen to like it, though. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill has a better first 5 mins than most movies ever made.

Does anyone know what that song is at the beginning??

I listen to Korn heaps.

I watched it the other day, surprised that it came after Une Femme Est Une Femme...it looks like a much less mature director (maybe the fact that it's in black and white throws me off)

Check this one out fellows, it's at Harold Washington Library (maybe):
Kwaidan

Sure you will. Around the same time you complete the Simpsons poll.

Not that I'm rooting for them, but any thoughts on the Hope/Crosby/Lamour Road To.. flicks? I like the inside jokes, but not sure if they are worth more than that.

so is this year restriction based on when the film was released first, when it was first released in us or when it was produced? can we make it simple and just go by whatever year imdb has next to it?

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Check this one out fellows, it's at Harold Washington Library (maybe):
Kwaidan
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Kwaidan's a good flick, I endorse that. Paves is right too, the apartment will probably earn my vote.

The year next to it in IMDB is the decider (and was last time round). Unless you can make a personal plea for a film based on something you know that they don't, IMDB isn't perfect.

new to the film polls. are documentaries allowed?

As long as they had a cinematic release, Yes. The likes of Don't Look Back are up for consideration.

This is going to be a much bigger issue for foreign films when we get to the last couple of eras. There can often be a three- or four-year difference between when a movie gets released in its home country and when it sees a US (or UK) release.

I thought about this and the cut offs are 1970-89 and 1990-2006 so hopefully there aren't too many films from 1989 that fall into the 1990 onwards bracket. If there are we'll deal with them case by case.

OH FISH ILL
1. 2001
2.The Court Jester
3.Singin' in the Rain
4.M. Hulot's Holiday
5.Glen Or Glenda
6.Plan 9 From Outer Space
7.Meet Me In St. Louis
8.Sound of Music
9.West Side Story
10.8 1/2
11.Some Like It Hot
12.Kwaidan
13.Ikiru
14.The Birds
15.Mary Poppins
16.The Apartment
17.Sunset Boulevard
18.To Kill A Mockingbird
19.Head
20. Mon Oncle
21. Old Yeller
22. Swiss Family Robinson
23. The Ten Commandments
24. One, Two Three!
25. Une Femme Est Une Femme

100% Agreeance.

Allow me to add my too sense:

The Party
Fail-Safe
Head
Ocean's 11

...I'll think of more later, I'm sure.

waiting for gki to finish his yearly lists, but for now...

1. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Graduate
4. Singin’ in the Rain
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Z
7. Bonnie and Clyde
8. The Night of the Hunter
9. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10. A Streetcar Named Desire
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey
12. Manchurian Candidate
13. M. Hulot’s Holiday
14. 8½
15. Rear Window
16. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
17. A Woman Is A Woman
18. Strangers on a Train
19. Sunset Boulevard
20. On the Waterfront
21. Jules and Jim
22. Pather Panchali
23. Rashomon
24. Easy Rider
25. Tokyo Story
26. La Dolce Vita
27. Some Like It Hot
28. Au Hasard Balthazar
29. Battle of Algiers
30. Los Olvidados
31. The Rules of the Game
32. Simon of the Desert
33. All About Eve
34. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
35. Vertigo
36. L’Avventura
37. Lolita
38. Rope
39. Persona
40. The Producers

Excellent film, but it was made/released in the 70's, sometime after The French Connection.

(Some trivia for you film buffs out there: the late Fernando Rey, one of the actors in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, plays the French drug dealer that gets away in The French Connection. When director William Friedkin was casting The French Connection, he wanted someone else, an actor he saw in Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour. There was some mix-up (it's not clear how it happened), and to Friedkin's anger, his people flew in Fernando Rey instead. Rey was kept in the part, but after The French Connection opened, Rey was cast in his first Bunuel film, The Discreet Charm..., and perhaps as an homage to his role in The French Connection, his character is involved in another drug deal.

I want to do this, but I also want to do the top 10 albums per decade lists also...and I might not have time to do either.

When is the next favorite films? I already have lists of my favorite films for every year since I was born (1974). This one is a little harder.

for the record:

12 Angry Men is fucking awesome.
Ocean's 11 is unfucking watchable.

Nat
(The Midwest Ultimate Film Fanatic)

oh bollocks. thanks for the head's up. also, a cool piece of trivia.

Time to heat up the movie talk. This was a phenomenal era of fillm. You've got some of the best from Bergman, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick, Polanski, Wilder- not to mention the greatest era for the Western.
AMC and TMC usually play a handful of great flicks from this period every week- set your Tivo's. Just recorded Zorba the Greek last night- considered to be Anthony Quinns' best.

Yeah, lets get on this.

1953

From Here to Eternity
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Roman Holiday
Shane
Sun Shines Bright, The
Tokyo Story
Stalag 17
War of the Worlds, The
Le Salaire de la peur/Wages of Fear, The
Big Heat, The
Glen or Glenda
House of Wax
Wild One, The
Julius Caesar

Can anyone comment on Julius Ceasar? Does Brando play Brutus? Should I take the time?

Brando is Marc Antony, I saw it when I studied the play. I remember it being above average but not great. James Masonplays Brutus. John Gielgud is great as Cassius.

Ugh, I can't enjoy a movie that features a wifebeater (the guy, not his shirt). Can't separate the performer from the performance. Same w/ Jackie Gleason...I'm sure there are many more I'm not aware of, so don't tell me.