I’ve been getting more and more into films from the 60s with it being one of my favorite decades for movies. I’ve only seen around 30 films from the decade so I’ll give my top and bottom 5 to help a bit.
Top 5:
- Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock
- Sound of Music by Robert Wise
- Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi
- The Trial by Orson Welles
- West Side Story by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
Bottom 5:
- Blood of Dracula’s Castle by Al Adamson
- You Only Live Twice by Lewis Gilbert
- Thunderball by Terence Young
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske
- Atragon by Ishiro Honda
I’ve already been recommended by friends to watch 2001 A Space Odyssey so I’m getting to that one soon. There’s a couple oddball films I also have on my list to check out soonish, but wanted to know what else I was missing. As for big films I have seen and left out, yes I’ve seen High and Low, Charade, Easy Rider, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
The Hustler is an excellent Paul Newman film about billiards.
Blow-Up is a bizarre anxiety drenched film about a photographer who may have captured evidence of a crime in the background of a photo.
Grand Prix is a neat film about formula 1 racing, with some of the best action photography ever.
If queer film is your jam, the work of Kenneth Anger is always worth checking out, Scorpio Rising being my favorite of those I’ve seen
If you like sci-fi and experimental shorts, Chris Marker’s La Jetee is pretty cool, and is what 12 Monkeys was based on.
As for super ambitious metanarrative experiments, Symbiopsychotaciplasm: Take One is incredible.