Dan Sallitt’s Favorite Films of the 1960s, by International Release Date

1969

  1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Eric Rohmer, France)
  2. THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (Shadi Abdel-Salam, Egypt)
  3. PIROSMANI (Giorgi Shengelaia, Georgia/USSR)
  4. MEMORIES OF HELENA (David Neves, Brazil)
  5. BOY (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
  6. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  7. MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (Francois Truffaut, France)
  8. DILLINGER IS DEAD (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
  9. KILLED THE FAMILY AND WENT TO THE MOVIES (Julio Bressane, Brazil)
  10. STEREO (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  11. INVASION (Hugo Santiago, Argentina)
  12. BYE BYE BARBARA (Michel Deville, France)
  13. THE STERILE CUCKOO (Alan Pakula, USA)
  14. BLUE MOVIE (Andy Warhol, USA)
  15. THE BEAUTY (Arunas Zebriunas, Lithuania)
  16. KATZELMACHER (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  17. SEASON OF TERROR (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan)
  18. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
  19. LA ROSIERE DE PESSAC (Jean Eustache, France)
  20. SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT (Daniel Petrie, USA)
  21. AGE OF CONSENT (Michael Powell, Australia)
  22. LA FEMME INFIDELE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  23. SUSPECT (Mike Hodges, UK)
  24. CHECK TO THE QUEEN (Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italy)
  25. ENTRETIEN SUR LE BÉTON (Eric Rohmer, France)
  26. THE ARRANGEMENT (Elia Kazan, USA)
  27. ACCIDENTAL LIFE (Ante Peterlic, Yugoslavia)
  28. DEADLOCK (Lamont Johnson, USA)

THE WILD BUNCH (Sam Peckinpah, USA)

1968

  1. JE T’AIME JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  3. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier, France)
  4. THE MAN WITH THE BALLOONS (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
  5. BENJAMIN (Michel Deville, France)
  6. PETULIA (Richard Lester, USA)
  7. THE PARTY (Blake Edwards, USA)
  8. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polanski, USA)
  9. CHARLIE BUBBLES (Albert Finney, UK)
  10. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George Romero, USA)
  11. CONSCIENCE (Vladimir Denisenko, USSR)
  12. PRETTY POISON (Noel Black, USA)
  13. LES BICHES (Claude Chabrol, France)
  14. SHAME (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  15. NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (Jack Smight, USA)
  16. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)
  17. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE COMEDIENNE AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub, W. Germany)
  18. SONG OF SUMMER (Ken Russell, UK)
  19. HEAD (Bob Rafelson, USA)
  20. THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  21. HACHISCH (Michel Soutter, Switzerland)
  22. KAKU AND TSUNE (A TALE OF TWO YAKUZA) (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
  23. THE BURNING (Stephen Frears, UK)
  24. LONESOME COWBOYS (Andy Warhol, USA)
  25. THE CONQUEROR WORM (Michael Reeves, UK)

STOLEN KISSES (Francois Truffaut, France)
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (Francois Truffaut, France)
THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)
COOGAN’S BLUFF (Don Siegel, USA)

1967

  1. SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  2. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Eric Rohmer, France)
  3. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  4. DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY (Jim McBride, USA)
  5. STRANGER ON THE RUN (Don Siegel, USA)
  6. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (Kira Muratova, USSR)
  7. LOVE AFFAIR; OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  8. UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE (Robert Mulligan, USA)
  9. A COVENANT WITH DEATH (Lamont Johnson, USA)
  10. NUDE RESTAURANT (Andy Warhol, USA)
  11. THE WIFE OF SEISHU HANAOKA (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
  12. FERMIÈRE À MONTFAUCON (Eric Rohmer, France)
  13. I, A MAN (Andy Warhol, USA)
  14. TONY ROME (Gordon Douglas, USA)
  15. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
  16. MISE À SAC (Alain Cavalier, France)
  17. TWO WIVES (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
  18. LE SAMOURAI (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  19. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. TWO FOR THE ROAD (Stanley Donen, USA)
  21. TENDERNESS (Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Uzbekistan)
  22. A TREATISE ON JAPANESE BAWDY SONGS (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
  23. HELL’S ANGELS ON WHEELS (Richard Rush, USA)
  24. THE AUTHENTIC TRIAL OF CARL-EMMANUEL JUNG (Marcel Hanoun, France)

THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER AND ITS DISTORTING MIRROR (Raul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France)
FUNNYMAN (John Korty, USA)
LE STREGHE: “LA SICILIANA” (Franco Rossi, Italy)
THE TWO OF US (Claude Berri, France)
THE WILD RIDER (Franz Josef Spieker, West Germany)
STANDARD TIME (Michael Snow, Canada)

1966

  1. THE CHASE (Arthur Penn, USA)
  2. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  3. EL DORADO (Howard Hawks, USA)
  4. THE RISE OF LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  5. THE STRANGER WITHIN A WOMAN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  6. THE SKY OF OUR CHILDHOOD (Tolomush Okeev, Kyrgyzstan)
  7. ANDREI ROUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  8. SEVEN WOMEN (John Ford, USA)
  9. LE PERE NOEL A LES YEUX BLEUS (Jean Eustache, France)
  10. THE SHOOTING (Monte Hellman, USA)
  11. DAISIES (Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia)
  12. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
  13. EL GRECO (Luciano Salce, Spain/Italy/France)
  14. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  15. LA GUERRE EST FINIE (Alain Resnais, France)
  16. CHANGE OF LIFE (Paulo Rocha, Portugal)
  17. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  18. TORN CURTAIN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  19. HARPER (Jack Smight, USA)
  20. OUTER AND INNER SPACE (Andy Warhol, USA)
  21. LA LIGNE DE DÉMARCATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  22. THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS (Pietro Germi, Italy)
  23. THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
  24. MASCULIN, FEMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  25. SAVAGE PAMPAS (Hugo Fregonese, Argentina/Spain/USA)
  26. FAHRENHEIT 451 (Francois Truffaut, UK)
  27. THE WILD ANGELS (Roger Corman, USA)
  28. MEET MARLON BRANDO (Maysles Bros., USA)
  29. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  30. MARTIN SOLDAT (Michel Deville, France)

THE CHELSEA GIRLS (Andy Warhol, USA)
VIOLENCE AT NOON (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)

1965

  1. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
  2. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain/Switzerland)
  3. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
  4. IN HARM’S WAY (Otto Preminger, USA)
  5. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. L’ARME À GAUCHE (Claude Sautet, France)
  7. I KNEW HER WELL (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy)
  8. CHRONICLE OF A LONELY CHILD (Leonardo Favio, Argentina)
  9. DRINK (DRUNK) (Andy Warhol, USA)
  10. THE TENTH VICTIM (Elio Petri, Italy/France)
  11. BUS RILEY’S BACK IN TOWN (Harvey Hart, USA)
  12. REPULSION (Roman Polanski, UK)
  13. MAJOR DUNDEE (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  14. KARLA (Herrmann Zschoche, East Germany)
  15. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  16. THE GREAT RACE (Blake Edwards, USA)
  17. THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT (Andre Delvaux, Belgium)
  18. PLEASURES OF THE FLESH (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
  19. PEARLS OF THE DEEP: “AUTOMAT SVET” (Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia)
  20. SUBARNAREKHA (Ritwik Ghatak, India)
  21. PARIS VU PAR…: “MONTPARNASSE-LEVALLOIS” (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  22. THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  23. THERE ARE HORSES (Tolomush Okeev, Kyrgysztan)
  24. THE IPCRESS FILE (Sidney Furie, UK)
  25. PARIS VU PAR…: “PLACE DE L’ÉTOILE” (Eric Rohmer, France)
  26. FISTS IN THE POCKET (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  27. PERCEVAL OU LE CONTE DU GRAAL (Eric Rohmer, France)
  28. BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger, USA)
  29. BEAUTY #2 (Andy Warhol, USA)

MY HUSTLER (Andy Warhol, USA)
SYLVIA (Gordon Douglas, USA)
WHAT’S NEW, PUSSYCAT? (Clive Donner, USA/France)
PARIS VU PAR…: “LA MUETTE” (Claude Chabrol, France)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. THE APE WOMAN (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
  4. INTENTIONS OF MURDER (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
  5. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  6. LA DÉRIVE (Paula Delsol, France)
  7. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Luis Bunuel, France/Italy)
  8. YEARNING (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
  10. THE KILLERS (Don Siegel, USA)
  11. L’INSOUMIS (Alain Cavalier, France)
  12. LUCKY JO (Michel Deville, France)
  13. SEDUCED AND ABANDONED (Pietro Germi, Italy)
  14. NADJA IN PARIS (Eric Rohmer, France)
  15. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI PART IV: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
  16. THE LAST DRINK (Mario Ruspoli, France)
  17. CHEYENNE AUTUMN (John Ford, USA)
  18. THE CAVERN (Edgar G. Ulmer, Italy/W. Germany)
  19. LES PLUS BELLES ESCROQUERIES DU MONDE: “L’HOMME QUI VENDIT LA TOUR EIFFEL” (Claude Chabrol, France)
  20. LES MAUVAISES FREQUENTATIONS (Jean Eustache, France)
  21. BANDE A PART (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  22. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (Richard Lester, UK)

UNE FEMME MARIEE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Anthony Mann, USA)
FATHER OF A SOLDIER (Rezo Chkheidze, Georgia/USSR)
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1963

  1. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. LA CARRIERE DE SUZANNE (Eric Rohmer, France)
  3. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  4. A CAUSE, A CAUSE D’UNE FEMME (Michel Deville, France)
  5. LA PARMIGIANA (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy)
  6. À TOUT PRENDRE (Claude Jutra, Canada)
  7. WHISTLE STOP (Boris Barnet, USSR)
  8. THE INSECT WOMAN (Shohei Imamura. Japan)
  9. LA BOULANGERE DE MONCEAU (Eric Rohmer, France)
  10. SOMETHING DIFFERENT (Vera Chytilová, Czechoslovakia)
  11. LA BAIE DES ANGES (Jacques Demy, France)
  12. THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE’S FATHER (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  13. L’APPARTEMENT DES FILLES (Michel Deville, France)
  14. AMERICA, AMERICA (Elia Kazan, USA)
  15. LANDRU (Claude Chabrol, France)
  16. THE SILENCE (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  17. MURIEL (Alain Resnais, France)
  18. A BOY TEN FEET TALL (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
  19. GAMPERALIYA (CHANGES IN THE VILLAGE) (Lester James Peries, Ceylon)
  20. LE FEU FOLLET (Louis Malle, France)
  21. EL VERDUGO (Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spain)
  22. THE TALE OF WIND AND CLOUDS OF THE SANADA CLAN (Tai Kato, Japan)
  23. X – THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (Roger Corman, USA)
  24. MAHANAGAR (Satyajit Ray, India)

BYE BYE BIRDIE (George Sidney, USA)
A HOUSE IN THE QUARTER (Tomotaka Tasaka, Japan)

1962

  1. JULES ET JIM (Francois Truffaut, France)
  2. ADVISE AND CONSENT (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
  4. HELL IS FOR HEROES (Don Siegel, USA)
  5. THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey, UK)
  6. ALYONKA (Boris Barnet, USSR)
  7. EVA (Joseph Losey, France/Italy)
  8. HATARI! (Howard Hawks, USA)
  9. BUT WHAT IF THIS IS LOVE? (Yuli Raizman, USSR)
  10. ADORABLE MENTEUSE (Michel Deville, France)
  11. HARAKIRI (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
  12. IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  13. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  14. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, USA)
  15. THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL (Jean Renoir, France)
  16. L’OEIL DU MALIN (Claude Chabrol, France)
  17. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
  18. BARABBAS (English version) (Richard Fleischer, Italy)
  19. THE MIRACLE WORKER (Arthur Penn, USA)
  20. THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (James Blue, France)
  21. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  22. FLASHING SPIKES (John Ford, USA)
  23. ADIEU PHILIPPINE (Jacques Rozier, France)
  24. LOVE AT TWENTY: “ANTOINE AND COLETTE” (Francois Truffaut, France)
  25. ANIMA NERA (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  26. NUMBERED DAYS (Elio Petri, Italy)
  27. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polanski, Poland)
  28. MAFIOSO (Alberto Lattuada, Italy)
  29. MUSASHI MIYAMOTO II: DUEL AT HANNYA HILL (Tomu Uchida, Japan)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. WOMEN ARE BORN TWICE (Yuzo Kawashima, Japan)
  3. EL CID (Anthony Mann, USA/Italy)
  4. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (Elia Kazan, USA)
  5. L’ASSASSINO (Elio Petri, Italy)
  6. VANINA VANINI (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. VIVA L’ITALIA! (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  8. THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES (Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, France)
  9. THE EXILES (Kent MacKenzie, USA)
  10. LÉON MORIN PRÊTRE (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  11. BANDITS OF ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  12. JOAN OF THE ANGELS (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland)
  13. DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (Pietro Germi, Italy)
  14. CE SOIR OU JAMAIS (Michel Deville, France)
  15. PLEINS FEUX SUR L’ASSASSIN (Georges Franju, France)
  16. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Ingmar Bergman,.Sweden)
  17. AS A WIFE, AS A WOMAN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  18. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Blake Edwards, USA)
  19. TWO LOVES (Charles Walters, USA)
  20. MUSASHI MIYAMOTO (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
  21. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy/France)

LA PYRAMIDE HUMAINE (Jean Rouch, France)
THE YOUNG DOCTORS (Phil Karlson, USA)
THE EARTH’S UNKNOWN (Mario Ruspoli, France)

1960

  1. LES BONNES FEMMES (Claude Chabrol, France)
  2. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
  3. STORIES OF THE REVOLUTION (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
  4. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  5. THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  6. PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (Charles Walters, USA)
  7. THE YOUNG ONE (Luis Bunuel, Mexico/USA)
  8. THE WESTERNER: “Brown” (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  9. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET (Richard Quine, USA)
  10. EVENING STREAM (Mikio Naruse and Yuzo Kawashima, Japan)
  11. THE LADY WITH THE DOG (Josef Heifitz, USSR)
  12. THE WESTERNER: “Jeff” (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  13. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Francois Truffaut, France)
  14. FLAMING STAR (Don Siegel, USA)
  15. SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (John Ford, USA)
  16. HOME FROM THE HILL (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  17. NORTH TO ALASKA (Henry Hathaway, USA)
  18. EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju, France)
  19. THE MASTER SPEARMAN (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
  20. THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS (Nicholas Ray, France/Italy/UK)
  21. THE CONCRETE JUNGLE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  22. THE STEAMROLLER AND THE VIOLIN (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  23. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
  24. WILD RIVER (Elia Kazan, USA)
  25. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  26. THE UNFORGIVEN (John Huston, USA)
  27. EL COCHECITO (Marco Ferreri, Spain)
  28. THE SHADOW OF THE TYRANT (Julio Bracho, Mexico)
  29. BLACK CROSS (Aleksander Ford, Poland)
  30. WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  31. CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (Claude Sautet, France)
  32. MURDER IN YOSHIWARA (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
  33. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
  34. A FALSE STUDENT (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)

THE TWILIGHT STORY (Shiro Toyoda, Japan)
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (Karel Reisz, UK)
ADUA AND HER FRIENDS (Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy)
PRÉSENTATION OU CHARLOTTE ET SON STEAK (Eric Rohmer, France)