Your favorite 1960s movie
 

Too many for a poll. Just name it. Maybe talk about it.

Has to be made in the 1960s and has to be set in the 1960s. For example, The Blowup or The Graduate.

Mine--a toss up between The Blowup and The Graduate. If pressed, I guess I'd give the nod to The Graduate, just because it's both more American and a bit more timeless.

mmmm prrrrrrrrrrrr LA DOLCE VITA

prolly my favorite movie of all times

released in 1960. made in 59?

if that isn't eligible then 8 1/2

there's no intrinsic merit in a movie "being american" or not. but fellini rules.

No, there's not. I just mean that I like the way Graduate depicts things that are peculiarly American--in theme, content, and so on. It speaks to me more than a movie that doesn't do that.

oh.

but la dolce vita is about a writer :P

I haven't seen it. I think I must.

That's why I also like Lolita, though that's the 50s, isn't it? I like the outsider perspective that movie has on the American landscape, so to speak.

HOLY SHIT MY BROTHER YOU MUST, YOU MUST!!!

it's brilliant, beautiful, genius.

just make sure you rent the criterion dvd, some of the older versions (shitty vhs) have cropped frames, generally suck, but scorsese bought the rights, restored the print (i saw it new!!) and the criterion disc eventually followed.

Okay.

Other favorites fitting these criteria:

Rosemary's Baby
Barefoot in the Park
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

oh you like mike nichols eh? he's good... and polanski is a film god.

let me add dr. strangelove-- oh yes, funny as fuck, brilliant really, and what can be more 60's than nuclear war & the coca-cola company?

oh holy shit: LE SAMOURAI!!!!!!!!!

god damn what perfection

Oh, yeah, Strangelove! Forgot about that one. Great!

Yeah, Nichols, Polanski, and Kubrick jive with my own impressions about the 60s in their movies from that time.

my life to live is probably my favorite 60's movie.

since you brought up antonioni with blowup actually i love zabriskie point, which to my post-boomer sensibilities looks very 60s, but is actually from 1970.

on the opposite end, pycho is a 1960 movie but it feels to me like the 50s

others:

a hard day's night

Z <-- costa gavras is practically ignored in the US

au hasard balthazar <-- bresson = genius

le mépris <-- fucking fuck!!!!!!!!!!1 the beauty of that film!!!!!!!!!11

&

faster pussycat! kill! kill!

(you gotta have awesome b movies)

&

branded to kill - b movie or art movie? whatever-- AWESOME

I'll second La Dolce Vita, but on the other extreme, I'll take Barbarella.

Set in 60s: Psycho
Not: between Cool Hand Luke and The Great Escape

40s: Rope
50s: Anatomy Of a Murder

"Breathless"

"Band of Outsiders"

a bande aparte
marry popppins(though not set in 60s)
night of the living dead
cool hand luke
easy rider

Easy Rider.

2001: A Space Odyssey is by far my favorite film of the sixties.
Monumental.

carnival of souls
dr strangelove
whatver akira kurosawa films were made in the 60s

oh yeah-what he said-carnival of souls and doc SL

Ditto.

but 2001 is set in... 2001

The Prime Time (1960) • Living Venus (1960) • The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961) • Daughter of the Sun (1962) • Nature's Playmates (1962) • Goldilocks and The Three Bares (1963) • BOING-N-G! (1963) • Scum of the Earth (1963) • Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963) • Blood Feast (1963) • Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) • Moonshine Mountain (1964) • Color Me Blood Red (1965) • Monster A Go-Go (1965) • Sin, Suffer and Repent (1965) • An Eye For An Eye (1966) • Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966) • The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967) • Suburban Roulette (1967) • A Taste of Blood (1967) • Something Weird (1967) • The Gruesome Twosome (1967) • The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967) • Blast-Off Girls (1967) • She Devils on Wheels (1968) • Just for the Hell of It (1968) • How To Make a Doll (1968) • The Psychic (1968) • Linda and Abilene (1969) • The Ecstasies of Women (1969)

Yes, play by rules, people, or get out of my thread.

I don't zabriskie point (or some of the others you mention--I'm obviously deprived).

But yeah, A Hard Day's Night is classic. So is Psycho. I wish I could include North by Northwest, but that is sooo 50s. But it ranks right up there at probably # 2 or so, right after The Graduate, among my favorite movies.

Ok but I don't get the point of that rule at all... :D

Lots of favourites.

Can't go wrong with:

A Kind of Loving
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Head
The Trip
Psyche Out
The Manchurian Candidate
Blow Up
Night of theLiving Dead
Bullitt
In The Heat of the Night

A Taste of Honey

I used to have a policy, since there are so many goddamn movies out therre, not to watch anything made before my birthday, an arbitrary cut-off date.

Now I just do not watch anything that is even remotely connected to ben affleck.

A man after my own heart.

Maybe The Saragossa Manuscript.

A man after me own skirt.

Midnight Cowboy
Take The Money And Run

I've always presumed that all of my favourite films were made in the '60s but, on closer inspection, they were made in the 1970s.

Repulsion too... great film.

And someone should make a film based on The Yellow Wallpaper... and then build a time machine, and release it in the '60s!