Classic Film : CFB Polls: 1966 ***POLL IS CLOSED***

Welcome to CFB's yearly poll. This poll is for the year 1966.

To help you with your ballot and in finding films, here are some resources:

IMDb's list of most-rated features from 1966: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1966,1966&sort=num_votes,desc&title_type=feature

Wikipedia article:
1966: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_in_film

Spike's thread for 1966 recs: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/255575422?d=255575422#255575422



General rules for the polls:

1. Feature films, documentaries, short films, and TV movies and miniseries are eligible for these polls; individual television episodes and continuing TV series are not.

2. One list per user, please! Sockpuppets and trolls are not welcome.

3. You may vote for as few as FIVE and as many as TWENTY films for this poll. If you wish to mention more films as runners-up, that's fine - but please make sure to be quite clear as to what films are in your top 20 ballot.

4. You may list choices in order of preference, in which case your top film will receive 20 points, the next 19, and so on, or in no order, in which case each film will receive the same number of points. Please make sure to make your intentions are clear - if your choices are in order PLEASE number them!!!

5. I prefer original titles AND American/English language titles, as well as the name of the director(s); this makes the poll easier for me - less things to look up. The most important factor is accuracy in any case; I would appreciate more information so I can make sure that I am getting the lists correct.

6. We go by IMDb dates for these polls; while there are instances in which IMDb dates are debatable, or in which they have changed dates between polls, in general the IMDb listing is the default. Should you have questions about debates please let me know rather than assuming that I will just take what you give me, no questions asked.

7. There will be a questions & answers post immediately following this one for problematic films to be listed and status updates for this poll.

Results of most recent polls run:

Science Fiction: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/257059752?d=257059752#257059752

1999: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/254764355?d=254764355#254764355

2015: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/253248431?d=253248431#253248431 - poll run by zetes

1965: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/251482391?d=251482391#251482391

1959: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/249519874?d=249519874#249519874

1928: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/248485921?d=248485921#248485921

2000: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/247583340?d=247583340#247583340


I plan to keep this poll open until approximately June 12; the following polls will be:


1932

2005



Be true, Unbeliever.

Voyna i mir (1966) (Sergei Bondarchuk) has been variously listed from 1965-67, both as a whole film and in four parts. It is ALLOWED for this poll as a complete whole only.














Be true, Unbeliever.

It's sometimes listed as 1967 (right now), sometimes as 1966 (wikipedia).

According to my records, it was not in my ballot when we did 1967.

I'll allow it.


Be true, Unbeliever.

Hi OldAle. Any chance at all that you might be open to keeping the poll open for a little while longer? Such an amazing year that just keeps throwing up so many treasures as one explores. Totally up to you, of course, and I very much like each one of my selected films as things stand but there are so, so many that I would still love to see. I don't know whether any other contributors feel the same way.

That's all, folks!

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I don't know whether any other contributors feel the same way.

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Some certainly do I haven't hit anywhere near the bottom of the barrel.

Yes, see below - at least until Wednesday.


Be true, Unbeliever.

Unranked:
A Man for All Seasons 
Alfie 
Au hasard Balthazar 
Battle of Algiers
The Blue Max 
Blow-up 
El Dorado 
Endless Summer 
Ghost and Mr. Chicken 
Glass Bottom Boat 
Good, the Bad and the Ugly 
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (TV) 
Khartoum 
One Million Years B.C 
The Professionals 
The Sand Pebbles 
Seconds 
Voyna i mir 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (short subject) 

Haven't Seen: The Great Promenade, The Pornographers, Noon Wine, Le roi de coeur, 7 Women. Hunger, Sword of Doom

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Andrei Rublev (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
3. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
4. The Pornographers (Shôhei Imamura)
5. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
6. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (Norman Jewison)
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
8. The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
9. Cul-De-Sac (Roman Polanski)
10. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
11. Lapis (James Whitney)
12. Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
13. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
14. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
15. La caza (Carlos Saura)
16. El Greco (Luciano Salce)
17. The Great Promenade (Gérard Oury)
18. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
19. The Wrong Box (Bryan Forbes)
20. Khartoum (Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon)

I'm feeling a bit guilty Persona isn't higher on my ballot, but oh well.


Oh shanty town, we're gonna tear ya down
I got me money come out of me stockins

1. Here's Your Life Här har du ditt liv (1966)
2. Noon Wine Noon Wine (1966)
4. Treasure of San Gennaro Operazione San Gennaro (1966)
3. Father Apa (1966)
5. The Sword of Doom Dai-bosatsu tôge (1966)

[ The rest unranked ]

The Devil in Love L'arcidiavolo (1966)
For Love and Gold L'armata Brancaleone (1966)
Watch Out for the Automobile Beregis avtomobilya (1966)
The Bible The Bible: In the Beginning (1966)
Second Wind Le deuxième souffle (1966)
The Face of Another Tanin no kao (1966)
A Fine Madness A Fine Madness (1966)
Man with a Short Haircut De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966)
Masculin Féminin Masculin féminin (1966)
Pearls of the Deep Perlicky na dne (1966)
Persona Persona (1966)
Hunger Sult (1966)
As Long as You've Got Your Health Tant qu'on a la santé (1966)
They Call It Pro Football They Call It Pro Football (1966)
A Matter of Resistance La vie de château (1966)


Bubbly nunder: Closely Watched Trains // La grande vadrouille // Io, io, io e gli altri // Khartoum // The Round-Up // Yesterday Girl


May 23 - June 15, 2016


Put it on a tripod!

Hi interior,with the title being one that I should be watching this week,I was wondering what La vie de château is like,and also if you have seen any of the superb Czech films (eg Closely Watched Trains/Daisies etc) from '66?

Thanks.

MDF - Here's my review of La vie de château

http://www.imdb.com/board/10059872/reviews-7

I might change my list before the poll closes, but for now the only Czech film on it is Pearls of the Deep, a handful of Bohumil Hrabal stories by five directors; the one by Jiri Menzel, "Death of Mr. Baltasar," would get my vote all by itself (and the other stories don't disappoint either).


Put it on a tripod!

Here's my list:

1. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
2. La grande vadrouille (1966)
3. How to Steal a Million (1966)
4. Tanin no kao (1966)
5. Akai tenshi (1966)
6. Walk Don't Run (1966)
7. Georgy Girl (1966)
8. Masculin féminin (1966)
9. Le grand restaurant (1966)
10. Gambit (1966)
11. Persona (1966)
12. Le deuxième souffle (1966)
13. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
14. Torn Curtain (1966)
15. La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
16. Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
17. Nevada Smith (1966)
18. The Fortune Cookie (1966)
19. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
20. El Dorado (1966)

"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"

Hi interior!

Lovely to see Blasetti's comedy bubbling under (sic)! One I've been ever so looking forward to seeing since I first heard of it a couple of weeks ago. Despite my searches, I haven't been able to find it. I won't get to see it in time for this poll unfortunately but I sense that it is a film I would really like. Heartening indeed to see it pop up on a ballot!


That's all, folks!

Hehe, love your ratings distribution with the huge 1966 spike. Now that's dedication to the poll!


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

Haha, thanks Flaiky! Yes, the last month or so has been very kind in terms of brilliant films. Many of them from 1966 and many of those ones that I had never heard of until very recently. I'm hoping to finish off just one more before that 6 a.m. deadline. Started it earlier and it looks a pearler. Has's recollections of wartime loss in 'Szyfry' is the one and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up in my twenty. One of the best years in cinema, that's for sure!

Oh, and I loved reading your beautifully-written review of 'Em bé Hà Nôi'. Another film I'd never heard of before and your review has certainly got me interested. I watched a Vietnamese film from 1999 called 'Doi cát' ('Sandy Lives') a few months ago and its gentle insights on existence in a post-war landscape really won me over. A lyrically beautiful consideration on wartime separation, happenstance, and life. It was made on a tiny budget with old equipment but there's something very real and touching to its look at fractured lives and resilience in post-conflict times. I'll look forward to the 1975 film!


That's all, folks!

Thanks! I hope you like the film. And thanks for the recommendation of Sandy Lives, that definitely sounds very interesting. I love seeing films from South East Asia.


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

Hoping to catch a few more, but for now.


01. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
02. The Sand Pebbles
03. Fahrenheit 451
04. The Appaloosa
05. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
06. Georgy Girl
07. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
08. The Battle of Algiers
09. This Property Is Condemned
10. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11. A Man for All Seasons
12. El Dorado
13. The Russians Are Coming
14. The Professionals
15. Is Paris Burning
16. Blow Up
17. Triple Cross
18. The Blue Max
19. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
20. Cul-de-sac


Hm's: Alfie, Arabesque, Born Free, The Chase, The Defector, Fantastic Voyage, Gambit, Grand Prix, Harper, How to Steal a Million, Lost Command, Nevada Smith, Our Man Flint, The Quiller Memorandum, Ride the Whirlwind, Seconds, Torn Curtain, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree,

Yay - see below -

Tell mama, Tell mama all.

1. Andrei Rublev / Andrey Rublyov - Andrei Tarkovsky
2. The Battle of Algiers / La battaglia di Algeri - Gillo Pontecorvo
3. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
4. The Hunt / La caza - Carlos Saura
5. The Round-Up / Szegénylegények Miklós Jancsó
6. The Death of a Bureaucrat / La muerte de un burócrata Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
7. Hunger / Sult - Henning Carlsen
8. War and Peace / Voyna i mir - Sergey Bondarchuk
9. Au hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Il buono, il bruto, il cattivo - Sergio Leone
11. Romeo and Juliet - Paul Czinner
12. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Chuck Jones
13. Born Free - James Hill
14. Paddle to the Sea - Bill Mason
15. King of Hearts / Le roi de coeur - Philippe de Broca
16. Georgy Girl - Silvio Narizzano
17. A Man and a Woman / Un homme et une femme - Claude Lelouch
18. The Sand Pebbles - Robert Wise
19. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols
20. The Bible: In the Beginning - John Huston

Hi bk,with having watched them a few weeks ago for last months Czech fest (www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/thread/255538397?p=1) I was wondering how you found Closely Watched Trains & A Report on the Party and the Guests to be?

Thanks.

They are beautifully filmed and intellectually rewarding, but I must admit I intensely disliked what I considered the arbitrarily tragic ending of Trains, and I ultimately found Report's sledgehammer approach wearying. As it turns out, I've dropped both from my ballot to make way for a short and a TV special that may be lesser aesthetic achievements, but which I enjoy much more.

War and Peace really should be a 1967 film, since that was the year the last parts were first shown; however it looks as if it was not eligible when that poll was last run. I am still deciding on it's eligibility and well let you and others know


Be true, Unbeliever.

So have you come to a decision ?






Of course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

EXCELLENT
1 THE MOVING TARGET
2 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
3 BLOW -UP

VERY GOOD
4 MADEMOISELLE
5 CATHY COME HOME (TV)
6 GEORGY GIRL - a star is born in Charlotte Rampling
7 KING OF HEARTS
8 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

GOOD
9 TORN CURTAIN
10 THE CHASE

WORTH WATCHING
11 IS PARIS BURNING
12 LORD LOVE A DUCK the sexiest scene of the year not featuring Charlotte Rampling
13 FANTASTIC VOYAGE
14 THE SAND PEBBLES
15 THE GROUP
16 BORN FREE
17 ARABESQUE - years best credit sequence
18 LA LIGNE DU DEMARCATION
19 YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW
20 ROAD TO SAINT TROPEZ rather lovely travelogue about trendy couple Udo Kier & Melissa Stribling vacationing in the South of France - silky narration by Fenella Fielding - Mike Sarne's half hour short is an extra on the Flipside dual format of JOANNA

also WORTH WTCHING
MORGAN A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT, FAHRENHEIT 451, LE GUERRE EST FINIE, SECONDS, ALFIE, THE CITY TRAMP, THE FORTUNE COOKIE




Obscurities: see Spike's Recs & raves thread
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/255575422?p=2&d=255653974#255653974

Predictions ???- I'm guessing a night of fun and games with George and Martha, The swinging photographer , The Bergman, The Resnais, The Zinnemann and The Leone will all do well and I'm guessing that populist crowdpleasers like BORN FREE and FANTASTIC VOYAGE will place amongst the more highbrow fare.

Rehabilitation Challenge - no obvious picks but the Clement got trashed at the time and does not get much love in standard film guides - but I thought it was a tense and involving war panorama with some good star turns from Delon, Welles & Caron and I'm hoping TORN CURTAIN's wide availability will mean it gets some love - for me one of Hitchcock's most underrated


Tell mama, Tell mama all.

Good to see Fantastic Voyage get a spot Tim,although I'm shocked about the serious lack of Eurotrash on your list!! With Sex Quartet/The Queens (just look at that cast) and the Czech Comic Book flick Who Wants To Kill Jessie being dazzling examples.

I know I know - I have low standards to live up to - I nominated THE CORRUPT ONES but turns out it is a 67 flic - Didn't like THE QUEENS one bit and have not seen JESSIE - yet. MADEMOISELLE probably counts as High Art Eurotrash

Tell mama, Tell mama all.

#1 Sedmikrásky / Daisies
#2 Au hasard Balthazar
#3 Persona
#4 Blowup / Blow-up / Blow up / BlowUp / Blow-Up / Blow Up / BLOWUP / BLOW-UP / BLOW UP
#5 The Battle of Algiers
#6 Breakaway
#7 Lapis
#8 All My Life
#9 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#10 Unsere Afrikareise
#11 Cul-de-Sac
#12 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
#13 人の/Tanin no kao/The Face of Another
#14 Urzd / The Office
#15 Particles in Space
#16 Lights
#17 Każdemu to, czego mu wcale nie trzeba / For everyone that, which they don't need at all*
#18 Apa / Father
#19 Zemlya lyudey / Earth of the People
#20 Castro Street

*my translation

IT iS A GiANT CREEPY FiSH HEAD THiNG!

Hi Carme,with Daises being a very distinctive film,I was wondering what makes it stand out the most for you?

Thanks.

Out of my 4 favourites of 1966, it's the only one I saw theatrically and not over 3 years ago, so it's the clearest in my memory, and probably the one which would get the least amount of votes out of the 5. Putting it as my #1 therefore seems as a decision made because of accuracy and tactics.

Other than that, it's nearly impossible for me to say how to rank or compare those 4 favourites in terms of "standing out the most"; like you said - it's a very distinctive film, and so are the others. I love them all.

IT iS A GiANT CREEPY FiSH HEAD THiNG!

Hi Ale,here is my current list,in order:


1:The Good,The Bad and The Ugly

2: Les créatures

3: The Psychopath

4:Line of Demarcation

5: Batman:The Movie.

6: Sex Quartet

7: Closely Observed Trains

8: Who Would Kill Jessie?

9: A Report on The Party and the Guests

10:La vie de château

11: Come imparai ad amare le donne

12: Kriminal

13: Daisies

14: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

15: The Black Cat

16:The Undertaker and His Pals

17: Skyscrapers and Brassieres

18: Doctor in Clover

19: The Defector.

20: That Riviera Touch

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
5. Carry On Screaming! (Gerald Thomas)
6. Born Free (James Hill)
7. Closely Observed Trains (Jirí Menzel)
8. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
9. La Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
11. Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (Gerald Thomas)
12. Elsa la Rose (Agnès Varda)
13. They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell)
14. Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut)
15. Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)
16. Daisies (Vera Chytilová)
17. Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
18. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
19. Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer)
20. How to Steal a Million (William Wyler)

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I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere

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Good lord what a wild strange comic, tragic, multilayered magical year.

ALL THE WORLDS ARE FILMS
1. Uccellacci e uccellini (Pasolini)
2. Andrey Ryublov (Tarkovski)
3. Au hasard Balthasar (Bresson)
4. Le Drame du taureau (Clergue, short)
5. Ostre sledované vlaky (Menzel)
6. Szegénylegények (Jancsó)
7. Persona (Bergman)
8. La Guerre est finie (Resnais)
9. La Noire de (Sembene)
10. Yûkoku (Masaki, Mishima, short)

LOOK WHAT FILMS CAN DO
11. Cul-de-sac (Polanski)
12. La Battaglia di Algeri (Pontecorvo)
13. The Wrong Box (Forbes)
14. Urzad (Kieslowski, short)

STEP INTO THE AVANT-GARDE
15. Masculin-féminin: 15 faits précis (Godard)
16. Chelsea Girls (Warhol)
17. Made in U.S.A.(Godard)
18. L'Accompagnement (Fieschi)

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
19. La Grande Vadrouille (Oury)
20. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Leone)
Il Ladro della Gioconda
Casino Royale
Grand Prix
The Russians are coming the Russians are coming

THAT WAS THEN
A Man For All Seasons

THIS IS NOW
The Quiller Memorandum
Syrinx
Blowup
Arabesque

TIME FOR SERIOUS CULTURE
Romeo and Juliet (Czinner)
Spur der Steine

WE'RE STILL TRYING
Caccia alla volpe
Sky West and Crooked
Fahrenheit 451

WE'RE TRYING RATHER LESS
I Due figli di Ringo
Le Roi de coeur
Doctor in Clover
Paris brûle-t-il?
Fantastic Voyage
La Mujer perdida
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Our Man Flint
Per pochi dollari ancora
Press for Time

MEMORY FADES
Duel at Diablo
Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?
The Sandwich Man
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions

BUT THE SCARS STILL LINGER..
Khartoum
Tempo di massacro
Incompreso
Africa addio

WANTED LIST
Al-kahira thalatin; The Big T.N.T. Show; Bis; Borrom sarret; Los Buenos Samaritanos; Caña brava; Castigo al traidor; Con el viento solano; The Daydreamer; De barro y oro; El Encuentro; Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, etc.; Galaxie; Georgy Girl; The Gold Guitar; John Cage; Die lustige Weiber von Windsor; The Man Called Flintstone; Massacre pour une orgie; Mawal al akdam al zahabiya; Modesty Blaise; Music City U.S.A.; Na polputi k lune; No. 4; Papa, slozhi!; Ruddigore; Les Ruses du diable (neuf portraits d'une jeune fille); Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar; 66; The Spy with a Cold Nose; La Strega in amore; This is No Time for Romance; Tiempo de morir; Tobenai chinmoku; The Unkissed Bride; Vernost; Walk Don't Run; What's Up, Tiger Lily?; Women of the Prehistoric Planet; The Yellow Hat

THE FULL LIST
1. Uccellacci e uccellini (Pasolini)
2. Andrey Ryublov (Tarkovski)
3. Au hasard Balthasar (Bresson)
4. Le Drame du taureau (Clergue, short)
5. Ostre sledované vlaky (Menzel)
6. Szegénylegények (Jancsó)
7. Persona (Bergman)
8. La Guerre est finie (Resnais)
9. La Noire de (Sembene)
10. Yûkoku (Masaki, Mishima, short)
11. Cul-de-sac (Polanski)
12. La Battaglia di Algeri (Pontecorvo)
13. The Wrong Box (Forbes)
14. Urzad (Kieslowski, short)
15. Masculin-féminin: 15 faits précis (Godard)
16. Chelsea Girls (Warhol)
17. Made in U.S.A.(Godard)
18. L'Accompagnement (Fieschi)
19. La Grande Vadrouille (Oury)
20. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Leone)

If they organise the revolution like they did this meeting, what'll happen?

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WANTED LIST
The Girl Can't Help It

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Just curious: Are you sure there's a 1966 film by that title, or has Mr. Tashlin's rock and roll comedy classic from '56 sneaked into the wrong list?



God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

Oops. You're right, typo!

If they organise the revolution like they did this meeting, what'll happen?

Battaglia Di Algeri (Battle Of Algiers) Gillo Pontecorvo
The Chase Arthur Penn
Fahrenheit 451 Francois Truffaut
Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Richard Lester
Good, The Bad And The Ugly Sergio Leone
The Group Sidney Lumet
Hawaii George Roy Hill
Homme Et Une Femme (A Man and A Woman) Claude Lelouch
Lord Love A Duck George Axelrod
Made In U.S.A. Jean Luc Godard
Masculin Feminin Jean Luc Godard
Persona Ingmar Bergman
Roi De Coeur (King Of Hearts) Philippe De Broca
Sand Pebbles Robert Wise
Seconds John Frankenheimer
7 Women John Ford
The Shooting Monte Hellman
Tokyo Nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter) Seijun Suzuki
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols
You're A Big Boy Now Francis Ford Coppola

In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this

Hawaii. Interesting choice.

What attracts you to the film?

I liked the photography and the Polynesian actors but not much else.

I'm pretty sure you read my review when I posted it on the WCDYWTW thread this February. Here's a reminder

Hawaii (1966)

In the early 19th century, a young minister (Max Von Sydow) and his new bride (Julie Andrews) come to the Hawaiian Islands with a group of Calvinist missionaries with the intention of bringing God to the "heathens". But what they bring is far more destructive than intended. Based only in part on the massive James Michener book (almost a 1,000 pages), the George Roy Hill film takes the third section of the six segment novel and gives its a rich and full presentation. It's uncompromising in its look at how the Caucasian invasion of the islands destroyed a paradise and nearly wiped out an entire civilization. It's quite remarkable that a film in which Christianity doesn't come off very well (indeed, it may be the movie's "villain") got made in 1966. If made today, I wouldn't be surprised if it was softened to not offend. Von Sydow's man of God is one of the most insufferable characters in 60s cinema and Von Sydow plays him uncompromisingly without making him one dimensional. It's Von Sydow's best English language performance and it may be Julie Andrews best non-musical performance. The gorgeous score is by Elmer Bernstein. With Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor, Torin Thatcher, Lou Antonio, Bette Midler (in her film debut) and a superb performance by Jocelyne LaGarde, a non professional, whose Oscar nominated performance as the ali'i nui walks off with the film.

In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this

Aloha.

Mahalo.

1. The Endless Summer (1966)
2. Här har du ditt liv (1966). Here Is Your Life.
3. Tôkyô nagaremono (1966). Tokyo Drifter.
4. Paddle to the Sea (1966)
5. Alice in Wonderland (1966).
6. Le deuxième souffle (1966)
7. Tanin no kao (1966). The Face of Another.
8. La battaglia di Algeri (1966). The Battle of Algiers.
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
10. Quién sabe? (1966). A Bullet for the General.
11. La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966). The Rise of Louis XIV.
12. Kenka erejî (1966). The Born Fighter.
13. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966). The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
14. Romeo and Juliet (1966)
15. Ostre sledované vlaky (1966). Closely Watched Trains.
16. Jangaru taitei (1966). Kimba, the White Lion.
17. Tant qu'on a la santé (1966). As Long as You've got your health.
18. Blowup (1966)
19. Cul-de-sac (1966)
20. Paris brûle-t-il? (1966). Is Paris Burning?

Shaping up, now:

1. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
2. La battaglia di Algeri . The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. Au Hasard Balthasar (Robert Bresson)
4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
5, Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! (Bill Melendez)
7. Krylya / Wings (Larisa Shepitko)
8. Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Trouble With Angels (IdaLupino)
10. Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira / War of the Gargntuas (Ishiro Honda)

Also:

Daimajin
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Seconds

To see: A Man and a Woman, The Fortune Cookie, The Nun

Welcome home, Mr. Bailey

1. Ten Little Indians
2. The Bible
3. The Professionals
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
5. Fantastic Voyage
6. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
7. Nevada Smith
8. Batman: The Movie
9. How to Steal a Million
10. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11. The Ugly Dachshund
12. The Man Called Flintstone
13. Munster, Go Home!
14. Duel at Diablo
15. Khartourm

Seen Too:

Georgy Girl
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Alfie
Lord Love A Duck
One Million Years B.C.

1-The Stranger Within a Woman
2-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3-Irezumi
4-Nayak: The Hero
5-A Man for All Seasons
6-The Trap
7-Born Free
8-Sky West and Crooked
9-Georgy Girl
10-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
11-ElDorado
12-The Trouble With Angels
13-How to Steal a Million
14-Persona
15-Carriage to Vienna
16-Fahrenheit 451



Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly .

Top 20:

1) Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2) Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
3) Sjuende far i huset (Ivo Caprino)
4) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
5) Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
6) Uccellacci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
7) Sult/Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
8) Der junge Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
9) La muerte de un burócrata/Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
10) Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Mary Ellen Bute)
11) Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12) Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller)
13) Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
14) La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo)
15) Le grand restaurant (Jaques Besnard)
16) Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano)
17) Meet Marlon Brando (Albert Maysles/David Maysles)
18) Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (Karel Reisz)
19) Andrey Rublyov (Andrei Tarkovsky)
20) 7 Women (John Ford)

Bubbling under:
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Fahrenheit 451
The Shooting
Masculin féminin
A Man for All Seasons
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
The Deadly Affair
Alfie
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Torn Curtain
Mister Buddwing
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
The Glass Bottom Boat
The Professionals
The Scribe
The Fortune Cookie
Batman: The Movie
Ride in the Whirlwind
The Chase
Harper
El Dorado
The Velvet Underground and Nico

Curiosa:
Incubus
Afrikaneren
Eye of the Devil
The Bible: In the Beginning.
Modesty Blaise
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
The Singing Nun
The Sand Pebbles
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Run Home, Slow

Among the unseen:
The Appaloosa, Django, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, The Group, How to Steal a Million, Här har du ditt liv, La grande vadrouille, La religieuse, Murderers' Row, One Million Years B.C., The Oscar, Paris brûle-t-il?, Penelope, The Quiller Memorandum, The Reptile, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming , The Silencers, The Swinger, Tôkyô nagaremono, The Trouble with Angels, The Ugly Dachshund, Walk Don't Run, The Wrong Box


God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

1. Blow-up
2. Kill Baby, Kill! (Operazione paura)
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
4. The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti)
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Django
7. Persona
8. A Bullet for the General (Quién sabe?)
9. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
10. Batman: The Movie
11. Modesty Blaise
12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
13. Seconds
14. Born Free
15. Death Rides a Horse (Da uomo a uomo)
16. The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
17. Alfie
18. Funeral in Berlin
19. The Plague of the Zombies
20. Duel at Diablo

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1. 9 Variations on a Dance Theme
2. Unsere Afrikareise
3. Breakaway
4. Lapis
5. Ming Green
6. Texas, addio / Texas, Adios / Goodbye Texas
7. Sound??
8. Mosaic (Jack Chambers)
9. Mosaic (Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren)
10. All My Life
11. The Magic Sun
12. Tung
13. Op Hop/Hop Op
14. Meet Me, Jesus
15. Particles in Space
16. Castro Street
17. Chromophobia
18. Turn, Turn, Turn
19. Każdemu to, czego mu wcale nie trzeba / Everyone Gets What They Don't Need
20. motion

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18. Turn, Turn, Turn

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The Jud Yalkut film I presume? Anyway I just watched it and, WOW. And for others who may be interested -



And I'll give a little bit of help to your top pick which I also found quite masterful -




Be true, Unbeliever.

Yes. It certainly made my head spin, in a good way. A great year for psychedelic avant-garde film, I just noticed. This was when psychedelic film hadn't reached the mainstream yet, apparently.
By the way, Jud Yalkut also made the short 'Us Down By The Riverside' in 1966, which is in the same vein:

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A great year for psychedelic avant-garde film, I just noticed.

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Absolutely! But I'm surprised that my own favorite of this "genre", Daisies, isn't on your list. Also Marie Menken's Lights which is definitely among my favorites of the (very many) great shorts from this year.

I'll look at the other Yalkut short soon I promise! And some of the others on your list, like the Makropoulos.


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