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The Best Films of 1967

by Christopher Beaubien • March 17, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Le Samourai (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Week End (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
The Incident (dir. Larry Peerce)

The Best Films of 1966

by Christopher Beaubien • March 16, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Masculin Féminin: 15 Faits Précis (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Made in U.S.A (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

The Best Films of 1965

by Christopher Beaubien • March 15, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

Juliet of the Spirits (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise)
Alphaville, Une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution | Pierrot le Fou
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Repulsion (dir. Roman Polanski)
A Patch of Blue (dir. Guy Green)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir. Russ Meyer)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (dir. Carol Reed)

The Best Films of 1964

by Christopher Beaubien • March 14, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester)
Fail-Safe (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson)
Kwaidan (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Marnie (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
A Fistful of Dollars (dir. Sergio Leone)

Honourable Selection: “The Twilight Zone”

Seasons 1 – 5 (created by Rod Serling, 1959 – 1964)

The Best Films of 1963

by Christopher Beaubien • March 13, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

8 ½ (dir. Federico Fellini)
Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Sword in the Stone (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
Jason and the Argonauts (dir. Don Chaffey)

Honourable Selection: “Trilogy of Faith”

The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Winter Light (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1961)