My Top 20 by Year - 1961
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 99 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Aug 2015)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The End of Summer, Ozu, 1961)
Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence, Colpi, 1961)
Matka Joanna od aniolów (Mother Joan of the Angels, Kawalerowicz, 1961)
Teen Kanya (Three Daughters, S. Ray, 1961)
Ningen no jôken (The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, Kobayashi, 1961)
Il giudizio universale (The Last Judgment, De Sica, 1961)
Buta to gunkan (Pigs and Battleships, Imamura, 1961)
La ragazza con la valigia (Girl with a Suitcase, Zurlini, 1961)
Obaltan (The Stray Bullet, Yoo, 1961)
The Exiles (MacKenzie, 1961)
Léon Morin, prêtre (Léon Morin, Priest; Melville, 1961)
Whistle Down the Wind (Forbes, 1961)
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) (Chronicles of a Summer, Morin/Rouch, 1961)
Swiadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate, Rózewicz, 1961)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Geronimi/Luske/Reitherman, 1961)
Shiiku (The Catch, Ôshima, 1961)
L'enclos (Enclosure, Gatti, 1961)
Amai yoru no hate (Bitter End of a Sweet Night, Y. Yoshida, 1961)
Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru (A Wife Confesses, Masumura, 1961)
L'assassino (The Assassin, Petri, 1961)
Too Late Blues (Cassavetes, 1961)
The Young Savages (Frankenheimer, 1961)
Eien no hito (Immortal Love, Kinoshita, 1961)
Kawaita mizuumi (Youth in Fury, Shinoda, 1961)
Koshoku ichidai otoko (A Lustful Man, Masumura, 1961)
Underworld USA (Fuller, 1961)
Synoikia to Oneiro (Alexandrakis, 1961)
La fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Albicocco, 1961)
The Comancheros (Curtiz, 1961)
Fanny (Logan, 1961)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 99 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Aug 2015)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The End of Summer, Ozu, 1961)
Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence, Colpi, 1961)
Matka Joanna od aniolów (Mother Joan of the Angels, Kawalerowicz, 1961)
Teen Kanya (Three Daughters, S. Ray, 1961)
Ningen no jôken (The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, Kobayashi, 1961)
Il giudizio universale (The Last Judgment, De Sica, 1961)
Buta to gunkan (Pigs and Battleships, Imamura, 1961)
La ragazza con la valigia (Girl with a Suitcase, Zurlini, 1961)
Obaltan (The Stray Bullet, Yoo, 1961)
The Exiles (MacKenzie, 1961)
Léon Morin, prêtre (Léon Morin, Priest; Melville, 1961)
Whistle Down the Wind (Forbes, 1961)
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) (Chronicles of a Summer, Morin/Rouch, 1961)
Swiadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate, Rózewicz, 1961)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Geronimi/Luske/Reitherman, 1961)
Shiiku (The Catch, Ôshima, 1961)
L'enclos (Enclosure, Gatti, 1961)
Amai yoru no hate (Bitter End of a Sweet Night, Y. Yoshida, 1961)
Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru (A Wife Confesses, Masumura, 1961)
L'assassino (The Assassin, Petri, 1961)
Too Late Blues (Cassavetes, 1961)
The Young Savages (Frankenheimer, 1961)
Eien no hito (Immortal Love, Kinoshita, 1961)
Kawaita mizuumi (Youth in Fury, Shinoda, 1961)
Koshoku ichidai otoko (A Lustful Man, Masumura, 1961)
Underworld USA (Fuller, 1961)
Synoikia to Oneiro (Alexandrakis, 1961)
La fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Albicocco, 1961)
The Comancheros (Curtiz, 1961)
Fanny (Logan, 1961)
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