GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1966

[CiG]

RYM film chart

Deadline is NOVEMBER 29th. If you need an extension just say so and it will absolutely be considered. This is usually just a soft deadline to make sure everybody doesn't become complacent.

REMEMBER for those of you who haven't seen many films from this year or in general, you can always submit lists as small as only having 5 submissions.

Rules:

- Please submit at least 5 films.
- First place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- Feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- Feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- Feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- If you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, the maths will be worked out.

 

[challenge_everything]

This must be the most non Hollywood year we've ever done.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

There's a highly acclaimed movie from this year called DoomSword (well, close enough) starring Toshiro Mifune? I have to see that.

 

[rms]

There's a highly acclaimed movie from this year called DoomSword (well, close enough) starring Toshiro Mifune? I have to see that.

It's on the criterion app...I actually threw it on last night, fell asleep in my jet lag but pretty cheesy lol

 

[Einherjar86]

Not my year lads. Enjoy.

 

[Bloopy]

Lord Love a Duck is on YouTube in full, would recommend. So is Let's Kill Uncle which I haven't seen, looks pretty funny.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Night Games (Mai Zetterling)
2. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava)
3. Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Joë Caligula (José Bénazéraf)
5. The Diabolical Dr. Z (Jess Franco)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
8. Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
9. Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson)
10. Violence at Noon (Nagisa Oshima)

L'enfer sur la plage
Massacre Time
Blowup
The Nun

 

[rms]

Don't like the good the bad the ugly?

 

[CiG]

4. Joë Caligula (José Bénazéraf)

This one seems to be 1969.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Wow, what an obscure year, I've seen like two of these. Hard pass.

 

[Einherjar86]

I mean, Martin Heidegger gave his Der Spiegel interview in 1966, and Gregory Bateson gave his lecture "From Versailles to Cybernetics" that same year. Oh, and Foucault published Les mots et les choses! So, not a totally obscure year.

 

[CiG]

Luna 9 also landed on the moon.

 

[Einherjar86]

That year was poppin'.

 

[Bloopy]

Well I did it, I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I enjoyed the style of it and the depiction of the absurdity of war, but didn't get a whole lot else out of it. Enough to list it in a year where I won't have seen more than 10 though.

 

[CiG]

4. Joë Caligula (José Bénazéraf)

This one seems to be 1969.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

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It was banned in '66, given a certificate in '68. Then it played on French TV. Nobody else is going to list it anyway

 

[CiG]

Oh okay fair enough.

(I just wanted to use that gif lmao.)

 

[Bloopy]

1. Lord Love a Duck
2. Берегись автомобиля (Beware of the Car)
3. Let's Kill Uncle
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Trans-Europ-Express
6. Torn Curtain
7. Blow-Up
8. Circus of Fear
9. Seconds
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Watched a bunch I hadn't seen because, you know, fun (after not watching any movies for several weeks). Invoking the IMDb year on Trans-Europ-Express. There's at least one reference in Google Books that seems to support it. Must be a case of some low-key screenings predating the documented 'premiere' event that the director spoke at.

 

[rms]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Persona
The Battle of Algiers
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Django

Top to get more than 3 What's the must-see rec's? And does anyone actually enjoy Balthasar?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i’d highly recommend seconds