GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1966

[CiG]

What's the must-see rec's?

Seems obvious to me that you'd like Polanski's Cul-de-sac.

Also Tokyo Drifter and The Shooting.

 

[challenge_everything]

I'd recommend Andrei Rublev. Pretty heavy going at the start but once it gets going it's phenomenal film-making on the Fitzcarraldo scale of epicness and sheer difficulty of production.

 

[CiG]

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
2. Django (Sergio Corbucci)
3. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
4. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polański)
8. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
10. Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)

 

[CiG]

Is anybody else planning to post a list for this? Still 9 days out but I'm wondering if this year is a dead end.

 

[challenge_everything]

I will

 

[challenge_everything]

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
6. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinneman)
7. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
8. El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
9. Cul De Sac (Roman Polanski)
10. Kill, Baby, Kill (Mario Bava)

 

[CiG]

I seriously need to see The Battle of Algiers already.

 

[Bourbon]

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

2. The Professionals

3. A Man for All Seasons

4. Andrei Rublev

5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

6. Persona

7. El Dorado

8. The Battle of Algiers

Still need to see Seconds, which has been on my watchlist for years, Django, and Tokyo Drifter.

 

[CiG]

There's a 5-way tie for 10th... I think I'm going to leave this game open-ended for now and just move on to another year, and then try and return to this one and hopefully I can get a few more lists.

Edit: Cheers to zerostatic for a last minute list.

 

[zerostatic]

1) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2) El Dorado
3) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
4) It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
5) How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

 

[CiG]

.:TIED FOR 10TH PLACE: 12 POINTS:.
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Seconds directed by John Frankenheimer



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (5th place)
@Bloopy (9th place)
@CiG (9th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Rock Hudson


John Randolph

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Mike Nichols



Voted for by:
@Bourbon (5th place)
@CiG (5th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Elizabeth Taylor


Richard Burton

 

[CiG]

.:TIED FOR 7TH PLACE: 13 POINTS:.
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Torn Curtain directed by Alfred Hitchcock



Voted for by:
@Oblivious Maximus (3rd place)
@Bloopy (6th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Paul Newman


Julie Andrews

A Man for All Seasons directed by Fred Zinnemann



Voted for by:
@Bourbon (3rd place)
@challenge_everything (6th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Paul Scofield


Wendy Hiller


Leo McKern


Orson Welles

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! directed by Chuck Jones



Voted for by:
@rms (4th place)
@zerostatic (5th place)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

Boris Karloff

 

[CiG]

6th) Django directed by Sergio Corbucci​

Voted for by:
@CiG (2nd place)
@rms (5th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Franco Nero

TOTAL POINTS: 15

 

[CiG]

5th) El Dorado directed by Howard Hawks



Voted for by:
@zerostatic (2nd place)
@Bourbon (7th place)
@challenge_everything (8th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

John Wayne


Robert Mitchum

TOTAL POINTS: 16

 

[CiG]

4th) Andrei Rublev directed by Andrei Tarkovsky



Voted for by:
@Bourbon (4th place)
@challenge_everything (4th place)
@CiG (8th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Anatoly Solonitsyn

TOTAL POINTS: 17

 

[CiG]

3rd) The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@rms (3rd place)
@Bourbon (8th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Brahim Haggiag

TOTAL POINTS: 21

 

[CiG]

2nd) Persona directed by Ingmar Bergman



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (2nd place)
@rms (2nd place)
@Bourbon (6th place)
@CiG (6th place)
@Oblivious Maximus (6th place)

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Main cast:

Bibi Andersson


Liv Ullmann

TOTAL POINTS: 33

 

[CiG]

1st) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly directed by Sergio Leone



Voted for by:
@Bourbon (1st place)
@CiG (1st place)
@rms (1st place)
@zerostatic (1st place)
@challenge_everything (3rd place)
@Bloopy (10th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Clint Eastwood


Eli Wallach


Lee Van Cleef

TOTAL POINTS: 49