The Top 5 List Thread

[Bloopy]

Top 5 films by year for years not polled in GMD Social yet...

60s:

1960
1. Psycho
2. El esqueleto de la señora Morales (The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales)
3. Midnight Lace
4. Les yeux sans visage
5. Le trou

1961
1. Man-Trap
2. Schwarzer Kies (Black Gravel)
3. Underworld U.S.A.
4. Taste of Fear (a.k.a. Scream of Fear)
5. The Innocents

1962
1. Cape Fear
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Lolita
5. Experiment in Terror

1963
1. The Birds
2. The Pink Panther
3. The Haunting
4. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
5. Charade

1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Two Thousand Maniacs!
3. 36 Hours
4. The Visit
5. A Shot in the Dark

1965
1. Mirage
2. The Bedford Incident
3. Bunny Lake Is Missing
4. I Saw What You Did
5. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

1967
1. Happy End
2. Wait Until Dark
3. The Incident
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Le samouraï

1969
1. Topaz
2. L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
3. The Italian Job
4. Easy Rider
5. John Cleese on How to Irritate People

 

[no country for old wainds]

60s:

1960
1. Psycho
2. El esqueleto de la señora Morales (The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales)
3. Midnight Lace
4. Les yeux sans visage
5. Le trou

1961
1. Man-Trap
2. Schwarzer Kies (Black Gravel)
3. Underworld U.S.A.
4. Taste of Fear (a.k.a. Scream of Fear)
5. The Innocents

1962
1. Cape Fear
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Lolita
5. Experiment in Terror

1963
1. The Birds
2. The Pink Panther
3. The Haunting
4. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
5. Charade

1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Two Thousand Maniacs!
3. 36 Hours
4. The Visit
5. A Shot in the Dark

1965
1. Mirage
2. The Bedford Incident
3. Bunny Lake Is Missing
4. I Saw What You Did
5. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

1967
1. Happy End
2. Wait Until Dark
3. The Incident
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Le samouraï

1969
1. Topaz
2. L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
3. The Italian Job
4. Easy Rider
5. John Cleese on How to Irritate People

contrary to most people this is probably my least favourite decade and most years are kinda thing for me with one exception (psycho didn't even make my 1960 list and would've been top 2 in basically every other year listed), decided to highlight this with some more specific colour coding.

purple - of great personal significance
green - a favourite
yellow - classic

1960
1. wild river (kazan)
2. the apartment (wilder)
3. zazie rides the metro (malle)
4. the rise and fall of legs diamond (boetticher)
5. les bonnes femmes (chabrol)

1961
1. last year at marienbad (resnais)
2. the misfits (huston)
3. the hustler (rossen)
4. the innocents (clayton)
5. blast of silence (baron)

1962
1. the man who shot liberty valence (ford)
2. the manchurian candidate (frankenheimer)
3. the trial (welles)
4. harakiri (kobayashi)
5. the exterminating angel (bunuel)

1963
1. contempt (godard)
2. high & low (kurosawa)
3. the servant (losey)
4. the gun hawk (ludwig)
5. shock corridor (fuller)

1964
1. nothing but a man (roemer)
2. woman in the dunes (teshigahara)
3. man's favourite sport (hawks)
4. yearning (naruse)
5. fail-safe (lumet)

1965
1. pierrot le fou (godard)
2. fugitive from the past (uchida)
3. ride in the whirlwind (hellman)
4. yoyo (etaix)
5. who killed teddy bear? (cates)

1967
1. the young girls of rochefort (demy)
2. the jungle book (reitherman)
3. playtime (tati)
4. branded to kill (suzuki)
5. scattered clouds (naruse)

1969
1. my night at maud's (rohmer)
2. last summer (perry)
3. a time for dying (boetticher)
4. army of shadows (melville)
5. the wild bunch (peckinpah)

 

[Bloopy]

Top 5 actors and the performances I base that on:

Ingrid Bergman: Notorious, Gaslight, Saratoga Trunk, The Visit, Casablanca

Ving Rhames: Pulp Fiction, Striptease, Give 'em Hell Malone, The People Under the Stairs, Evil Angel, Patty Hearst, Drop Squad, Echelon Conspiracy, briefly in Homicide. Body Count isn't good but Ving's good in it.

Rebecca Pidgeon: The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, The Dawning, The Winslow Boy, Cat City, Two-Bit Waltz, Jesse Stone: Sea Change, briefly in Edmond and RED. Heist isn't great but it's essential RP viewing.

John Malkovich: Con Air, Being John Malkovich, Art School Confidential, Burn After Reading, In the Line of Fire, Ripley's Game

Ardal O'Hanlon: Father Ted, Wide Open Spaces, Val Falvey TD. My Hero's not so good but it's still Ardal being Ardal.

My RYM list with more text.