1960s

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Best of the Decade

1 AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
2 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)
3 THE LADIES' MAN (Jerry Lewis)
4 CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles)
6 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
5 WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (Mikio Naruse)
7 THE PATSY (Jerry Lewis)
8 IN HARM'S WAY (Otto Preminger)
9 YEARNING (Mikio Naruse)
10 THE TRIAL (Orson Welles)

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1969

1 UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
2 AGE OF CONSENT (Michael Powell)
3 ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville)
4 MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (Eric Rohmer)
5 L'ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat)
6 THE ITALIAN JOB (Peter Collinson)
7 INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER (Kenneth Anger)
8 BOY (Nagisa Oshima)
9 A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
10 THE WILD BUNCH (Sam Peckinpah)

1968

1 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
2 JE T'AIME, JE T'AIME (Alain Resnais)
3 PLAY DIRTY (André De Toth)
4 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
5 THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer)
6 ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski)
7 PAS DE DEUX (Norman McLaren)
8 SECRET CEREMONY (Joseph Losey)
9 FACES (John Cassavetes)
10 MANDABI (Ousmane Sembene)

1967

1 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)
2 MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
3 WEEK END (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse)
5 THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols)
6 DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride)
7 THE RED AND THE WHITE (Miklós Jancsó)
8 BONNIE AND CLYDE (Arthur Penn)
9 THE BIG MOUTH (Jerry Lewis)
10 LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Eric Rohmer)

1966

1 AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
2 THREE ON A COUCH (Jerry Lewis)
3 LA GUERRE EST FINIE (Alain Resnais)
4 ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5 THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rosselini)
6 COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
7 REPORT (Bruce Conner)
8 FIGHTING ELEGY (Seijun Suzuki)
9 PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
10 BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1965

1 CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles)
2 IN HARM'S WAY (Otto Preminger)
3 THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins
4 A THOUSAND CLOWNS (Fred Coe)
5 FISTS IN THE POCKET (Marco Bellocchio)
6 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (Alexander Mackendrick)
7 BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembene)
8 TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Kon Ichikawa)
9 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
10 THE KNACK...AND HOW TO GET IT (Richard Lester)

1964

1 THE PATSY (Jerry Lewis)
2 YEARNING (Mikio Naruse)
3 ZULU (Cy Endfield)
4 WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
5 SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger)
6 DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
7 THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Anthony Mann)
8 NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
9 HAMLET (Grigory Kozintzev)
10 CULLODEN (Peter Watkins)

1963

1 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2 MURIEL (Alain Resnais)
3 THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (Jerry Lewis)
4 SHOCK CORRIDOR (Samuel Fuller)
5 THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa)
7 YOUTH OF THE BEAST (Seijun Suzuki)
8 CHRISTMAS ON EARTH (Barbara Rubin)
9 I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi)
10 THE OUTER LIMITS: "O.B.I.T." (Gerd Oswald)

1962

1 LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
2 THE TRIAL (Orson Welles)
3 TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (Vincente Minnelli)
4 A WANDERER'S NOTEBOOK (Mikio Naruse)
5 HATARI! (Howard Hawks)
6 COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
7 THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford)
8 THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad)
9 THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey)
10 THE THIRD LOVER (Claude Chabrol)

1961

1 THE LADIES' MAN (Jerry Lewis)
2 ALYONKA (Boris Barnet)
3 THE ERRAND BOY (Jerry Lewis)
4 YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa)
5 IL POSTO (Ermanno Olmi)
6 THE END OF SUMMER (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Blake Edwards)
8 ¡CUBA SÍ! (Chris Marker)
9 EL CID (Anthony Mann)
10 NELLY'S FOLLY (Chuck Jones)

1960

1 WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (Mikio Naruse)
2 BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 LE TROU (Jacques Becker)
4 THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
5 THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (Jean Cocteau)
6 LATE AUTUMN (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
8 LET'S MAKE LOVE (George Cukor)
9 THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN (Mikio Naruse)
10 THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Akira Kurosawa)

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