The 1960 Mini-List

[swo17]

RESULTS

Below is a list of films you can vote for in this mini-list that we've been discussing in the Lists Project thread. If you want to be able to vote for something that isn't listed here, you need to ask me to add it to the list. The only reason I won't do so is if I deem that it belongs in another year. This will generally be based on IMDb year but I may make exceptions as needed to make sure that every film is eligible in one year and in only one year. I am the ultimate arbiter of year assignments.

Discussion for this mini-list and requests for additions to the list of films below will run until March 31. On April 1 I will create a form for voting that will allow you to populate anything between a top 10 and a top 25 from among the films listed below. You will have until the end of the day April 8 to submit a ballot that way. If you don't see a certain film listed below, you won't be able to vote for it, so please speak up before March 31 to avoid disappointment.

Sorted alphabetically by title, using the native title for German and all Romance languages other than Romanian, and the English-language title in all other cases

À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
Adua e le compagne (Antonio Pietrangeli)
Afraid to Die (Yasuzō Masumura)
The Alamo (John Wayne)
L'Amérique insolite (François Reichenbach)
L'amour existe (Maurice Pialat)
The Angry Silence (Guy Green)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
Autumn Has Already Started (Mikio Naruse)
L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Bad Luck (Andrzej Munk)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
Die Bande des Schreckens (Harald Reinl)
Bandwidth (René Jodoin)
Battle of Blood Island (Joel Rapp)
The Battle of the Sexes (Charles Crichton)
Beat Girl (Edmond Gréville)
Il bell'Antonio (Mauro Bolognini)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)
The Blind Menace (Kazuo Mori)
Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
The Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher)
Brother (Kon Ichikawa)
The Brute (Zoltán Fábri)
Can-Can (Walter Lang)
Cimarron (Anthony Mann)
Cinderfella (Frank Tashlin)
La ciociara (Vittorio De Sica)
The City of the Dead (John Moxey)
Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
El cochecito (Marco Ferreri)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)
The Criminal (Joseph Losey)
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ōshima)
Description d'un combat (Chris Marker)
Devi (Satyajit Ray)
The Devil's Eye (Ingmar Bergman)
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (Raymond Léopold Bruckberger & Philippe Agostini)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
Dolci inganni (Alberto Lattuada)
Dry Lake (Masahiro Shinoda)
Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
Era notte a Roma (Roberto Rossellini)
El esqueleto de la señora Morales (Rogelio González)
Et mourir de plaisir (Roger Vadim)
Everybody's Nobody (Bruce Lacey & John Sewell)
Everything Goes Wrong (Seijun Suzuki)
Exodus (Otto Preminger)
5 Branded Women (Martin Ritt)
The Flesh and the Fiends (John Gilling)
From the Terrace (Mark Robson)
The Fugitive Kind (Sidney Lumet)
The Full Treatment (Val Guest)
Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (Janusz Morgenstern)
Good-for-Nothing (Kijū Yoshida)
Heller in Pink Tights (George Cukor)
Higher Principle (Jiří Krejčík)
Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli)
House of Usher (Roger Corman)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young)
The Iceman Cometh (Sidney Lumet)
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer)
Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda)
Integration Report I (Madeline Anderson)
Intimidation (Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa)
Kapò (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Killing in Yoshiwara (Tomu Uchida)
Kirmes (Wolfgang Staudte)
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Aleksander Ford)
The Lady with the Dog (Iosif Kheifits)
Late Autumn (Yasujirō Ozu)
The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden)
Let's Make Love (George Cukor)
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Lines: Vertical (Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambert)
The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
Macario (Roberto Gavaldón)
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
La maschera del demonio (Mario Bava)
The Meek One (Aleksandr Borisov)
Mein Kampf (Erwin Leiser)
Messalina Venere imperatrice (Vittorio Cottafavi)
The Millionairess (Anthony Asquith)
Mughal-E-Azam (K. Asif)
The Musicians (Kazimierz Karabasz)
Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (Frank Wisbar)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindō)
Never on Sunday (Jules Dassin)
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (Cyril Frankel)
Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Ōshima)
The Ninth Circle (France Štiglic)
On n'enterre pas le dimanche (Michel Drach)
One-Room Tenants (Wojciech Has)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
Plein soleil (René Clément)
Pollyanna (David Swift)
Primary (Robert Drew)
Propagation (René Jodoin)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Budd Boetticher)
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti)
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Jirí Weiss)
Il rossetto (Damiano Damiani)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
The Savage Eye (Ben Maddow et al.)
The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
Les scélérats (Robert Hossein)
Schatten (Hans Jürgen Pohland)
School for Scoundrels (Robert Hamer)
Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford)
Silly Science (Seymour Kneitel & Jack Mercer)
The Sleeping Beast Within (Seijun Suzuki)
Smashing the 0-Line (Seijun Suzuki)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
Stone Into Steel (Paul Dickson)
Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine)
The Sun's Burial (Nagisa Ōshima)
Take Aim at the Police Van (Seijun Suzuki)
Tall Story (Joshua Logan)
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Le Testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi (Jean Cocteau)
13 Ghosts (William Castle)
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (Jack Sher)
The Time Machine (George Pal)
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame)
Tutti a casa (Luigi Comencini)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Terence Fisher)
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
Visit to a Small Planet (Norman Taurog)
The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
Where the Boys Are (Henry Levin)
The White Dove (František Vláčil)
Wild River (Elia Kazan)
The Wild, Wild Rose (Wang Tian-Lin)
The World of Suzie Wong (Richard Quine)
Les Yeux sans visage (Georges Franju)
The Young One (Luis Buñuel)
Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle)

[domino harvey]

I have a viewing list of a little over a hundred titles now, many of which aren’t on your list. But I checked IMDB this evening for all of them. I don’t know that I’ll actually vote for any of them yet but do you really want all that? Also, a dedicated thread (that can be folded back into this one when done, if desired) would be helpful

[swo17]

Wait and see if you think they're actually contenders before asking me to add them

[domino harvey]

Cool, will do. Thanks for the threadsplit and for making my idle chatter reality!

According to Letterboxd I’ve only rated 14 films from 1960 five stars, so I have lots of room in the back half of my list for new discoveries or any number of great films I’ve already seen that wouldn’t otherwise quite make my full decade list

[TMDaines]

Apparently I loved School for Scoundrels when I watched it, but have no memory of when or where I did.

[swo17]

Is that a request to add the film to my master list?

[TMDaines]

Is that a request to add the film to my master list?

I guess so!

[swo17]

OK I'll add it, but for the record I'm not trying to gather a comprehensive list of every eligible title (as I've said elsewhere, IMDb identifies almost 5,000 such titles) but rather a manageable list of everything any participant wants to vote for. This starting point is a mix of titles that have previously received votes in some iteration of the '60s list, and a judgmental culling of titles I'm familiar with that I expect to have some kind of following here

[therewillbeblus]

I would vote for Robert Hossein's Les Scélérats/The Wretches, which is the only title from my masterlist I don't see on yours

[swo17]

Added

[Rayon Vert]

Is it possible to get the exact start and end date for this project?

Also, apart from obvious classics, I'd be interested in hearing about recommendations that are currently available on disc.

[therewillbeblus]

I would be interested in recommendations for shorts/experimental works that might otherwise be overlooked (*cough* swo)- as well as any rare nouvelle vague backchannel films that might otherwise be overlooked (*cough* domino), but of course this can wait for the actual project to start- just food for thought

[Rayon Vert]

Donen's The Grass Is Greener could possibly be added.

[domino harvey]

I would vote for Robert Hossein's Les Scélérats/The Wretches, which is the only title from my masterlist I don't see on yours

A strong movie which could possibly make the back end of my list. Hossein is all over the place as a director but this one is a real success

[swo17]

Is it possible to get the exact start and end date for this project?

It's happening right now! It will tentatively run until the end of February but if we get to that point and at least three people ask for a two-week extension I'll grant it. During the project you can make recommendations and also request additions to the master list, but you can't actually vote until I publish the poll

Donen's The Grass Is Greener could possibly be added.

Is that you asking me to add it? Feel free to watch or revisit it before answering

I would be interested in recommendations for shorts/experimental works that might otherwise be overlooked (*cough* swo)

Arnulf Rainer is a big deal, which you'll probably appreciate as it's very much in the vein of The Flicker. That's all I've got for now

[Rayon Vert]

It's happening right now! It will tentatively run until the end of February but if we get to that point and at least three people ask for a two-week extension I'll grant it. During the project you can make recommendations and also request additions to the master list, but you can't actually vote until I publish the poll

Unfortunately that's too short notice for me to order, receive and then watch new movies. I'll go with the films I've already seen. However if we can know ahead if it's extended to, say, end of March, then I'll gladly punish the credit card again.

[domino harvey]

I vote for an extension if it allows Rayon Vert to participate more deeply. And I suppose the rest of you can also post in that time too

[swo17]

One more person and I'll push it to the end of March

[therewillbeblus]

I cast my vote for Team RV

[domino harvey]

You want recommendations? Buckle up!

Here are all of the films currently on my short list for 1960, out of 115 seen as of the time of this post

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A bout de souffle
the Apartment
Cimarron
Cinderfella
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
Elmer Gantry
Exodus
Heller in Pink Tights
I dolci inganni
Inherit the Wind
L'Amérique insolite
L’Avventura
La dolce vita
Le trou
Les bonnes femmes
Les scélérats
Letter Never Sent
Messaline
On n'enterre pas le dimanche
Psycho
Rocco and His Brothers
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Strangers When We Meet
Tall Story
the Virgin Spring
Where the Boys Are
the World of Suzie Wong
Zazie dans le metro

NOTE
The following titles have not necessarily been approved by swo but were vetted by an independent counsel (me)

Here are all the unwatched films I have on hand from 1960, which I will do my best to work through in the coming month (or months!)

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Aki tachinu AKA Autumn Has Already Started
All the Young Men
the Angry Silence
the Bad Sleep Well
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle
the Challenge AKA It Takes a Thief
the City of the Dead
Cloud Capped Star
the Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Description d'un Combat AKA Description of a Struggle AKA Third Side of the Coin
Die Bande des Schreckens AKA the Terrible People
Do widzenia, do jutra AKA Good Bye Till Tomorrow
Domaren AKA the Judge
Era notte a Roma
Esther and the King
Faces in the Dark
Flaming Star
Girl of the Night
the Great Imposter
Hell Bent for Leather
Hell to Eternity
Historias de la revolución
Hou men AKA Back Door AKA Rear Entrance
the Housemaid
I baccanali di Tiberio
Ice Palace
the Iceman Cometh (TV)
Il bell'Antonio
Il rossetto AKA Lipstick
Innocent Sorcerers
the Jailbreakers
Karakkaze yarô AKA Afraid to Die
Key Witness
Knights of the Black Cross
La ciociare AKA Two Women
La corde raide AKA Lovers On a Tightrope
La giornata balorda AKA A Crazy Day AKA From a Roman Balcony
La Llorona AKA
the Lady with the Dog AKA Dama s sobachkoy
Le huitième jour
Le passage du Rhin
Le voyage en ballon
Les canailles
Les loups dans la bergerie
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Lettere di una novizia AKA La novice
the Little Coach
Ljubav i moda AKA Love and Fashion
Lullaby
Madalena
Man on a String
the Mountain Road
Meurtre en 45 tours
Mill of Stone Women
När mörkret faller AKA When Darkness Falls
Nikt nie wola AKA Nobody’s Calling
North to Alaska
Once More With Feeling
Oscar Wilde
Ovader
the Plunderers
the Pusher
the Rat Race
Revolt of the Slaves
the Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Ruten no ôhi AKA Wandering Princess
Si le vent te fait peur AKA If the Wind Frightens You
Ski Troop Attack
Sunrise at Campobello
Surprise Package
Swiss Family Robinson
Terrain vague
Three Came to Kill
Un steak trop cuit
Via Margutta
World War III Breaks Out
the Young One

And here are films I don't have on hand but am interested in seeing and have access to grabbing. Can anyone speak to any of these as essential viewing or if they're skippable? Trying to not add too much to my already huge to watch list, but what's ten or twenty more movies?

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Baishey Shravana
Bidaya Wa Nehaya AKA A Beginning and an End
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Devi
El esqueleto de la señora Morales
Fuefukigawa
Hero of the Red Light District
Holubice aka the White Dove
Inspector Palmu's Error
Integration Report 1
L'Amour existe
Late Autumn
Macario
Mughal-E-Azam
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Night and Fog in Japan
Sousto
Splendid Days
Stendalì: Suonano ancora
the Strange World of Gurney Slade
Tutti a casa
Vyšší princip aka Higher Principle
Warped Ones

[Rayon Vert]

Thanks all!

[swo17]

I would definitely make time for:

Devi
The White Dove
L'amour existe (surprised you haven't already seen this!)

Also, worst case scenario if you watch something that I don't approve for 1960 is that I probably approve it for 1961, assuming we like this enough to keep going with it. Or actually, worst case scenario is I say it's from the 1950s and so you will have watched it for absolutely nothing

[domino harvey]

L'amour existe (surprised you haven't already seen this!)

It's possible that I have, but when I first started logging movies I didn't log shorts and that's when I would have been first going through Pialat, so I'm not sure if I have or not. I don't remember it at any rate!

[therewillbeblus]

Ohh The Housemaid is great- and wasn't on my list for some reason. A clear influence on Parasite, which I know has been outright stated by Bong, but still worth mentioning

[Toland's Mitchell]

And here are films I don't have on hand but am interested in seeing and have access to grabbing. Can anyone speak to any of these as essential viewing or if they're skippable? Trying to not add too much to my already huge to watch list, but what's ten or twenty more movies?

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Devi
Late Autumn

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I thought these were good films, but not best-of-the-decade worthy.