Monday, October 13, 2014

1968 Favorites











1968 in roughly preferential order:

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)

Shame (Ingmar Bergman)

Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)

The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)

Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo)

Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)

Faces (John Cassavetes)

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci)

The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)

Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene)

Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)

Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)

The Stalking Moon (Robert Mulligan)

Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)

Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)

Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves)

If…… (Lindsay Anderson)

Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)

The Producers (Mel Brooks)

Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
Dark of the Sun (Jack Cardiff)

1 comment:

  1. Wow. How you could leave The Love Bug off your list is beyond me.

    ;-)

    Seriously, though, good list. Once again, I find that I haven't watched all that much from a year. Below is the best that I could do at a Top Ten:

    1968 in roughly preferential order:

    1. Faces (John Cassavetes)
    2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
    3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
    4. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
    5. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
    6. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
    7. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
    8. The Producers (Mel Brooks)
    8. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
    10. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes)

    The Odd Couple (Gene Saks)
    The Love Bug (Robert Stevenson)
    Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)

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