1962 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1962. Top 30 & many honorables.









30.

  THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

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29.             COSMIC RAY

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28.    EXPERIMENT IN TERROR

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27.    ANTOINE AND COLETTE

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26. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

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25.           JULES AND JIM

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24.       THE GODDESS [DEVI]

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               CONFESSIONS 

23.OF AN OPIUM EATER

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22.  LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

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21.       THE NAKED ISLAND

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20.   TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS

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               OS CAFAJESTES

19. [THE UNSCRUPULOUS ONES]

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18.                  LOLITA

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17.      THE MIRACLE WORKER

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16.       CARNIVAL OF SOULS

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15.     EYES WITHOUT A FACE

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                 MR. ARKADIN

14.   [the "comprehensive" cut]

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13.  DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

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12.       FIRES ON THE PLAIN

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11.            MAMMA ROMA

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10.            PEEPING TOM

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9.                  LA JETÉE

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8.      TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

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             THE CRIMINAL LIFE 

7.  OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ

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-tie- 7.           VIRIDIANA

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6.           CLEO FROM 5 TO 7

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5.             GOOD MORNING

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4.    RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY

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3.       LETTER NEVER SENT

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2.      LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

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                THE MAN WHO
1.    SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

*****

ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.

(other titles of '62 I love that could've placed)

THE CYBERNETIC 

GRANDMOTHER 

[KYBERNETICKÁ BABIČKA]

THE END OF SUMMER

THE LONELINESS OF
THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER

WHAT EVER 

HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

THE 4 HORSEMEN 

OF THE APOCALYPSE

THE STEAMROLLER AND 

THE VIOLIN - КАТОК И СКРИПКA

L'ECLISSE

LOLA

WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING

CAPE FEAR

BARRAVENTO

2 WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

LA NOTTE

DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE

PITFALL

ADVISE & CONSENT

LA COMMARE SECCA

 HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC

BURN, WITCH, BURN

[NIGHT OF THE EAGLE]

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VIVE LE TOUR

LONG DAY'S 

JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 

MERRILL'S MARAUDERS

IL BIDONE

HELL IS FOR HEROES

THE HOLE

BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

TALES OF TERROR

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

THE LONGEST DAY

PRESSURE POINT

THE LOWER DEPTHS

STOWAWAY IN THE SKY

THE DAY 

THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE

ÁNIMAS TRUJANO:

THE IMPORTANT MAN

THE CITY OF THE DEAD

DR. NO

*****

1962

TOP 30

1. MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (Ford)
2. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Lean) 
3. LETTER NEVER SENT (Mikhail Kalatozov) 
4. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Peckinpah) 
5. GOOD MORNING (Ozu) 
6. CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (Varda)
7. CRIMINAL ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ                        -tie- VIRIDIANA (Buñuel) 
8. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Mulligan) 
9. LA JETEE (Marker) 
10. MAMMA ROMA (Pasolini) 
11. PEEPING TOM (Powell) 
12. FIRES ON THE PLAIN (Kon Ichikawa) 
13. DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (Edwards) 
14. MR. ARKADIN (Welles) 
15. EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Franju) 
16. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey) 
17. THE MIRACLE WORKER (Penn) 
18. LOLITA (Kubrick) 
19. THE UNSCRUPULOUS ONES (Ruy Guerra) 
20. TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (Cocteau) 
21. THE NAKED ISLAND (Kaneto Shindô) 
22. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Resnais) 
23. CONFESSIONS OF OPIUM EATER (Zugsmith) 
24. THE GODDESS (Satyajit Ray) 
25. JULES ET JIM (Truffaut) 
26. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Bergman) 
27. ANTOINE & COLETTE (Truffaut) 
28. EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (Edwards) 
29. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner) 
30. MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (Frankenheimer)

RUNNER UP
KYBERNETICK BABICKÀ (Jirí Trnka), END OF SUMMER (Ozu), LONELINESS OF LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (Richardson), WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (Aldrich), 4 HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (Minnelli), STEAM ROLLER & VIOLIN (Tarkovsky), THE ECLIPSE (Antonioni), LOLA (Demy), WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Brakhage), CAPE FEAR (J. Lee Thompson), THE TURNING WIND (Rocha), TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (Minnelli), SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Truffaut), THE NIGHT (Antonioni), DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (Germi), PITFALL (Teshigahara), ADVISE & CONSENT (Preminger), LA COMMARE SECCA (Bertolucci), HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC (Harry Smith), BURN WITCH BURN (Hayers), VIVE LE TOUR (Malle), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Lumet), MERRILL'S MARAUDERS (Samuel Fuller), IL BIDONE (Fellini), HELL IS FOR HEROES (Siegel), THE HOLE (Hubley), BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (Frankenheimer), TALES OF TERROR (Corman), WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (Forbes), LONGEST DAY (Zanuck), PRESSURE POINT (Cornfield/Kramer), THE LOWER DEPTHS (Kurosawa), LE VOYAGE EN BALLON (Lamorisse), DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (Val Guest), ÁNIMAS TRUJANO (Ismael Rodríguez), HORROR HOTEL (Moxey), DR. NO (Young)