1966 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1966. Top 30 & many honorables

30.          THE NAKED PREY

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                     DRACULA: 
28.     PRINCE OF DARKNESS

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                WHO'S AFRAID

27.OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

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         IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, 

26.   CHARLIE BROWN

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                    THE 1,000
25.     EYES OF DR. MABUSE

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24.              PATRIOTISM

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23.              CUL-DE-SAC

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22.              RED BEARD

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21.        LOVES OF A BLONDE

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20.            THE BLUE MAX

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19.                  GAMBIT

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18.            THE SHOOTING

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18.             BREAKAWAY

17.     THE PORNOGRAPHERS

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16.                GERTRUD

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15.THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET

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                  THE GOSPEL
14.ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW

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13.         TOKYO OLYMPIAD

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12.          THE HAND [RUKA]

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11.           TOKYO DRIFTER

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10.                SECONDS

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9.                   DJANGO

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8.      THE SWORD OF DOOM

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7.              WINGS  Крылья

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6.       LES BONNES FEMMES

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5.              LE BONHEUR

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4.          MASCULIN FÉMININ

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3.       COME DRINK WITH ME

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2.    THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS

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1.                  BLOW-UP

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ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.
(the other films of '66 I loved that could've placed)

 

7 WOMEN

SALTO

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 THE SNAILS

[LES ESCARGOTS]

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WHO ARE YOU,

POLLY MAGGOO?

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MODESTY BLAISE

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QAL'EH  کامران شیردل

[WOMEN'S QUARTER]

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 SAMUEL BECKETT'S "FILM"

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FANTASTIC VOYAGE

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 JUDEX

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 BAND OF OUTSIDERS

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HAMLET  Гамлет

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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED
ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

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 THE PSYCHOPATH

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 ROSALIE

THE FIRE WITHIN 

[LE FEU FOLLET]

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 HARPER

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 THE SAND PEBBLES

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 AS LONG AS
YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEALTH

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 NIGHT GAMES [NATTLEK]

WINNIE THE POOH

AND THE HONEY TREE

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ALFIE

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CHELSEA GIRLS

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THE FORTUNE COOKIE

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 RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND

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THE ENDLESS SUMMER

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THE WILD ANGELS

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 THE CHASE

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FIGHTING ELEGY

FAHRENHEIT 451

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IS PARIS BURNING?

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RAGE

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A MAN AND A WOMAN

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 THE PROFESSIONALS

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SIX MEN GETTING SICK

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BORN FREE

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1966

TOP 30

1. BLOW-UP (Antonioni)
2. BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Pontecorvo)
3. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
4. MASCULIN FEMININ (Godard)
5. LE BONHEUR (Varda)
6. GOOD TIME GIRLS (Chabrol)
7. WINGS (Larisa Shepitko)
8. SWORD OF DOOM (Kihachi Okamoto)
9. DJANGO (Corbucci)
10. SECONDS (Frankenheimer)
11. TOKYO DRIFTER (Seijun Suzuki)
12. THE HAND (Jirí Trnka)
13. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Kon Ichikawa)
14. GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pasolini)
15. SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Kadár/Klos)
16. GERTRUD (Dreyer)
17. THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Imamura)
18. BREAKAWAY (Bruce Conner)
19. THE SHOOTING (Hellman)
20. GAMBIT (Neame)
21. THE BLUE MAX (John Guillermin)
22. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Foreman)
23. RED BEARD (Kurosawa)
24. CUL-DE-SAC (Polanski)
25. PATRIOTISM (Dômoto/Mishima)
26. THOUSAND EYES DR. MABUSE (Lang)
27. GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN (Schulz)
28. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Nichols)
29. DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS (Fisher)
30. THE NAKED PREY (Wilde)

RUNNER UP
7 WOMEN (Ford), SALTO (Konwicki), THE SNAILS (Laloux), WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO? (Klein), MODESTY BLAISE (Losey), WOMEN'S QUARTER (Kamran Shirdel), FILM (Beckett), FANTASTIC VOYAGE (R.Fleischer), JUDEX (Franju), BANDE À PART (Godard), HAMLET (Kozintsev), FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON WAY TO FORUM (Lester), THE PSYCHOPATH (Francis), ROSALIE (Borowczyk), LE FOU FOLLET (Malle), HARPER (Smight), THE SAND PEBBLES (Wise), LONG AS YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEALTH (Etaix), NATTLEK (Zetterling), WINNIE THE POOH & HONEY TREE (Wolfgang), ALFIE (Gilbert), CHELSEA GIRLS (Warhol), THE FORTUNE COOKIE (Wilder), RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND (Hellman), ENDLESS SUMMER (Brown), WILD ANGELS (Corman), THE CHASE (Penn), FIGHTING ELEGY (Suzuki), FAHRENHEIT 451 (Truffaut), IS PARIS BURNING? (Clément), RAGE (Gazcón), A MAN & A WOMAN (Lelouch), THE PROFESSIONALS (R.Brooks), SIX MEN GETTING SICK (Lynch), BORN FREE (J.Hill)