Films of the '60s: 1966

[Stephan]

You can post a list of anywhere between 1 and 15 films (or more, but only 15 will be counted) from the year we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the RYM list and the top 10 of each year will go on to the final top 100. The deadline is June 30th.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50
2. 40
3. 30
4. 20
5. 15
6. 10
7. 9
8. 8
9. 7
10. 6
11. 5
12. 4
13. 3
14. 2
15. 1
However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.

Here are some lists to remind you of the great (and awful) films released in 1966, from a variety of sources:
IMDb
RYM
Films101
RottenTomatoes

[Greg]

1. Andrei Rublev / Andrei Tarkovsky / U.S.S.R.
2. Persona / Ingmar Bergman / Sweden
3. Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson / France
4. The Round-Up / Miklos Jancso / Hungary
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Sergio Leone / Italy
6. Django / Sergio Corbucci / Italy
7. Cul-de-sac / Roman Polanski / U.K.
8. Death of a Bureaucrat / Tomas Gutierrez Alea / Cuba
9. Closely Watched Trains / Jiri Menzel / Czechoslovakia
10. The Battle of Algiers / Gillo Pontecorvo / Italy
11. The Sword of Doom / Kihachi Okamoto / Japan
12. Le deuxieme souffle / Jean-Pierre Melville / France
13. The Hawks and the Sparrows / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Italy
14. Blowup / Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy
15. The Shooting / Monte Hellman / U.S.
16. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Mike Nichols / U.S.
17. The Face of Another / Hiroshi Teshigahara / Japan
18. Black Girl / Ousmane Sembene / Senegal
19. Seconds / John Frankenheimer / U.S.
20. Young Torless / Volker Schlondorff / West Germany

21. Fahrenheit 451 / Francois Truffaut / U.K.
22. Tokyo Drifter / Seijun Suzuki / Japan
23. Fighting Elegy / Seijun Suzuki / Japan
24. The Naked Prey / Cornel Wilde / U.S.
25. Masculine-Feminine / Jean-Luc Godard / France

[Henrik]

1. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]
2. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers]
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Persona
5. Blowup [Blow-Up], 3p
6. Cul-de-sac, 2p
7. A Man for All Seasons, 1p

Without points:
Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev]
Au hasard Balthazar [Balthazar]

[Gillingham]

1. Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo. (Sergio Leone)
2. La Battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. Andrey Rublyov (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mike Nichols)
6. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
8. Ostre Sledované Vlaky/Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
9. Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard) 2

Great top five.

[bonnielaurel]

1. Blow-Up
2. Persona
3. How to Steal a Million
4. La Grande Vadrouille
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
6. Penelope
7. The Fortune Cookie
8. Torn Curtain
9. A Man for All Seasons
10. Harper
11. Triple Cross
12. Alfie
13. Fantastic Voyage
14. La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers)
15. Fahrenheit 451

[Petri]

1. Blowup
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Ostře sledované vlaky [Closely Watched Trains]
4. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers]
5. Persona
6. Seconds
7. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]
8. The Fortune Cookie
9. Käpy selän alla [Skin, Skin]
10. 大醉俠 [Come Drink With Me]
11. Cul-de-sac
12. Fahrenheit 451
13. Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev]
14. Django

Great year and especially great top 5.

[Michel]

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev] (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
4. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers] (Gillo Pontecorvo)
5. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polański)
6. La religieuse [The Nun] (Jacques Rivette)
7. Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis [Masculine Feminine: 15 Precise Facts] (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Un homme et une femme [A Man and a Woman] (Claude Lelouch)
9. Le deuxième souffle [Second Breath] (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10. Szegénylegények [The Round-Up] (Miklós Jancsó)
11. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
12. Ostře sledované vlaky [Closely Watched Trains] (Jiří Menzel)
13. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (Sergio Leone)
14. Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer)
15. Der junge Törless [Young Törless] (Volker Schlöndorff)
16. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
17. Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
18. Signore & signori [The Birds, the Bees and the Italians] (Pietro Germi)
19. La grande vadrouille [Don't Look Now, We've Been Shot At] (Gérard Oury)
20. Ne nous fâchons pas [Let's Not Get Angry] (Georges Lautner)
21. The Chase (Arthur Penn)

[Jirin]

Andrei Rublev
Persona
Au Hasard Balthazar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Battle of Algiers
Blowup
The Round-Up
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1 pt)

Best year for film of all time. Any year where I'm putting movies I would consider for an all time top ten list at #4 is incredible.

[Harold]

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Seconds
5. Persona

[Miguel]

1. The Fortune Cookie – Billy Wilder (USA)
2. Fahrenheit 451 – François Truffaut (UK)
3. Torn Curtain – Alfred Hitchcock (USA)
4. Duel at Diablo – Ralph Nelson (USA)
5. Triple Cross – Terence Young (UK, France)
6. Gambit – Ronald Neame (USA)
7. L'armata Brancaleone (For Love and Gold) – Mario Monicelli (Italy, France, Spain)
8. The Chase – Arthur Penn (USA)
9. How to Steal a Million – William Wyler (USA)
10. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) – Sergio Leone (Italy, Germany, Spain)
11. El Dorado – Howard Hawks (USA)
12. La caza (The Hunt) – Carlos Saura (Spain)
13. The Appaloosa – Sidney J. Furie (USA)
14. This Property is Condemned – Sidney Pollack (USA)
15. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (USA)
16. The Professionals – Richard Brooks (USA)
17. Андрей Рублёв (Andrei Rublev) – Andrei Tarkovski (USSR)
18. Arabesque – Stanley Donen (USA)
19. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Richard Lester (UK, USA)
20. Modesty Blaise – Joseph Losey (UK)

[Charlie Driggs]

1. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (Vera Chytilova)
3. Spur der Steine (Frank Beyer)
4. La muerte de un burócrata (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
5. El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
6. La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo)
7. La caza (Carlos Saura)
8. Uccellacci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
9. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
10. Harper (Jack Smight)
11. The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder)
12. Apa (Istvan Szabo)
13. The Chase (Arthur Penn)
14. The Flim Flam Man (Irvin Kershner)
15. La guerre est finie (Alain Resnais)
16. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)

[Michel]

Small change in my list : i added Szegénylegények [The Round-Up].

[SuperFurry]

1. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
2. Cul-de-sac
3. Batman
4. Persona
5. Андрей Рублёв (Andrei Rublev)
6. The Shooting
7. A Man for All Seasons

[Petri]

Anyone know where Stephan is?

Nevertheless I counted the points and here are the unofficial results (the voting isn't officially closed).

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) - 260
2. Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (Sergio Leone) - 253
3. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) - 215
4. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers] (Gillo Pontecorvo) - 193
5. Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev] (Andrey Tarkovskiy) - 178
6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mike Nichols) - 138
7. The Fortune Cookie (Billy WIlder) - 72
8. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polański) - 71
9. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) - 69
10. Ostře sledované vlaky [Closely Watched Trains] (Jiří Menzel) - 49

Very glad that Closely Watched Trains is in top 10.

[Stephan]

Sorry guys, on top of the new job I'm moving to a new place as well, so I still barely have any free time. Petri, would you be willing to take over these polls for at least the coming month as well?

My vote won't make much of a difference this month:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Persona
5. Au Hasard Balthazar (1)

[Petri]

I can take over these film polls (at least for the 60s).

Here are the final results of 66 (added Stephan's vote). Some changes inside top 10 including new #1.

1. Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (Sergio Leone) - 303
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) - 280
3. La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers] (Gillo Pontecorvo) - 233
4. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) - 215
5. Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev] (Andrey Tarkovskiy) - 208
6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mike Nichols) - 138
7. The Fortune Cookie (Billy WIlder) - 72
8. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polański) - 71
9. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) - 70
10. Ostře sledované vlaky [Closely Watched Trains] (Jiří Menzel) - 49

[Stephan]

Thanks Petri, I really appreciate it! I've sent you the file with the results for the previous years.