Films of the '60s: 1961

[Stephan]

You can post a list of anywhere between 1 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 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 round. The deadline is January 31st.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50 points
2. 40
3. 35
4. 30
5. 25
6. 20
7. 18
8. 16
9. 14
10. 12
11. 10
10. 9
...
20. 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 1961, from a variety of sources:
IMDb
RYM
Films101
RottenTomatoes

[Michel]

Some recommandations :

Divorzio all'italiana [Divorce Italian Style] (Pietro Germi)
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
Una vita difficile [A Difficult Life] (Dino Risi)

[Greg]

1. The End of Summer / Yasujiro Ozu / Japan
2. Last Year at Marienbad / Alain Resnais / France
3. One, Two, Three / Billy Wilder / U.S.
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's / Blake Edwards / U.S.
5. The Innocents / Jack Clayton / U.K.
6. Divorce Italian Style / Pietro Germi / Italy
7. The Hustler / Robert Rossen / U.S.
8. Underworld U.S.A. / Samuel Fuller / U.S.
9. Il posto / Ermanno Olmi / Italy
10. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer / Masaki Kobayashi / Japan
11. Through a Glass Darkly / Ingmar Bergman / Sweden
12. Splendor in the Grass / Elia Kazan / U.S.
13. The Misfits / John Huston / U.S.
14. Accattone / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Italy
15. Yojimbo / Akira Kurosawa / Japan
16. Leon Morin, Priest / Jean-Pierre Melville / France
17. One-Eyed Jacks / Marlon Brando / U.S.
18. Blast of Silence / Allen Baron / U.S.
19. Viridiana / Luis Bunuel / Mexico
20. La notte / Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy

21. Paris Belongs to Us / Jacques Rivette / France
22. Judgment at Nuremberg / Stanley Kramer / U.S.
23. Night Tide / Curtis Harrington / U.S.
24. A Woman is a Woman / Jean-Luc Godard / France
25. Eve and the Handyman / Russ Meyer / U.S.

[Jirin]

One question:

Is Human Condition one movie or three movies?

I'm in the middle of Human Condition, haven't gotten to part 3 yet. But based on what I've seen so far I assume I would list it rather high.

1. Leon Morin, Priest
2. La Notte
3. Last Year In Marienbad
4. Viridiana
5. Through A Glass Darkly
6. Yojimbo
7. Il Posto

[Stephan]

I feel it's a trilogy, so part III (the best one) will top my list this year.

[Gillingham]

1. Sasom i en Spegel (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
3. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
4. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
5. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
6. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
7. L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
8. Divorzio all'Italiana (Pietro Germi) 15
9. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni) 12

I don't like the other films I've seen enough to make it ten.

[Henrik]

1. One, Two, Three
2. 用心棒 [Yojimbo]
3. West Side Story
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Såsom i en spegel [Through a Glass Darkly], 1p

[Petri]

1. Såsom i en spegel [Through a Glass Darkly]
2. 人間の条件　完結篇　第五部死の脱出、第六部曠野の彷徨 [The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer]
3. The Children's Hour
4. Une femme est une femme [A Woman Is a Woman]
5. Lola
6. One, Two, Three
7. La notte [The Night]
8. The Hustler
9. The Innocents
10. 用心棒 [Yojimbo]

Rest I've seen (no points)
11. West Side Story
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's

I've seen only 12 movies from 1961 but all are worth of watching. #4-#8 could be in any order.

[Gillingham]

Rest I've seen (no points)
11. West Side Story
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Exactly the same for me.

[Henrik]

Rest I've seen (no points)
11. West Side Story
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Exactly the same for me.

No romance with romance.

[Harold]

1. The Hustler
2. Jules et Jim
3. Splendor in the Grass
4. Viridiana
5. West Side Story

[Henrik]

2. Jules et Jim

1962, as far as I know.

[Miguel]

1. One, Two, Three – Billy Wilder (USA)
2. The Children’s Hour – William Wyler (USA)
3. Plácido – Luis García Berlanga (Spain)
4. Birdman of Alcatraz – John Frankenheimer (USA)
5. Judgement at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer (USA)
6. Pocketful of Miracles – Frank Capra (USA)
7. The Great Impostor – Robert Mulligan (USA)
8. Splendor in the Grass – Elia Kazan (USA)
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's – Blake Edwards (USA)
10. The Hustler – Robert Rossen (USA)
11. Paris Blues – Martin Ritt (USA)
12. The Innocents – Jack Clayton (USA/UK)
13. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone – José Quintero (USA)
14. Lover Come Back – Delbert Mann (USA)
15. The Deadly Companions – Sam Peckinpah (USA)
16. A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson (UK)
17. Viridiana – Luis Buñuel (Spain/Mexico)
18. Back Street – David Miller (USA)
19. El Cid – Anthony Mann (USA/Italy)

[antonius]

1.The Hustler
2.Judgement At Nuremberg
3.L'année dernière à Marienbad
4.The Misfits
5.One-Eyed Jacks
6.Breakfast At Tiffany's
7.The Guns of Navarone
8.Pit and the pendulum
9.West Side Story
10.101 Dalmatians

[Michel]

1. Divorzio all'italiana [Divorce Italian Style] (Pietro Germi)
2. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
3. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
4. Una vita difficile [A Difficult Life] (Dino Risi)
5. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
6. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
7. Victim (Basil Dearden)
8. 人間の条件　完結篇　第五部死の脱出、第六部曠野の彷徨 [The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer] (小林正樹)
9. Une femme est une femme [A Woman Is a Woman] (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. The Children's Hour (William Wyler)
11. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
12. Le président (Henri Verneuil)
13. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
14. One Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
15. La ragazza con la valigia [Girl With a Suitcase] (Valerio Zurlini)
16. Såsom i en spegel [Through a Glass Darkly] (Ingmar Bergman)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
18. Accattone [The Scrounger] (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
19. Le cave se rebiffe [The Counterfeiters of Paris] (Gilles Grangier)
20. L'année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad] (Alain Resnais)

[Stephan]

Pssh, I didn't manage to watch even a single extra 1961 film this month.

1. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi)
2. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
3. The Guns Of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)
4. One Hundred and One Dalmations (Clyde Geronimi / Hamilton Luske / Wolfgang Reitherman)

[Charlie Driggs]

1. Breakfast At Tiffany's
2. Yojimbo
3. The Hustler
4. La notte
5. Blast Of Silence
6. Accatone
7. Murder, She Said
8. Town Without Pity
9. The Innocents
10. Judgment at Nuremberg
11. One Eyed Jacks

[SuperFurry]

1. Breakfast At Tiffany's
2. Yojimbo
3. One Eyed Jacks
4. 101 Dalmations
5. West Side Story

[Stephan]

My apologies for being a bit late, I had to hand in the final version of my thesis yesterday. Now, I'm finally all done!

Incredibly close top 4.

#. Title (Director) - Points/Votes/#1s
1. The Hustler (Robert Rossen) - 216/8/2
2. 用心棒 [Yojimbo] (Akira Kurosawa) - 203/7/0
3. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder) - 200/6/2
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) - 198/7/1
5. L'Année Dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad] (Alain Resnais) - 129/5/0
6. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) - 127/5
7. Sasom i en Spegel [Through a Glass Darkly] (Ingmar Bergman) - 116/5/0
8. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel) - 111/5/2
9. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi) - 103/4/1
10. La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni) - 101/0

[Petri]

My apologies for being a bit late, I had to hand in the final version of my thesis yesterday. Now, I'm finally all done!

Congratulations Stephan!

It's interesting to see how these movies will manage in the final. It wouldn't surprise me a lot if Human Condition III is the highest ranked 1961 movie in the final. So far I've seen 16 (9+7) out of 20 finalists. Considering that I've seen only about 150 movies from the whole decade there's strong hint that there will be more and more the most seen films in the finals (especially when we move along to the 50s and earlier decades).