Classic Film : Favorite Movies of 1966?

Favorite Movies of 1966?

The Battle of Algiers
The Face of Another
The Professionals
Persona
Sult
Cairo 30
La Caza
Yesterday Girl
The Round-Up
The Red Angel
Carriage to Vienna
Nevada Smith
Alfie

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These, I think, though I'm probably forgetting some.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Sand Pebbles
Georgy Girl
The Battle of Algiers
This Property is Condemned
Persona
Closely Watched Trains
A Man for All Seasons
Alfie
Seconds
Andrei Rublev

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IMDB is a great way to bring up the results

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top ten…

Persona
Au Hasard Balthazar
Blow-Up
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Andrey Rublev
The War Game
The Battle of Algiers
Closely Observed Trains
The Chase
Nayak

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1966 seems like a relatively poor year for movies.
I have seen The Professionals, Nevada Smith, and The Sand Pebbles from the previous lists. All good movies.

I guess The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly would probably come closest to being a favorite of mine.

Fahrenheit 451 is a nice movie. I liked Born Free a lot when I was a kid. I watched The Shooting a few weeks back, it was interesting.

I guess I would rate The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Fahrenheit 451 as 8, perhaps I would give The Sand Pebbles an 8. The others are more like 7's.

So my list is

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Fahrenheit 451
The Sand Pebbles

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I tend to find foreign language films a bit of a mixed bag, some that are rated highly I find somewhat lacking - and there are not too many I would rate at 8 or above.

Of course, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is really an Italian film, so there is one I would rate an 8.

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Leone was a director I couldnt get into, though.. I like De Sica, Visconti, etc. But I think per capita, I probably like foreign movies more, and to be specific, probably 1960s Eastern European. Movies about people, and not so conformist. After seeing thousands of movies, I can't watch classic movies from the 30s anymore. Noir - forget about it. ONce you've seen 200, you have seen them all.

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We obviously have rather different tastes.

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These are the only films from 1966 I've seen, not very many:

Blow-Up 8/10

Fantastic Voyage 8/10

Follow Me, Boys! 10/10

The Ghost and Mrs Chicken 6/10

Moment to Moment 8/10

The Silencers 7/10

This Property is Condemned 9/10

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 9/10

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 10/10

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For me, 1966 was a great year for film. Here is a list of my favorites of 1966, taken from the below list of films from '66 that I really liked - films that I know I have watched at least twice - sometimes 3 or 4 times:

Harper
The Oscar
How to Steal a Million
Gambit
Funeral in Berlin
Kaleidoscope
Khartoum
El Dorado
The Sand Pebbles
The Silencers
Lord Love a Duck
Penelope



The Fortune Cookie
The Sand Pebbles
Seconds
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
*The Spy Who Came In from the Cold *This had a December, 1965 release in the U.S, and a January, 1966 release in the U.K. As such, some sites list it as a 1965 film, others list it as 1966.
Our Man Flint
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Silencers
Murderers' Row
Lord Love a Duck
Harper
The Sword of Doom (Japanese)
The Oscar
The Trouble with Angels
Django
Tokyo Drifter (Japanese)
Our Man in Marrakesh
Arabesque
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
The Glass Bottom Boat
Nevada Smith
Assault on a Queen
The Endless Summer
Walk, Don't Run
The Blue Max
Around the World Under the Sea
How to Steal a Million
The Wild Angels
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Ambush Bay
After the Fox
Mr. Buddwing
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Not with My Wife, You Don't!
Is Paris Burning?
Penelope
Triple Cross
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Rage
Blowup
Gambit
Grand Prix
Funeral in Berlin
The Chase
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Kaleidoscope
Khartoum
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (also called Morgan!)
The Ugly Dachshund
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Japanese)
El Dorado



There are other memorable films from 1966 that I've only seen once, as far as I can remember:

The Professionals
A Man for All Seasons
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Torn Curtain
Hawaii
The Appaloosa

…and last but not least: Manos: The Hands of Fate (yes… this one was very "memorable")

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That is a lot of movies. It would seem to be stretching the notion of favorite a bit.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is listed as a 1965 movie on IMDB.

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Yes, I suppose I could trim that list down a bit. But I will leave it as is in the hope that maybe, if some of those titles have been overlooked by people, it will serve as a source of inspiration for them to go check them out.

As to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold being listed as a 1965 movie on IMDB, I now see where technically that is correct. It was made in 1965 and released near the end of December in the U.S. - but not 'til the middle of January of '66 in the U.K. - even won the BAFTA Award for Best British film at the 1967 BAFTA Awards, which honoured the best films of 1966 - which I suppose is why I found it included as a 1966 film on the list I was using. I will go back and add that info above to clear up that confusion.

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Eye Of The Devil
A Man and a Woman
Chelsea Girls (if shown as intended)
Mademoiselle
Who Are You, Polly Magoo?
The Swinger
The Third Eye
Trans-Europ-Express
Sins of The Fleshapoids
The Embryo Hunts in Secret
Incubus

and of course -
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

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No blow-up or the appaloosa?

lukejbarnett

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Those two didn't make my final cut, but I did include both of them in my list of over all favorites of 1966 in my above post.

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what about thunderball? oh and don't ever support rotten tomatoes we all need to ban and delete this website from existence forevermore. they put pretty woman at just 65% and mystic pizza at 78%? put black christmas(1974) at just in the 70%s.

put gremlins at just 78% and rare exports: a christmas tale at like 95%? the comparisons of these movies on this website is so wrong it's criminal. and they put silent night, deadly night at just in the 30%s or 40%s?

all this is wrong bc it makes people who haven't ever watched these movies think they shouldn't watch them if they are rotten on this website which means under 60%. or make them think the movies aren't that good when they are like bc, gremlins or sndn so then they dont watch them.

lukejbarnett

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Thunderball was a 1965 film (just barely: it was released at the end of December, 1965 in both U.S. and U.K.).

Rotten Tomatoes: ehh, just ignore them. I've never let their ratings determine whether I should watch a movie or not.

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But you cant bc every tv trailer mentions what its rt % is and bc its so respected by so many people they trust rt when deciding to watch a movie. i really want to find out how rt got to its place when its bullshit id like to watch a doc on it

lukejbarnett
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