The 1963 Mini-List
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:12 am
RESULTS
Below is a list of films you can vote for from this year. If you want to be able to vote for something that isn't listed here, you need to ask me to add it to the list. The only reason I won't do so is if I deem that it belongs in another year. I have my own curious system for assigning films to years, but rest assured that I will never let a film miss its chance to qualify in one year or another. I am the ultimate arbiter of year assignments.
Discussion for this mini-list and requests for additions to the list of films below will run until June 30. On July 1 I will create a form for voting that will allow you to populate anything between a top 10 and a top 25 from among the films listed below. You will have until the end of the day July 14 to submit a ballot that way. If you don't see a certain film listed below, you won't be able to vote for it, so please speak up before June 30 to avoid disappointment.
Sorted alphabetically by title, using the native title for German and all Romance languages other than Romanian, and the English-language title in all other cases
À cause, à cause d'une femme (Michel Deville)
À tout prendre (Claude Jutra)
An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa)
America America (Elia Kazan)
L'ape regina (Marco Ferreri)
L'Appartement des filles (Michel Deville)
Au coeur de la vie (Robert Enrico)
Audition/Talent Competition (Miloš Forman)
La Baie des anges (Jacques Demy)
I basilischi (Lina Wertmüller)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Peter (Miloš Forman)
The Black Report (Yasuzō Masumura)
Blonde Cobra (Ken Jacobs)
Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
La Boulangère de Monceau (Éric Rohmer)
The Boxer and Death (Peter Solan)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
Carambolages (Marcel Bluwal)
The Cardinal (Otto Preminger)
The Caretaker (Clive Donner)
La Carrière de Suzanne (Éric Rohmer)
Changes in the Village (Lester James Peries)
Charade (Stanley Donen)
A Child Is Waiting (John Cassavetes)
Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Comedy of Terrors (Jacques Tourneur)
I compagni (Mario Monicelli)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
Crisis (Robert Drew)
Current (István Gaál)
Il demonio (Brunello Rondi)
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Seijun Suzuki)
Diary of a Madman (Reginald Le Borg)
Donovan's Reef (John Ford)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Kihachi Okamoto)
Encyclopédie de grand'maman (Walerian Borowczyk)
Es muß ein Stück von Hitler sein (Walter Krüttner)
Le Feu follet (Louis Malle)
I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
55 Days at Peking (Nicholas Ray)
Film Magazine of the Arts (Jonas Mekas)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
From Russia with Love (Terence Young)
La frusta e il corpo (Mario Bava)
Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
Haircut No. 1 (Andy Warhol)
The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman)
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Michael Powell)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzād)
How the West Was Won (Henry Hathaway et al.)
Hud (Martin Ritt)
I Could Go on Singing (Ronald Neame)
Ikarie XB 1 (Jindřich Polák)
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
The Incorrigible (Seijun Suzuki)
The Informers (Ken Annakin)
The Insect Woman (Shōhei Imamura)
Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Johnny Cool (William Asher)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
Josef Kilián (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)
Judex (Georges Franju)
Karbid und Sauerampfer (Frank Beyer)
Katarsis (Giuseppe Veggezzi)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (Ishirō Honda)
Kiss (Andy Warhol)
Landru (Claude Chabrol)
Legend of a Duel to the Death (Keisuke Kinoshita)
Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
Love with the Proper Stranger (Robert Mulligan)
Machorka-Muff (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
The Man from the Diners' Club (Frank Tashlin)
Le mani sulla città (Francesco Rosi)
Maniac (Michael Carreras)
Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet)
Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Most Ordinary of Occupations (Josef Kořán)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
Mourir à Madrid (Frédéric Rossif)
La muerte silba un blues (Jess Franco)
Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (Alain Resnais)
New Tale of Zatoichi (Tokuzō Tanaka)
Normal Love (Jack Smith)
The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
The Old Dark House (William Castle)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
Paranoiac (Freddie Francis)
The Party's Over (Guy Hamilton)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz)
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pour la suite du monde (Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault)
The Pram (Bo Widerberg)
The Prize (Mark Robson)
La rabbia (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
La ragazza che sapeva troppo (Mario Bava)
The Raven (Roger Corman)
The Red Lanterns (Vasilis Georgiadis)
Renaissance (Walerian Borowczyk)
La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (Roberto Rossellini et al.)
The Running Man (Carol Reed)
The Scarlet Blade (John Gilling)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
Scum of the Earth (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
The Sky Socialist (Ken Jacobs)
Sleep (Andy Warhol)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes)
Snow (Geoffrey Jones)
Soldier in the Rain (Ralph Nelson)
Something Different (Věra Chytilová)
Le Soupirant (Pierre Étaix)
Il successo (Mauro Morassi)
Sun in Your Head (Wolf Vostell)
Sunday in New York (Peter Tewskbury)
The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Third Shadow Warrior (Umetsugu Inoue)
13 Frightened Girls (William Castle)
This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
Tiburoneros (Luis Alcoriza)
Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
Les Tontons Flingueurs (Georges Lautner)
I tre volti della paura (Mario Bava)
Un drôle de paroissien (Jean-Pierre Mocky)
Unearthly Stranger (John Krish)
Os Verdes Anos (Paulo Rocha)
El verdugo (Luis García Berlanga)
Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira Dos Santos)
La visita (Antonio Pietrangeli)
Visitors on the Icy Mountain (Zhao Xinshui)
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Martin Scorsese)
When the Cat Comes (Vojtěch Jasný)
Who's Minding the Store? (Frank Tashlin)
Whistle Stop (Boris Barnet)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
A Woman's Life (Mikio Naruse)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman)
Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
Zatoichi the Fugitive (Tokuzō Tanaka)
Below is a list of films you can vote for from this year. If you want to be able to vote for something that isn't listed here, you need to ask me to add it to the list. The only reason I won't do so is if I deem that it belongs in another year. I have my own curious system for assigning films to years, but rest assured that I will never let a film miss its chance to qualify in one year or another. I am the ultimate arbiter of year assignments.
Discussion for this mini-list and requests for additions to the list of films below will run until June 30. On July 1 I will create a form for voting that will allow you to populate anything between a top 10 and a top 25 from among the films listed below. You will have until the end of the day July 14 to submit a ballot that way. If you don't see a certain film listed below, you won't be able to vote for it, so please speak up before June 30 to avoid disappointment.
Sorted alphabetically by title, using the native title for German and all Romance languages other than Romanian, and the English-language title in all other cases
À cause, à cause d'une femme (Michel Deville)
À tout prendre (Claude Jutra)
An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa)
America America (Elia Kazan)
L'ape regina (Marco Ferreri)
L'Appartement des filles (Michel Deville)
Au coeur de la vie (Robert Enrico)
Audition/Talent Competition (Miloš Forman)
La Baie des anges (Jacques Demy)
I basilischi (Lina Wertmüller)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Peter (Miloš Forman)
The Black Report (Yasuzō Masumura)
Blonde Cobra (Ken Jacobs)
Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
La Boulangère de Monceau (Éric Rohmer)
The Boxer and Death (Peter Solan)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
Carambolages (Marcel Bluwal)
The Cardinal (Otto Preminger)
The Caretaker (Clive Donner)
La Carrière de Suzanne (Éric Rohmer)
Changes in the Village (Lester James Peries)
Charade (Stanley Donen)
A Child Is Waiting (John Cassavetes)
Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Comedy of Terrors (Jacques Tourneur)
I compagni (Mario Monicelli)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
Crisis (Robert Drew)
Current (István Gaál)
Il demonio (Brunello Rondi)
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Seijun Suzuki)
Diary of a Madman (Reginald Le Borg)
Donovan's Reef (John Ford)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Kihachi Okamoto)
Encyclopédie de grand'maman (Walerian Borowczyk)
Es muß ein Stück von Hitler sein (Walter Krüttner)
Le Feu follet (Louis Malle)
I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
55 Days at Peking (Nicholas Ray)
Film Magazine of the Arts (Jonas Mekas)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
From Russia with Love (Terence Young)
La frusta e il corpo (Mario Bava)
Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
Haircut No. 1 (Andy Warhol)
The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman)
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Michael Powell)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzād)
How the West Was Won (Henry Hathaway et al.)
Hud (Martin Ritt)
I Could Go on Singing (Ronald Neame)
Ikarie XB 1 (Jindřich Polák)
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
The Incorrigible (Seijun Suzuki)
The Informers (Ken Annakin)
The Insect Woman (Shōhei Imamura)
Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Johnny Cool (William Asher)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
Josef Kilián (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)
Judex (Georges Franju)
Karbid und Sauerampfer (Frank Beyer)
Katarsis (Giuseppe Veggezzi)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (Ishirō Honda)
Kiss (Andy Warhol)
Landru (Claude Chabrol)
Legend of a Duel to the Death (Keisuke Kinoshita)
Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
Love with the Proper Stranger (Robert Mulligan)
Machorka-Muff (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
The Man from the Diners' Club (Frank Tashlin)
Le mani sulla città (Francesco Rosi)
Maniac (Michael Carreras)
Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet)
Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Most Ordinary of Occupations (Josef Kořán)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
Mourir à Madrid (Frédéric Rossif)
La muerte silba un blues (Jess Franco)
Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (Alain Resnais)
New Tale of Zatoichi (Tokuzō Tanaka)
Normal Love (Jack Smith)
The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
The Old Dark House (William Castle)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
Paranoiac (Freddie Francis)
The Party's Over (Guy Hamilton)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz)
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pour la suite du monde (Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault)
The Pram (Bo Widerberg)
The Prize (Mark Robson)
La rabbia (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
La ragazza che sapeva troppo (Mario Bava)
The Raven (Roger Corman)
The Red Lanterns (Vasilis Georgiadis)
Renaissance (Walerian Borowczyk)
La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (Roberto Rossellini et al.)
The Running Man (Carol Reed)
The Scarlet Blade (John Gilling)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
Scum of the Earth (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
The Sky Socialist (Ken Jacobs)
Sleep (Andy Warhol)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes)
Snow (Geoffrey Jones)
Soldier in the Rain (Ralph Nelson)
Something Different (Věra Chytilová)
Le Soupirant (Pierre Étaix)
Il successo (Mauro Morassi)
Sun in Your Head (Wolf Vostell)
Sunday in New York (Peter Tewskbury)
The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Third Shadow Warrior (Umetsugu Inoue)
13 Frightened Girls (William Castle)
This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
Tiburoneros (Luis Alcoriza)
Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
Les Tontons Flingueurs (Georges Lautner)
I tre volti della paura (Mario Bava)
Un drôle de paroissien (Jean-Pierre Mocky)
Unearthly Stranger (John Krish)
Os Verdes Anos (Paulo Rocha)
El verdugo (Luis García Berlanga)
Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira Dos Santos)
La visita (Antonio Pietrangeli)
Visitors on the Icy Mountain (Zhao Xinshui)
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Martin Scorsese)
When the Cat Comes (Vojtěch Jasný)
Who's Minding the Store? (Frank Tashlin)
Whistle Stop (Boris Barnet)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
A Woman's Life (Mikio Naruse)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman)
Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
Zatoichi the Fugitive (Tokuzō Tanaka)