Out of Sight (and Sound)

Despite Letterboxd being another example of narcissists running rampant and ruining another social media platform with their brainlet opinions, I do concede it's an invaluable medium in collating various data relating to films logged there.

What's particularly noteworthy are the one hundred films from the 1960s which got a score of four stars or higher from me on the site. Haven't ventured further back than the '70s when compiling films picks from various years on this blog. In any case, it does prove the '60s was a more productive decade than the measly eighteen films from the 2020s which also scored as highly as them.

By no means is it a best of list, but it does show everything that I've liked and logged there between 2014-2016 and my return in 2022 to the present day.

 

Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1960)

Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960) 

The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)

Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) 

Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960) 

Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) 

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 

Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)

The Time Machine (George Pal, 1960) 

Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960) 

Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence, 1961)

The Curse of the Werewolf (Terence Fisher, 1961) 

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961)

The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961)

The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)

Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) 

Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)

Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962) 

Dr. No (Terence Young, 1962) 

The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) 

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) 

The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) 

Black Sabbath (Mario Bava, 1963)

Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963) 

The Demon (Brunello Rondi, 1963)

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Mario Bava, 1963) 

The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) 

The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)

Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)

L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)

The Sadist (James Landis, 1963) 

The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)

The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava, 1963) 

Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964) 

First Men in the Moon (Nathan Juran, 1964) 

A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) 

Carry On Cleo (Gerald Thomas, 1964)

Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964) 

It Happened Here (Andrew Mollo, Kevin Brownlow, 1964)

The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, 1964) 

Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō, 1964)

The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964)

Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)

White Slaves of Chinatown (Joseph P. Mawra, 1964)

Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964) 

Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)

The Collector (William Wyler, 1965) 

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) 

For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)

The Hill (Sidney Lumet, 1965)

The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie, 1965) 

Motorpsycho! (Russ Meyer, 1965)

Mudhoney (Russ Meyer, 1965) 

The Nanny (Seth Holt, 1965)

Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 

Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966)

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontercovo, 1966)

Carry On Screaming (Gerald Thomas, 1966) 

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150A.D. (Gordon Flemyng, 1966)

Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Terence Fisher, 1966) 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)

Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966)

The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966) 

Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)

The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1966) 

Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)

Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)

Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni, 1967)

The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967) 

In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)

Hombre (Martin Ritt, 1967) 

Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) 

Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) 

Spider Baby (Jack Hill, 1967)

Carry On Up the Khyber (Gerald Thomas, 1968)

Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968) 

Danger: Diabolik! (Mario Bava, 1968) 

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968) 

The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)

Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) 

Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) 

Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968) 

Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)

The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968) 

Twisted Nerve (Roy Boulting, 1968)

Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton, 1968)

Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968) 

Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

Blind Beast (Yasuzō Masumura, 1969) 

Camille 2000 (Radley Metzger, 1969)

Carry On Camping (Gerald Thomas, 1969) 

The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) 

The Laughing Woman (Pierro Schiavazappa, 1969)

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

 

Not entirely sure what the list reveals about your host, other than finding Gerald Thomas, the director of the Carry On films, being a far more prolific film director compared to revered auteurs Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick and Federico Fellini.

Curious to revisit those Alain Robbe-Grillet films, as I doubt I would have rated them so highly today compared to whenever I logged them on Letterboxd.