1963 Bonus List: Some Great Movies

1963 blogging, bonus list!

33 Great Movies from 1963

To conclude our festival of 1963, I’ve got a list of recommended movies.  This mini-list is excerpted from the “Doubling the Canon” list (as compiled by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board) combined with the 1963 list from the They Shoot Pictures Don’t They? list of 1,000 great films.

The They Shoot Pictures list is a 1,000-movie canon of great films;  the “Doubling the Canon” list adds an additional 1,000 movies to the canon.  And now I’m excerpting the 1963 movies.

33 Great Movies from 1963

(Combined list, with They Shoot Pictures picks in caps and Doubling the Canon picks in lower case, all presented in alphabetical order.)

8½ / Federico Fellini 

ACTOR’S REVENGE, AN (YUKINOJO HENGE) / Kon Ichikawa 

AMERICA, AMERICA / Elia Kazan 

Big City, The (Mahanagar) / Satyajit Ray 

Billy Liar / John Schlesinger 

BIRDS, THE / Alfred Hitchcock 

Carabiniers, Les / Jean-Luc Godard 

CHARADE / Stanley Donen 

CONTEMPT (LE MEPRIS) / Jean-Luc Godard 

FIRE WITHIN, THE (LE FEU FOLLET) / Louis Malle 

FLAMING CREATURES / Jack Smith 

GREAT ESCAPE, THE / John Sturges 

HAUNTING, THE / Robert Wise 

HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU) / Akira Kurosawa 

House is Black, The (Khaneh siah ast) / Forugh Farrokhzad 

Hud / Martin Ritt 

I Fidanzati / Ermanno Olmi 

JUDEX / Georges Franju 

Labirynt / Jan Lenica 

LEOPARD, THE (IL GATTOPARDO) / Luchino Visconti 

Lord of the Flies / Peter Brook 

MURIEL (MURIEL OU LE TEMPS D'UN RETOUR) / Alain Resnais 

NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE / Jerry Lewis 

ORGANIZER, THE (I COMPAGNI) / Mario Monicelli 

Passenger (Pasazerka) / Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz 

Petit soldat, Le / Jean-Luc Godard 

SERVANT, THE / Joseph Losey 

SHOCK CORRIDOR / Samuel Fuller 

SILENCE, THE (TYSTNADEN) / Ingmar Bergman 

This Sporting Life / Lindsay Anderson 

TOM JONES / Tony Richardson 

VERDUGO, EL / Luis G. Berlanga 

VIDAS SECAS / Nelson Pereira dos Santos 

Here’s the full They Shoot Pictures list.  And here’s the  “Doubling the Canon” list.  Special thanks to the two masterminds behind these lists: Bill Georgaris who manages They Shoot Pictures and Angel Gonzalez Garcia who now leads the "Doubling the Canon" project.

I created and launched  “Doubling the Canon” project around half a dozen years ago, ran it for a few years, and then handed it off to Angel’s capable hands where it’s flourished since.

Next blog series:  6 essays on
Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929)
as part of the  “For the Love of Film”
Film Preservation Blogathon
May 13-18, 2012

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