1965 Bonus List: Some Great Movies

1965 blogging, bonus list!

32 Great Movies from 1965

To conclude our festival of 1965, 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 2006 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 1965 movies.

32 Great Movies from 1965

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

ALPHAVILLE (ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION) / Jean-Luc Godard

ART OF VISION, THE / Stan Brakhage

Bonheur, Le / Agnès Varda

Bunny Lake Is Missing / Otto Preminger

Charlie Brown Christmas, A / Bill Melendez

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT / Orson Welles

Darling / John Schlesinger

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO / David Lean

Dot and the Line, The: A Romance in Lower Mathematics / Chuck Jones

Film / Alan Schneider

Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) / Marco Bellocchio

For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) / Sergio Leone

Guide / Vijay Anand, Tad Danielewski

Hand, The (Ruka) / Jirí Trnka

High Wind in Jamaica, A / Alexander Mackendrick

Hill, The / Sidney Lumet

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI) / Federico Fellini

LOVES OF A BLONDE (LASKY JEDNE PLAVOVLASKY) / Milos Forman

NOT RECONCILED (NICHT VERSÖHNT ODER ES HILFT NUR GEWALT WO GEWALT HERRSCHT) / Jean-Marie Straub

Now / Santiago Álvarez

Ordinary Fascism (Obyknovennyy fashizm) / Mikhail Romm

PIERROT LE FOU / Jean-Luc Godard

RED BEARD (AKAHIGE) / Akira Kurosawa

REPULSION / Roman Polanski

Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...) / Luchino Visconti

SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT, THE (REKOPIS ZNALEZIONY W SARAGOSSIE) / Wojciech J. Has

Shop On Main Street, The (Obchod na korze) / Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto) / Luis Buñuel

SOUND OF MUSIC, THE / Robert Wise

Three (Tri) / Aleksandar Petrovic

Tokyo Olympiad (Tôkyô orimpikku) / Kon Ichikawa

War Game, The / Peter Watkins

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.

© 2012 Lee Price