Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(Stanley Kubrick)
A Married Woman(Jean-Luc Godard)
The Train(John Frankenheimer)
Kiss Me, Stupid(Billy Wilder)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Band of Outsiders(Jean-Luc Godard)
A Hard Day's Night(Richard Lester)
Fistful of Dollars(Sergio Leone)
Additional 1964 Films By Rating
Seven Days in May(John Frankenheimer)
Goldfinger(Guy Hamilton)
I Am Cuba(Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Killers(Donald Siegel)
Hot Enough for June(Ralph Thomas)
Intentions of Murder(Shōhei Imamura)
Seduced and Abandoned(Pietro Germi)
Marnie(Alfred Hitchcock)
The Soft Skin(François Truffaut)
Three Outlaw Samurai(Hideo Gosha)
Black Peter(Milos Forman)
Viva Las Vegas(George Sidney)
The Naked Kiss(Samuel Fuller)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew(Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Charulata(Satyajit Ray)
The Masque of the Red Death(Roger Corman)
Onibaba(Kaneto Shindō)
Father Goose(Ralph Nelson)
Becket(Peter Glenville)
The Tomb of Ligeia(Roger Corman)
Gate of Flesh(Seijun Suzuki)
Gertrud(Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Pawnbroker(Sidney Lumet)
Diamonds of the Night(Jan Němec)
The Night of the Iguana(John Huston)
Man's Favorite Sport?(Howard Hawks)
Pale Flower(Masahiro Shinoda)
Dog Star Man(Brakhage)
Dry Summer(Metin Erksan)
Diary of a Chambermaid(Luis Buñuel)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet(Arthur Lubin)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars(Byron Haskin)
Red Desert(Michelangelo Antonioni)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Before the Revolution
(Bertolucci); Fail-Safe (Lumet); Girl With Green Eyes
(Davis); King & Country (Losey); Mary Poppins (Stevenson);
My Fair Lady (Cukor); Point of Order (De Antonio);
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes); A Shot in the
Dark (Edwards); Topkapi (Dassin); The World of Henry
Orient (Hill)
As yet unseen:Manji (Masumura);
Nothing but a Man (Roemer); That Man From Rio (De Broca)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.