My Top 20 by Year - 1963
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 112 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Nov 2015)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (Muriel, Resnais, 1963)
Yukinojo henge (An Actor’s Revenge, Ichikawa, 1963)
America America (Kazan, 1963)
Barnvagnen (The Baby Carriage, Widerberg, 1963)
Yaju no seishun (Youth of the Beast, Suzuki, 1963)
El verdugo (The Executioner, Berlanga, 1963)
Taiheiyô hitoribocchi (Alone Across the Pacific, Ichikawa, 1963)
Judex (Franju, 1963)
Mahanagar (The Big City, S. Ray, 1963)
Lord of the Flies (Brook, 1963)
A Child Is Waiting (Cassavetes, 1963)
Ta kokkina fanaria (The Red Lanterns, Georgiadis, 1963)
Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman, Okamoto, 1963)
Onna no rekishi (A Woman's Life, Naruse, 1963)
Az prijde kocour (When the Cat Comes, Jasný, 1963)
Zlaté kapradí (The Golden Fern, J. Weiss, 1963)
La frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body, Bava, 1963)
Arashi o yobu juhachi-nin (18 Roughs, Yoshida, 1963)
Un drôle de paroissien (Light-Fingered George, Mocky, 1963)
La baie des anges (Bay of Angels, Demy, 1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey, 1963)
The Ugly American (Englund, 1963)
The Cardinal (Preminger, 1963)
55 Days at Peking (N. Ray, 1963)
The Prize (Robson, 1963)
I mostri (Risi, 1963)
The High Lonesome Sound (J. Cohen, 1963, doc, sh)
Vidas Secas (Barren Lives, dos Santos, 1963)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 112 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Nov 2015)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (Muriel, Resnais, 1963)
Yukinojo henge (An Actor’s Revenge, Ichikawa, 1963)
America America (Kazan, 1963)
Barnvagnen (The Baby Carriage, Widerberg, 1963)
Yaju no seishun (Youth of the Beast, Suzuki, 1963)
El verdugo (The Executioner, Berlanga, 1963)
Taiheiyô hitoribocchi (Alone Across the Pacific, Ichikawa, 1963)
Judex (Franju, 1963)
Mahanagar (The Big City, S. Ray, 1963)
Lord of the Flies (Brook, 1963)
A Child Is Waiting (Cassavetes, 1963)
Ta kokkina fanaria (The Red Lanterns, Georgiadis, 1963)
Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman, Okamoto, 1963)
Onna no rekishi (A Woman's Life, Naruse, 1963)
Az prijde kocour (When the Cat Comes, Jasný, 1963)
Zlaté kapradí (The Golden Fern, J. Weiss, 1963)
La frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body, Bava, 1963)
Arashi o yobu juhachi-nin (18 Roughs, Yoshida, 1963)
Un drôle de paroissien (Light-Fingered George, Mocky, 1963)
La baie des anges (Bay of Angels, Demy, 1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey, 1963)
The Ugly American (Englund, 1963)
The Cardinal (Preminger, 1963)
55 Days at Peking (N. Ray, 1963)
The Prize (Robson, 1963)
I mostri (Risi, 1963)
The High Lonesome Sound (J. Cohen, 1963, doc, sh)
Vidas Secas (Barren Lives, dos Santos, 1963)
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