Pre-70s Top Ten

[edkrak]

Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) 99
Macunaíma (1969) 98
Happiness (1965) 97
8½ (1963) 96
Barbarella (1968) 95
Citizen Kane (1941) 95
Fando and Lis (1968) 95
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) 95
Ugetsu (1953) 95
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) 93

[prowler]

Here's my top 11, all of them are films I'd gladly watch again anytime

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 100
Double Indemnity (1944) 98
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 96
Ordet (1955) 96
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 95
Harakiri (1962) 95
The Seventh Seal (1957) 95
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 94
Entr'acte (1924) / Sunset Blvd. (1950) / Woman in the Dunes (1964) 94

[Rufam]

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2) Citizen Kane (1941)
3) The Great Dictator (1940)
4) The Birds (1963)
5) Soy Cuba (1964)
6) C'era una volta il West (1968)
7) The Apartment (1960)
8) Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9) Some Like It Hot (1959)
10) Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Honourable mentions: Psycho (1960), All About Eve (1950), I Vitelloni (1953), Modern Times (1936), Le Ballon rouge (1956), In Cold Blood (1967), North by Northwest (1959), Repulsion (1965)

[Svengali]

1. Persona (95)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (95)
3. The Seventh Seal (95)
4. Andrei Rublev (94)
5. Harikiri (94)
6. Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (94)
7. The Color of Pomegranates (92)
8. Last Year At Marienbad (92)
9. Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (92)
10. 8½ (91)

A close race to say at least and a re-watch of them might change the list completely. Honourable mention woyld be The Passion of Joan of Arc, Woman in the Dunes, City Lights, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Nights of Carbiria, Rear Window, Ugetsu, Charulata, Ivan's Childhood.. I could go on for quite a bit, haha.

[mwgerb]

mwgerb- I don't know how I've not seen It's a Wonderful life yet, but thankfully it is up in it's entirety on youtube a long with The Seventh Seal. I started to watch Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but lost interest quickly (perhaps I should give it another shot). And I think Citizen Kane is a cheap rental at a local movie store, and I probably should have rented it long ago.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington does have its corny moments, and they're especially concentrated near the beginning. Its climax is absolutely worth watching, though.

[MmzHrrdb]

Pre-70's films from my top 100:

1. Scenes From a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
2. Mahanagar (1963, Satyajit Ray)
3. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
10. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
11. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
12. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
16. Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
17. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
18. Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (1963, Kon Ichikawa)
20. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
23. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
26. The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
28. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
29. Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
30. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
32. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
35. Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati)
36. 8½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
45. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
46. Winter Light (1962, Ingmar Bergman)
49. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
51. Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
52. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
55. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
57. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
58. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
61. Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
68. I Fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
72. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
76. Devi (1960, Satyajit Ray)
80. The Lineup (1958, Don Siegel)
86. The Burglar (1957, Paul Wendkos)
91. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
92. Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
93. Cairo Station (1958, Youssef Chahine)
96. A Page of Madness (1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa)
97. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
98. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ritwik Ghatak)

[AAAutin]

10.) ARMY OF SHADOWS
09.) DR. STRANGELOVE
08.) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
07.) IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
06.) BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
05.) RASHOMON
04.) ZULU
03.) COOL HAND LUKE
02.) YOJIMBO
01.) THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

[Okkervil]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Late Spring
4. A Man Escaped
5. Vertigo
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Dr. Strangelove...
8. One Upon a Time in the West
9. The Seventh Seal
10. To Kill a Mockingbird

[jal90]

Let's see:

1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) - 100
2. Days of wine and roses (Blake Edwards, 1962) - 99
3. The apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) - 99
4. The great dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) - 99
5. Modern times (Charles Chaplin, 1936) - 99
6. Paths of glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) - 99
7. 12 angry men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) - 99
8. A page of madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926) -98
9. For a few dollars more (Sergio Leone, 1965) - 98
10. The executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963) - 98

BONUS (other classics with 98 points):

11. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
12. The treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
13. The passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
14. Make way for tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
15. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

[3dRevelation]

Thanks everyone. Looks like I have quite a list of recommendations ahead of me. There is so many films from the time period and this will truly help try and watch the best.