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    MortSahlFan — 4 years ago(September 28, 2021 06:25 PM)

    The Battle of Algiers
    The Face of Another
    The Professionals
    Persona
    Sult
    Cairo 30
    La Caza
    Yesterday Girl
    The Round-Up
    The Red Angel
    Carriage to Vienna
    Nevada Smith
    Alfie
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      spiderwort — 2 years ago(December 09, 2023 10:58 PM)

      These, I think, though I'm probably forgetting some.
      Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
      The Sand Pebbles
      Georgy Girl
      The Battle of Algiers
      This Property is Condemned
      Persona
      Closely Watched Trains
      A Man for All Seasons
      Alfie
      Seconds
      Andrei Rublev

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        MortSahlFan — 2 years ago(December 10, 2023 01:22 PM)

        IMDB is a great way to bring up the results
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          rudeboymurray — 2 years ago(December 10, 2023 06:29 PM)

          top ten…
          Persona
          Au Hasard Balthazar
          Blow-Up
          Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
          Andrey Rublev
          The War Game
          The Battle of Algiers
          Closely Observed Trains
          The Chase
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            PygmyLion — 2 years ago(December 10, 2023 10:22 PM)

            1966 seems like a relatively poor year for movies.
            I have seen
            The Professionals
            ,
            Nevada Smith
            , and
            The Sand Pebbles
            from the previous lists. All good movies.
            I guess
            The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
            would probably come closest to being a favorite of mine.
            Fahrenheit 451
            is a nice movie. I liked
            Born Free
            a lot when I was a kid. I watched
            The Shooting
            a few weeks back, it was interesting.
            I guess I would rate
            The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
            and
            Fahrenheit 451
            as 8, perhaps I would give
            The Sand Pebbles
            an 8. The others are more like 7's.
            So my list is
            The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
            Fahrenheit 451
            The Sand Pebbles

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              MortSahlFan — 2 years ago(December 11, 2023 02:10 PM)

              The best movies were non-English
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                PygmyLion — 2 years ago(December 11, 2023 04:10 PM)

                I tend to find foreign language films a bit of a mixed bag, some that are rated highly I find somewhat lacking - and there are not too many I would rate at 8 or above.
                Of course,
                The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
                is really an Italian film, so there is one I would rate an 8.

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                  MortSahlFan — 2 years ago(December 12, 2023 11:14 AM)

                  Leone was a director I couldnt get into, though.. I like De Sica, Visconti, etc. But I think per capita, I probably like foreign movies more, and to be specific, probably 1960s Eastern European. Movies about people, and not so conformist. After seeing thousands of movies, I can't watch classic movies from the 30s anymore. Noir - forget about it. ONce you've seen 200, you have seen them all.
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                    PygmyLion — 2 years ago(December 12, 2023 08:34 PM)

                    We obviously have rather different tastes.

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                      LorqVonRay1999 — 2 years ago(December 11, 2023 09:48 PM)

                      These are the only films from 1966 I've seen, not very many:
                      Blow-Up 8/10
                      Fantastic Voyage 8/10
                      Follow Me, Boys! 10/10
                      The Ghost and Mrs Chicken 6/10
                      Moment to Moment 8/10
                      The Silencers 7/10
                      This Property is Condemned 9/10
                      Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 9/10
                      The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 10/10

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                          ZolotoyRetriever — 2 years ago(December 11, 2023 10:43 PM)

                          For me, 1966 was a great year for film. Here is a list of my favorites of 1966, taken from the below list of films from '66 that I really liked - films that I know I have watched at least twice - sometimes 3 or 4 times:
                          Harper
                          The Oscar
                          How to Steal a Million
                          Gambit
                          Funeral in Berlin
                          Kaleidoscope
                          Khartoum
                          El Dorado
                          The Sand Pebbles
                          The Silencers
                          Lord Love a Duck
                          Penelope
                          The Fortune Cookie
                          The Sand Pebbles
                          Seconds
                          The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
                          *The Spy Who Came In from the Cold *This had a December, 1965 release in the U.S, and a January, 1966 release in the U.K. As such, some sites list it as a 1965 film, others list it as 1966.
                          Our Man Flint
                          The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
                          The Silencers
                          Murderers' Row
                          Lord Love a Duck
                          Harper
                          The Sword of Doom (Japanese)
                          The Oscar
                          The Trouble with Angels
                          Django
                          Tokyo Drifter (Japanese)
                          Our Man in Marrakesh
                          Arabesque
                          A Big Hand for the Little Lady
                          Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
                          The Glass Bottom Boat
                          Nevada Smith
                          Assault on a Queen
                          The Endless Summer
                          Walk, Don't Run
                          The Blue Max
                          Around the World Under the Sea
                          How to Steal a Million
                          The Wild Angels
                          Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
                          What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
                          Ambush Bay
                          After the Fox
                          Mr. Buddwing
                          Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
                          The Poppy Is Also a Flower
                          Not with My Wife, You Don't!
                          Is Paris Burning?
                          Penelope
                          Triple Cross
                          The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
                          Rage
                          Blowup
                          Gambit
                          Grand Prix
                          Funeral in Berlin
                          The Chase
                          Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
                          Dracula: Prince of Darkness
                          Kaleidoscope
                          Khartoum
                          Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (also called Morgan!)
                          The Ugly Dachshund
                          Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Japanese)
                          El Dorado
                          There are other memorable films from 1966 that I've only seen once, as far as I can remember:
                          The Professionals
                          A Man for All Seasons
                          Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
                          Torn Curtain
                          Hawaii
                          The Appaloosa
                          …and last but not least: Manos: The Hands of Fate (yes… this one was very "memorable")

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                            PygmyLion — 2 years ago(December 12, 2023 03:44 AM)

                            That is a lot of movies. It would seem to be stretching the notion of
                            favorite
                            a bit.
                            The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
                            is listed as a 1965 movie on IMDB.

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                              ZolotoyRetriever — 2 years ago(December 12, 2023 05:20 AM)

                              Yes, I suppose I could trim that list down a bit. But I will leave it as is in the hope that maybe, if some of those titles have been overlooked by people, it will serve as a source of inspiration for them to go check them out.
                              As to
                              The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
                              being listed as a 1965 movie on IMDB, I now see where technically that is correct. It was made in 1965 and released near the end of December in the U.S. - but not 'til the middle of January of '66 in the U.K. - even won the BAFTA Award for Best British film at the 1967 BAFTA Awards, which honoured the best films of 1966 - which I suppose is why I found it included as a 1966 film on the list I was using. I will go back and add that info above to clear up that confusion.

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                                geewizzz — 2 years ago(December 12, 2023 04:22 AM)

                                Eye Of The Devil
                                A Man and a Woman
                                Chelsea Girls (if shown as intended)
                                Mademoiselle
                                Who Are You, Polly Magoo?
                                The Swinger
                                The Third Eye
                                Trans-Europ-Express
                                Sins of The Fleshapoids
                                The Embryo Hunts in Secret
                                Incubus
                                and of course -
                                Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
                                Are you okay?

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                                  lukejbarnett — 2 years ago(December 13, 2023 12:54 AM)

                                  No blow-up or the appaloosa?
                                  lukejbarnett

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                                    ZolotoyRetriever — 2 years ago(December 13, 2023 01:11 AM)

                                    Those two didn't make my final cut, but I did include both of them in my list of over all favorites of 1966 in my above post.

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                                      lukejbarnett — 2 years ago(December 13, 2023 02:09 AM)

                                      what about thunderball? oh and don't ever support rotten tomatoes we all need to ban and delete this website from existence forevermore. they put pretty woman at just 65% and mystic pizza at 78%? put black christmas(1974) at just in the 70%s.
                                      put gremlins at just 78% and rare exports: a christmas tale at like 95%? the comparisons of these movies on this website is so wrong it's criminal. and they put silent night, deadly night at just in the 30%s or 40%s?
                                      all this is wrong bc it makes people who haven't ever watched these movies think they shouldn't watch them if they are rotten on this website which means under 60%. or make them think the movies aren't that good when they are like bc, gremlins or sndn so then they dont watch them.
                                      lukejbarnett

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                                        ZolotoyRetriever — 2 years ago(December 13, 2023 05:37 AM)

                                        Thunderball
                                        was a 1965 film (just barely: it was released at the end of December, 1965 in both U.S. and U.K.).
                                        Rotten Tomatoes: ehh, just ignore them. I've never let their ratings determine whether I should watch a movie or not.

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                                          lukejbarnett — 2 years ago(December 13, 2023 07:50 AM)

                                          But you cant bc every tv trailer mentions what its rt % is and bc its so respected by so many people they trust rt when deciding to watch a movie. i really want to find out how rt got to its place when its bullshit id like to watch a doc on it
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