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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
        Nayak

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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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                      /.​ — 2 years ago(December 11, 2023 09:51 PM)

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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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                                          MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(September 16, 2020 04:36 PM)

                                          -The Battle of Algiers
                                          -The Face of Another (Tanin no kao)
                                          -The Professionals
                                          -Persona
                                          -Hunger (Sult)
                                          -Cairo 30 (Al-Kahira thalatin)
                                          -Yesterday Girl (Abschied von gestern)
                                          -Carriage to Vienna (Kocár do Vídne)
                                          -The Hunt (La Caza)
                                          -The Round-Up (Szegénylegények)
                                          -The Red Angel (Akai tenshi)
                                          -Nevada Smith
                                          -Alfie
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