Vertigo immediately jumps to mind. I don't think it's Hitchcocks best work, but it's still a classic for a reason.
Not to be pedantic but Vertigo is from 1958.
To be argumentative 😁, Vertigo is at least one of his best works, probably in my Top 3 of Hitchcock's work.
Define "classic".
2001: A Space Odyssey? A Hard Day's Night? Psycho? Easy Rider? Alphaville? A Raisin In The Sun? La Jetée? The Exterminating Angel?
Which films do you think that from the 60s would be considered classics now?
It’s really great, and I like watching it from time to time, but I feel they could have cut 20% and still had a great movie on their hands.
I don't generally like old movies but Dr Strangelove is from the 60s and a wild ride.
Night of the Living Dead
Love that film.
Psycho is certainly an absolute classic.
There were a ton of musicals during that period that, to me at least, were highly influential and some of my favorite films.
Hello dolly, Mary Poppins, West side story, the music man, the sound of music.
Cleopatra is supposed to be a cinematic masterpiece and a piece of Hollywood history.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is iconic, and one of the movies I can watch over and over.
Night of the living dead, Rosemary's baby, The Birds are some iconic horror films.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a piece of sci Fi history, as is Planet of the Apes.
Barberella is fantastic and fun.
There are so, so many iconic films from that decade. Films that changed Hollywood and inspired so many films to come.
While it's not a direct answer, I was at one point during the pandemic trying to flesh out my classic cinema knowledge, and so it picked an arbitrary task of watching all the Best Picture Academy Award winning films ever in chronological order.
I didn't get to the 60s but you might look at the list there?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture
Oh man. Some of my favorites from there and the 60s.
- music man
- West side story
- to kill a mockingbird
- my fair lady
- Mary Poppins
- Dr strange love
- the sound of music
- hello dolly
Wow. Good decade for musicals.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
I love that movie for the simple fact that it gave us what I consider to be the perfect song, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The song prompted me to check out the movie. Hi soul family!
This has become almost a comfort film for me. I absolutely love it.
It's a touching plot.
Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn is a masterpiece thriller.
A bunch of the classic French New Wave, Kurusawa, "New Hollywood" etc.
If you watch Psycho (1960) and then watch Midnight Cowboy (1969) that gives you a good idea of what happened to American cinema in the 1960s.
That's...actually a pretty good assessment! 👍
In no particular order…
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
- The Flight of the Phoenix
- The Dirty Dozen
- The Parent Trap
- The Hustler
- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Inherit the Wind
- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- The Sword in the Stone
Planet of the Apes one through four. Don't watch five though
Our Man Flint and In Like Flint.
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