June 11, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1961

1. "Yojimbo" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

2. "Jules et Jim" (François Truffaut, France)

3. "L'Année dernière à Marienbad" (Alain Resnais, France)

4. "One, Two, Three" (Billy Wilder, USA)

5. "Viridiana" (Luis Bunuel, Spain)

6. "West Side Story" (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, USA)

7. "101 Dalmatians" (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, Disney)

8. "Judgement At Nuremberg" (Stanley Kramer, USA)

9. ''Cléo de 5 à 7'' (Agnes Varda, France)

10. "La Notte" (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)


Other great films:

The Absent-Minded Professor
Accattone (Italy)
The Parent Trap
The Pleasure Of His Company
Rozstanie (Poland)
Samson (Poland)
Splendor In The Grass
Through A Glass Darkly (Sweden)
Teen Kanya (India)
Two Women (Italy)
Ukrainian Rhapsody (Soviet Union)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1961:

1. "Une Femme est une femme" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

2. "The Misfits" (John Huston, United Artists)

3. "Maz swojej zony" (Stanislaw Bareja, Poland)

4. "La Bride sur le cou" (Roger Vadim, Jean Aurel, France)

5. "Katiforos" (Giannis Dalianidis, Greece)

6. "Diary Of A Nudist" (Doris Wishman, USA)

7. The Adventures Of Lucky Pierre (Herschell Gordon Lewis, USA)

8. "Nudist Life" (Maurice H. Zouary, USA)

9. "Naked As Nature Intended" (George Harrison Marks, UK)

10. "Nude On The Moon" (Doris Wishman, USA)


Short Top 3:

1. "Young Love" (Mikheil Kobakhidze, Soviet Union)

2. "Golden Gloves" (Gilles Groulx, NFB, Canada)

3. "Le Gros et le Maigre" (Roman Polanski, France)


Other great shorts:

Erotyk (Poland)

Top Commercial:

"Brunswick Bowling" (Brunswick Bowling)


Other great commercials:

King Size Coke

TV Top 3:

1. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bang You're Dead" (Alfred Hitchcock, NBC)

2. "The Avengers: Girl On The Trapeze" (Don Leaver, ITV, UK)

3. "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man" (Elliot Silverstein, CBS)


Cartoon Top 10

1. "The Last Hungry Cat" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

2. "D'Fightin' Ones" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

3. "Ersatz" (Dusan Vukotic, Yugoslavia)

4. "Vasen" (Jiri Trnka, Czechoslovakia)

5. "Aquamania" (Wolfgang Reitherman, Disney)

6. "Nelly's Folly" (Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Warner)

7. "Beep Prepared" (Chuck Jones, Warner)

8. "Donald And The Wheel" (Hamilton Luske, Disney)

9. "The Saga Of Windwagon Smith" (Charles Nichols, Disney)

10. "Lines horizontal" (Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambert, NFB, Canada)


Other great cartoons:

The Abominable Snow Rabbit
Alpha Omega (Italy)
Compressed Hare
The Litterbug
The Mouse On 57th Street
The Pied Piper Of Guadalupe
Rebel Without Claws
A Scent Of The Matterhorn
Zip 'n' Snort

Weak films of 1961:

Au bord du ravin abrupt (Soviet Union)
The Devil's Messenger
Drugi czlowiek (Poland)
Dzis w nocy umrze miasto (Poland)
Ercole al centro della terra (Italy)
Fanny
The Innocents (UK)
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