Top 10 Films of 1960

1. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

2. "À bout de souffle" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

3. "Peeping Tom" (Michael Powell, UK)

4. "La Dolce Vita" (Federico Fellini, Italy)

5. "North To Alaska" (Henry Hathaway, USA)

6. "The Island" (Kaneto Shindo, Japan)

7. "Late Autumn" (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

8. "The Virgin Spring" (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

9. "La Vérité" (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)

10. "Tirez sur le pianiste" (François Truffaut, France)

Other great films:

The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Mabuse (Germany)

L'Avventura (Italy)

The Alamo
The Amazing Transparent Man
The Apartment
The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
Bells Are Ringing
Black Sunday (Italy)
Can-Can
Comanche Station
Elmer Gantry
The Entertainer (UK)

Eve And The Handyman
G.I. Blues

The Great Mughal (India)

Hideout In The Sun

Holubice (Czechoslovakia)

Horrors Of Spider Island (Germany)

Jungle Cat
The Little Shop Of Horrors

Mill Of The Stone Women
Niewinni czarodzieje (Poland)
Night Of The Ghouls

Pollyanna

Revenge Of The Virgins
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (UK)
Shadows
Sons And Lovers (UK)

Spartacus
The Sundowners
Le Testament d'Orphée (France)

The Unsent Letter (Soviet Union)
Village Of The Damned (UK)
When Comedy Was King
Where The Boys Are

The Young One (Mexico)
Zazie dans le metro (France)
Zezowate szczescie (Poland)

Short Top 3:

1. "The Groom" (Elem Klimov, Soviet Union)

2. "Hamles" (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)

3. "Universe" (Roman Kroitor, Colin Low, NFB, Canada)

Other great shorts:

Giuseppina (UK)


Top Commercial:

"Kennedy For Me" (JFK For President)

TV Top 3:

1. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man From The South" (Norman Lloyd, CBS)

2. "The Twilight Zone: Eye Of The Beholder" (Douglas Heyes, CBS)

3. "The Twilight Zone: Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (Ron Winston, CBS)

Cartoon Top 10

1. "Munro" (Gene Deitch, Paramount)

2. "High Note" (Chuck Jones, Warner)

3. "Goliath II" (Wolfgang Reitherman, Disney)

4. "From Hare To Heir" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

5. "Mouse and Garden" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

6. "The Interview" (Ernest Pintoff, USA)

7. "Fastest With The Mostest" (Chuck Jones, Warner)

8. "Crockett-Doodle-Doo" (Robert McKimson, Warner)

9. "Hopalong Casualty" (Chuck Jones, Warner)

10. "House Of Hashimoto" (Connie Rasinski, Terry)

Weak films of 1960:

Do widzenia do jutra (Poland)
Exodus

Inherit The Wind
Krzyzacy (Poland)

Let's Make Love
The Lost World
The Magnificent Seven

Morte comanda o Cangaco (Brazil)
Never On Sunday (Greece)
Swiss Family Robinson

The Time Machine

Weak shorts:

Beyond Silence
The Creation Of Woman (India)

Weak cartoons:

Bats In The Belfry
The Dixie Fryer
Dog Gone People
Fowled Up Falcon
Freeloading Feline
Goldimouse And The Three Cats
Horse Hare
Hyde And Go Tweet
Lighter Than Hare
Mice Follies
Person To Bunny
Pistol Packin' Woodpecker
A Place In The Sun (Czechoslovakia)
Rabbit's Feat
Ready Woolen And Able
Southern Fried Hospitality
Trip For Tat
West Of The Pesos
Who Scent You?
Wild Wild World
Witty Kitty

Top 3 Musicals of 1960

1. "Bells Are Ringing" (Vincente Minnelli, MGM)


2. "Can-Can" (Walter Lang, 20th-Fox)

3. "G.I. Blues" (Norman Taurog, Paramount)

À bout de souffle (1960) *****

Jean-Luc Godard's first and best film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a French criminal running away from the police, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend.

Psycho (1960) *****

L'Avventura (1960) ****

Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) ****

La Vérité (1960) ****

La Dolce Vita (1960) ****

Peeping Tom (1960) ****

Late Autumn (1960) ****

Three not-so-wise old men try to play matchmakers with a widow and her daughter, with decidedly mixed results.

Spartacus (1960) ****

The Island (1960) ****

A powerful Japanese film about a family living on a remote island. A story of courage and determination.

Eve And The Handyman (1960) ***

The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Mabuse (1960) ***

The Great Mughal (1960) ***

G.I. Blues (1960) ***

One of Elvis Presley's best musicals, set in Germany.

Songs:

“G.I. Blues” **
“Doin' The Best I Can” **
“Blue Suede Shoes” **
“Frankfurt Special” **
“Shoppin' Around” **
“Tonight Is So Right For Love” **
“Wooden Heart” ***
“Pocketful Of Rainbows” **
“Big Boots” *
“Didya Ever” *