Top 10 Films of 1962

1. "Die Parallelstrasse" (Ferdinand Khittl, Germany)

2. "The Manchurian Candidate" (John Frankenheimer, USA)

3. "Lolita" (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

4. "The Exterminating Angel" (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)

5. ''Noz w wodzie'' (Roman Polanski, Poland)

6. ''Le Doulos'' (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

7. "My Name Is Ivan" (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)

8. "Sanjuro" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

9. "Lawrence Of Arabia" (David Lean, USA)

10. "An Autumn Afternoon" (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

Other great films:

Atraco a las tres (Spain)
The Black Fox

Blaze Starr Goes Nudist

Boin-n-g!

Le Caporal epinglé (France)

The Day The Earth Caught Fire (UK)

Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (France)
Divorce - Italian Style (Italy)
Dr No (UK)
L'Eclisse (Italy)

Eva
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Czechoslovakia)
Gangsterzy i filantropi (Poland)
Gay Purr-ee
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Gypsy
Hatari!

House On Bare Mountain

Keeper Of Promises (Brazil)

Like Wow
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (UK)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Longest Day

Mamma Roma (Italy)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Mermaids Of Tiburon
The Mistress (Sweden)

Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
The Music Man
Nine Days Of One Year (Soviet Union)
Ride The High Country

Le Signe du lion (France)

Les Sept peches capitaux (France)
The Trial

Vivre sa vie (France)

Walk On The Wild Side
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane ?
Wild Gals Of The Naked West

Short Top 3:

1. "Lonely Boy" (Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor, NFB, Canada)

2. "La Jetée" (Chris Marker, France)

3. "La Boulangère de Monceau" (Éric Rohmer, France)

Other great shorts:

Carrousel (Soviet Union)

Something's Got To Give

Ssaki (Poland)

Top Commercial:

"Halloween Party" (Pepsi)

TV Top 3:

1. "The Twilight Zone: To Serve Men" (Richard L. Bare, CBS)

2. "The Bullwinkle Show: Goof Gas Attack" (Jay Ward, NBC)

3. "The Bullwinkle Show: The Treasure Of Monte Zoom" (Jay Ward, NBC)

Cartoon Top 10

1. "Now Hear This" (Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble, Warner)

2. "Louvre Come Back To Me" (Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble, Warner)

3. "Bill Of Hare" (Robert McKimson, Warner)

4. "A Symposium On Popular Songs" (Bill Justice, Disney)

5. "Buddies Thicker Than Water" (Gene Deitch, MGM)

6. "Martian Through Georgia" (Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Maurice Noble, Warner)

7. "Carmen Get It" (Gene Deitch, MGM)

8. "A Sheep In The Deep" (Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble, Warner)

9. "Self Defense For Cowards" (Gene Deitch, USA)

10. "Mexican Boarders" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

Other great cartoons:

Crows' Feat
The Hole
Shishkabugs
The Slick Chick
Zoom At The Top

Weak films of 1962:

Advise And Consent
The Awful Dr Orloff (Spain)
Burn Witch Burn
The Devil's Partner
In Search Of The Castaways
The Manster
The Miracle Worker
Le Repos du guerrier (France)
Rotkappchen (East Germany)
Sweet Bird Of Youth
Taras Bulba
To Kill A Mockinbird

Weak cartoons:

Calypso Cat
Dicky Moe
Fish And Slips
Good Noose
High Steaks
Honey's Money
Icarus Montgolfier Wright
The Jet Cage
Kyberneticka babicka (Czechoslovakia)
Landing Stripling
Little Woody Riding Hood
Mother Was A Rooster
Mouse Into Space
Punchy Pooch
Quackodile Tears
Rock-A-Bye Gator
Sorry Safari
Tall In The Trap
Tom And Jerry Cartoon Kit
Wet Hare

Top 3 Musicals of 1962

1. "The Music Man" (Morton DaCosta, Warner)

2. "Gypsy" (Mervyn Leroy, Warner)

3. "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (Norman Taurog, Paramount)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) *****

Extremely sophisticated political satire about McCarthyism and the Red Scare. It manages to be both anti-Communist and anti-McCarthy.

Die Parallelstrasse (1962) *****

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) ****

Unforgettable epic drama about the famous British spy and adventurer.

Le Doulos (1962) ****

Noz w wodzie (1962) ****

Vivre sa vie (1962) ****

The Exterminating Angel (1962) ****

Classic black comedy by Luis Bunuel.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962) ****

Superlative western starring James Stewart as an idealistic tenderfoot lawyer and John Wayne as a rough rancher. One of the most profound of all westerns, exposing the mythology of the Far West.

Sanjuro (1962) ****

Tremendously entertaining samurai pic by Akira Kurosawa. Humorous, exciting and extremely well-made.

An Autumn Afternoon (1962) ****

Ozu's last film is among his most celebrated ones.

Lolita (1962) *****

Superlative adaptation of the infamous novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

Walk On The Wild Side (1962) ***

Jane Fonda, in a supporting role in one of her first films, steals the movie from her more experienced co-stars (Laurence Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Baxter).

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) ***

Mermaids Of Tiburon (1962) ***

Like Wow (1962) ***

Boin-n-g! (1962) ***

Le Signe du lion (1962) ***

Eric Rohmer's feature film debut is completely different from all his other pictures. It's a story of a failed musician in Paris, slowly reduced to misery, who inherits a huge fortune.

Les Sept peches capitaux (1962) ***

Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962) ***

House On Bare Mountain (1962) ***

Wild Gals Of The Naked West (1962) ***

Eva (1962) ***