Top 10 Films of 1962

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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) ****

The final (and the best) in his "surrealist trilogy" of Mexican black comedies, preceded by "El" (1953) and "The Criminal Life Of Archibald de la Cruz" (1955).

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) ***

L'Amour à vingt ans (1962) ***

Segments:

"Antoine et Colette" (Francois Truffaut)  ***

"Warszawa" (Andrzej Wajda)  ***

"Rome" (Renzo Rossellini)  *

"Tokyo" (Shintaro Ishihara)  **

"Munich" (Marcel Ophuls)  **

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) ***

Segments:

"La Colère" (Sylvain Dhomme et Max Douy)  **

"L'Envie" (Édouard Molinaro)  **

"La Gourmandise" (Philippe de Broca)  ***

"La Luxure" (Jacques Demy)  ****

"La Paresse" (Jean-Luc Godard)  ****

"L'Orgueil" (Roger Vadim)  ***

"L'Avarice" (Claude Chabrol)  ***

Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962) ***

House On Bare Mountain (1962) ***

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