Top 10 Films of 1965

1. ''Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors'' (Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union)

2. "The Train" (John Frankenheimer, USA)

3. "King Rat" (Bryan Forbes, USA)

4. "For A Few Dollars More" (Sergio Leone, Italy)

5. "Salto" (Tadeusz Konwicki, Poland)

6. ''In Harm's Way'' (Otto Preminger, USA)

7. "Walkower" (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)

8. ''Fists In The Pocket'' (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)

9. ''Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie'' (Wojciech Has, Poland)

10. "The Shop On Main Street" (Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakia)

Other great films:

Alphaville (France)

Beach Blanket Bingo

The Beast That Killed Women

Le Bonheur (France)

Chimes At Midnight

Darling (UK)

The Defilers

Doctor Zhivago

Gamera (Japan)

The Girl And The Echo (Soviet Union)

Godzilla Vs The Monster Zero (Japan)
The Great Race

Guide (India)

Help ! (UK)

I A Woman (Sweden)

Intimate Lighting (Czechoslovakia)
Laurel And Hardy's Laughing Twenties

Motor Psycho

Mudhoney

My Way Home (Hungary)

Orgy Of The Dead 

Paris vu par (France)

A Patch Of Blue

The Pawnbroker

Pierrot le fou (France)

Poor Little Rich Girl

Pozne popoludnie (Poland)

The Rabbit Is Me (East Germany)

The Raw Ones

Red Beard (Japan)

Repulsion (UK)

Sam posrod miasta (Poland)

Simon Of The Desert (Mexico)

The Sound Of Music

That Darn Cat

Thunderball

Tokyo Olympiad (Japan)
La Vie heureuse de Leopold Z (Canada)
Von Ryan's Express

Short Top 3:

1. "Snow" (Geoffrey Jones, UK)

2. "Time Piece" (Jim Henson, USA)

3. "Skater Dater" (Noel Black, USA)

Other great shorts:

Beppie (Holland)

Donna Marlowe In Super 8

Entering The Sea (Soviet Union)

Le Poulet (France)
To Be Alive
Wrist Trick

Top Commercial:

"Miami Go Go" (National Airlines)

TV Top 3:

1. "The Avengers: The Hour That Never Was" (Gerry O'Hara, ITV, UK)

2. "Gilligan's Island: Smile You're On Mars Camera" (Jack Arnold, CBS)

3. "Wojna domowa: Bilet za fryzjera" (Jerzy Gruza, Poland)

Cartoon Top 10

1. "The Hand" (Jiri Trnka, Czechoslovakia)

2. "The Story Of George Washington" (Jack Mendelsohn, Paramount)

3. "The Dot And The Line" (Chuck Jones, MGM)

4. "Three Little Woodpeckers" (Sid Marcus, Lantz)

5. "Half Baked Alaska" (Sid Marcus, Lantz)

6. "Mosaic" (Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambert, NFB)

7. "Freewayphobia" (Les Clark, Disney)

8. "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" (Les Clark, Disney)

9. "La Gazza ladra" (Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati, Italy)

10. "Dress Reversal" (Ralph Bakshi, Terry)

Other great cartoons:

Corn On The Cop
Harried And Hurried
Suppressed Duck
Tease For Two
The Year Of The Mouse

Weak films of 1965:

Beauty #2
Cat Ballou
The Flight Of The Phoenix
Merveilleuse Angélique (France)
The Sandpiper
Ship Of Fools
Terror Creatures From The Grave
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
A Thousand Clowns
Vinyl
What's New Pussycat

Weak shorts:

Fire Of Waters
Kustom Kar Kommandos
Ten Second Film

Weak cartoons:

Ah Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life
Assault And Peppered
Bad Day At Cat Rock
Boulder Wham
Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off
Cats And Bruises
Cat's Me-Ouch
Chaser On The Rocks
Chili Con Corny
Clay
Darn Barn
Gadmouse The Apprentice Good Fairy
Go Go Amigo
The Haunted Mouse
Highway Runnery
I'M Just Wild About Jerry
It's Nice To Have A Mouse Around The House
Jerry-Go-Round
Just Plane Beep
Moby Duck
Of Feline Bondage
Poor Little Witch Girl
Run Run Sweet Road Runner
Rushing Roulette
Tired And Feathered
Tom-ic Energy
Twinkle Twinkle Little Telestar
We Give Pink Stamps
Well Worn Daffy
What's Peckin'
The Wild Chase

Top 3 Musicals of 1965

1. "The Sound Of Music" (Robert Wise, 20th-Fox)

 

2. "Help!" (Richard Lester, United Artists)

 

3. "Beach Blanket Bingo" (William Asher, AIP)

Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) *****

The Train (1965) ****

Superb war drama about the efforts of the French resistance to stop a German train loaded with art treasures stolen from a Paris museum.

For A Few Dollars More (1965) ****

Salto (1965) ****

In Harm's Way (1965) ****

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1965) ****

Le Bonheur (1965) ****

The Girl And The Echo (1965) ****

King Rat (1965) ****

Excellent adaptation of James Clavell's novel about Allied POWs in a Japanese camp.

Walkower (1965) ****

Polish drama starring and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and co-starring Anna Zawieruszanka.

My Way Home (1965) ****

The Shop On Main Street (1965) ****

A black comedy about the persecution of Jews in Slovakia during World War II.

Fists In The Pocket (1965) ****

Marco Bellocchio's film debut with a mesmerizing performance by Lou Castel.

Pierrot le fou (1965) ***

Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) ***

Probably the best of all "beach blanket" musical comedies starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.

Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) ***

Edi Sedgwick at her purest and most alluring.

Intimate Lighting (1965) ***