Top 10 Films of 1966

1. ''Andrei Rublev'' (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)

2. ''Blow Up'' (Michalangelo Antonioni, UK)

3. "The Professionals" (Richard Brooks, USA)

4. "Persona" (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

5. "The Round-Up" (Miklos Jancso, Hungary)

6. "Masculin Feminin" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

7. ''The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'' (Sergio Leone, Italy)

8. ''Au hasard Balthazar'' (Robert Bresson, France)

9. "Come Drink With Me" (King Hu, Hong Kong)

10. "La Guerre est finie" (Alain Resnais, France)

Other great films:

Angélique et le Roy (France)

Bariera (Poland)
The Battle Of Algiers (Italy)

Cul-de-sac (UK)

Daisies (Czechoslovakia)

Death Of A Bureaucrat (Cuba)
Evil Brain From Outer Space (Japan)

The Face Of Another (Japan)

Fantastic Voyage

Faraon (Poland)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Georgy Girl (UK)
Godzilla Vs The Sea Monster (Japan)
La Grande Vadrouille (France)

Un Homme et une femme (France)
The Hunt (Spain)
Juliet Of The Spirits (Italy)

Lekarstwo na milosc (Poland)

Loves Of A Blonde (Czechoslovakia)
Made in USA (France)

Marat/Sade (UK)
Marysia i Napoleon (Poland)

Mondo Topless

The Naked Prey

Olga's Dance Hall Girls

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

Pieczone golabki (Poland) 

A Report On The Party And The Guests (Czechoslovakia)

Seconds

The She-Beast

The Singing Nun

Tiempo de morir (Mexico)

Trace Of Stones (East Germany)
La Vie de chateau (France)
Violence At Noon (Japan)
War And Peace (Soviet Union)
What's Up, Tiger Lily ?
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ?

Yesterday Girl (Germany)

Short Top 3:

1. "Castro Street" (Bruce Baillie, USA)

2. "Piece Mandala End War" (Paul Sharits, USA)

3. "Unsere Afrikareise" (Peter Kubelka, Austria)

Other great short:

All My Life

Hold Me While I'M Naked

Sears Catalogue 1-3
Umbrella (Soviet Union)

Top Music Video:

"Breakaway" (Bruce Conner, USA)

Other great music videos:

These Boots Are Made For Walking

Top Commercial:

"Secretary" (Ford Mustang)

TV Top 3:

1. "Gilligan's Island: The Producer" (Ida Lupino, CBS)

2. "Star Trek: Shore Leave" (Robert Sparr, NBC)

3. "Star Trek: Balance Of Terror" (Vincent McEveety, NBC)

Other great TV shows:

Czterej pancerni i pies 1 (Poland)
Mission Impossible: Operation Rogosh

Cartoon Top 10

1. "Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree" (Wolfgang Reitherman, Disney)

2. "Signor Rossi Buys A Car" (Bruno Bozzetto, Italy)

3. "Particles In Space" (Len Lye, USA)

4. "Lapis" (James Whitney, USA)

5. "A Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass Double Feature" (John Hubley, Paramount)

6. "Et cetera" (Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia)

7. "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (Chuck Jones, MGM)

8. "The Drag" (Carlos Marchiori, NFB, Canada)

9. "Two By Two" (Howard Post, Paramount)

10. "Pink Blueprint" (Hawley Pratt, United Artists)

Other great cartoons:

Catty Cornered
Daffy Rents
Monster Of Ceremonies
Notes sur un triangle (Canada)
Op Hop Hop Op (Canada)

Weak films of 1966:

Alfie (UK)
Fantomas contre Scotland Yard (France)
A Man For All Seasons (UK)
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Morgan !
The Pornographers (Japan)
La Prise du pouvoir par Louis XIV (France)
The Reptile (UK)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles

Take Me Naked
Young Torless (Germany)

Weak shorts:

Une Etudiante d'aujourd'hui (France)

Weak cartoons:

The Astroduck
A-tom-inable Snowman
The Big Bite
The Cruise (Canada)
Dr Ha-Ha
Duel Personality
Feather Finger
Filet Meow
A Haunting We Will Go
Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary
Lonesome Ranger
Love Me Love My Mouse
Matinee Mouse
Mexican Mousepiece
Mucho Locos
Out And Out Rout
Pink Panic
Practical Yolk
Punch and Judy (Czechoslovakia)
Puss 'n' Boats
Scuba Duba Do
Shot And Bothered
Snow Excuse
Squeak In The Deep
Sugar And Spies
Swing Ding Amigo
A Taste Of Catnip

Top 3 Musicals of 1966

1. "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" (Richard Lester, United Artists)

2. "The Singing Nun" (Henry Koster, MGM)

3. "Paradise Hawaiian Style" (Michael D. Moore, Paramount)

The Battle Of Algiers (1966) ****

Excellent film about Arabs and French fighting for control of Algeria.

La Grande Vadrouille (1966) ****

Classic French farce.

Blow Up (1966) *****

Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece is an enigmatic mystery about a possible murder, as well as a portrait of the Swinging London in the 1960's. 

Andrei Rublev (1966) *****

Andrei Tarkovsky's greatest film, and that is saying much. A visually stunning drama about the greatest Russian icon painter from the early 16th century. A unique masterpiece of cinematic art.

Seconds (1966) ****

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) ****

An exceptional film for Russ Meyer - completely devoid of nudity, but otherwise well-directed and very exciting.

La Guerre est finie (1966) ****

Au hasard Balthazar (1966) ****

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) ****

The Professionals (1966) ****

Masculine-Feminine (1966) ****

Modernist drama by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Leaud. One of the key films of the French Nouvelle Vague, a fascinating portrait of the young generation - "the children of Karl Marx and Coca-Cola".

The Round-Up (1966) ****

Loves Of A Blonde (1966) ****

Come Drink With Me (1966) ****

The first great classic of the Hong Kong cinema.

Tiempo de morir (1966) ***

War And Peace (1966) ***

The best of many adaptations of Tolstoi's famous novel.

Pieczone golabki (1966) ***

Daisies (1966) ***

Olga's Dance Hall Girls (1966) ***

Persona (1966) ****

Ingmar Bergman's most enigmatic film.