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Your Top 10 films of the 60’s


1. Rosemary’s Baby
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
3. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
4. The Misfits
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
7. The Planet of the Apes
8. Cape Fear
9. The Great Escape
10. Psycho


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The Time Machine (1960)
The Innocents (1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Haunting (1963)
Hud (1963)
Doctor Strangelove (1964)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Quartermass and the Pit (1967)
The Party (1968)
They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969)


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I always thought The Time Machine was released in the 50s. Probably associating it with the 50s boom of sci-fi films. Great movie.

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I honestly can't name my Top 10, because the 11th and 15th aren't that far away, and it would seem like I was leaving out a child if I was asked who my favorite 10 kids were, while I had 30 kids.

10 of these are non-English, and less than half are American

1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. The Swimmer
4. A Child Is Waiting
5. Birdman of Alcatraz
6. An Autumn Afternoon
7. Ladybug, Ladybug
8. The Happy Ending
9. The Misfits
10. The Face of Another
11. The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
12. Midnight Cowboy
13. The Sign of the Leo
14. The Professionals
15. Le Trou
16. Il Sorpasso
17. The Incident
18. Persona
19. Never On Sunday
20. David and Lisa
21. Hombre
22. Too Late Blues
23. Dry Summer
24. High and Low
25. Too Late Blues


and there's still many great ones left. Here's an easy way to find out if you rate on IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1960-01-01,1969-12-31&my_ratings=restrict&sort=my_ratings,desc

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Solid list!

Whatever happened to baby Jane
Bullitt
Planet of the apes
Midnight cowboy
Easy rider
The good, bad & ugly
Psycho
Night of the living dead
Once upon a time in the west
In cold blood
Rosemarys baby

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We seem to have very similar tastes :)

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Kate Turabian, the Chicago Manual of Style: there is NO apostrophe in the reference to a decade, e.g., “the 60s.” As apostrophe means the reference is possessive, not collective.

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Thank you Kate.

Interesting that the Chicago Manual of Style also has an entry (7.48) on capitalization for emphasis, stating: Capitalizing an entire word or phrase for emphasis is rarely appropriate.

Seems like we both could use some style.

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In the Heat of the Night
8 1/2
The Wild Bunch

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