1968: 50 Great/Good Movies Celebrating its 50th Anniversary

The late 1960s and early 1970s stretched the cinematic envelope of Hollywood. As the studio systems slowly crumbled, it paved way to New Age Hollywood, whose movies burst with fresh ideas and novel techniques.  This was the era when American movies leaped up, in terms of creativity. Despite working under studios, the film-makers did what they wanted, and their choice for subject matters consistently pushed the constraints placed by censorship. Elsewhere, French New Wave and Czech New Wave ‘s stylistic innovations and experimental spirit forever changed the face of cinema. 

As the marvelous cinematic works released in 1968 are celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year (2018), I had listed my 50 favorite works:

·         2001: A Space Odyssey  ||  Director: Stanley Kubrick

·         Once Upon a Time in the West || Dir: Sergio Leone

·         Rosemary’s Baby  ||  Dir: Roman Polanski

·         Faces  ||  Dir: John Cassavetes

·         Night of the Living Dead  ||  Dir: George Romero

·         Planet of the Apes  ||   Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner

·         Yellow Submarine  ||  Dir: George Dunning

·         The Great Silence  ||  Dir: Sergio Corbucci

·         Stolen Kisses  ||  Dir: Francois Truffaut

·         The Swimmer  ||   Dir: Frank Perry & Sydney Pollack

·         Valley of the Bees  ||  Dir: Frantisek Vlacil

·         Petulia  ||  Dir: Richard Lester

·         The Lion In Winter  ||  Dir: Anthony Harvey

·         Oliver!  ||  Dir: Carol Reed

·         Romeo and Juliet  ||   Dir: Franco Zeffirelli

·         The Odd Couple  ||  Dir: Gene Saks

·         Shame  ||   Dir: Ingmar Bergman

·         The Diamond Arm  ||  Dir: Leonid Gaidai

·         Naked Childhood  ||  Dir: Maurice Pialat

·         Funny Girl  ||  Dir: William Wyler

·         The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter  ||  Dir: Robert Ellis Miller

·         If….  || Dir: Linsay Anderson

·         Kuroneko  ||  Dir: Kaneto Shindo

·         Mandabi  ||  Dir: Ousmane Sembene

·         Memories of Underdevelopment  ||  Dir: Tomas Gutierrez Alea

·         The Profound Desire of Gods  ||  Dir: Shohei Imamura

·         Signs of Life  ||  Dir: Werner Herzog

·         Theorem   ||  Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

·         The Bride Wore Black  ||  Dir: Francois Truffaut

·         Where Eagles Dare  ||  Dir: Brian G. Hutton

·         Targets  || Dir: Peter Bogdanovich

·         Death by Hanging  ||  Nagisa Oshima

·         Silence and Cry  || Dir: Miklos Jancso

·         Les Biches  ||  Dir: Claude Chabrol

·         Isadora  ||  Dir: Karel Reisz

·         Hell in the Pacific  ||  Dir: John Boorman

·         Bullitt  ||  Dir: Peter Yates

·         The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach  ||  Dir: Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

·         Capricious Summer  ||  Dir: Jiri Menzel

·         Fando and Lis  ||  Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky

·         The Inferno of First Love  ||  Dir: Susumu Hani

·         Hour of the Wolf  ||  Dir: Ingmar Bergman

·         The Immortal Story  ||  Dir: Orson Welles

·         I Love You, I Love You   ||  Dir: Alain Resnais

·         The Reenactment  ||  Dir: Lucian Pintilie

·         The Golden Calf  ||  Dir: Mikhail Schweitzer

·         Prety Poison ||  Dir: Noel Black

·         Rachel, Rachel  ||  Dir: Paul Newman

·         Charly  ||   Dir: Ralph Nelson

·         Hang ‘Em High  ||  Dir: Ted Post