Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1968

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip60banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Top Ten of 1968: World Premieres</b></b></Font><br> <Font Size=-2> <br></Font> <Table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=favfilmsshame.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">Shame</a></b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bj&#246rnstrand <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=2001.html style="text-decoration:none">2001: A Space Odyssey</a></b></Font> Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Flesh</Font></b></Font> Dir. Paul Morrissey. With Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine James, Patti D'Arbanville <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=favfilmsnldead.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">Night of the Living Dead</a></b></Font> Dir. George Romero. With Duane Jones, Karl Hardman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">In the Year of the Pig</Font></b></Font> Dir. Emile de Antonio. Documentary about the Vietnam War <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Rosemary's Baby</Font></b></Font> Dir. Roman Polanski. With Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Once Upon a Time in the West</Font></b></Font> Dir. Sergio Leone. With Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Stolen Kisses</Font></b></Font> Dir. Fran&#231ois Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre L&#233aud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Mandabi</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ousmane Semb&#232ne. With Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Petulia</Font></b></Font> Dir. Richard Lester. With George C. Scott, Julie Christie, Richard Chamberlain <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> </Table> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1968</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">★</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">★</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>   <b><a href=favfilmslwinter.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">The Lion in Winter</a></b></Font> Dir. Anthony Harvey. With Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>   <b><a href=favfilmsnldead.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">Night of the Living Dead</a></b></Font> Dir. George Romero. With Duane Jones, Karl Hardman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>   <b><a href=favfilmsshame.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">Shame</a></b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bj&#246rnstrand <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1968</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Barbarella</b></Font> Dir. Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, Milo O'Shea, Anita Pallenberg <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Bullitt</b></Font> Dir. Peter Yates. With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Simon Oakland <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Charge of the Light Brigade</b></Font> Dir. Tony Richardson. With David Hemmings <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Charly</b></Font> Dir. Ralph Nelson. With Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Faces</b></Font> Dir. John Cassavetes. With Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Lynn Carlin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Fixer</b></Font> Dir. John Frankenheimer. With Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Holm <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Funny Girl</b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter</b></Font> Dir. Robert Ellis Miller. With Alan Arkin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>I Am Curious (Blue)</b></Font> Dir. Vilgot Sj&#246man. With Lena Nyman, B&#246rje Ahlstedt <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Isadora</b></Font> Dir. Karel Reisz. With Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, John Fraser <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Killing of Sister George</b></Font> Dir. Robert Aldrich. With Beryl Reid, Susannah York <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Lonesome Cowboys</b></Font> Dir. Andy Warhol. With Viva, Tom Hompertz, Eric Emerson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Oliver!</b></Font> Dir. Carol Reed. With Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Planet of the Apes</b></Font> Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. With Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Pretty Poison</b></Font> Dir. Noel Black. With Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Producers</b></Font> Dir. Mel Brooks. With Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Rachel, Rachel</b></Font> Dir. Paul Newman. With Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Salesman</b></Font> Dirs. Peter & Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. Documentary <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Star!</b></Font> Dir. Robert Wise. With Julie Andrews, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Subject Was Roses</b></Font> Dir. Ulu Grosbard. With Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Teorema</b></Font> Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Thomas Crown Affair</b></Font> Dir. Norman Jewison. With Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Will Penny</b></Font> Dir. Tom Gries. With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day</b></Font> Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman. Animated <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Witchfinder General</b></Font> Dir. Michael Reeves. With Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1968</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Hour of the Wolf</b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann (<Font Size=-1><b>C?</b></Font>)<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Romeo and Juliet</b></Font> Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. With Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey (<Font Size=-1><b>B?</b></Font>)<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1993</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Gourmet Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Les Biches</b></Font> Dir. Claude Chabrol. With Jacqueline Sassard, St&#233phane Audran<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Boom!</b></Font> Dir. Joseph Losey. With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noel Coward<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Boston Strangler</b></Font> Dir. Richard Fleischer. With Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Bride Wore Black</b></Font> Dir. Fran&#231ois Truffaut. With Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach</b></Font> Dirs. Jean-Marie Straub & Dani&#232le Huillet<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Color of Pomegranates</b></Font> Dir. Sergei Parajanov. With Sofiko Chiaureli<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Great Silence</b></Font> Dir. Sergio Corbucci. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>If...</b></Font> Dir. Lindsay Anderson. With Malcolm McDowall, David Wood, Richard Warwick<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Memories of Underdevelopment</b></Font> Dir. Tom&#225s Guti&#233rrez Alea. With Sergio Corrieri<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Monterey Pop</b></Font> Dir. D.A. Pennebaker. Documentary about a rock music festival<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Partner</b></Font> Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci. With Pierre Cl&#233menti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Party</b></Font> Dir. Blake Edwards. With Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Wild in the Streets</b></Font> Dir. Barry Shear. With Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Birthday Party</b></Font> Dir. William Friedkin. With Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Coogan's Bluff</b></Font> Dir. Don Siegel. With Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Finian's Rainbow</b></Font> Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. With Fred Astaire, Petula Clark<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Green Berets</b></Font> Dirs. Ray Kellogg & John Wayne. With John Wayne, David Janssen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Hang 'Em High</b></Font> Dir. Ted Post. With Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Head</b></Font> Dir. Bob Rafelson. With the Monkees, Annette Funicello, Timothy Carey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Hell in the Pacific</b></Font> Dir. John Boorman. With Lee Marvin, Toshir&#244 Mifune<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Hot Millions</b></Font> Dir. Eric Till. With Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>I Love You, Alice B. Toklas</b></Font> Dir. Hy Averback. With Peter Sellers, Leigh Taylor-Young<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Ice Station Zebra</b></Font> Dir. John Sturges. With Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Inadmissible Evidence</b></Font> Dir. Anthony Page. With Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Legend of Lylah Clare</b></Font> Dir. Robert Aldrich. With Kim Novak, Peter Finch<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Magus</b></Font> Dir. Guy Green. With Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Mayerling</b></Font> Dir. Terence Young. With Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Negatives</b></Font> Dir. Peter Medak. With Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>No Way to Treat a Lady</b></Font> Dir. Jack Smight. With Rod Steiger, Lee Remick<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Odd Couple</b></Font> Dir. Gene Saks. With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Sea Gull</b></Font> Dir. Sidney Lumet. With Simone Signoret, James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Secret Life of an American Wife</b></Font> Dir. George Axelrod. With Walter Matthau<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Shoes of the Fisherman</b></Font> Dir. Michael Anderson. With Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Sweet November</b></Font> Dir. Robert Ellis Miller. With Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Swimmer</b></Font> Dir. Frank Perry. With Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Vixen!</b></Font> Dir. Russ Meyer. With Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Where Eagles Dare</b></Font> Dir. Brian G. Hutton. With Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Yellow Submarine</b></Font> Dir. George Dunning. 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