MY TOP 50+ FILMS FOR 1969 (in list order)
Hoffman makes it 2; the kid has an attitude under Loach's direction, and a road trip with crazy Hopper & stoner Fonda.
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- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.Great young talent coming through...
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDavid BradleyBrian GloverFreddie FletcherA working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.Loach improves on the book...
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsDustin HoffmanMia FarrowMichael TolanJohn and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.Wonderful performances...
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.Costsa's world of intrigue politics...
- DirectorBob FosseStarsShirley MacLaineJohn McMartinRicardo MontalbanTaxi dancer Charity continues to have faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.Fosse's magic...
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsStéphane AudranMichel BouquetMaurice RonetA man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.One of Chabrol's best...
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterDeborah KerrGene HackmanThree skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.A great surprise...
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsRobert RedfordGene HackmanCamilla SparvQuietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.Perfectly warming up for their next great film, THE CANDIDATE...
- DirectorElia KazanStarsKirk DouglasFaye DunawayDeborah KerrAn adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.A very interesting mess...
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.Great teaming of Newman and Redford, but I need a second viewing...
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWilliam HoldenErnest BorgnineRobert RyanAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.Peckinphar's legendary western...
- DirectorDennis HopperStarsPeter FondaDennis HopperJack NicholsonTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.A landmark...
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Wonderful to look at...
- DirectorMark RydellStarsSteve McQueenSharon FarrellRuth WhiteIn turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.Rydell gets a good performance out of McQueen...
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsAnthony QuinnAnna MagnaniVirna LisiDuring WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the GermansEnjoyed watching this with my Italian parents when I was a child...
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneKim DarbyGlen CampbellA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.Wayne's best...
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýVáclav NeckárSet in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.Jirí Menzel's cheeky political comment on the way of life in his repressed country...
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMichel DuchaussoyCaroline CellierJean YanneA man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.Another Chabrol pseudo thriller...
- DirectorPeter R. HuntStarsGeorge LazenbyDiana RiggTelly SavalasBritish agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom.The darker side of Bond...
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenJanet MargolinMarcel HillaireThe life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.Perfect Woody gags...
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsJames GarnerJoan HackettWalter BrennanIn the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.Cheeky Garner shines in this classic western comedy...
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsBurt LancasterPatrick O'NealJean-Pierre AumontDuring the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage within.Lancaster is excellent as always...
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMichel PiccoliAnita PallenbergGino LavagettoA man decides to cook for himself, but finds the revolver of John Dillinger hidden in his kitchen instead.Piccoli put in a grand performance for another Ferreri challenging piece...
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine BarraultA devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.Rohmer's talk fest on seeking the right love and its consequences...
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsNatalie WoodRobert CulpElliott GouldTrendy West Coasters Bob and Carol try wife-swapping with square Ted and Alice.A slice of life from the Sixties...
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsMarlon BrandoEvaristo MárquezRenato SalvatoriIn 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.A fascinating performance from Brando...
- DirectorGene SaksStarsWalter MatthauIngrid BergmanGoldie HawnA dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.Adorable...
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsMichael CaineNoël CowardBenny HillA comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.Great fun...
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPaul FrankeurLaurent TerzieffAlain CunyTwo drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.Bunuel on another anti-religious crusade...
- DirectorKen RussellStarsAlan BatesOliver ReedGlenda JacksonTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.Russell saved by a top cast...
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveJean-Paul BelmondoNelly BorgeaudA wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.Really wanted to like this a little bit more...
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.A visual poem about a poet's life full of stunning framing compositions and art direction, but let down by the lack of mood lighting...
- DirectorArthur PennStarsArlo GuthriePatricia QuinnJames BroderickA cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.One for the time capsule...
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsMichael CaineNigel DavenportNigel GreenDuring World War II a group of British commandos in North Africa disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital German oil depot.Caine is good when playing dirty...
- DirectorLeslie WoodheadStarsThe Rolling StonesMick JaggerKeith RichardsExtensive footage of the Rolling Stones performing on July 5th 1969 in Hyde Park in front of an audience of appropriately 500,000 people just two days after the untimely death of former lead gutiarist and band founder Brian Jones.Capturing musical history...
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsJames CaanShirley KnightRobert DuvallWhen a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.Coppola improves on this curious piece...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFrederick StaffordDany RobinJohn VernonA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.A different Hitchcock...
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsNicol WilliamsonJudy ParfittAnthony HopkinsAcademy Award-winning director Tony Richardson brings Shakespeare's tragedy to the screen - with searing performances from Nicol Williamson as the melancholy Dane and future Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins as the deceitful Claudius.An interesting Hamlet...
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBeata TyszkiewiczElzbieta CzyzewskaAndrzej LapickiThe disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.Wajda makes a film about him making a film...
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsGeorge SegalRobert VaughnBen GazzaraAs the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?Entertaining enough...
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGeorge KennedyJames WhitmoreMonte MarkhamGunslinger Chris Adams is hired by a Mexican revolutionary to organize the rescue of his cause's leader from a brutal Army prison.Lame sequel, but still fun...
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsLee MarvinClint EastwoodJean SebergTwo unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.You couldn't have picked the worse singers...
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSuzy KendallKenneth MoreNigel GreenDuring the First World War, female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans, and steal the new French mustard-gas formula.Worth watching for the harrowing war scenes...
- DirectorLee H. KatzinBernard GirardStarsGeraldine PageRuth GordonRosemary ForsythAn aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.Worth watching for Geraldine and Ruth...
- DirectorJack SmightStarsRod SteigerClaire BloomRobert DrivasIn 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.A relic for its time about the future and the amazing tattoos of Rod...
- DirectorRobert Downey Sr.StarsArnold JohnsonStan GottliebAllen GarfieldThe board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.A big F-U to the establishment in this surreal comedy of some sort that attacks the advertising industry, and along the way has fun with politics and other racial issues...
- DirectorNelly KaplanStarsBernadette LafontGeorges GéretHenri CzarniakAn oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.One of the earlier feminist movies that pushed the boundaries for its time...
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsElvis PresleyMary Tyler MooreBarbara McNairAs an incognito nun tries to help a doctor clean up an inner-city ghetto, the pair grow closer with time.Having Mary Tyler Moore made it more interesting for another standard Elvis vehicle...
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsAnita SandersTerry CarterNino SeguriniA taboo-smasher of the late '60s, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. Take a whirlwind trip with a married woman whose journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man, all set to a searing soundtrack by Freedom, a tripped-out group formed from the remnants of Procol Harum.Far out, man-- and woman...
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsJames DarrenBarbara McNairMaria RohmA jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.One of the slightly better Jesús Franco movies that has its moments in among the psychedelic mumble-jumble...
- DirectorRobert SallinSerge BourguignonStarsAlbert FinneyYvette MimieuxLuis Miguel DominguínA San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.Even the stars couldn't save this mess...