Cursèd are the Listmakers, for they toil not to define all that is ineffable in Art and Life, but to compile and computerize it. Doom is inevitable in these projects. But despite that (and despite the fact, which any Time researcher could verify, that the present decade still has one year to run), Listmakers at the fashionable newspapers and magazines, including this one, have been working overtime to summarize—in ten convenient gradations—the Biggest, the Baddest, the Best and especially the Most Relevant Event of the Sexy Sixties. Your Faithful Chronicler, somewhat chagrined that Film 1969 didn’t exactly fulfill the promise of an impressive decade, but still not wishing to be caught Listless, has been busy on a catalogue of his own. Herewith (small fanfare, please) the cream of some five hundred films seen for the first time last year—in theaters, on TV, at festivals and museums, and in film clubs—as well as the Top of the Sixties.
Ten Favorite Films Seen By Y.F.C. in 1969
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