Favorite films of 1962

Alphabetically:
All Fall Down
Days of Wine and Roses
Gypsy
How the West Was Won
Jules and Jim
Jumbo
Lawrence of Arabia
Light in the Piazza
Lolita
The Longest Day
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker
The Music Man
Sweet Bird of Youth
That Touch of Mink
To Kill a Mockingbird
Vivre Sa Vie
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

lolita
what ever happened to baby jane
the manchurian candidate
mutiny on the bounty
harakiri
carnival of souls
my life to live
knife in the water
days of wine and roses
il sorpaso

The Miracle Worker
Advise & Consent
David and Lisa
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Experiment in Terror
The Manchurian Candidate
Mutiny on the Bounty
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird 
Birdman of Alcatraz
Dr. No
Sweet Bird of Youth
Billy Budd
Follow That Dream

Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Longest Day
Experiment in Terror
Ride the High Country

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
The Counterfeit Traitor
Cape Fear
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Lonely Are the Brave

Two great flicks that have not been mentioned are The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) & An Autumn Afternoon (1962).



An Autumn Afternoon is a beautiful picture by master film maker Yasujirô Ozu, who is considered a more brilliant director than Akira Kurosawa by native people of Japan. Much like his other great films, Ozu uses stationary camera in shooting An Autumn Afternoon (1962). A father (Shuhei) meets an old friend and sees how bad relationships are between his friend and his friend's daughter. While Shuhei's own relationship with his daughter is on very good terms the meeting with his friends makes him concerned about the future of his own relationships with his daughter. So the father makes it a matter of great importance to get his daughter married. The daughter doesn't want to marry. And then the story unfolds gently and slowly, like other movies of great Ozu. I strongly recommend this film.

The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) is a story of blind masseur who develops skills with swords and frequently gets caught in situations where he has to use his sword skills. Zatoichi is not averse to cheating in dice games and he uses his hearing skills to understand the sound of dices. Zato doesn't show that he cares about people but he does help the poor people when the situation demands. Zatoichi became such a loved movie that no less than 23 parts were eventually released of this movie. The actor who plays Zatoichi is especially gifted at being both serious and funny as the situation demands. A must see for all the martial arts lover. Well, a good watch for any cinema lover to be honest.