1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
4. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
6. Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel)
7. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
8. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
10. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Face of Another
3. Seconds
4. Alfie
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Torn Curtain
7. Blow Up
8. Persona

Although I've only seen 8 films from this year I liked them all.

Having had the opportunity to see Persona on the big screen last weekend, it now leaps onto the top of my list. Upon first viewing some years ago it was one of the few of Bergman's better-known films which left me somewhat cold. Now, having experienced in its achingly beautiful, complex, confusing, crazy glory in the cinema, I firmly believe it to be one of the fifty or so finest films I have ever seen.

My local arthouse cinema, the wonderful 'Projector', had a short season of some of Bergman's movies this week and although I had seen all of them before, I was disappointed that, due to my antisocial working hours, I was unable to catch more than one of them.

In my book it takes a true masterpiece to knock Au Hasard Balthazar off the top of any list!

According to my ratings I haven't seen that many films from 1966, but the ones that would go on my list are very fine indeed.

1. The Fortune Cookie
2. As Long As You've Got Your Health
3. Walk Don't Run
4. Born Free

1966 was a great year in film. these are all basically tied for 1st place...

1. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
2. Sword of Doom - Okamoto
3. The Hero - Satyajit Ray
4. Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone
6. Fahrenheit 451 - François Truffaut
7. Alice in Wonderland - Jonathan Miller
8. Seconds - John Frankenheimer
9. How to Steal a Million - William Wyler
10. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - Alan Rafkin 😛

@rudely_murray said:

In my book it takes a true masterpiece to knock Au Hasard Balthazar off the top of any list!

I find it to be great, and most likely Bresson’s best. Any director who can make me care so much for a donkey is alright with me. Thinking about the film’s end alone yanks at my heartstrings! (No sarcasm.)