Essential Films of 1961
Favorites
The Parent Trap
Swiss Family Robinson
Yojimbo
Honorable mention
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Exodus
All ages-ish
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Ladies Man
The Parent Trap
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Swiss Family Robinson
Guilty pleasures
Holiday
Want to see
Chronicle of a Summer
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
King of Kings
La Dolce Vita
Lola (Jacques Demy)
The Pier (28-minute French sci-fi)
Splendor in the Grass
Through a Glass Darkly
West Side Story
Not worth the time
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Essential music of 1961
Albums
John Coltane - My Favorite Things
Honorable mention
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The greatest songs of 1961
Moon River - Audrey Hepburn
Please Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes
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