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Cinema · 1962 Ranked

Best Films of 1962, Ranked by IQ Score

The year prestige Hollywood, French New Wave, Italian Antonioni, and Japanese Ozu all peaked simultaneously. The films of 1962, ranked by IQ Score.

1962 is the single year most-frequently cited as the global-cinema convergence peak. Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, all released alongside Antonioni's L'Eclisse, Godard's Vivre Sa Vie, Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, and Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (his final film).

The structural argument for 1962-as-canonical-year: the simultaneous peak of prestige Hollywood (Lawrence of Arabia, Mockingbird), the French New Wave (Vivre Sa Vie, Cléo from 5 to 7), Italian art-cinema (L'Eclisse), Polish New Wave (Knife in the Water, Polanski's debut), and Japanese late-Ozu work. The most-canonical year of the 1960s.

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