Sunday, August 5, 2007

1950

1. In a Lonely Place- Nicholas Ray
2. Sunset Blvd.- Billy Wilder
3. Rashomon- Akira Kurosawa
4. All About Eve- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5. The Asphalt Jungle- John Huston
6. Winchester '73- Anthony Mann
7. Les Enfants Terribles- Jean-Pierre Melville
8. Diary of a Country Priest- Robert Bresson
9. Los Olvidados- Luis Bunuel
10. La Ronde- Max Ophuls
11. Harvey- Henry Koster

Notable shorts: Gerald McBoing-Boing (Robert Cannon)

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)

Need to see: Adventurera (Alberto Gout), Annie Get Your Gun (George Sidney), Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer), Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray), Caged (John Cromwell), Un Chant d’Amour (Jean Genet), D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté), The Devil’s Doorway (Anthony Mann), Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli), The Furies (Anthony Mann), Gone to Earth (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Gunfighter (Henry King), House By the River (Fritz Lang), The Men (Fred Zinnemann), The Munekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and the City (Jules Dassin), Outrage (Joseph Losey), Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan), Rio Grande (John Ford), Scandal (Akira Kurosawa), The Sound of Fury, or Try and Get Me! (Cy Endfield), Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur), Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni), Variety Lights (Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada), Wagon Master (John Ford), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: All About Eve
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: All About Eve
Venice, Golden Lion: Justice Is Done (André Cayatte)

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