Sunday, August 5, 2007

1952

1. Singin' in the Rain- Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
2. Ikiru- Akira Kurosawa
3. Forbidden Games- René Clement
4. The Life of Oharu- Kenji Mizoguchi
5. Umberto D- Vittorio De Sica
6. Neighbours- Norman McLaren [short]
7. Othello- Orson Welles
8. Limelight- Charlie Chaplin
9. The Bad and the Beautiful- Vincente Minnelli
10. The Quiet Man- John Ford

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)

Need to see: Angel Face (Otto Preminger), Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), The Big Sky (Howard Hawks), Clash By Night (Fritz Lang), The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak), El (Luis Bunuel), Fanfan la Tulipe (Christian-Jacque), Five Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu), The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir), Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson), Lightning (Mikio Naruse), The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray), The Marrying Kind (George Cukor), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), Moulin Rouge (John Huston), My Son John (Leo McCarey), The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer), No Room For the Groom (Douglas Sirk), Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed), Park Row (Sam Fuller), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls), Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang), Ruby Gentry (King Vidor), Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson), Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin), The White Sheik (Federico Fellini)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. De Mille)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Sound Barrier (David Lean)
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) Othello and Two Cents Worth of Hope (Renato Castellani)
Venice, Golden Lion: Forbidden Games
Berlin, Golden Bear: One Summer of Happiness (Arne Mattsson)

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