Sunday, August 5, 2007

1954

1. The Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa
2. Sansho the Bailiff- Kenji Mizoguchi
3. Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
4. On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
5. La Strada- Federico Fellini
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Richard Fleischer
7. Johnny Guitar- Nicholas Ray
8. A Star Is Born- George Cukor
9. Magnificent Obsession- Douglas Sirk
10. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers- Stanley Donen
11. Sabrina- Billy Wilder
12. Gojira- Ishiro Honda

Notable shorts: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger), Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger)

Need to see: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Chikamatsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi), Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine), Hobson’s Choice (David Lean), Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Long, Long Trailer (Vincente Minnelli), The Maggie (Alexander Mackendrick), Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch), The Raid (Hugo Fregonese), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel), River of No Return (Otto Preminger), Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel), Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman), Samurai I and II (Hiroshi Inagaki), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse), Suddenly (Lewis Allen), Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), The Wild One (Laslo Benedek), Young at Heart (Gordon Douglas)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: On the Waterfront
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Cannes, Grand Prix: Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Venice, Golden Lion: Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Hobson’s Choice

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