Sunday, August 5, 2007

1956

1. Written on the Wind- Douglas Sirk
2. Aparajito- Satyajit Ray
3. A Man Escaped- Robert Bresson
4. Bigger Than Life- Nicholas Ray
5. The Court Jester- Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
6. The Killing- Stanley Kubrick
7. The Girl Can't Help It- Frank Tashlin
8. The Wrong Man- Alfred Hitchcock
9. Forbidden Planet- Fred M. Wilcox
10. The Burmese Harp- Kon Ichikawa
11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Don Siegel
12. Hollywood Or Bust- Frank Tashlin
13. Baby Doll- Elia Kazan
14. The Mystery of Picasso- Henri-Georges Clouzot
15. The Searchers- John Ford
16. The Man Who Knew Too Much- Alfred Hitchcock

Notable shorts: The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Need to see: And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim), Attack! (Robert Aldrich), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), Carousel (Henry King), Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira), Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir), Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu), Flowing (Mikio Naruse), Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur), La Pointe Courte (Agnes Varda), Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk), War and Peace (King Vidor), While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gervaise (René Clément)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Invitation to the Dance (Gene Kelly)

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