1958

1. Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock
2. Touch of Evil- Orson Welles
3. Free Radicals- Len Lye [short]
4. Some Came Running- Vincente Minnelli
5. Ivan the Terrible, Part II- Sergei Eisenstein
6. The Fountain of Youth- Orson Welles [short]
7. Mon Oncle- Jacques Tati
8. The Hidden Fortress- Akira Kurosawa
9. Gigi- Vincente Minnelli
10. Elevator to the Gallows- Louis Malle

Ripe for re-appraisal: Run Silent, Run Deep (Robert Wise)

Need to see: Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher), Enjo (Kon Ichikawa), Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu), Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura), The Haunted Strangler (Robert Day), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame), I Want to Live! (Robert Wise), The Last Hurrah (John Ford), The Lineup (Don Siegel), The Magician (Ingmar Bergman), Man of the West (Anthony Mann), Moi, Un Noir (Jean Rouch), A Movie (Bruce Conner), Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray), Nazarin (Luis Bunuel), A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Party Girl (Nicholas Ray), Schwechater (Peter Kubelka), Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis), The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk), Verboten! (Sam Fuller), Une Vie (Alexandre Astruc), Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gigi
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Venice, Golden Lion: Rickshaw Man (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)