1955 Poll

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Please add “House of Bamboo” (Fuller) to my list.

Les mauvaises rencontres (Astruc)
Kokoro (Ichigawa)
House of Bamboo (Fuller)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Yokihi (Mizoguchi)
Shin heike monogatari (Mizoguchi)
Le Amiche (Antonioni)
Trouble With Harry (Hitchcock)
To Catch A Thief (Hitchcock)
Ordet (Dreyer)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (King)
Untamed (King)
Murder is My Beat (Ulmer)
Shree 420 (Kapoor)
Cesta do praveku (Zeman)
The Indian Fighter (De Toth)
Les diaboliques (Cluzot)
Artists And Models (Tashlin)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)
Mr. Arkadin (Welles)
Les Maîtres fous (Rouch)
Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
Night and Fog (Resnais)
Two Scent’s Worth / One Froggy Evening / Knight-Mare Hare (all Chuck Jones)
Mosaik Im Vertrauen (Kubelka)
Summertime (Lean)
A Man On The Beach (Losey)
A Bloody Spear on Mt. Fuji (Uchida)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel)
The Far Country (Mann)
The Man With The Golden Arm (Preminger)
Devdas (Roy)
Bad Day At Black Rock (Sturges)
The Long Gray Line (Ford)

1. Night of the Hunter (Laughton)

2. Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
3. Lola Montes (Ophuls)
4. Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel)
5. Le Amiche (Antonioni)
6. The Man from Laramie (A. Mann)
7. Night and Fog (Resnais)
8. Les Diabolique (Clouzot)
9. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich)
10. Riffifi (Dassin)

1-Floating Clouds

Smiles of a Summer Night
Ordet
Death of a Cyclist
The White Angel
The Night of the Hunter
East of Eden
To Catch a Thief
The Trouble with Harry
Rififi
Kiss Me Deadly
The Man with the Golden Arm
Mr. Arkadin
The Big Combo
Lola Montes
House of Bamboo
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
The End of the Affair
A Kid for Two Farthings

1955 was a relatively poor year for movies in my opinion, so only 11 worthwhile picks:

1. Pather Panchali

Smiles of a Summer Night
Rebel Without a Cause
Night and Fog
Bob le flambeur
All That Heaven Allows
Lady and the Tramp
Diabolique
Hyde and Hare
The Trouble With Harry
Il Bidone

1. Ordet (Denmark – Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Diabolique (France – Henri Georges Clouzot)
East of Eden (US – Elia Kazan)
The Far Country (US – Anthony Mann)
Floating Clouds (Japan – Mikio Naruse)
Kiss Me Deadly (US – Robert Aldrich)
Lola Montes (France – Max Ophuls)
The Man From Laramie (US – Anthony Mann)
Marty (US – Delbert Mann)
Night and Fog (France – Alain Resnais)
Night of the Hunter (US – Charles Laughton)
Pather Panchali (India – Satyajit Ray)
Rebel Without a Cause (US – Nicholas Ray)

Ordet is my #1 the rest are in alphabetical order. For some reason I still haven’t seen The Long Gray Line.

One of my favorite years:

1. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, Denmark)

Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, USA)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan, USA)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, USA)
Night and Fog / Nuit et Brouillard (Alain Resnais, France)
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, USA)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, USA)
Floating Clouds / Ukigumo (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
Les Mauvaises Rencontres / Bad Liaisons (Alexandre Astruc, France)
Diabolique / The Devils (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Rififi / Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (Jules Dassin, France)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)
Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, France)
Pete Kelly’s Blues (Jack Webb, USA)
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, USA)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, India)
White Angel / L’angelo Bianco (Raffaello Matarazzo, Italy)

sorry dp

The Far Country would have made my list but IMDB lists it as 1954. Man, that Ordet sure is overrated.

@ MOVIEGUIDE1

Please add “The Night of the Hunter” (Laughton) to my list.

One more week to vote.

Tennessee’s Partner

Death of a Cyclist
East of Eden
Land of the Pharaohs
Man Without a Star
Picnic
Pride
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Seagulls Die in the Harbour
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Smiles of a Summer Night
Stella
The Big Combo
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
The Devil’s General
The Grand Maneuver
The Ladykillers
The Man from Laramie
The Naked Dawn
The Tall Men
… and many more. I really love the 50s!

Deliberately excluded (TSPDT/IMDb/S&S top 500):
Aguaespejo granadino
All That Heaven Allows
Diabolique
Floating Clouds
Kiss Me Deadly
Lola Montès
Night and Fog
Ordet
Pather Panchali
Rebel Without a Cause
The Night of the Hunter

Wanted:
Budapesti tavasz
Die Ratten
Jedda
Meoto zenzai
The Counterfeit Coin
The Eternal Breasts
The Night My Number Came Up
Tower of Nesle

1.Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Sommarnattens leende (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
Nuit Et Brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Ensayo de un crimen (Luis Buñuel, 1955)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955)
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
Yôkihi (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
Kvinnodröm (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
Muerte de un ciclista (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)

The Ladykillers
Smiles of a Summer Night
I’ll Cry Tomorrow
Lola Montes
Cast a Dark Shadow
Mister Roberts
Marty
Blackboard Jungle
Trial
Guys and Dolls
East of Eden
Rebel Without a Cause

Diabolique
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Lola Montes
Max Ophuls

Night and Fog
Alain Resnais

East of Eden
Elia Kazan

Kiss Me Deadly
Robert Aldrich

Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray

Lady and the Tramp
Clyde Geronimi

The Ladykillers
Alexander Mackendrick

A Generation
Andrzej Wajda

Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report
Orson Welles

The Big Combo
Kiss Me Deadly
All That Heaven Allows
Rififi
Mr. Arkadin
Ordet
The Big Knife
Lola Montes
Marty
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Man from Laramie
Bad Day at Black Rock
Rebel Without a Cause
A Lawless Street
The Trouble With Harry
Pather Panchali
The Night of the Hunter
The Lady Killers
We’re No Angels
House of Bamboo

Last call, 24 hours left!

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
All That Heaven Allows
Battle Cry
The Big Combo
It’s Always Fair Weather
Kiss Me Deadly
Land of the Pharaohs
The Long Gray Line
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Man with the Golden Arm
Man Without a Star
Moonfleet
Murder Is My Beat
Rebel Without a Cause
Tennessee’s Partner
Les grandes manoeuvres
Ordet
Pather Panchali
Floating Clouds
Princess Yang Kwei-fei

“So delicate her jade face, drowned with tears of sadness,
Like a spray of pear flowers, veiled with springtime rain.”

Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)

Princess Yang Kwei-fei (Kenji Mizoguchi )
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Rififi (Jules Dassin)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel)
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
A Generation (Andrzej Wajda)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Marc Allégret)
The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
This Island Earth (Joseph Newman)
Kokoro (Kon Ichikawa)

10/13/2012 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1955-poll

Thanks to all who contributed!