^ Personally, I’m not sure if you’re picking Judy Holliday films on your best of 1956, you have the right to criticize Bus Stop (then again, I put both on my list and I’d pick Richard Quine over Logan). Incidentally, Bus Stop was #4 on Godard’s best of 1956 list (three spots above Bresson).
NOT a spectacular year…
The Killing
Giant
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Written on the Wind
The Girl Can’t Help it
Rodan
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Bob le Flambeur
Giant
A KIss Before Dying
The Man Who Never Was
The Killing
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Kanal
The Spanish Gardener
The Harder They Fall
Seven Men From Now
1. On the Bowery (Rogosin)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Seigel)
The Killing (Kubrick)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Stay Awake (Mitra/Maitra)
I know those big Biblical epics are out of fashion, but I can’t believe NOBODY else here likes The Ten Commandments.
1. A Man Escaped
The Burmese Harp
Aparajito
The Red Balloon [short]
Patterns
Baby Doll
The Searchers
The Killing
Street of Shame
The Harder They Fall
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Written on the Wind
Bob le Flambeur
Bigger Than Life
Anastasia
Forbidden Planet
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Giant
Sorok pervyy / The Forty-first
Attack
1.) The Searchers
2.) Baby Doll
3.) Kanal
4.) Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
5.) The Killing
6.) Bigger Than Life
7.) Early Spring
8.) Bob le Flambeur
9.) The Man Who Knew Too Much
10) Bus Stop
Others: The Red Balloon, Written on the Wind, Giant, Godzilla, Forbidden Planet, The Bad Seed, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wrong Man, and Lust for Life
ACK! The things you overlook when you vote early!
Please add The Wrong Man and Seven Men from Now.
Thanks.
Another great year!
1. 7 Men from Now
A Man Escaped
Written on the Wind
Flowing
Early Spring
Bigger Than Life
Giant
Hot Blood
The Searchers
Crazed Fruit
Elena and Her Men
Somebody Up There Likes Me
A Man Escaped
Written on the Wind
Reach for the Sky
The Man Who Never Was;
Love me Tender
Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
Burmese Harp
Bob the Gambler
Smiley
D Day 6th of June
Serenade
A Town Like Alice
Anything Goes
The King and I
Moby Dick
note to self: you still have not watched The Killing
On the Bowery is 1957…
In September 1956, Rogosin became the first American director to win the Best Documentary award at the Venice Film Festival with “On The Bowery."
now, i ain’t no math expert, but that digit at the end of the year looks an awful lot like one of them sixes i heard about…
Hey , Brad S., I put 10 Commandments on my list is well. I urge everyone here to give it a second chance, or watch it if they have not seen it. True, there is some cheesy dialog and over-ripe performances, but there are many moments of great power in Cecil B. DeMille’s maximal cinema.
“In September 1956, Rogosin became the first American director to win the Best Documentary award at the Venice Film Festival with “On The Bowery.”
now, i ain’t no math expert, but that digit at the end of the year looks an awful lot like one of them sixes i heard about…"
You know it’s the perpetual argument with these polls over release dates but movieguide1 who so nicely runs them and compiles the results has told us to use the IMDB as the standard. And according to the IMDB, On the Bowery is 1957.
imdb is poop though. bah. my new votes, i guess:
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Seigel)
The Killing (Kubrick)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Stay Awake (Mitra/Maitra)
1. Lovers and Lollpops (Morris Engel)
On the Bowery
A Man escaped
Aparajito
Red Ballon
i mean Lovers and Lollipops
1.Line of Destiny (Peries)
+
The Searchers (Ford)
Crazed Fruit (Nakahira)
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Aparajito (S.Ray)
The Court Jester (Panama, Frank)
Kanal (Wajda)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Toute la Mémoire du Monde (Resnais)
1. The Searchers
Corn’s-a-Poppin’
Bigger than Life
The Ten Commandments
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
Street of Shame
The Incredible Shrinking Man
A Man Escaped
Flowing
Aparajito
*I’ve seen Corn’s-A-Poppin listed from anywhere in 1951 to 1956 to ‘54 to ’57, but from the best research available I’m lead to believe it premiered in 1956, and what do you know IMDB actually agrees with me.
Overall though I don’t think this year is anywhere near as strong as ’55 or ’57, and to join the Logan/Bus Stop discussion, it nearly made my list.
And Brad S. you’ll see me representing The Ten Commandments, “Where’s your Moses now?”
Kanal is from 1957, I think. If determined as 1956, then place it at the top of my list, please.
imdb lists The Incredible Shrinking Man as 1957.
R., That’s correct, KANAL was premiered in 1957. I was consulting the Filmpolski site (don’t ask) and mistook date of production; should have continued reading.
Thanks.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could edit our posts into perpetuity, as you may at Tumblr?
Baby Doll
Bigger Than Life
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
The Red Balloon
The Ten Commandments
The Killing
The Bad Seed
Written On The Wind
Forbidden Planet
The Swan
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Trapeze
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
The Killing (Kubrick)
Bob le Flaubeur (Melville)
Aparajito (Ray)
The Searchers (Ford)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
Baby Doll (Kazan)
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
Attack! (Aldrich)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Sorry about The Incredible Shrinking Man, turns out it premiered April 12, 1957, don’t know how I got it wrong.
It seems I’m not such a bif fan of many beloved films from ’56 (e.g. The Killing, A Man Escaped, Bob le flambeur, Written on the Wind, 7 Men from Now), but here are my selections according to the ever erring Imdb:
1. Körhinta “Merry-Go-Round” (Zoltán Fábri / Hungary)
Aparajito “The Unvanquished” (Satyajit Ray / India)
Dolina miru “Valley of Peace” (France Stiglic / Yugoslavia)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox / USA)
Kurutta kajitsu “Crazed Fruit” (Kô Nakahira / Japan)
Rock Around the Clock (Fred F. Sears / USA)
Sissi – Die junge Kaiserin “Sissi: The Young Empress” (Ernst Marischka / Austria)
Soshun “Early Spring” (Yasujiro Ozu / Japan)
The Door in the Wall (Glenn H. Alvey Jr. / UK)
The Searchers (John Ford / USA)
Oh: and I absolutely need to see Lovers and Lollipops, some Richard Quine, and more Joshua Logan. :-)
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Thanks to WBA, always appreciate it when director AND country is listed (and original title!), particularly when going off the well beaten track.
Dennis Brian
“but I am shocked to see more than one person picking a film by Joshua Logan, arguably the worst director ever.”
you would probably be further shocked to know he is in my all time director top 10