The Searchers
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Friendly Persuasion
La mort en ce jardin
Forbidden Planet
Körhinta
I vampiri
Le mystére Picasso
Flame of the Islands
Calle Mayor
Moby Dick
Calabuch
Ilya Muromets
The Searchers
The Killing
Bob Le Flambeur
Forbidden Planet
A Man Escaped
The REd Balloon
10 Commandments
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Man who knew too much
Baby Doll
The Bad Seed
Bob Le Flambeur
Bus Stop
The Catered Affair
Forbidden Planet
Giant
Godzilla
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The King and I
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Red Balloon
Rodan
The Searchers
Tea and Sympathy
X, the Unknown
On the Bowery
It got just one vote in our 1957 poll. The 1956-Venice release was submitted to the imdb (the update usually takes several weeks though).
The film is eligible in 1956. I hope you’re all agree, thanks.
Please add Aparajito to my list above, as I’ve finally had the opportunity to see it.
01 Cien (Kawalerowicz)
02 The Searchers (Ford)
03 The King and I (Lang)
04 Bigger Than Life (Ray)
05 Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
06 Gervaise (Clément)
07 A Girl in Black (Kakogiannis)
08 Baby Doll (Kazan)
09 Written on the Wind (Sirk)
10 Crazed Fruit (Nakahira)
11 Patterns (Cook)
12 Early Spring (Ozu)
13 The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
14 The Killing (Kubrick)
15 Anastasia (Litvak)
16 Somebody Up There Likes Me (Wise)
17 Friendly Persuasion (Wyler)
18 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Johnson)
19 The Proud Ones (Webb)
20 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Lang)
Yield to the Night
1984
All the World’s Memory
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Bob le flambeur
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
Lust for Life
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Moby Dick
Le monde du silence
Night and Fog
Samurai III: Duel on Ganyru Island
The Searchers
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Wrong Man
Apologies Movieguide1 – IMDb has Night and Fog as 1955, please ignore that entry on my list
One week left to vote.
Next polls: 1983, 1945
Bigger Than Life
The Searchers
A Man Escaped
There’s Always Tomorrow
Bob le Flambeur
Moby Dick
The Killing
Early Spring
Written On The Wind
Aparajito
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Giant
Baby Doll
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Seven Men From Now
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira)
A Girl in Black (Mihalis Kakogiannis)
Flowing (Mikio Naruse)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri)
The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
The Ogre of Athens
Between Heaven and Hell
Beyond Oblivion
Bob le Flambeur
Forbidden Planet
Four Bags Full
Giant
Raw Edge
Slightly Scarlet
Susaki Paradise: Red Light District
The Burmese Harp
The Court Jester
The Forty-first
The Last Wagon
The Lovemaker
The Man Who Never Was
The Railroad Man
The Rocket from Calabuch
The Ten Commandments
While the City Sleeps
Deliberately excluded (TSPDT top 500, IMDb top 250)
A Man Escaped
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
The Searchers
Written on the Wind
Wanted (some are in my hands but no time to watch them before the deadline)
Beatrice Cenci
Carnival in Moscow
Darkness at Noon
Shadow
Spring on Zarechnaya Street
Stranger at My Door
Valley of Peace
I’ll add On the Bowery, then.
1. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, USA)
Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)
Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz)
A Man Escaped / Un condamné s’est échappé (Robert Bresson, France)
The Seventh Seal / Det Sjunde Inseglet (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Flowing / Nagareru (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
Written in the Wind (Douglas Sirk, USA)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Court Jester (Frank Panama, USA)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk,USA)
The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Street of Shame / Akasen Chitai (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
Three Girls / Tiga Dara (Usmar Ismail, Indonesia)
The Fountain of Youth (Orson Welles, USA)
Lovers and Lollipops (Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, USA)
On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, USA)
Byaku Fujin no Yoren aka Madame White Snake (Shiro Toyoda, Japan)
Bhowani Junction (Cukor)
Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
THE SEARCHERS
Bob le Flambeur (Melville) and The Silent World (Cousteau/Malle)
Kanal
A Man Escaped
Giant
Aparajito
The Searchers
Harp of Burma
The Red Balloon
High Society
My two top choices’ impact is still being felt.
No, I have little love for The Ten Commandments, but I’m more surprised there isn’t more love for Forbidden Planet or Friendly Persuasion.
this is a really rubbish year for me, where the number of films i still want to see far outnumbers the ones i already have…anyway….
1. the ogre of athens (nikos koundouros)
baby doll (elia kazan)
sunday in peking (chris marker)
all the world’s memory (alain resnais)
the artist and the city (manoel de oliveira)
a man escaped (bresson)
street of shame (mizoguchi)
early spring (ozu)
merry-go-round (zoltán fábri)
there’s always tomorrow (sirk)
lovers and lollipops (morris engel & ruth orkin)
on the bowery (lionel rogosin)
aparajito (ray)
still need to see: death in the garden, written on the wind, a wife’s heart, a girl in black, the forty-first, bigger than life…..
would really love to see but can’t: professor hannibal (fabri) the rocket from calabuch (berlanga) the harvest month (kassila) in our courtyard (chkheidze) fedra the devil’s daughter (mur oti) torero (velo)
Written on the Wind
Attack
Between Heaven and Hell
Forbidden Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killer Is Loose
The Killing
The Last Wagon
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
The Searchers
Slightly Scarlet
The Ten Commandments
While the City Sleeps
A Man Escaped
Elena and Her Men
Four Bags Full
The Battle of the River Plate
Beatrice Cenci
War and Peace
Calle mayor
It was really hard! Looking forward to results and next poll.
1. Moby Dick
Flowing / Naruse Mikio
The Searchers / John Ford
Aparajito / Satyajit Ray
A Berlin Romance / Gerhard Klein
Bigger Than Life / Nicholas Ray
Crazed Fruit / Nakahira Kô
Early Spring / Ozu Yasujirô
A Girl in Black / Mihalis Kakogiannis
The Killing / Stanley Kubrick
A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson
Peasants of the Sea / Vittorio De Seta
Spring on Zarechnaya Street / Marlen Khutsiyev & Feliks Mironer
Storm Center / Daniel Taradash
Street of Shame / Mizoguchi Kenji
Sunday in Peking / Chris Marker
Susaki Paradise: Red Light District / Kawashima Yuzô
There’s Always Tomorrow / Douglas Sirk
Valley of Peace / France Štiglic
A Wife’s Heart / Naruse Mikio
Written on the Wind / Douglas Sirk
After finally getting around to seeing this, another vote for Bus Stop – please add to my list. Don Murray and Marilyn Monroe – Dennis is right.
Flowing (Mikio Naruse)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Searchers (John Ford)
Giant (George Stevens)
Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
Gervaise (Rene Clement)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira)
Cette Sacree Gamine (Michel Boisrond)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
A Town Like Alice (Jack Lee)
Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)
Written On The Wind (Douglas Sirk)
Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise)
Lust For Life (Vincente Minnelli)
4/07/2012 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1956-poll
Thanks to all who contributed!
WBA
^^ That’s why I always post all this information. So that people don’t have to look everything up, in case they might not be familiar with a certain title. :-)