Sunday, April 22, 2012

1955 Bonus List: Some Great Movies

1955 blogging, bonus list!
31 Great Movies from 1955

To conclude our festival of 1955, I’m sharing a list of recommended movies.  This mini-list excerpts the 1955 films from the “Doubling the Canon” list (as compiled by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board) combined with the They Shoot Pictures Don’t They? list of 1,000 great films.

The They Shoot Pictures list is a 1,000-movie canon of great films;  the “Doubling the Canon” list adds an additional 1,000 movies to the canon.  From the combined list, I’ve selected the 1955 movies.

31 Great Movies from 1955
(Combined list, with They Shoot Pictures picks in caps and  “Doubling the Canon” picks in lower case, all presented in alphabetical order.)

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS / Douglas Sirk 
CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ, THE (ENSAYO DE UN CRIMEN) / Luis Buñuel 
Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) / Juan Antonio Bardem 
DIABOLIQUE (LES DIABOLIQUES) / Henri-Georges Clouzot 
EAST OF EDEN / Elia Kazan 
FLOATING CLOUDS (UKIGUMO) / Mikio Naruse 
IL BIDONE / Federico Fellini 
It's Always Fair Weather / Stanley Donen 
KISS ME DEADLY / Robert Aldrich 
LADYKILLERS, THE / Alexander Mackendrick 
LES MAITRES FOUS / Jean Rouch 
LOLA MONTES / Max Ophüls 
MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE / Anthony Mann 
Marty / Delbert Mann 
MOONFLEET / Fritz Lang 
NIGHT AND FOG (NUIT ET BROUILLARD) / Alain Resnais 
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, THE / Charles Laughton 
One Froggy Evening / Chuck Jones 
ORDET / Carl T. Dreyer 
PATHER PANCHALI / Satyajit Ray 
Phenix City Story, The / Phil Karlson 
PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI  (YOKIHI) / Kenji Mizoguchi 
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE / Nicholas Ray 
Richard III / Laurence Olivier 
RIFIFI (DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES) / Jules Dassin 
Rio 40 Graus / Nelson Pereira dos Santos 
Run for Cover / Nicholas Ray 
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE) / Ingmar Bergman 
Summertime / David Lean 
Tales of the Taira Clan (Shin heike monogatari) / Kenji Mizoguchi 
Wichita / Jacques Tourneur 

Here’s the full They Shoot Pictures list.  And here’s the  “Doubling the Canon” list.  Special thanks to the two masterminds behind these lists: Bill Georgaris who manages They Shoot Pictures and Angel Gonzalez Garcia who now leads the "Doubling the Canon" project.

I created and launched  “Doubling the Canon” project around half a dozen years ago, ran it for a few years, and then handed it off to Angel’s capable hands where it’s flourished since.

Next year up on the random year generator:  1963.  (Coming soon…)




Next blog series:  6 essays on Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929)
as part of the  “For the Love of Film”
Film Preservation Blogathon
May 13-18, 2012




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