1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol. 3)

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions

#726 Post by tarpilot » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:05 pm

swo17 wrote:2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 31 submitted)

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#727 Post by Michael Kerpan » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:23 pm

My (relatively few) films that made the list:

1. Tôkyô monogatari / Tokyo Story (Ozu 1953) - 7
3. Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi 1954) - 72
7. Bakushû / Early Summer (Ozu 1951) - 47
8. Yama no oto / Sound of the Mountain (Naruse 1954) - 62
12. Akasen chitai / Street of Shame (Mizoguchi 1956) - 88
13. Mon Oncle (Tati 1958) - 64
14. Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries (Bergman 1957) - 14
16. Aparajito (Ray 1956) - 80
21. Tôkyô boshoku / Tokyo Twilight (Ozu 1957) - 60
22. Nagareru / Flowing (Naruse 1956) - 56
23. Det sjunde inseglet ? The Seventh Seal (Bergman 1957) - 18
24. Los Olvidados (Bunuel 1950) - 43
25. Letyat zhuravli / The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozov 1957) - 25
30. Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman 1955) - 71
33. Kumonosu-jô / Throne of Blood (Kurosawa 1957) - 51
37. Nobi / Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa 1959) - 76
38. Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai (Kurosawa 1954) - 3
39. Pather Panchali (Ray 1955) - 51

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#728 Post by matrixschmatrix » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:42 pm

Did you also vote for Burmese Harp? It's a shame that one fell off, particularly with the gorgeous MoC blu...

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#729 Post by Michael Kerpan » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:58 pm

matrixschmatrix wrote:Did you also vote for Burmese Harp? It's a shame that one fell off, particularly with the gorgeous MoC blu...
Yes I did (my number 9) -- it's on my very long list of films that "escaped" inclusion on this year's list. See:

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#730 Post by Noiradelic » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:01 am

I love that Ace in the Hole and A Face in the Crowd are tied.

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#731 Post by Dansu Dansu Dansu » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:59 am

Here's my top twelve:

Vertigo
Diary of a Country Priest
In a Lonely Place
Early Summer
Wild Strawberries
Tokyo Story
Madame de…
Some Came Running
Pickpocket
Seven Samurai
Tokyo Twilight
The Bad and the Beautiful

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#732 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:26 am

My top ten

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, US, 1958)
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Trnka, Czechoslovakia, 1959)
3. Voyage to Italy (Rossellini, Italy, 1954)
4. To Live (Kurosawa, Japan, 1952)
5. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, US, 1959)
6. Diabolique (Clouzot, France, 1955)
7. Bigger Than Life (Ray, US, 1956)
8. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, US, 1955)
9. Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, Japan, 1957)
10. Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, US, 1958)

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#733 Post by puxzkkx » Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:17 am

My Top 10:

1. Nights of Cabiria
2. Kiss Me Deadly
3. A Man Escaped
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Floating Weeds
6. Tokyo Story
7. Flowing
8. Tokyo Twilight
9. The 400 Blows
10. The Cranes Are Flying

My orphans:

A Lesson in Love
Merry-Go-Round
Anzukko
The Forbidden Christ
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Sweet Anna
Attack!
Endless Desire
The White Reindeer
Hell in the City

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#734 Post by domino harvey » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:59 am

TOP TEN PLUS ORPHANS

01 Rebel Without a Cause
02 My Sister Eileen
03 A Kiss Before Dying
04 To Catch a Thief
05 Lili
06 Baby Doll
07 Man of the West
08 North by Northwest
09 Caged
10 the Long Hot Summer
ALSO ORPHAN

12 Moulin Rouge
15 Detective Story
17 Born to be Bad
21 the Blue Gardenia
22 Hollywood or Bust!
28 the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
32 the Teahouse of the August Moon
33 Mogambo
35 the Matchmaker
36 Come Back, Little Sheba
39 Peyton Place
40 Backlash
43 Daddy Long Legs
44 Trial
45 the Best of Everything
46 Gidget
47 Kiss Them For Me
48 Callaway Went Thataway
49 No Down Payment
50 Two of a Kind

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol

#735 Post by Mike_S » Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:36 am

10 the Long Hot Summer ALSO ORPHAN
Saw this only recently and it very nearly made my list. Very interesting clashes of acting styles and it looks majestic.

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Re: 1950s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol. 3)

#736 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:29 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:04 pm
Recommended Reading
The Fifties, David Halberstam
Recently learned this book was adapted to a series, with Halberstam's full participation, by the History Channel in the the 90s as David Halberstam's the Fifties. Many (all?) of the episodes are up on YouTube, and from what I've seen so far, it's about what you'd expect (mainly surface-level bulletpoints, on the nose needledrops), but there's some fun participants (including multiple contributions per episode from Halberstam himself) and a lot of interesting footage I've never seen before-- and Edward Herrmann was born to narrate things like this

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