1958 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1958 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by people who do not participate in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1958 lists will be Monday, April 22 at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

SEEN, LIKED
Elevator To The Gallows - Malle
The Lovers - Malle
Party Girl - Ray
Touch Of Evil - Welles
Los Tres Vivales -
Vertigo -

INSANELY AMBITIOUS WATCHLIST:
Akvarel (Otar Iosseliani) 10 min.
Anzukko -
Ashes And Diamonds
Ballad Of Narayama - Kinoshita
Bari Thekey Paliye - Ghatak
le beau serge (claude chabrol)
The Big Country
big deal on madonna street
Black Cat Mansion - Nakagawa
The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., 1958)
Bonjour Tristesse - preminger
The Boy Who Came Back - Suzuki
Buchanan Rides Alone -- Boetticher
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Chase a Crooked Shadow (Anderson)
La Chatte - Decoin
China Doll - Borzage
Eoneu yeodaesaengui gobaek/Confessions Of A College Student - Sang-ok Shin
Corridors of Blood (Robert Day, 1958)
a day in barbagia (de seta)
Deadly Invention - Zeman
The Defiant Ones- ( Stanley Kramer)
Demasiado Jovenes - Torres Rios no subs?
Le Deesordre Et La Nuit - Grangier
Elevator To The Gallows - Malle
Enchanted Island -Dwan
Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura)
equinox flower (yasujiro ozu)
Eroica - Munk
Ewa chce spac / Eve Wants to Sleep (1958, Tadeusz Chmielewski)
Farewells (Wojciech Has)
Firefly Light (Gosho)
First Love Of Okon - Watanabe
The Fountain of Youth (Orson Welles, 1958)
Free Radicals (Len Lye)
The geisha Boy - tashlin
Giants And Toys
Gigi - Minnelli
The Girl Most Likely - Leisen
Goha (Jacques Baratier)
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel, 1958)
Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson)
The Hidden Fortress - Kurosawa
horror of dracula (terence fisher)
Ice Cold in Alex- (J. Lee Thompson)
Ismail Yassine Tarazane -
It Happened In Broad Daylight - Vajda
Ivan The Terrible P. 2 - Eisenstein
Jiokhwa/The Flowr In Hell - Shin Sang-Ok
Jonggak/The Bell Tower - Ju-Nam Yang
Le Joueur - Autant-Lara
The Key - Carol Reed
Lake Of The Dead -
The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
The Lovers - Malle
The Last of the Fast Guns (George Sherman)
The Law Is The Law - Christian-Jaque
The Left Handed Gun- (Arthur Penn)
The Lineup- (Don Siegel)The Long, Hot Summer
The Magician
Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
Mannquin In Red -
A Matter of Dignity (Kakogiannis)
Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch)
Mon Oncle
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
The Music Room - Ray
Nara Livet/Brink Of Life - Bergman
A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker, 1958)
Nishi Ginza Station - Imamura
The Old Man and the Sea -(John Sturges)
Orders to Kill- (Anthony Asquith)
Party Girl - ray
La premiere Nuit - Franju 20 min
Procesado 1040 - Cavalloti (Arg) no subs?
The Proud Rebel - Curtiz
Rafles Sur La Ville - Chenal
the revenge of frankenstein (terence fisher)
The Rickshaw Man - Inagami
Rock-a-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958)
The Roots of Heaven - Huston
Rosaura A Las 10 - Soffici
Satay - K M Basker
Screaming Mimi (Gerd Oswald)
El Secuestrador / The Kidnapper - Torre Nilsson no subs
Sergeant Hassan -
Shadows
shepherds of orgosolo (de seta)
Shin Tange Sazon - Matsudo
The Snorkel (Green)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
Stakeout
Stolen Desire - Imamura
Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1958)
Surya Toran - Agradoot
The Tale of the White Serpent (Taiji Yabushita/Kazuhiko Okabe)
terror In A Texas Town - Lewis
A Time To Love And A Time To Die - Sirk
Touch Of Evil - Welles
Underworld Beauty - Suzuki
Vertigo -
The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren)
The Vikings
Violent Playground - Dearden
Violent Road - Koch
Wind Across The Everglades - Ray
The Young Lions- (Edward Dmytryk)


NOT AVAILABLE?



India 1958 -- there's two Rays and two Ghataks, also these which are available. Madhumati seems like it would be a good bet, I don't know about any of the others. Recommendations?

Bhookailas - K Shankar
Chalti Ka Naam Gadir - Satyen Bose
Howrah Bridge - Samanta
Indrani - N Lahiri no subs?
Jobalaye Jimanta Manush - P Chakraborty ……. no subs?
Khota Paisa - M Sadiq
Louhakapat - P Sinha
Madhumati - Bimal Roy
Parvarish - S Bannerjee
Sadhna - B R Chopra
Sampoorna Ramayanam - K Somu
Samrat Chandragupt - Babubhai Mistry
School Master - B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu .......no subs?
Surya Toran - Agradoot
Swarga Martya - Asim Pal
Talaaq - Mahesh Kaul
Yahudi - Bimal Roy

[arkheia]

1. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)

Party Girl (Nicholas Ray) - Lengthy Letterboxd Notes
Poem of the Sea (Yuliya Solnteva)
The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch)
Mon oncle (Jacques Tati)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak)
Beat (Christopher Maclaine)
Free Radicals (Len Lye)
The Last of the Fast Guns (George Sherman)
A Movie (Bruce Conner)
Giants and Toy (Yasuzo Masumura)
Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
Hibari torimonocho: Kanzashi koban (Tadashi Sawashima)

Very-Good-But-Not-Best:
The Geisha Boy (Frank Tashlin)
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka)
Screaming Mimi (Gerd Oswald)
The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren)
جميلة [Jamila, the Algerian] (يوسف شاهين [Youssef Chahine])

[greennui]

1. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)

The Tale of the White Serpent (Taiji Yabushita/Kazuhiko Okabe)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
Mannequin in Red (Arne Mattsson)
The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita)
Mädchen in Uniform (Géza von Radványi)
End of Desire (Alexandre Astruc)
The Last Day of Summer (Tadeusz Konwicki)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
A Movie (Bruce Conner)

[thoxans]

CONFLAGRATION (Kon Ichikawa)

the ballad of narayama (keisuke kinoshita)
le beau serge (claude chabrol)
buchanan rides alone (budd boetticher)
equinox flower (yasujiro ozu)
horror of dracula (terence fisher)
the music room (satyajit ray)
party girl (nicholas ray)
the revenge of frankenstein (terence fisher)

*seen 21

[nrh]

Chalti Ka Naam Gadir - Satyen Bose no subs?

there are a few copies on youtube with subs and it's on prime, very fun movie with some great songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIXo60itPY

it's nowhere near as good as madhumati but bimal roy's yahudi is really interesting if you're into that kind of thing. howrah bridge isn't great but it's fun and a good example of a hindi thriller film from that period. not a big year for films of auteur interest, the ghatak and the rays are definitely the films to see.

[arkheia]

NOT AVAILABLE?
Ashes And Diamonds
Ballad Of Narayama - Kinoshita
The Big Country
The Lovers - Malle
The Magician
Mon Oncle

Check the treehouse (resources)

[flip]

Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)

Zane Grey Theater: "The Scaffold" (Robert Florey)
Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
Goha (Jacques Baratier)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
The Bravados (Henry King)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura)
Saddle the Wind (Robert Parrish)
The Two-Headed Spy (Andre de Toth)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
The Lineup (Don Siegel)
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H Lewis)
Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
Decoy: "Earthbound Satellite" (Michael Gordon)
Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
Glas (Bert Haanstra)
Gunsmoke in Tucson (Thomas Carr)

[kanafani]

For Sure
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958)
Equinox Flower (Yasujirō Ozu, 1958)
Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1958)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958)
The Lineup (Don Siegel, 1958)
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)
Moi, un Noir (Jean Rouch, 1958)
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)

Probably
Corridors of Blood (Robert Day, 1958)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958)
Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis, 1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1958)
Little Peach (Mikio Naruse, 1958)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Rock-a-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958)

Perhaps
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, 1958)
The Last Hurrah (John Ford, 1958)
The Fountain of Youth (Orson Welles, 1958)
The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., 1958)
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel, 1958)
A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker, 1958)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958)
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Mario Soffici, 1958)
Eroica (Andrzej Munk, 1958)

[---]

1. The Rickshaw Man

Vertigo
Orders to Kill
The Big Country
The Lovers
Elevator to the Gallows
Man of the West
Touch of Evil
Mon Oncle
The Music Room
Ivan the Terrible Part II
Equinox Flower
The Long, Hot Summer
The Last Day of Summer
Rusty Knife
The Geisha Boy

[---]

for toshiro mifune fans... inagaki's THE RICKSHAW MAN is a must-see performance

[Silga]

First Anthony Mann poll, now 1958. I guess it's time to watch Man of the West.

[brian d]

tentatively ranked:

ajantrik (ghatak)
moi, un noir (rouch)
the life ahead (fernán gómez)
terror in a texas town (lewis)
vengeance (bardem)
village by the river (rademakers)
shepherds of orgosolo (de seta)
ivan the terrible part ii (eisenstein)
sweet anna (fábri)
buchanan rides alone (boetticher)
tire dié (birri)
wind across the everglades (ray)
madhumati (roy)
the magician (bergman)
cairo station (chahine)
a day in barbagia (de seta)
el pisito (ferreri)
rosaura at 10 o'clock (soffici)

to watch:
the warrior and the slave girl (cottafavi)
the philosopher's stone (ray)
underworld beauty (suzuki)

[liquidnature]

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

Bab el hadid / Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
Ajantrik / Pathetic Fallacy (Ritwik Ghatak)
Ansiktet / The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
Akvarel (Otar Iosseliani)
Tot Watchers (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)
Opération 'Béton' / Operation Concrete (Jean-Luc Godard)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Waterfront

That's a 3 that looked like an 8 on your screen.

[flip]

on the waterfront is from 1954

[Lencho of the Apes]

treehouse

Ooh, shiny!

[liquidnature]

woops, thanks. it was one of the first "classics" that I ever watched, over 10 years ago, so it's been sitting in my spreadsheet like that ever since.

[Umbugbene]

Solid year.

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2. Chase a Crooked Shadow (Anderson)
3. The Magician (Bergman)
4. Montparnasse 19 (Becker)
5. Jalsaghar (Ray)
6. The Noose (Has)
7. Hare-Way to the Stars (Jones)
8. Enjo (Ichikawa)
9. Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
10. Ajantrik (Ghatak)
11. Mon oncle (Tati)
12. The Snorkel (Green)
13. Cairo Station (Chahine)

[oscarwerner]

1. Elevator to the Gallows- (Louis Malle) -my top hit
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Other 19:
2. Vertigo -(Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Touch of Evil -(Orson Welles)
4. Ashes and Diamonds -(Andrzej Wajda)
5. Mon Oncle -(Jacques Tati)
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6.Ice Cold in Alex- (J. Lee Thompson)
7.Shadows- (John Cassavetes)
8.The Left Handed Gun- (Arthur Penn)
9.Orders to Kill- (Anthony Asquith)
10.The Lineup- (Don Siegel)
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11.Ivan the Terrible, Part II -( Sergei M. Eisenstein)
12.Le Beau Serge- (Claude Chabrol )
13.The Last Day of Summer -(Tadeusz Konwicki)
14.Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
15.Montparnasse 19- ( Jacques Becker)
--------------------------------
16.The Old Man and the Sea -(John Sturges)
17.The Defiant Ones- ( Stanley Kramer)
18.The Big Country- ( William Wyler)
19.The Young Lions- (Edward Dmytryk)
20.The Hidden Fortress- (Akira Kurosawa)

[rischka]

wait. what?




ok i wasn't going to put vertigo but i stuck it on at the end there. not that i don't love it. stuff i have and may watch

equinox flower
firefly light (gosho)
moi, un noir
it happened in broad daylight
la vida delante
the adultress (imai)
rosaura a las diez
end of desire
mon oncle
the magician

[ofrene]

Vertigo
Touch of Evil
Man of the West
Mon Oncle
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Equinox Flower
Summer Clouds
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot

[pabs]

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1. A Matter of Dignity (Kakogiannis)


Edes Anna (Fabri)
Some Came Running (Minnelli)
Véronique et son cancre (Rohmer)
Les amants (Malle)
Equinox Flower (Ozu)
Party Girl (Ray)
Elevator to the Gallows (Malle)
Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger)
Mon oncle (Tati)
The Long, Hot Summer (Ritt)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
The Magician (Bergman)
Le beau Serge (Chabrol)
Orders to Kill (Asquith)



To watch / watched √ :

The Warrior and the Slave Girl √
A Matter of Dignity √
Orders to Kill √
Equinox Flower √
Mon oncle √
Eroica √
Edes Anna √
Ashes And Diamonds √
Une vie √
A Time to Love and a Time to Die √
The Vikings √
Véronique et son cancre √
The Magician √
Moi, un noir



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[augusto]

it's the least known and least touted of his films, but ghatak's bari theke paliye from this year is worth a look. (his debut nagarik from '52 might be the other, though even that, as uneven and inchoate as it is, is in retrospect regarded as important for historical/auteurist reasons.) the runaway kid's first encounter with the big city alone is one of the most arresting sequences of his career, though perhaps the film suffers a bit later as ghatak (not entirely uncharacteristically) gets too caught up in the romance of the mythical return to country. nevertheless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rH8Bzf1iNI

(on another note, chalti ka naam gaadi a key film from my childhood.)

[St. Gloede]

My list:

1. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
2. Ansiktet / The Magician (1958, Ingmar Bergman)
3. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Édes Anna (1958, Zoltán Fábri)
5. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)
6. Ház a sziklák alatt / The House Under the Rocks (1958, Károly Makk)
7. Petla / The Noose (1958, Wojciech Has)
8. Popiól i diament / Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda)
9. The Defiant Ones (1958, Stanley Kramer)
10. Kyojin to gangu / Giants & Toys (1958, Yasuzo Masumura)

11. The Big Country (1958, William Wyler)
12. Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / The Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)
13. A Tale of Two Cities (1958, Ralph Thomas)
14. Enjô (1958, Kon Ichikawa)
15. Hateshinaki yokubô / Endless Desire (1958, Shôhei Imamura)
16. Kanzenna yûgi / Perfect Game (1958, Toshio Masuda)
17. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958, Douglas Sirk)
18. Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (1958, Marcel Carné)
19. Ewa chce spac / Eve Wants to Sleep (1958, Tadeusz Chmielewski)
20. Ostatni dzien lata / The Last Day of Summer (1958, Tadeusz Konwicki)

[augusto]

ajantrik (ghatak)

parash pathar (ray)
enjo / conflagration (ichikawa)
eroica (munk)
madhumati (roy)
summer clouds (naruse)
equinox flower (ozu)
giants and toys (masumura)
vertigo (hitchcock)
touch of evil (welles)

cairo station (chahine)
chalti ka naam gaadi (satyen bose)
bari theke paliye (ghatak)
jalsaghar / the music room (ray)
mon oncle (tati)
elevator to the gallows (malles)
stolen desire (imamura)
a day in barbagia (de seta)
the magician (bergman)
the last day of summer (konwicki)

[...]

'58, if nothing else, is an incredibly dense year for classic film, so many films are almost baroque, sometimes in texture, sometimes emotion or story or all of those things, as they try to mine established genres and themes for something new, shortly before things would radically change for film in the sixties with a whole new crop of filmmakers and methods taking over. A sort of a great last gasp, in a sense, for a certain kind of filmmaking with so many movies really striving for something different though still working in more established modes.

There are a lot of movies contending for my list, too many to name at the moment, and I'm pleased and somewhat amused to see that pretty much every movie that looks interesting from the year listed on Letterboxd already has been watched by at least someone else I follow, which is mostly people here, which seems to make it one of the most heavily explored years for movies I've come across as well. Still a somewhat limited output but wider accessibility and many film industries working at higher capacity with quality artists and craft makes it maybe one of the most comprehensible years for movies, even as I'm sure some films still fall through the cracks.

Speaking of which, here's one I'm interested in seeing, cause it looks pretty snazzy, Swedish thriller Mannequin in Red

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90lZTDDqJk4

[thoxans]

it looks like there's a copy of ajantrik on tube that's 1hr 36min 50sex. does that runtime sound accurate or would i be wasting an hour and a half of my life on an incomplete film?

[Roscoe]

VERTIGO
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS
MON ONCLE
THE MUSIC ROOM
TOUCH OF EVIL
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY
THE MAGICIAN

[karl]

Put together now the list would look something like this - leaving a handful of terrific movies off for lack of space already! - but I'll see a few more:

Ashes and Diamonds

A Matter of Dignity (Kakogiannis)
Summer Clouds (Naruse)
Giants and Toys
Mon Oncle
Gunman's Walk
The Vikings
Farewells (Wojciech Has)
Night Drum aka The Adulteress (Imai)
The Lovers (Malle)
Anzukko (Naruse)
Equinox Flower
Firefly Light (Gosho)
Ajantrik
Two Fedors (Khutsiev - RIP)
Eroica
The Big Country
The Magician
Stakeout (Nomura)
Edes Anna (Fabri)