1956 Poll 2.0

[der kulterer]

watched it too!




The Captain from Köpenick (Helmut Käutner, 1956)

if you follow mundane rules...


... and heavenly commands,...


... you can evolve...


... and be useful to the society!



a very bleak/gloomy tale (not really a comedy).

[rischka]

i read some reviews saying this was shown in schools in germany to teach kids about the nazis so yeah



statue in berlin. based on real events in 1906, first play was written in 1912, the second in 1930, a satire of the prussian military by carl zuckmayer

the author's works were banned and his family forced to flee because of their jewish surname

[Silga]

Final list:

The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)

Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (Richard Quine)
Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson)

Please Murder Me! (Peter Godfrey)
The Green Man (Robert Day)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)

[der kulterer]

https://kinometer.com/?list=540

Silvery Wind (Václav Krška, 1956, 98m)
Together (Lorenza Mazzetti, Denis Horne, 1956, 52m)
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956, 103m)
The Captain from Köpenick (Helmut Käutner, 1956, 93m)
Children Who Draw (Susumu Hani, 1956, 38m)
Garrison in the Peak (František Vláčil, 1956, 11m)

Dark Waters (Youssef Chahine, 1956, 108m)
The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington, 1956, 10m)
Qivitoq (Erik Balling, 1956, 119m)
The Kreutzer Sonata (Éric Rohmer, 1956, 44m)
Where the Devil Says Goodnight (Władysław Ślesicki, Kazimierz Karabasz, 1956, 10m)
On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1956, 65m)

[karl]

A Man Escaped (Bresson)
The Searchers (Ford)
The Girl in Black (Kakogiannis)
Qivitoq (Balling)

Early Spring (Ozu)
Night River (Yoshimura)
Deadlier Than the Male (Duvivier)
The Railroad Man (Germi)

Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
Flowing (Naruse)
Merry-Go-Round (Fábri)
The Killing (Kubrick)

Suzaki Paradise (Kawashima)
Shozo, a Cat, and Two Women (Toyoda)
The Ogre of Athens (Koundouros)
The Roof (de Sica)

Spring on Zarechnaya Street (Mironer & Khutsiyev)
Sunday in Peking (Marker)
The Wedding Day (Yoshimura)
Sudden Rain (Naruse)

[cinesmith]

The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
The Killing (Kubrick)
The Mystery of Picasso (Clouzot)
Night and Fog (Resnais)

The Searchers (Ford)
Street of Shame (Mizoguichi)
The Forty-First (Chukhray)
Written on the Wind (Sirk)

Bob le Flambeur (Mellville)
The Railroad Man (Germi)
Bigger Than Life (Ray)
Moby Dick (Huston)

Aparajito (Ray)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Blithe Spirit (Lean)
The Bad Seed (LeRoy)

A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
Nightfall (Tourneur)
The Houston Story (Castle)

[pabs]

The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
The Searchers (Ford)
Aparajito (Ray)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Merry-Go-Round (Fabri)

A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Written on the Wind (Sirk)
Crazed Fruit (Nakahira)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
The Killing (Kubrick)

[wba]

I haven't seen anything by Autaunt-Lara, yet, so how I'll react to that will be very interesting for me in the future.

I should add that I was being a little unfair to Autant-Lara, he has a couple of films I'd consider great, especially Douce.

Even Christian-Jaque made some films I'd consider great.

I did, however, see Clair's The Lace Wars, and damn, so state and flat for what's meant to be a silly adventure comedy. (The rape/sexual assault jokes doesn't help, but I doubt most of the new wavers cared about that in the 60s)

Ok, that doesn't sound quite as threatening.

And, incredible as it may sound, I haven't seen anything by Christian-Jaque, yet!

I also haven't seen "Lace Wars", but yes, the sexist stuff probably didn't bother anyone in France. And it probably can't be worse than Godard, I'd think (easily the most sexist prominent French filmmaker from the 60s I'm currently aware of).