Top 10 Directoral Efforts- 1950's
Lost&pure Modal Coddle
1. Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock
2. A Streetcar Named Desire- Elia Kazan
3. The Searchers- John Ford
4. Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
5. Lust For Life- Vincente Minnelli
6. The Man Who knew too Much- Alfred Hitchcock
7. Throne of Blood- Akira Kurosawa
8. On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
9. La Strada- Frederico Fellini
10. Ben-Hur- Will Wyler
~Timothy
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--- Basquiat
TDugan68
2. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
3. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
4. Nazarin - Luis Bunuel
5. The Searchers - John Ford
6. Ordet - Carl Dreyer
7. Early Summer - Yasujiro Ozu
8. In a Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray
9. Apu Trilogy - Satyajit Ray
10. Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder
Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich
The Killing - Stanley Kubrick
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
TD
TDugan68
Senso - Luchino Visconti
Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica
Europa '51 - Roberto Rossellini
and probably a hundred others in what is arguably the strongest decade in the
history of cinema.
TD
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Michael Brooke
> How can you omit "Citizen Kane??
Um... because it was made in 1941?
Michael
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Michael Brooke
Actually, I'd argue that the strongest period was between 1945 and 1960
- if you use 1950 as an arbitrary cut-off point you miss out most of the
great Hollywood film noirs (or films noir), on the great British films
of the late 1940s (Powell & Pressburger, David Lean, Carol Reed, Ealing
Studios) and most of the really important Italian neo-realist classics
(including 'Bicycle Thieves', which dates from 1948) - all of which had
just as great an impact as anything made in the 1950s.
TDugan68
>TDugan68 <tdug...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, forgot about some great ones:
>>
>> Senso - Luchino Visconti
>> Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica
>> Europa '51 - Roberto Rossellini
>>
>> and probably a hundred others in what is arguably the strongest decade in
>the
>> history of cinema.
>
>Actually, I'd argue that the strongest period was between 1945 and 1960
>- if you use 1950 as an arbitrary cut-off point you miss out most of the
>great Hollywood film noirs (or films noir), on the great British films
>of the late 1940s (Powell & Pressburger, David Lean, Carol Reed, Ealing
>Studios) and most of the really important Italian neo-realist classics
>(including 'Bicycle Thieves', which dates from 1948) - all of which had
>just as great an impact as anything made in the 1950s.
>
>Michael
The original post pertained to films only made in the 1950's, hence the films
that I listed (though I goofed on Bicycle Thief '48). I agree completely that
films should not be judged as arbitrarily as which decade they fall under.
Clearly, the late 1940's produced some of the richest cinema in the world:
American Film Noir, Italian Neo-realism, British films of Powell-Pressburger,
etc. but if I were to list a 10 year period (which is after all what defines a
decade) that produced the very best cinema in succeeding years, it would have
to start with 1953 and end with 1963. This period in film encompasses the
great Japanese masterworks of Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kurosawa as well as many of
the finest American films ever and included the period at which the French New
Wave and Eastern European cinema sprang to life, which in my estimation
produced more unique works of cinema than the period from say 1946 to 1952.
But, this is really a moot point as what we are really getting at is that world
cinema immediately following World War 2, all the way up to the late 1970's was
much stronger than just about anything made in the last 20 years, save for a
few masterworks interspersed here and there. I would say that the most
important development in cinema in the past 20 years has been the emergence of
the oriental cinema: including such brilliant filmmakers as Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Edward Yang, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Tian Zhuangzhuang
and a host of other original filmmakers. Also, the arrival of talented North
American independents like David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch, David
Lynch, Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino has been for the good of cinema.
In fact, 4 of these directors (Egoyan, Jarmusch, Lynch and Soderbergh) have
new films due out in less than a month. Let's hope they point the way towards
the new millennium.
Regards,
Tony Dugandzic
Lost&pure Modal Coddle
It's all cool, TDugan....I make booboos with tiny details as well.
There's just some of us that don't take the Kubrick NG as serious as a
paying job, unlike others amoung us.
God bless!