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We've still got a couple of days, right? Some last minute cramming, I think.

btw, IMDB has Rabbit's Moon by Kenneth Anger as a 1950 film, even though it wasn't completed (with rock and roll songs that actually complement the film) until the 70s. We're still counting it though I assume?

I hope so, as its on my list!

thirtyframesasecond wrote:We've still got a couple of days, right? Some last minute cramming, I think.

Yes, you have until the end of the day Sunday.

btw, IMDB has Rabbit's Moon by Kenneth Anger as a 1950 film, even though it wasn't completed (with rock and roll songs that actually complement the film) until the 70s. We're still counting it though I assume?

Yes, we're counting it as a '50s film. I suppose you could make an argument otherwise, but it's kind of a gray area and enough people have already voted for it that I'm not about to change its eligibility now.

One more thought I had about orphans: A lot of it just has to do with what kind of viewer you are. If you had already done a lot of legwork before the project, or if you're exploring on your own the work from directors, regions, or genres that personally interest you, you are naturally going to have many more orphans than someone who primarily sought out films after they had first been recommended in this thread. I think I personally fall more in the second category, with my final list ending up a hodgepodge to some extent of the lists from those of you who contribute most to this thread, so I tend to have less orphans. But many of these films would have been orphans or close to it without my vote. If I submitted my same list to some other hypothetical forum with different participants, I'd have a much higher orphan count.

Just a reminder to everyone putting the final touches on your lists: Please take a moment to review the "eligibility" section of the first post of this thread. I'm getting a lot of lists with films that came out in 1960 per IMDb. In addition, there might be a few films that you think are from the '40s or '60s but that are actually eligible this round.

I know I have contributed as much to this decade as I'd have liked (and when I did I got Ian Carmichael's name wrong...) - but I've just submitted a list. Fairly conventional - the likely orphans I highlighted before (am I the only one around here who loves Seven Days to Noon and The Glass Cage?) - with the usual suspects mixed in with a few British horrors.

I managed a few extra viewings recently - not as much as I'd hoped, and the only additional entrant to my list was Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, although quite how Scaramouche failed to make my list I really don't know. Others whose absence from my list is painful include Rossellini's The Machine That Kills Bad People (saw it over 20 years ago and it still seems fresh in my mind), Dearden's Pool of London, Clayton's The Bespoke Overcoat, Bergman's Summer Interlude, and indeed anything by Fuller. Ouch indeed.

I'm going to be a little busy tomorrow morning and would prefer (if possible) to post the results tonight before I go to bed (late). Is there anyone that was planning on submitting their list later than a couple hours from right now? Please PM me if we need to coordinate anything.

Thanks again to everyone for your participation in this latest round of the lists project! I'll be posting the results shortly in the next three posts. Here again is a guide to what the figures listed after each film represent, each separated with a slash mark:

1. Total points (50 for each #1 placement, 49 for each #2, etc.)
2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 31 submitted). If the film appeared in anyone's top 10, the number of top 10 appearances is also denoted in parentheses.
3. Highest placement of the film on any one list. If more than one person ranked the film this high, this is also denoted in parentheses.
4. Change in position from the 2007 list, with movements of 10 or more highlighted.

So for example, the 426/13(5)/1(x2)/+14 shown for The Seventh Seal means that it scored 426 points and appeared on 13 lists (and five top 10s), with two people ranking it as high as #1. The film also moved up 14 positions from its placement on the 2007 list.

For the list of orphans, only figure #3 is displayed (the highest rank, not the score given).

The 1960s thread will start in the next couple days. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the results in this thread, or to defend your poor faring favorites here.

The 1950s List

01. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 930/22(14)/1(x6)/+1
02. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 719/21(9)/1/+9
03. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 667/18(10)/1/+1
04. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 616/17(8)/1(x2)/-1
05. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 614/20(6)/1/+1
06. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) 594/20(1)/4/-1
07. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953) 553/15(8)/1/-6
08. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) 523/17(4)/2/-1
09. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) 497/17(3)/2(x2)/+39
10. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 490/15(6)/5/+4
11. Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut, 1959) 469/13(7)/2/+6
12. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 467/15(4)/2/+63
13. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955) 459/12(7)/2/-4
14. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 457/13(3)/2/+6
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 444/13(5)/1(x2)/-2
16. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) 442/14(4)/2/+57
17. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 440/14(6)/1/+18
18. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 426/13(5)/1(x2)/+14
19. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) 419/11(3)/1/+6
20. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) 402/11(5)/2/-5
21. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) 383/12(2)/5/+28
22. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 376/13(4)/1/-10
23. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) 373/11(3)/1/+172
24. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 365/13(2)/2/-1
25. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) 344/11(4)/5/+42
26. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 343/13(5)/2/-4
27. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954) 337/13(2)/2/+44
28. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 331/9(5)/1(x2)/-2
(tie) Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956) 331/14(1)/7/+109
30. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 328/11(3)/2/-20
31. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) 322/11(2)/2/+142
32. Francesco, giullare di Dio (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) 308/10(4)/1/+60
33. Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950) 303/13(4)/1/+3
34. Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953) 298/9(3)/2/-10
35. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958) 283/9(3)/4/+60
36. Le notti di Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) 269/9(4)/1/+8
(tie) The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) 269/9(2)/2/+52
38. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) 263/10(2)/5/-7
39. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) 252/7(3)/6(x2)/+5
(tie) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) 252/8(2)/5/-20
41. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) 247/11(2)/9/-20
42. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) 237/8(2)/4/-9
43. Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950) 236/8(1)/6/-13
44. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950) 234/7(1)/2/+12
45. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951) 228/6(3)/3/+27
46. La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950) 225/6(3)/2/+102
47. Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1951) 224/5(4)/1(x2)/-39
48. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) 212/8(1)/5/-32
49. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 210/7(3)/4/+92
50. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) 206/8(1)/6/+24
51. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 197/8(2)/6/+11
52. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 196/9(1)/9/+68
53. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) 193/8(2)/2/+7
(tie) A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) 193/8(2)/8(x2)/+46
55. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) 192/6(2)/8/+73
56. Flowing (Mikio Naruse, 1956) 188/6(2)/7/+23
57. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 184/9(1)/10/-6
(tie) Rashōmon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) 184/10/11/-39
59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) 183/7(1)/8/+10
60. The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-61) 181/5(3)/6/+65
(tie) Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirō Ozu, 1957) 181/7(2)/8/-7
62. Forbidden Planet (Fred Wilcox, 1956) 179/6(1)/7/+104
(tie) Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954) 179/7(1)/8/-34
64. Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) 173/6/12/-35
65. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) 168/6(1)/5/-27
66. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) 163/5(2)/3/-3
67. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 161/6(1)/5/-33
(tie) The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952) 161/9/12/+56
69. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955) 157/6/21/-3
70. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956) 155/7(2)/1/New
71. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955) 153/7(1)/10/+10
72. The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 148/5(1)/3/+29
(tie) Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957) 148/6(1)/9/+27
74. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955) 146/7/12(x2)/+61
(tie) Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) 146/6(1)/5/+23
76. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959) 145/7/14(x2)/-7
77. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) 144/8(1)/8/-40
78. La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 141/5(1)/10/-35
79. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) 136/6/13/-25
80. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1957) 135/7/13/+62
81. The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1951) 133/6(1)/6/New
82. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) 130/4(1)/3/-25
83. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) 129/6/17/-43
84. A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958) 123/4/11/+23
85. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957) 121/5(1)/6/+32
86. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953) 119/6(1)/10/+4
(tie) The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) 119/6/11/+48
88. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956) 118/4/12/-46
(tie) The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959) 118/5/12/+18
90. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953) 117/3(1)/5/New
91. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) 115/4/14/-53
92. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958) 114/5(1)/9/+108
(tie) My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955) 114/4(1)/2/New
94. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) 113/4(2)/7/-29
(tie) Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958) 113/3(1)/10/+27
(tie) Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950) 113/3(1)/10/-10
97. Kineformy (Andrzej Pawłowski, 1957) 112/3(1)/8/New
98. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959) 110/4/19/New
99. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) 105/5(1)/9/+30
(tie) Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 105/5(1)/7/New


Top Directors

Alfred Hitchcock (9 films, 2625 points)
Nicholas Ray (10 films, 1722 points)
Akira Kurosawa (8 films, 1464 points)
Ingmar Bergman (9 films, 1345 points)
Yasujirō Ozu (8 films, 1285 points)
Robert Bresson (3 films, 1177 points)
Kenji Mizoguchi (9 films, 1114 points)
Satyajit Ray (4 films, 919 points)
Douglas Sirk (7 films, 912 points)
Billy Wilder (6 films, 840 points)

Vincente Minnelli (4 films, 836 points)
Max Ophüls (4 films, 832 points)
Anthony Mann (10 films, 818 points)
John Ford (7 films, 801 points)
Stanley Donen (5 films, 777 points)
Charles Laughton (1 film, 719 points)
Orson Welles (3 films, 701 points)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (4 films, 699 points)
Gene Kelly (2 films, 671 points)
Alexander Mackendrick (4 films, 617 points)

Mikio Naruse (9 films, 583 points)
Roberto Rossellini (5 films, 580 points)
Stanley Kubrick (2 films, 549 points)
Otto Preminger (7 films, 541 points)
Luis Buñuel (6 films, 541 points)
Howard Hawks (6 films, 539 points)
Robert Aldrich (2 films, 504 points)
Alain Resnais (4 films, 480 points)
Federico Fellini (5 films, 477 points)
François Truffaut (1 film, 469 points)

Carl Dreyer (1 film, 459 points)
Frank Tashlin (7 films, 434 points)
Samuel Fuller (7 films, 426 points)
Elia Kazan (6 films, 407 points)
Fritz Lang (8 films, 314 points)
Jean Cocteau (1 film, 303 points)
Jules Dassin (2 films, 303 points)
Joseph Mankiewicz (3 films, 290 points)
Jean Renoir (2 films, 289 points)
Jacques Tati (2 films, 288 points)

Mikhail Kalatozov (1 film, 269 points)
Andrzej Wajda (3 films, 269 points)
Vittorio De Sica (2 films, 264 points)
Don Siegel (2 films, 253 points)
Kon Ichikawa (3 films, 247 points)
Budd Boetticher (3 films, 208 points)
Kenneth Anger (2 films, 201 points)
John Huston (5 films, 182 points)
Masaki Kobayashi (1 film, 181 points)
Fred Wilcox (1 film, 179 points)


Graphic Results




About 50% of the votes and points generated from all the lists related to films from the U.S. Here is how the rest of the world fared:




Casualties from the 2007 List

26. The Life of Oharu (now an also-ran)
41. Shadows (now an also-ran)
46. Gun Crazy (now an also-ran)
47. Othello (now an also-ran)
50. Mr. Arkadin (now an orphan)
51. Bob le flambeur (now an also-ran)
54. Repast (now an orphan)
58. Anatahan (now an orphan)
59. Casque d'or (now an also-ran)
61. Good Morning (now an also-ran)
63. Eaux d'artifice (now an also-ran)
67. Touchez pas au grisbi (now an also-ran)
76. Ensayo de un crimen (now an also-ran)
76. Floating Weeds (now an also-ran)
78. The Tiger of Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb (now an orphan)
80. The White Sheik (now an orphan)
81. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (now an orphan)
83. Early Spring (now an also-ran)
84. On the Waterfront (now an orphan)
86. Forbidden Games (now an also-ran)
87. Les Enfants terribles (now an orphan)
89. The Burmese Harp (now an also-ran)
90. The Lusty Men (now an also-ran)
92. Late Chrysanthemums (now an also-ran)
92. Night of the Demon (now an also-ran)
96. The Lavender Hill Mob (now an orphan)
98. A Star Is Born (now an orphan)

Also-Rans

Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953) 104/3(2)/4/-38
Ensayo de un crimen (Luis Buñuel, 1955) 103/4(1)/8/-26
Early Spring (Yasujirō Ozu, 1956) 102/4(1)/3/-20
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) 99/4(1)/2/-2
Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger, 1950) 97/4/14/New
The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951) 97/4/15/New
Miracolo a Milano (Vittorio De Sica, 1951) 96/3(1)/5/New
A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (Tomu Uchida, 1955) 96/3(1)/6/+56
Lili (Charles Walters, 1953) 95/4(1)/5/New
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952) 95/3(1)/9/+30

Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957) 95/3/12/-17
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952) 93/3(1)/3/+71
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958) 93/4(1)/7/+34
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956) 92/3(1)/9/-25
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Jiří Trnka, 1959) 91/2(2)/2/New
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952) 90/3(1)/8/New
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai, 1959) 89/3(1)/5/+26
Floating Weeds (Yasujirō Ozu, 1959) 89/4(1)/5/-41
Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) 89/3(1)/9/New
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) 89/4/24/-4

The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952) 88/3(1)/1/-31
Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959) 87/4/19/New
Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958) 86/3(1)/4/New
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957) 86/3/15/+17
Gun Crazy (Joseph Lewis, 1950) 85/6/11/-79
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1957) 85/4/20/-10
Nazarín (Luis Buñuel, 1959) 84/3(1)/4/+24
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) 84/4/13/-86
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959) 79/3/19/New
Él (Luis Buñuel, 1953) 79/4/24/+24

Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller, 1951) 77/3/14/+63
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1955) 77/4(1)/10/+58
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955) 75/4(1)/3/+34
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Bardem, 1955) 75/3/11/New
Un chant d'amour (Jean Genet, 1950) 74/4/21/-17
Tomorrow Is Another Day (Felix Feist, 1951) 73/2(1)/9/New
Give a Girl a Break (Stanley Donen, 1953) 71/2(1)/3/New
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) 71/4(1)/4/+25
The Lineup (Don Siegel, 1958) 70/4/16/New
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951) 69/3(1)/4/New

Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950) 69/2(1)/7/-10
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958) 67/2(1)/4/New
Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, 1952) 67/3/13/New
Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren, 1955) 66/2/13/New
N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson, 1957) 65/2(1)/4/New
The Tall T (Budd Boetticher, 1957) 65/3/13/New
Good Morning (Yasujirō Ozu, 1959) 65/4/28/-84
The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, 1951) 64/2/12/New
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) 64/4/22/+22
Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958) 63/2/18/New

The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa, 1951) 63/3/11/-36
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957) 63/3/23/New
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955) 62/2(1)/10/-44
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953) 62/3/11/-29
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952) 62/3/12/-127
A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, 1956) 61/2(1)/3/New
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) 61/3/15/+4
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) 61/4/19/New
French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955) 61/3/21/+26
Rhythm (Len Lye, 1957) 60/2(1)/3/New

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) 60/2(1)/6/+24
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954) 60/2/17/-93
Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones, 1950) 59/2/18/New
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) 59/2/19/New
Les Maîtres fous (Jean Rouch, 1955) 59/2/20/New
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954) 58/4/25/New
Othello (Orson Welles, 1952) 57/2(1)/6/-120
Park Row (Samuel Fuller, 1952) 56/2(1)/5/-12
Yantra (James Whitney, 1957) 56/2/21/New
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) 56/3/21/+30

Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) 56/3/24/-117
Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954) 54/2/21/New
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958) 53/2/14/-42
Genji monogatari (Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 1951) 52/2/24/New
The African Queen (John Huston, 1951) 52/3/29/New
Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954) 51/2(1)/1/New
Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952) 51/2/11/New
Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959) 51/2/13/New
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) 51/2/24/-66
I vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) 50/2/18/-68

Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, 1952) 49/2(1)/8/New
Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952) 48/2/17/-35
Equinox Flower (Yasujirō Ozu, 1958) 48/2/26/-79
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951) 48/4/33/-1
Casque d'or (Jacques Becker, 1952) 47/2(1)/8/-126
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958) 47/3/17/New
Room at the Top (Jack Clayton, 1959) 47/3/17/New
Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954) 47/3/27/-59
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953) 46/2/22/New
The Desperate Hours (William Wyler, 1955) 45/2/20/New

The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) 45/2/24/-86
Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick, 1952) 44/2/20/New
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958) 44/3/21/-13
Saint Joan (Otto Preminger, 1957) 44/2/29(x2)/New
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1951) 43/2/15/New
The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 43/3/20/-84
Giant (George Stevens, 1956) 43/4/28/New
The Furies (Anthony Mann, 1950) 42/2/19/New
The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann, 1955) 42/2/22/-7
Forbidden Games (René Clément, 1952) 42/3/31/-112

The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith, 1952) 41/2/15/New
Roma ore 11 (Giuseppe de Santis, 1952) 41/2/16/New
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1958) 41/2/22/-79
The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller, 1951) 41/2/22/-40
The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, 1951) 41/2/30/New
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955) 41/2/30/New
The Moon Is Blue (Otto Preminger, 1953) 39/2/21/New
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, 1951) 39/2/29/New
5 Fingers (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1952) 36/2/31/New
Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954) 34/2/18/New

The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950) 34/3/23/-102
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph Lewis, 1958) 34/2/28/New
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953) 34/2/34(x2)/-18
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, 1959) 34/4/37/New
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho, 1953) 33/2/19/-66
Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956) 33/2/30/-37
Orders to Kill (Anthony Asquith, 1958) 32/2/23/New
Rock-a-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958) 32/2/23/New
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951) 31/2/27/New
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954) 31/2/32/-55

Summertime (David Lean, 1955) 31/3/35/New
Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952) 28/2/32/New
Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson, 1956) 27/2/30/New
Giants and Toys (Yasuzō Masumura, 1958) 27/2/30/-24
Domenica d'agosto (Luciano Emmer, 1950) 26/2/28/New
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol, 1958) 26/2/32/New
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951) 26/2/32/New
While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956) 25/2/38/-32
Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952) 23/2/31/New
Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi et al, 1951) 23/4/39/-32

Daybreak Express (D.A. Pennebaker, 1953) 22/2/34/-60
Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse, 1954) 22/2/35/-139
Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957) 22/2/36/New
The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame, 1958) 21/2/31/New
The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parmelee, 1953) 21/2/37/New
Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950) 21/2/40/New
Estate violenta (Valerio Zurlini, 1959) 21/2/40/New
Do Bigha Zamin (Bimal Roy, 1953) 18/2/35/New
Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed, 1951) 17/2/39/New
The Geisha Boy (Frank Tashlin, 1958) 16/2/37/New

Die letzte Brücke (Helmut Käutner, 1954) 15/2/39/New
Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree, 1958) 14/2/38/New
Il bidone (Federico Fellini, 1955) 14/2/41/New
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957) 12/3/41/-139
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger, 1950) 11/2/41/-80
One Way Street (Hugo Fregonese, 1950) 9/2/45/New
House of Wax (André De Toth, 1953) 7/2/47/New
The Wonder Ring (Stan Brakhage & Joseph Cornell, 1955) 6/2/47/New
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) 4/2/48/-130

Orphans

NOTE: The number listed for each film represents the ranking it received, not the number of points.

The Abominable Snowman (Val Guest, 1957) 48
Aguaespejo granadino (José Val del Omar, 1955) 16
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) 20
Le amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) 37
Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953) 31
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952) 49
Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor & John Halas, 1954) 16
Anzukko (Mikio Naruse, 1958) 29
Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955) 2
Attack! (Robert Aldrich, 1956) 44
Aventurera (Alberto Gout, 1950) 46
Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951) 42

Backlash (John Sturges, 1956) 40
Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1954) 18
Beauties of the Night (René Clair, 1952) 42
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959) 11
The Best of Everything (Jean Negulesco, 1959) 45
Bienvenido Mister Marshall (Luis García Berlanga, 1953) 31
The Big Combo (Joseph Lewis, 1955) 35
The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952) 38
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957) 39
The Black Orchid (Martin Ritt, 1958) 39
Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959) 17
The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953) 21
Boris Godunov (Vera Stroyeva, 1954) 25
Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 17
Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950) 28
Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman, 1958) 36
Die Brücke (Bernhard Wicki, 1959) 37
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957) 7
Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, 1956) 41

Calamity Jane (David Butler, 1953) 29
Callaway Went Thataway (Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, 1951) 48
Il cammino della speranza (Pietro Germi, 1950) 15
Il cappotto (Alberto Lattuada, 1952) 16
The Captain from Cologne (Slatan Dudow, 1956) 3
Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage, 1959) 46
Le Chant du styrène (Alain Resnais, 1959) 42
Circle of Danger (Jacques Tourneur, 1951) 42
Come Back, Little Sheba (Daniel Mann, 1952) 36
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (Otto Preminger, 1956) 41
Crazed Fruit (Kō Nakahira, 1956) 38
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954) 44
Crime Wave (André De Toth, 1954) 19
Cross of Valor (Kazimierz Kutz, 1958) 29
The Crowded Streetcar (Kon Ichikawa, 1957) 41
The Cruel Sea (Charles Frend, 1953) 46
The Cuckoo Clock (Tex Avery, 1950) 40

Daddy Long Legs (Jean Negulesco, 1955) 43
Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth, 1959) 31
Deputy Droopy (Tex Avery & Michael Lah, 1955) 26
Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) 15
Dispersed Clouds (Heinosuke Gosho, 1951) 43
Dom (Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica, 1959) 36
Don Kikhot (Grigori Kozintsev, 1957) 18
Don't Look Back, My Son (Branko Bauer, 1956) 50
Due soldi di speranza (Renato Castellani, 1952) 21

East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) 37
Édouard et Caroline (Jacques Becker, 1951) 49
Elegy (Heinosuke Gosho, 1957) 45
The Elephant Will Never Forget (John Krish, 1953) 4
Endless Desire (Shōhei Imamura, 1958) 46
Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950) 29
Les Espions (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1957) 11

Fairy Couple (Shui Hua, 1955) 19
Family (Chen Hsi-ho, 1953) 11
Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958) 35
The Far Country (Anthony Mann, 1954) 47
Five Golden Flowers (Wang Jiayi, 1959) 40
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953) 48
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujirō Ozu, 1952) 28
The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958) 41
The Forbidden Christ (Curzio Malaparte, 1951) 34
The Forty-First (Grigori Chukhrai, 1956) 36
From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (Chuck Jones, 1953) 43
Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957) 20

A Generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955) 23
The Ghost of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959) 40
Gidget (Paul Wendkos, 1959) 46
Gion bayashi (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 36
Glas (Bert Haanstra, 1958) 50
The Glass Cage (Montgomery Tully, 1955) 40
Glen or Glenda? (Ed Wood, 1953) 42
God's Little Acre (Anthony Mann, 1958) 17
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954) 7
Gone to Earth (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1950) 41
La grande guerra (Mario Monicelli, 1959) 26

Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950) 23
Hell in the City (Renato Castellani, 1959) 48
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Thorold Dickinson, 1955) 36
Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin, 1956) 22
Hôtel des invalides (Georges Franju, 1952) 21
House by the River (Fritz Lang, 1950) 49
The House I Live In (Lev Kulidzhanov & Yakov Segel, 1957) 30
House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955) 34
House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959) 1
Huis clos (Jacqueline Audry, 1954) 46
Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954) 43

I Bury the Living (Albert Band, 1958) 32
I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa, 1955) 31
Ice Cold in Alex (J. Lee Thompson, 1958) 49
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel, 1953) 40
India, matri bhumi (Roberto Rossellini, 1959) 8
An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954) 44
Invaders from Mars (William Menzies, 1953) 33
It Came from Outer Space (Jack Arnold, 1953) 44

Jan Hus (Otakar Vávra, 1954) 12
Jazz on a Summer's Day (Bert Stern & Aram Avakian, 1959) 29
Jirō monogatari (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1955) 48

The Kaiser's Lackey (Wolfgang Staudte, 1951) 16
A King in New York (Charles Chaplin, 1957) 43
King Solomon's Mines (Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton, 1950) 49
Kiss Them for Me (Stanley Donen, 1957) 47
Kisses (Yasuzō Masumura, 1957) 27

Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi et al, 1955) 49
Land of the Pharaohs (Howard Hawks, 1955) 47
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951) 35
A Lesson in Love (Ingmar Bergman, 1954) 25
Lightning (Mikio Naruse, 1952) 27
Limelight (Charles Chaplin, 1952) 43
Lin Family Shop (Shui Hua, 1959) 14
The Little House (Wilfred Jackson, 1952) 32
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955) 16
The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt, 1958) 10
Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) 46
Lu tempu di li pisci spata (Vittorio De Seta, 1954) 29

M (Joseph Losey, 1951) 11
Macao (Josef von Sternberg, 1952) 47
Madhumati (Bimal Roy, 1958) 43
Magical Maestro (Tex Avery, 1952) 5
The Man from Planet X (Edgar Ulmer, 1951) 27
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson, 1956) 28
Man on the Tracks (Andrzej Munk, 1957) 25
Man with the Gun (Richard Wilson, 1955) 31
The Matchmaker (Joseph Anthony, 1958) 35
The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen, 1951) 40
Men in War (Anthony Mann, 1957) 37
Men of the Blue Cross (Andrzej Munk, 1955) 39
Le Merle (Norman McLaren, 1959) 37
Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri, 1956) 26
Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg, 1951) 47
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955) 21
Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) 35
Mogambo (John Ford, 1953) 33
Moi un noir (Jean Rouch, 1958) 7
Momma Don't Allow (Karel Reisz & Tony Richardson, 1956) 6
Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957) 49
Moulin Rouge (John Huston, 1952) 12
The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold, 1959) 43
The Mummy (Terence Fisher, 1959) 45
My Son John (Leo McCarey, 1952) 50
Le Mystère Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956) 40

Nagarik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1952) 44
New Year Sacrifice (Sang Hu, 1956) 26
A Night to Remember (Roy Baker, 1958) 27
Nigorie (Tadashi Imai, 1953) 5
Nine Lives (Arne Skouen, 1957) 46
No Down Payment (Martin Ritt, 1957) 49
No Peace Under the Olive Tree (Giuseppe de Santis, 1950) 4
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1955) 43

O drakos (Nikos Koundouros, 1956) 19
Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimané, 1959) 43
Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann, 1955) 35
Older Brother, Younger Sister (Mikio Naruse, 1953) 21
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959) 15
On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1956) 10
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) 20
One Potato, Two Potato (Leslie Daiken, 1957) 38
Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards, 1959) 42
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Joseph Newman, 1952) 38
Oyû-sama (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1951) 30

Pal Joey (George Sidney, 1957) 50
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950) 47
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, 1958) 38
Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956) 45
People of No Importance (Henri Verneuil, 1956) 30
Peyton Place (Mark Robson, 1957) 39
Picnic (Joshua Logan, 1955) 36
The Picture (Wendy Toye, 1955) 17
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Ed Wood, 1959) 26
Plunder Road (Hubert Cornfield, 1957) 45
Porte des Lilas (René Clair, 1957) 48
A Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, 1952) 14
Portrait of Madame Yuki (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1950) 48
The Prince and the Showgirl (Laurence Olivier, 1957) 44
The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951) 36

Quatermass 2 (Val Guest, 1957) 28
The Quatermass Xperiment (Val Guest, 1955) 33

The Raid (Hugo Fregonese, 1954) 10
The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi, 1956) 49
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (Leo McCarey, 1958) 41
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, 1952) 42
The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956) 35
Rentrée des classes (Jacques Rozier, 1956) 48
Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951) 2
Richard III (Laurence Olivier, 1955) 36
Rio Grande (John Ford, 1950) 32
Rio 40 graus (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1955) 31
Robot Monster (Phil Tucker, 1953) 50
Rosaura a las 10 (Mario Soffici, 1958) 33
Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller, 1957) 31

Sapphire (Basil Dearden, 1959) 43
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, 1958) 32
Seven Days to Noon (John & Roy Boulting, 1950) 37
Shane (George Stevens, 1953) 7
La signora senza camelie (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953) 19
Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian, 1957) 25
Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954) 40
The Singing Street (Nigel McIsaac et al, 1951) 49
Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956) 47
The Smallest Show on Earth (Basil Dearden, 1957) 47
The Snowshoers (Michel Brault & Gilles Groulx, 1958) 17
Il sole negli occhi (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1953) 10
Song of Youth (Cui Wei & Chen Huaikai, 1959) 37
Split Second (Dick Powell, 1953) 29
A Star Is Born (George Cukor, 1954) 33
Storm Fear (Cornel Wilde, 1955) 26
Stunde X (Bernhard Dörries, 1959) 50
Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse, 1956) 44
Suddenly (Lewis Allen, 1954) 33
Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1959) 31
Summer Stock (Charles Walters, 1950) 48
Surcos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951) 9
Susan Slept Here (Frank Tashlin, 1954) 19
Susana (Luis Buñuel, 1951) 23
Sweet Anna (Zoltán Fábri, 1958) 42
Symphony in Slang (Tex Avery, 1951) 35

Takekurabe (Heinosuke Gosho, 1955) 32
The Teahouse of the August Moon (Daniel Mann, 1956) 32
Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955) 14
La Tête contre les murs (Georges Franju, 1959) 4
Texas Tom (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera, 1950) 39
They Came to Cordura (Robert Rossen, 1959) 50
This Island Earth (Joseph Newman, 1955) 43
Three Little Bops (Friz Freleng, 1957) 34
3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957) 44
The Tiger of Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang, 1959) 4
Till We Meet Again (Tadashi Imai, 1950) 28
The Tingler (William Castle, 1959) 29
Toute la mémoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956) 44
The Tower of Lilies (Tadashi Imai, 1953) 49
A Town of Love and Hope (Nagisa Oshima, 1959) 22
Track of the Cat (William Wellman, 1954) 48
Traviata '53 (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1953) 28
Trial (Mark Robson, 1955) 44
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) 7
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954) 49
Two of a Kind (Henry Levin, 1951) 50

Ulisse (Mario Camerini, 1954) 32
Un maledetto imbroglio (Pietro Germi, 1959) 6
The Unicorn in the Garden (William Hurtz, 1953) 43

The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren, 1958) 35
The Vikings (Richard Fleischer, 1958) 34

When Worlds Collide (Rudolph Maté, 1951) 32
The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952) 47
The White Sheik (Federico Fellini, 1952) 48
The White-Haired Girl (Shui Hua & Wang Bin, 1950) 8
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955) 43
Wienerinnen (Kurt Steinwendner, 1952) 42
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (Xie Jin, 1957) 45
The Woman in the Rumor (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 8
The World in His Arms (Raoul Walsh, 1952) 20
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall, 1959) 39
The Wrestler and the Clown (Boris Barnet & Konstantin Yudin, 1957) 9

Wow, this was a relatively bad one for Ozu- four of his movies dropped off the list, and every single one of them slipped at least somewhat. I wonder if it's more that he was especially popular last time than that he did poorly this time, or if people just weren't excited by this period of his work this time around, or what? It's obviously not that his work has become less available, given the big BFI project.

Perhaps the BFI project led to a wider spreaded vote? I must admit though that I only voted for Tokyo Story and Good Morning this time.

It's not so much the placings that fascinate me, but the shifts in opinion (I wasn't around for the previous 50s poll). The two Rays and Preminger did very nicely. Satyajit has always been a revered director but more of his work is increasingly available, which has helped. I expect him to have a good 60s. Nick Ray has been on the up for some time in critical circles. Preminger doesn't get so much acclaim in the wider critical community, Laura aside I guess. Good to see the board have so much enthusiasm.

Funny thing is that due to the fall of Shadows none of the US productions I voted for even made the top 125.

Thanks for handling this round so nicely, swo17.

I'm really shocked how badly Antonioni did. Only "Il grido" in the also-rans, "Le Amiche" and "La signora senza camelie" orphaned, and no votes for "Cronaca di un amore". Very surprising given that all these films are so easily available, but Italian cinema didn't do particularly well in general, it seems.

Also, it seems to be high time that Criterion finally releases Mizoguchi's "Oharu". Seeing it drop by 127 places into the also-rans is really cause for some consideration...

And yes, great work as always, swo!

swo17 wrote:Thanks again to everyone for your participation in this latest round of the lists project! I'll be posting the results shortly in the next three posts. Here again is a guide to what the figures listed after each film represent, each separated with a slash mark:

1. Total points (50 for each #1 placement, 49 for each #2, etc.)
2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 31 submitted). If the film appeared in anyone's top 10, the number of top 10 appearances is also denoted in parentheses.
3. Highest placement of the film on any one list. If more than one person ranked the film this high, this is also denoted in parentheses.
4. Change in position from the 2007 list, with movements of 10 or more highlighted.

So for example, the 426/13(5)/1(x2)/+14 shown for The Seventh Seal means that it scored 426 points and appeared on 13 lists (and five top 10s), with two people ranking it as high as #1. The film also moved up 14 positions from its placement on the 2007 list.

For the list of orphans, only figure #3 is displayed (the highest rank, not the score given).

The 1960s thread will start in the next couple days. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the results in this thread, or to defend your poor faring favorites here.

Pity I was too late to vote for this one; at least it should be interesting to compare with my intended selections

Tommaso wrote:I'm really shocked how badly Antonioni did. Only "Il grido" in the also-rans, "Le Amiche" and "La signora senza camelie" orphaned, and no votes for "Cronaca di un amore". Very surprising given that all these films are so easily available, but Italian cinema didn't do particularly well in general, it seems.

Also, it seems to be high time that Criterion finally releases Mizoguchi's "Oharu". Seeing it drop by 127 places into the also-rans is really cause for some consideration...

And yes, great work as always, swo!

I love pre-'L'Avventura' Antonioni , especially "Il grido" and "Le Amiche", which would probably both make my 50's Top 50

A bit saddened, but not really surprised at the collapse of support/enthusiasm for classic Japanese cinema. The last time we did this, a lot of people had newly discovered many of these films, now they are "old news". ;~{

The following are at least serious contenders to my 50's Top 50
Beauties of the Night (René Clair, 1952) 42
Gion bayashi (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 36
Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950) 29
Glen or Glenda? (Ed Wood, 1953) 42
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954) 7
Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954) 43
I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa, 1955) 31
Invaders from Mars (William Menzies, 1953) 33
Le amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) 37
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955) 21
Shane (George Stevens, 1953) 7
Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse, 1956) 44
Susana (Luis Buñuel, 1951) 23
The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951) 36
This Island Earth (Joseph Newman, 1955) 43


these others are 'dark horses'
Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955) 2
The Big Combo (Joseph Lewis, 1955) 35
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957) 39
Die Brücke (Bernhard Wicki, 1959) 37
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957) 7
Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin, 1956) 22
M (Joseph Losey, 1951) 11
Men in War (Anthony Mann, 1957) 37
Oyû-sama (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1951) 30
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Ed Wood, 1959) 26
Repast (Mikio Naruse, 1951) 2
Richard III (Laurence Olivier, 1955) 36
La signora senza camelie (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953) 19
Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956) 47
3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957) 44
The Tiger of Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang, 1959) 4

Michael Kerpan wrote:A bit saddened, but not really surprised at the collapse of support/enthusiasm for classic Japanese cinema. The last time we did this, a lot of people had newly discovered many of these films, now they are "old news". ;~{

Sure, but Sirk and Nick Ray aren't exactly new discoveries either...

swo17 wrote:The 1950s List

01. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 930/22(14)/1(x6)/+1
02. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 719/21(9)/1/+9
03. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 667/18(10)/1/+1
04. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 616/17(8)/1(x2)/-1
05. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 614/20(6)/1/+1
06. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) 594/20(1)/4/-1
07. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953) 553/15(8)/1/-6
08. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) 523/17(4)/2/-1
09. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) 497/17(3)/2(x2)/+39
10. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 490/15(6)/5/+4
11. Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut, 1959) 469/13(7)/2/+6
12. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 467/15(4)/2/+63
13. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955) 459/12(7)/2/-4
14. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 457/13(3)/2/+6
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 444/13(5)/1(x2)/-2
16. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) 442/14(4)/2/+57
17. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 440/14(6)/1/+18
18. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 426/13(5)/1(x2)/+14
19. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) 419/11(3)/1/+6
20. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) 402/11(5)/2/-5
21. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) 383/12(2)/5/+28
22. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 376/13(4)/1/-10
23. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) 373/11(3)/1/+172
24. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 365/13(2)/2/-1
25. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) 344/11(4)/5/+42
26. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 343/13(5)/2/-4
27. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954) 337/13(2)/2/+44
28. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 331/9(5)/1(x2)/-2
(tie) Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956) 331/14(1)/7/+109
30. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 328/11(3)/2/-20
31. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) 322/11(2)/2/+142
32. Francesco, giullare di Dio (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) 308/10(4)/1/+60
33. Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950) 303/13(4)/1/+3
34. Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953) 298/9(3)/2/-10
35. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958) 283/9(3)/4/+60
36. Le notti di Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) 269/9(4)/1/+8
(tie) The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) 269/9(2)/2/+52
38. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) 263/10(2)/5/-7
39. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) 252/7(3)/6(x2)/+5
(tie) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) 252/8(2)/5/-20
41. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) 247/11(2)/9/-20
42. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) 237/8(2)/4/-9
43. Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950) 236/8(1)/6/-13
44. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950) 234/7(1)/2/+12
45. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951) 228/6(3)/3/+27
46. La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950) 225/6(3)/2/+102
47. Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1951) 224/5(4)/1(x2)/-39
48. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) 212/8(1)/5/-32
49. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 210/7(3)/4/+92
50. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) 206/8(1)/6/+24
51. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 197/8(2)/6/+11
52. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 196/9(1)/9/+68
53. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) 193/8(2)/2/+7
(tie) A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) 193/8(2)/8(x2)/+46
55. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) 192/6(2)/8/+73
56. Flowing (Mikio Naruse, 1956) 188/6(2)/7/+23
57. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 184/9(1)/10/-6
(tie) Rashōmon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) 184/10/11/-39
59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) 183/7(1)/8/+10
60. The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-61) 181/5(3)/6/+65
(tie) Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirō Ozu, 1957) 181/7(2)/8/-7
62. Forbidden Planet (Fred Wilcox, 1956) 179/6(1)/7/+104
(tie) Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954) 179/7(1)/8/-34
64. Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) 173/6/12/-35
65. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) 168/6(1)/5/-27
66. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) 163/5(2)/3/-3
67. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 161/6(1)/5/-33
(tie) The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952) 161/9/12/+56
69. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955) 157/6/21/-3
70. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956) 155/7(2)/1/New
71. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955) 153/7(1)/10/+10
72. The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 148/5(1)/3/+29
(tie) Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957) 148/6(1)/9/+27
74. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955) 146/7/12(x2)/+61
(tie) Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) 146/6(1)/5/+23
76. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959) 145/7/14(x2)/-7
77. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) 144/8(1)/8/-40
78. La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 141/5(1)/10/-35
79. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) 136/6/13/-25
80. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1957) 135/7/13/+62
81. The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1951) 133/6(1)/6/New
82. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) 130/4(1)/3/-25
83. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) 129/6/17/-43
84. A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958) 123/4/11/+23
85. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957) 121/5(1)/6/+32
86. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953) 119/6(1)/10/+4
(tie) The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) 119/6/11/+48
88. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956) 118/4/12/-46
(tie) The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959) 118/5/12/+18
90. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953) 117/3(1)/5/New
91. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) 115/4/14/-53
92. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958) 114/5(1)/9/+108
(tie) My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955) 114/4(1)/2/New
94. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) 113/4(2)/7/-29
(tie) Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958) 113/3(1)/10/+27
(tie) Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950) 113/3(1)/10/-10
97. Kineformy (Andrzej Pawłowski, 1957) 112/3(1)/8/New
98. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959) 110/4/19/New
99. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) 105/5(1)/9/+30
(tie) Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 105/5(1)/7/New

I'm particularly surprised at the high showing of ' The Night of the Hunter'!!

I'm not a great fan of:
Singin' in the Rain
The Band Wagon
Paths of Glory
Sansho the Bailiff
Anatomy of a Murder
Francesco, giullare di Dio
Man of the West
Ikiru
Los olvidados
All About Eve
La Ronde
The Human Condition
Forbidden Planet
Fires on the Plain (much prefer 'The Burmese Harp')
The Big Heat (much prefer 'Human Desire')
La strada
12 Angry Men
A Streetcar Named Desire
Dial M for Murder
The Bridge on the River Kwai

and I'm not sure these are strong enough contenders for my 50:
There's Always Tomorrow
Le Plaisir
The Magician
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Naked Spur
M. Hulot's Holiday

Yojimbo wrote: and I'm not sure these are strong enough contenders for my 50

Only 12-14 of those have been strong enough contenders for my 50.
And I guess I'm not the great exception here?

Wu.Qinghua wrote:

Yojimbo wrote: and I'm not sure these are strong enough contenders for my 50

Only 12-14 of those have been strong enough contenders for my 50.
And I guess I'm not the great exception here?

12-14 into 6 doesn't 'go'!

I actually rewatched Glen or Glenda? in the last week or two. It is fascinating, even-handed and quite beautiful in its way of non-patronisingly (although often amusingly!) describing the differences between transvestites and transexuals through two case studies. Its also surprisingly moving, with some of the off-kilter filmic moments just adding to the feeling of a very unorthodox educational film. I actually learned quite a lot from it!

Although I'm not sure I'd be daring enough (yet!) to put in on a 'top 50 from the 50s' list when the decade is so full of other, even higher, achievements in filmmaking.

Tommaso wrote:I'm really shocked how badly Antonioni did. Only "Il grido" in the also-rans, "Le Amiche" and "La signora senza camelie" orphaned, and no votes for "Cronaca di un amore". Very surprising given that all these films are so easily available, but Italian cinema didn't do particularly well in general, it seems.

Also, it seems to be high time that Criterion finally releases Mizoguchi's "Oharu". Seeing it drop by 127 places into the also-rans is really cause for some consideration...

And yes, great work as always, swo!

Seconded all round, though I can't complain as I didn't vote. I kept meaning to do a big write-up on the '50s Antonionis - especially I Vinti, which seems to me the most extraordinary and daring of the bunch - but never quite found the time. I recently saw L'Amore in Citta for the first time, and was completely floored by it, but need to watch it at least a couple more times before I can say anything coherent about it.

Still, nice (if unsurprising) to see the whole Apu trilogy make it onto the list. Whenever I re-watch them, I always come away thinking they're the three best films ever made. Aparajito is my favourite at the moment, probably because its pathos is more restrained than that of the other two films, and Karuna Banerjee's performance is absolutely flawless.