I promised myself I wouldn’t do another of these, but then Michael W. Phillips Jr. happened: my top ten films from the ridiculously fecund year of 1957. Like this post and I will give you a year. 1957: 1. The Cranes are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili) 2. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) 3. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) 4. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean) 5. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman) 6. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 7. White Nights (Luchino Visconti) 8. Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher) 9. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk) 10. Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield) Runners-up: 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves), The Abominable Snowman (Val Guest), The Delinquents (Robert Altman), The Devil Strikes at Midnight (Richard Siodmak), Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur), Not of This Earth (Roger Corman), Quatermass 2 (Val Guest), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock), The Undead (Roger Corman) Not yet seen: A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan), Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), Funny Face (Stanley Donen), Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni), Kanal (Andrzej Wajda), Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 05:36:12 +0000
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