Best of 1958


  1. Vertigo                                                                               Alfred Hitchcock
  2. Touch of Evil                                                                     Orson Welles
  3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die                                   Douglas Sirk
  4. The Magician                                                                     Ingmar Bergman
  5. The Tarnished Angels                                                       Douglas Sirk
  6. The Hidden Fortress                                                         Akira Kurosawa
  7. Bitter Victory                                                                     Nicholas Ray
  8. Gideon of Scotland Yard                                                  John Ford
  9. Bonjour Tristesse                                                              Otto Preminger
  10. The Lineup                                                                         Don Siegel

         Honorable Mention

         The Ballad of Narayama -- Kinoshita, Du cote de la cote -- Varda,
         Rally Round the Flag, Boys! -- McCarey, The Music Room -- Satyajit Ray

         Films I Enjoyed

         Wind Across the Everglades, Party Girl,
         Cowboy, Man of the West,
         The Naked and the Dead, Gunman's Walk,
         Curse of the Demon, The Last Hurrah,
         Gigi, Thunder Road, 
         The Vikings, God's Little Acre,
         The Long, Hot Summer, Horror of Dracula,
         Invention for Destruction

         Below the Mendoza Line

         Terror in a Texas Town, The Gun Runners.
         The Left Handed Gun,
         Bell, Book and Candle, The Fly,
         Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Damn Yankees,
         South Pacific, The Quiet American,
         Auntie Mame, I Want to Live,
         A Night to Remember, 
         The Missouri Traveler, Houseboat,
         Run Silent, Run Deep. The Buccaneer,
         The Brothers Karamazov, The Young Lions,
         The Big Country, The Defiant Ones,
         The Old Man and the Sea
                                                        

       
        
         
       
         
                                 

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2 comments:

  1. Post-Punk MonkFebruary 1, 2021 at 1:03 PM

    "Vertigo" or "Touch Of Evil?" There can be only a single #1, and I'd give it to "Touch Of Evil." Sure, sure. Heston in brownface was a potential deal-breaker but the moral imperative the then liberal actor brought to the role was unquestionable. The rest of TOE resonated very powerfully with me. Plus… that unbroken take!

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  2. Biff DorseyFebruary 2, 2021 at 10:17 AM

    I could watch either again and again. Heston's casting doesn't bother me because the film wouldn't have been made without him. As Michel Mourlet put it, he is an axiom of the cinema.

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