31 Great Movies from 1955
To conclude our festival of 1955, I’m sharing a list of
recommended movies. This mini-list excerpts the 1955 films from the “Doubling the Canon” list (as compiled by participants on
the IMDb Classic Film message board) combined with the They Shoot
Pictures Don’t They? list of 1,000 great films.
The They Shoot Pictures list is a 1,000-movie canon of great
films; the “Doubling the Canon” list
adds an additional 1,000 movies to the canon.
From the combined list, I’ve selected the 1955 movies.
31 Great Movies from 1955
(Combined list, with They Shoot Pictures picks in caps and
“Doubling the Canon” picks in lower case,
all presented in alphabetical order.)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS / Douglas Sirk
CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ, THE (ENSAYO DE UN
CRIMEN) / Luis Buñuel
Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) / Juan Antonio
Bardem
DIABOLIQUE (LES DIABOLIQUES) / Henri-Georges Clouzot
EAST OF EDEN / Elia Kazan
FLOATING CLOUDS (UKIGUMO) / Mikio Naruse
IL BIDONE / Federico Fellini
It's Always Fair Weather / Stanley Donen
KISS ME DEADLY / Robert Aldrich
LADYKILLERS, THE / Alexander Mackendrick
LES MAITRES FOUS / Jean Rouch
LOLA MONTES / Max Ophüls
MAN FROM LARAMIE ,
THE / Anthony Mann
Marty / Delbert Mann
MOONFLEET / Fritz Lang
NIGHT AND FOG (NUIT ET BROUILLARD) / Alain Resnais
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, THE / Charles Laughton
One Froggy Evening / Chuck Jones
ORDET / Carl T. Dreyer
PATHER PANCHALI / Satyajit Ray
PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI
(YOKIHI) / Kenji Mizoguchi
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE / Nicholas Ray
Richard III / Laurence Olivier
RIFIFI (DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES) / Jules Dassin
Rio 40 Graus / Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Run for Cover / Nicholas Ray
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE) / Ingmar
Bergman
Summertime / David Lean
Tales of the Taira Clan (Shin heike monogatari) / Kenji
Mizoguchi
Here’s the full They Shoot Pictures list. And here’s the
“Doubling the Canon” list. Special thanks to the two masterminds behind these lists: Bill
Georgaris who manages They Shoot Pictures and Angel Gonzalez Garcia who now
leads the "Doubling the Canon" project.
I created and launched
“Doubling the Canon” project around
half a dozen years ago, ran it for a few years, and then handed it off to
Angel’s capable hands where it’s flourished since.
Next year up on the random year generator: 1963. (Coming soon…)
Next blog series: 6 essays on Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929)
as part of the “For the Love of Film”
Film Preservation Blogathon
May 13-18, 2012
© 2012 Lee Price
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