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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Some ten best lists from Cahiers in the 60s

The Dec63/Jan64 issue of Cahiers du Cinema was a special issue dedicated to American cinema. Critics were asked to draw up their list of the ten best American films of the talking era.
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The Jan65 issue was dedicated to French cinema and crtics were asked to draw up a list of the ten best French films since the Liberation.
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Here are some of the American list followed below by some of the French lists.
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Claude Chabrol
chronological
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
The Shaghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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1......Scarface (Howard Hawks)
2......The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
3......Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
4......The Searchers (John Ford)
5......Singin’ In the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
6......The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7......Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
8......Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
9......To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
10.....Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
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Jacques Rivettte
chronological
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Scarface (Howard Hawks)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
On the Town (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
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Bertrand Tavernier
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1.....The Hanging Tree (Delmar Daves)
2......Pursued(Raoul Walsh)
3......Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
4......Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
5......An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
6......To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
7......Silver Lode (Alan Dwan)
8.......Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
9.......The Band Wagon (Vincente Minelli)
10.....The Searchers (John Ford)
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Francois Truffaut
chronological
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Scarface (Howard Hawks)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
The Saga of Anahatan (Josef Von Sternberg)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
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The French lists
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Claude Chabrol
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1......Le Carosse d’Or (Jean Renoir)
2......Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
3......À Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
4......Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
5......Le Caporal Épinglé(Jean Renoir)
6......Le Signe du Lion (except first two reels) (Eric Rohmer)
7......Les Quatre Cents Coups (Francois Truffaut)
8......Une Femme Est Une Femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
9,.....Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker)
10.....Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (Jean Renoir)
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Jean-Luc Godard
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1......Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
2......La Pyramide humaine (Jean Rouch)
3..... Le Testament d'Orphée (Jean Cocteau)
4..... Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (Jean Renoir)
5..... Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
6......Les Godelureaux (Claude Chabrol)
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Jacques Rivette
alphabetical by director
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Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexander Astruc)
Rendez-vous de Juillet (Jacques Becker)
Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (Robert Bresson)
Les Enfants Terribles (Cocteau-Melville)
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
Les Dernières Vacances (Roger Leenhardt)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
Eléna et les Hommes (Jean Renoir)
Muriel (Alain Resnais)
Les Rendez-vous du Diable (Haroun Tazieff)
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Eric Rohmer
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1......Le Caporal Epinglé (Jean Renoir)
(And, in order to not name the other films of Renoir, in alphabetical order)
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Adieu Phillipines (Jacques Rozier)
Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
Les Dernières Vacances (Roger Leenhardt)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
La Proie pour l’Ombre (Alexander Astruc)
La Pyramide Humaine (Jean Rouch)
La Vie à l’Envers (Alain Jessua)
Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
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François Truffaut
chronological
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Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné)
La Poisin (Sacha Guitry)
La Carosse d’Or (Jean Renoir)
Nuit et Bruillard (Alain Resnais)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
À Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
L’Enclos (Armand Gatti)
Le Testament d’Orpheé (Jean Cocteau)
Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (Robert Bresson)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
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I am not to certain exactly what the note that appends Eric Rohmer’s means. Was he citing all of Renoir’s post war ouevre and letting “Le Caporal Épinglé” stand in for all of them?
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Of course there were other critics who contributed their lists and one note I have from them is that Claude de Givray listed “Une Femme Mariée est une Femme” . Leading to ask, was Claude a little confused there or did he deliberately conflate both films to make some kind of a point?

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