Claude Chabrol's 10 Best Films Lists Cahiers du Cinema 1954-1966

My notes are as always color-coded.
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1954
1……It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
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Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
3……Pane, amore e fantasia (Luigi Comencini)
4……From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman)
5…....El (Luis Bunuel)
6…....River of No Return (Otto Preminger)
7…....Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel)
8…....The High and the Mighty (William Wellman)
9…....The Desert Rats (Robert Wise)
10…..The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin)
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1955
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1…....Voyage en Italie (Roberto Rossellini)
2…....Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3……The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
4……Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
5……Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexander Astruc)
6……Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
7……The Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks)
……..Kiss Me, Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
9……The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L Mankewicz)
10….To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
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1956 (no list)
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1957
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1…...Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
..…...The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3…...A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
4…...Will Success Spoil Rick Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5…...The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
….....Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
7…...An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
….....The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin)
9…...Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10.....Men in War (Anthony Mann)
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1958
1…...White Nights (Luchino Visconti)
.……Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3…..The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
4…..Les Girls(George Cukor)
5…..The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
…….Montparnasse 19 (Jacques Becker)
7…..Une Vie (Alexander Astruc)
……The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
…….Les Mistons (François Truffaut)
10…The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
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1959
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1…..The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
…….Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
…….Ivan the Terrible (Serge Eisenstein)
4…..Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) ……The 400 Blows (François Truffaut) 6…..Hiroshima, mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
…….Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
8…..Empress Yank Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9…..Head Against the Wall (George Franju)
10…The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens)
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1960
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1…..Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
…....Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
…....Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
…....Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey)
…....Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6…..Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
7......Den Blodiga Tiden [Mein Kampf] (Erwin Leiser)
........Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
9......Le Bal des Espions (Michel Clément
10....A Terrible Beauty (Tay Garnett)
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1961
1962(no lists)
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1963
1…..The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
..…..Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
3......The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
........Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
........Whatever Happened to Baby-Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
6......8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
7......Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
8......The Leopard (Lucchino Visconti)
9......Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
........En Compagnie de Max Linder (Maud Linder)
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1964
1965(no lists)
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1966
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1......A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch)
2......La Curée (Roger Vadim)
3......How to Steal a Million (William Wyler)
......Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
5......Is Paris Burning ? (René Clément)
7......Le Deuxième Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8......Galia (Georges Lautner)
9......The Reward (Serge Bourguignon)
10....Le Coup de Grâce (Jean Cayrol/Claude Durand)
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Ten best American Films - Sound Era- (Cahiers du Cinema Dec63-Jan64)
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(chronological)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
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Ten Best French Films since the Liberation (Cahiers du Cinema Jan 65
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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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What a yoking!!! What a double feature!!! Leo McCarey vs. Frank Tashlin, Deborah Kerr vs. Jayne Mansfield, Cary Grant vs. Tom Ewell

This was the only feature film that Michel Clément directed. He also worked as an assistant director on seven films, among them Casque d’Or A Man Escaped and Pickpocket.