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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Eric Rohmer's 10 best films - Cahiers du Cinema 1954 -1964

Rohmer’s list for 1954 is attributed to him as “Maurice Scherer” which is his actual name.
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1954
1…….Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
2…….The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang)
3…….Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
4…….River of no Return (Otto Preminger)
5…….Mogambo (John Ford)
6…….It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
7…….Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
8…….Ruby (King Vidor)
9…….Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
10…...Monsieur Ripois (René Clément)
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1955
1…….Voyage en Italie (Roberto Rossellini)
………Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
3…….Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
………To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
5…….The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
6…….The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
7…….Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
8…….A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
9…….La Strada (Federico Fellini)
10…...French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
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1956
1......Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
........Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)
........A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4......Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
........Fear (Roberto Rossellini)
6......The Saga of Anahatan (Joseph von Sternberg)
7......While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
8......The Last Frontier (Anthony Mann)
9......Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
10....Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
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1957
1......The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2......Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
3......Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
4......The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin)
5......Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
6......The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7......Sunset of a Clown (Ingmar Bergman)
8......Designing Woman (Vincente Minelli)
9......Men in War (Anthony Mann)
10....Assassins et Voleurs (Sacha Guitry)
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1958
1......The Quiet American (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
2......Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
3......Dreams (Ingmar Bergman)
4......The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
5......Secrets of Woman (Ingmar Bergman)
6......Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)
7......Les Girls (George Cukor)
8......Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
9......Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
10....Une Vie (Alexander Astruc)
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1959
1......Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
2......Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3......Le Dejeuner sur L’ Herbe (Jean Renoir)
4......Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
5......Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
6......Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
7......Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
8......The Cousins (Claude Chabrol)
9......The Four Hundred Blows (François Truffaut)
10....Hiroshima, mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
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1960
1......Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
2......Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
3......Psycho (Alfred Hithcock)
4......Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
........Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
6......Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
........Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
........Poem of the Sea (Aleksandr Dovzhenko/Yuliya Solntseva)
9......Les Étoiles de Midi (Gerard Herzog/ Marcel Ichac)
........Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
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1961
1......The Human Pyramid (Jean Rouch)
2......The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (Jean Renoir)
3......The Horse That Cried (Mark Donskoy)
4......Two Rode Together (John Ford)
5......Exodus (Otto Preminger)
6......The Diabolical Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
7......Lola (Jacques Demy)
8......Les Godelureaux (Claude Chabrol)
9......A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
10....Leon Morin, Pretre (Jean-Pierre Melville)
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1962
1......Le Caporal Èpinglé (Jean Renoir)
2......Hatari (Howard Hawks)
3......Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
4......Boccaccio ‘70 (Lucchino Visconti)
........Education Sentimentale (Alexander Astruc)
6......Jules and Jum (François Truffaut)
7......Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
8......Le Rendez-vous de Minuit (Roger Leenhardt)
9......Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards)
10....Love at Twenty (Andrej Wajda sketch)
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1963
1......The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
2......Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
3......Nine Days in One Year (Mikhail Romm)
........Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
5......Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier)
........Donovan’s Reef (John Ford)
7......Banditi a Orgosolo (Vittorio De Seta)
........Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
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1964
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Gertrud (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
Man’s Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
World Without Sun (Jacques Costeau)
Pour la Suite du Monde (Michel Brault/Michel Carrière)
La Punition (Jean Rouch)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
Thomas Gordiev (Mark Donskoy)
La Vie a l’Envers (Alain Jessua)
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Best French Films since the Liberation (January 1965 issue)
1......Le Caporal Èpinglé (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)


Eric Rohmer did not select a Ten Best American Films of the Sound Era list for the special American Films issue of Dec 63/Jan 64 issue of Cahiers du Cinema.
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