Fereydoun Hoveyda 10 best films Cahiers du Cinema (1957-1965)

Fereydoun Hoveyda was an Sorbonne-educated Iranian who worked in Paris for UNESCO in the 1950s. He also was a frequent contributor to Cahiers du Cinema from 1955 to 1965. In 1971, he became the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, a post which he held until 1979 and the time of the fall of the Shah of Iran. Despite his having served under the Shah Hoveyda's book about the Shah The Fall of the Shah (1980) demonized him. Hoveyda spent most the last quarter century of his life writing and lecturing in the politics of the Gulf region.

1957
1.....The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
2.....The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
3.....Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
4.....Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan)
5.....A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
6.....Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
7.....The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (Richard Fleischer)
8.....Men in War (Anthony Mann)
9.....Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
10...Forbidden Planet (Fred M Wilcox)

1958
1.....The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2.....Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3.....Kanal (Andrjez Wajda)
4.....Jet Pilot (Joseph von Sternberg)
5.....The Cobweb (Vincente Minelli)
6.....Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7.....Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
8.....The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
9.....Les Fils de L'Eau (Jean Rouch)
10...Les Mistons (François Truffaut)

1959
1.....The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
2.....Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
3.....Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4.....Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller)
5.....À double tour (Claude Chabrol)
6.....The Empress Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7.....The Four Hundred Blows (François Truffaut)
8.....Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
9.....Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
10...El Vampiro (Fernando Mendes)

1960
1.....Poem of the Sea (Alexander Dovchenko/Yuliya Solntseva)
.......Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
.......Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4.....Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
.......Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
.......El Vampiro (Fernando Mendes)
.......Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
8.....Spaceship of Human Destruction (Teruo Ishii)
9.....Bells are Ringing (Vincente Minelli)
10...Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey)

1961
1......Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
2......Leon Morin, pretre (Jean-Pierre Melville)
........Underworld USA (Samuel Fuller)
4......Rocco and his Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
5......Blind Date (Joseph Losey)
6......Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch)
7......Diabolical Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
8......Lola (Jacques Demy)
9......Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
10....Colossus and the Amazon Queen (Vittorio Sala)

1962 (alphabetical in French)
Chronicle of Flaming Years (Yuliya Solntseva)
L'Education Sentimentale (Alexander Astruc)
Eva (Joseph Losey)
Wild River (Elia Kazan)
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Harald Reinl)
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Vincente Minelli)
Le Signe du Lion (Eric Rohmer)
Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963
1.....The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis)
.......The Nutty Professor(Jerry Lewis)
3.....Les Abysses (Nico Papatakis)
.......The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
........Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
........The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
........Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minelli)
8......The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
9......Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
10....Dr No (Terence Young)

1964 (alphabetical in French)
America, America (Elia Kazan)
The Damned (Joseph Losey)
David and Lisa (Frank Perry)
Freud (John Huston)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
Seven Swords for the King (Riccardo Freda)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Who's Minding the Store? (Frank Tashlin)

Ten Best American Films of the Talking Era (Dec63/Jan64 issue)
(no order)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Fury (Fritz Lang)

Ten Best French Films of the post-war period (Jan65)
(alphabetical in French)
Action immédiate (Maurice Labro)
L’Éducation sentimentale (Alexander Astruc)
Elena et les hommes (Jean Renoir)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
Lola (Jacques Demy)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
Le Signe du lion (Eric Rohmer)
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)
La Traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
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