Georges Sadoul 10 best films Cahiers du Cinema 1957-1966

Georges Sadoul is one of the more well-known critics in the history of film. The OCLC WorldCat has the English translations of his Dictionary of Films and Dictionary of Film Makers (both originally published in 1972) as each being listed in more than 1000 library catalogs. He was a proponent of the notion of world cinema and in his lists as published by Cahiers he only twice names commercial Hollywood films. One of them, The Sweet Smell of Success was directed by the English director Alexander Mackendrick and the other was Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor. Between 1961 and 1966, he tried to adhere to a policy of one country-one film in compiling his ten best lists.

1957
1.....Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2.....A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
3.....Porte des lilas (René Clair)
4.....Aparijito (Satyajit Ray)
5.....La Vida criminal de Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
6.....Morte en fraude (Marcel Camus)
.......La Casa del ángel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
8.....Sorok pervyy [The Forty-first] (Grigori Chukhrai)
9.....Cronache di poveri amanti (Carlo Lizzani)
10...Celui qui doit mourir (Jules Dassin)

1958 (alphabetical in French)
Les Amants (Louis Malle)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
Les Mistons (François Truffaut)
Letyat zhuravli [The Cranes are Flying] (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
Det Sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (Ingmar Bergman)
Les Tricheurs (Marcel Carné)
Une Vie (Alexander Astruc)

1959 (alphabetical in French)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
Ugetsu monogatari [Tales of Ugetsu] (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries] (Ingmar Bergman)
Bai mao nu [The White-haired Girl] (Bin Wang)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
Ivan Groznyy [Ivan the Terrible] (Sergei Eisenstein)
Moi un noir (Jean Rouch)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut)
Staré pověsti české [Old Czech Legends] (Jiri Trnka)

1960 (alphabetical in French)
À bout de souffle [Breathless] (Jean-Luc Godard)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Ballada o soldate [Ballad of a Soldier] (Grigori Chukhrai)
Come Back, Africa (Lionel Rogosin)
Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Poema o more [Poem of the Sea] A Dovhzhenko/Y Solntseva
Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (Françcois Truffaut)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle)

1961
(10 countries -- alas only one film)
Spain El Cochecito (Marco Ferreri)
France L'Enclos (Armand Gatti)
Great Britian Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
Italy Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti)
Japan Hadaka no shima [The Naked Island] (Kaneto Shindo)
Poland Matka Joanna od aniolów [Mother Joan of the Angels] (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Mexico Ls Joven [The Young One] (Luis Bunuel)
Sweden Törst [Thirst] (Ingmar Bergman)
USSR Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu [The House I Live In] (Lev Koulidjanov)
USA Shadows (John Cassavetes)

1962 (without preferential order and by country)
Spain Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Greece Elektra (Michael Cacoyannis)
Italy L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Poland Pokolenie [A Generation] (Andrzej Wajda)
Sweden Såsom i en spegel [Through a Glass Darkly] (Ingmar Bergman)
USSR Chistoe nebo [Clear Skies] (Grigori Chukhrai)
USA Primary (Robert Drew)
Multinational Le Procès [The Trial] (Orson Welles)
France (of equal merit) Cléo de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963 (without preferential order and by country)
Argentina Fin de fiesta (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
France Le Joli mai (Chris Marker)
Great Britain A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
India Apur Sansar [The World of Apu] (Satyajit Ray)
Italy Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
Japan Seppuku [Harakiri] (Masaki Kobayashi)
Mexico El Ángel exterminador (Luis Bunuel)
USSR Ivanovo Detstvo [Ivan's Childhood] (Andrei Tarkovsky)
USA The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Yugoslavia Deveti krug [The Ninth Circle] (France Stiglic)

1964
Brazil Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol [Black Devil, White God] (Glauber Rocha)
Denmark Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Spain El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
France Une Femme Mariée (Jean-Luc Godard)
Great Britian The Damned (Joseph Losey)
India Shehar Aur Sapna [The City and the Dream] (Khwaja Ahmad Abbas)
Japan Suna no onna [Woman in the Dunes] (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Poland Pasazerka [The Passenger] (Andrzej Munk)
USSR Ya chagaïou po Moskvié [Walking in the Streets of Moscow] Georgi Danielya
(I have mixed films presented in Paris and festival films. Pardon a temporary exile.)

1965
Brazil Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Spain El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
USA The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
France Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Great Britain King & Country (Joseph Losey)
Italy Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Luchino Visconti)
Japan Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Pakistan Jago Hua Savera [The Day Shall Dawn] (Aaejay Kardar)
Czechoslovakia Cerny petr [Black Peter] (Milos Forman)
USSR Zacharovannaya desna [The Magic Desna] (Yuliya Solntseva)

1966 (alphabetical by country in French)
Germany Nicht versöhnt [Not Reconciled] (Jean-Marie Straub)
Belgium L'Homme au crâne rasé (André Delvaux)
Spain Campanadas a medianoche [Chimes at Midnight] (Orson Welles)
France Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Great Britian Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)
Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
Italy I Pugni in tasca [Fists in the Pocket] (Marco Bellocchio)
Japan Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
Czechoslovakia Lásky jedné plavovlásky [Loves of a Blonde] (Milos Forman)

Best French since the Liberation (alphabetical by auteur)
Cahiers du Cinema January 1965
Le Diable au corps (Claude Autant-Lara)
Antoine et Antoinette (Jacques Becker)
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson)
Les Enfants du paradis (Marcel Carné)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le 6 juin à l'aube (Jean Grémillon)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
Moi un noir (Jean Rouch)
Jour de fête (Jacques Tati)
Les Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut)
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