Positif at Cahiers du Cinema Ado Kyrou 10 best Films 1954-1955

Ado (Adonis) Kyrou is the author of the classic Le Surréalisme en cinéma. He along with Robert Benayoun was a regular contributor in the early 1950s of the revue L'Age du cinema and like Benayoun he became a regular contributor to Positif. In both 1954 and 1955, he contributed a 10 best films list to Cahiers du Cinema. The January 1955 issue of Cahiers inaugurated their first cycle of 10 best films lists (1954 to 1958) printing the lists of 16 lists most not surprisingly from regular Cahiers contributors.

1954
1.....El (Luis Bunuel)
2.....The Wild One (Laszlo Benedek)
3.....I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
4.....Beat the Devil (John Huston)
5.....Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
6.....The Red and the Black (Claude Autant-Lara)
7.....La Lupa (Alberto Lattauda)
8.....La Nave delle donne maledette (Raffaello Matarazzo)
9.....The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
10....Blackbeard the Pirate (Raoul Walsh)

1955
1.....Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
2.....The Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman)
3.....Rififi (Jules Dassin)
4.....The Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks)
5.....The Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
6.....Raizes (Benito Alazraki)
7.....The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
8.....Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
9.....The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)