Claude Mauriac Ten Best films 1954-1962

Claude Mauriac was the son of François Mauraic, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Claude was himself a novelist and a journalist who wrote film criticism for Le Figaro. While he did not publish any articles for Cahiers du cinema, He did participate in published Cahiers round-table discussion and often sit on Cahiers "Conseil des dix". He also turned in these ten best films lists from 1954 through 1962



1954
(no preferential order)
Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
The Overcoat (Alberto Lattauda)
Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel)
El Torero (René Wheeler)
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman)
Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
The Wild One (Laszlo Benedek)
Monsieur Ripois (René Clément)
La Provenciale (Mario Soldati)

1955
1.....The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
2.....Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
3.....Lourdes and its Miracles (Georges Rouquier)
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9.....Les Diaboliques(Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10....La Strada(Federico Fellini)
Claude Mauriac requests us to indicate that his trip to America prevented him from seeing "Voyage in Italy" and some other films which he might have considered for his list.


1956
1.....Rebel without a Cause(Nicholas Ray)
2.....Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)
3.....A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4.....La Traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara)
5.....Picnic (Joshua Logan)
6.....Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
7.....Senso (Luchino Visconti)
8.....Mr Arkadin (Orson Welles)
9.....Le Mystère Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10...Gervaise (René Clément)

1957
1.....Nights of Cabiria(Federico Fellini)
2.....The Bachelor Party (Delbert Mann)
3.....The House of the Angel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
4.....The Brave One (Irving Rapper)
5.....The Criminal Life of Archibaldo Cruz(Luis Bunuel)
6.....no selection
7.....The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
8.....Sait-on jamais... (Roger Vadim)
9.....Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
10...12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)

1958
1.....Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
2.....Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3.....White Nights (Luchino Visconti)
4.....No Down Payment (Martin Ritt)
5.....Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
6.....Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
7.....Les Amants (Louis Malle)
8.....En cas du malheur (Claude Autant-Lara)
9.....The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
10...Kanal (Andrjez Wajda)


1959
1.....Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
2.....Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
3.....Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
4.....Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
5.....Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6.....The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
7.....Ashes and Diamonds (Andrjez Wajda)
8.....Destiny of a Man (Sergei Bondarchuk)
9.....Moi un noir (Jean Rouch)
10...Goha (Jacques Baratier)



1960
(no order)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
L'Amerique insolite (François Reichenbach)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
Une fille pour l'été (Edouard Molinaro)
Zazie on the Metro (Louis Malle)


1961
(no order)
Chronique d'été (Edgar Morin/Jean Rouch)
Le Ciel et la boue (Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau)
The Criminal (Joseph Losey)
Lola (Jacques Demy)
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Savage Eye (Ben Maddow/Sidney Meyers)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
Une aussi longue absence (Henri Colpi)
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Kuc Godard)

1962
1.....Viridiana(Luis Bunuel)
2.....Un Coeur gros comme ça (François Reichenbach)
3.....Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
4.....Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
5.....L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6.....West Side Story (Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins)
7.....The Flaming Years (Julia Solntseva)
8.....Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpaugh)
9.....Regards sur la folie (Mario Ruspoli)
10...Primary(Robert Drew)