Jacques Doniol-Valcroze 10 Best Films Cahiers du Cinema 1954-1968

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was a co-founder of Cahiers du Cinema in 1951 and a co-editor fromits beginning until about 1960. He contributed a list the first year that Cahiers ran its ten best films feature (1954) and he was still there in 1968 the last year of that first cycle of Cahiers "ten best films" lists. Only, Jacques Rivette was along for the whole ride also


1954
1.....El (Luis Bunuel)
2.....Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
3.....The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada)
4.....Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker)
5.....Monsieur Ripois (René Clément)
6.....I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
7.....El Torero (René Wheeler)
8.....The Children of Hiroshima (Kaneto Shindô)
9.....Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
9b...Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel)
10...The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
10b..The Red and the Black (Claude Autant-Lara)

1955
1.....Ordet (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
2.....Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
3.....Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
4.....Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexander Astruc)
5.....The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
6.....Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
7.....The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
8.....Rififi (Jules Dassin)
9.....French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
10...Comicos (Juan Antonio Bardem)

1956
1.....Senso (Luchino Visconti)
2.....A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3.....Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
4.....Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
5.....Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
6.....Picnic (Joshua Logan)
7.....Gervaise (René Clément)
8.....Mother (Mark Donskoy)
9.....Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)
10...Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)

1957
1.....A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
2.....A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
3.....The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
4.....Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
5.....Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
6.....Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
7.....Sait-on jamais... (Roger Vadim)
8.....Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
9.....Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
10...12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)

1958
1.....Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
.......Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
.......White Nights (Luchino Visconti)
4.....The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
.......Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
.......Une Vie (Alexander Astruc)
7......Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
.......The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
.......Kiss Them for Me (Stanley Donen)
.......Les Amants (Louis Malle)

1959
1.....Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
2.....Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
3.....Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
4.....Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5.....Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock).
6.....Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
7.....The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
8......Head against the Wall (George Franju)
9......Moi un noir (Jean Rouch)
10....Lost Children (Milos Makovec)

1960
1.....L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2.....Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3.....Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
.......Poem of the Sea (Alexander Dovchenko/Julia Solntseva)
.......Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
6.....The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
.......Zazie on the Metro (Louis Malle)
8.....Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
.......L'Amerique insolite (François Reichenbach)
.......Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)

1961
1.....Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2.....Taira Clan Saga (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3.....Lola (Jacques Demy)
4.....Lady with the Dog (Iosif Khefits)
5.....Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
6.....Rocco and his Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
7.....La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8.....The Concrete Jungle (Joseph Losey)
9.....A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
10...Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette)

1962
1.....Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
2.....The Wild River (Elia Kazan)
3.....Boccaccio '70 (Luchino Visconti sketch)
4.....Hatari (Howard Hawks)
5.....Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
.......Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
7.....Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
8.....The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
9.....L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
10...The Manchurain Candidate (John Frankenheimer)

1963
(no order)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Hands over the City (Francesco Rosi)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
Muriel (Alain Resnais)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

1964
1.....Gertrud (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
2.....The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
3.....America, America (Elia Kazan)
.......Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
4..... Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
.......The Soft Skin (François Truffaut)
7.....The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
.......La Jetée (Chris Marker)
9.....The Servant (Joseph Losey)
.......I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)

1965
1.....Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Luchino Visconti)
3.....Metel (Vladimir Basov)
4.....Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
5.....Kiss Me Stupid (Billy Wilder)
6.....Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
7.....Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
8.....The Collector (William Wyler)
9.....The 317th Section (Pierre Schoendoerffer)
10....El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga)

1966
1.....La Guerre est finie (Alain Resnais)
2.....Au Hasard Balthasar (Robert Bresson)
.......Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
.......Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
.......La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
6.....Falstaff (Orson Welles)
7.....The Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
.......Non Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub)
.......The Hopeless Ones (Miklos Jancso)
.......Walkover(Jerzy Skolimowski)

1967
1.....La Chasse au lion a l’arc (Jean Rouch)
.......Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
.......Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
4.....Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
.......Pour les fusils perdus (Pierre Delanjeac)
.......Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
7.....Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
.......Belle du jour (Luis Bunuel)
9.....Playtime (Jacques Tati)

1968
1.....Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
2.....The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub).
.......Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre)
.......The Edge (Robert Kramer)
5.....China is Near (Marco Bellocchio)
.......Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
.......Drôle de jeu (Pierre Kast/Jean-Daniel Pollet)
8.....Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
.......Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
.......Le Socrate (Robert Lapoujade)

Best American Films of the Talking Era (Dec63/Jan64 issue)
(alphabetical by director)
Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)
The Big Sky (Howard Hawks)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

Best French Films since the Liberation (Jan65 issue)
(alphabetical by title in French)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
Les Dernières vacances (Roger Leenhardt)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
The Soft Skin (François Truffaut)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Mr Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)