Pierre Kast 10 Best Films Cahiers du Cinema 1954-1968

Pierre Kast was a regular contributor to Cahiers du Cinema from its beginnings in 1951. In the late 50s, he also made the transition to directing. On October 20, 1984, he "died with his boots on" while directing L'Herbe rouge. (François Truffaut died the next day.) He contributed 10 best lists every year in the first cycle (1954-1968) of such lists at Cahiers except for 1968 the last year.

1954
1.....The Wild One (Laszlo Benedek)
2.....Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel)
3.....The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada)
4.....Monsieur Ripois (René Clément)
5.....Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
6.....Okaasan (Mikio Naruse)
7.....The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T. (Roy Rowland)
8.....El (Luis Bunuel)
9.....Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker)
10...I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)

1955
1.....Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
2.....Raices (Benito Alazraki)
3.....The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
4.....Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
5.....Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
6.....Rififi (Jules Dassin)
7.....The White Shiek (Federico Fellini)
8.....La Strada (Federico Fellini)
9.....The Gold of Naples (Vittorio De Sica)
10...Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexander Astruc)

1956
1.....Senso (Luchino Visconti)
.......Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
.......It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
4.....A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
5.....Il Bidone (Federico Bidone)
6.....Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
7.....Calle Mayor (Juan Antonio Bardem)
8.....This Island Earth (Joseph M Newman)
9.....Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
10...La Traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara)

1957
1.....The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
2.....Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
3.....Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
4.....Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
5.....12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
6.....The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7.....The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
8.....The House of the Angel (Leopold Torre Nillson)
9.....Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
10...Sait-on jamais... (Roger Vadim)

1958
1.....Kiss Them for Me (Stanley Donen)
2......Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3......Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)
4......The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
5......Secrets of Women (Ingmar Bergman)
6......Lettre de Sibérie (Chris Marker)
7......Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
8......The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
9......Les Fils de l'eau (Jean Rouch)
10....Les Amants (Louis Malle)

1959
1.....Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
2.....Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
3.....The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
4.....Moi un noir (Jean Rouch)
5.....The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Karel Zeman)
6.....Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
7.....Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8.....Head against the Wall (George Franju)
9.....Goha (Jacques Baratier)

1960
1.....L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
.......Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut
.......Zazie on the Metro (Louis Malle)
4......Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
5......Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
6......Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
7......Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol)
8......La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
9......Poem of the Sea (Alexander Dovchenko/Julia Solntseva)
10....Moonfleet (Fritz Lang))

1961
1.....Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2.....A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard))
3.....Lola (Jacques Demy)
4.....La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5.....The Concrete Jungle (Joseph Losey)
6.....Lady with the Dog (Iosif Khefits)
7.....Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette)
8.....Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
9.....The Human Pyramid (Jean Rouch)
10...Description d'un combat (Chris Marker)

1962
1.....Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
.......Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
.......Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
4.....Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
.......The Wild River (Elia Kazan)
6......L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
.......Boccaccio '70 (Luchino Visconti sketch)
.......Love at 20 (François Truffaut sketch)
9.....The Hand in the Trap (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
10....Le Rendez-vous de minuit (Roger Leenhardt)

1963
1.....The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
.......8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
.......Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
4.....The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.....The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
6.....Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
7.....Hands over the City (Francesco Rosi)
8.....Muriel (Alain Resnais)
9.....Adieu Philippine(Jacques Rozier)
10...Les Abysses (Nicos Papatakis)

1964
1.....Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....The Soft Skin (François Truffaut)
3.....A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
4.....Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.....La Jetée (Chris Marker)
6.....The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
7.....The Servant (Joseph Losey)
6.....Gertrud (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
9.....Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
10...The Damned (Joseph Losey)

1965
1.....Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
3.....A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick)
4.....Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
5.....Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Luchino Visconti)
6.....La Vieille dame idigne (René Allio)
7.....The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin)
8.....Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
9.....Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
10....Kiss Me Stupid (Billy Wilder)

1966
1.....La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
2.....Non Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub)
3.....Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
4.....Au Hasard Balthasar (Robert Bresson)
......Brigette and Brigette (Luc Moullet)
......Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
......La Guerre est finie (Alain Resnais)
......Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
......Noite Vazia (Hugo Walter Khouri)

1967
1.....Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....Méditeraneée (Jean-Daniel Pollet/Volker Schlondörff)
3.....Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
4.....La Religeuse (Jacques Rivette)
5.....Mord und Totschlag (Volker Schlondörff)
6.....La Chasse au lion a l’arc (Jean Rouch)
7.....Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
8.....L'une et l'autre (René Allio)
9.....La Collectioneuse (Eric Rohmer)


Best American Films of the Talking Era (Dec63/Jan64 issue)
(alphabetical by director)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
Wild River(Elia Kazan)
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T. (Roy Rowland)
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

Best French Films since the Liberation (Jan65 issue)
(alphabetical by director)
Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Luis Bunuel)
Orphée (Jean Cocteau)
Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pattes Blanche (Jean Grémillon)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Voyage surprise (Pierre Prévert)
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette)
Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)