Luc Moullet 10 best films 1957-1968

Film critic and director Luc Moullet was first published by Cahiers du Cinema in April 1956 when he was still only 18 years old. The on-line archives at the magazines
site (which still does not include some special issues from the early years) lists 194 contributions by through 2006. These are his 10 best films lists from 1957 through 1968.

1957
1.....Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
2.....Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
3.....The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
4.....The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.....Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
6.....An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
7.....A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
8.....Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
9.....Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
10...The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1958
1.....Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
2.....Dreams (Ingmar Bergman)
3.....Jet Pilot (Josef von Sternberg)
4.....Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
5.....Une Vie (Alexander Astruc)
6.....The Quiet American (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
7.....Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
8.....Les Girls (George Cukor)
9.....Paris Holiday (Gerd Oswald)
10...The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

1959
1.....Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2.....Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller)
3.....Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4.....The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
5.....Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
6.....Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
7.....Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
8.....Dejeuner sur la Herbe (Jean Renoir)
9.....Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Berman)
10...Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys (Leo McCarey)

1960
1.....Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
......Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
4.....Verboten! (Samuel Fuller)
......Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
6.....Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
......Les Régates de San Francisco (Claude Autant-Lara)
8.....Plein Soleil (René Clément)
......Les Frangines (Jean Gourguet)
10...Crésus (Jean Giono)

1961
1.....Lola (Jacques Demy)
2.....Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
3.....The Young One (Luis Bunuel)
4.....Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
5.....A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
......Un Taxi pour Tobruk (Denys de La Patellière)
7.....Taira Clan Saga (Kenji Mizoguchi)
......La Tricheuse (E G de Meyst)
9.....Where is Freedom? (Roberto Rossellini)
......Dans la gueule du loup (Jean-Charles Dudrumet)

1962
1.....Adorable menteuse (Michel Deville)
2.....Girl With a Suitcase (Valerio Zurlini)
3.....Les Honneurs de la guerre (Jean Dewever)
4.....Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (Vittorio Cottafavi)
5.....Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
6.....Wild River (Elia Kazan)
7.....The Flaming Years (Alexander Dovzhenko/Yuliya Solntseva)
8.....Le Signe du Lion (Eric Rohmer)
9.....Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
10...L'Éducation sentimentale (Alexander Astruc)

1963
1.....The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
2.....Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
3.....Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
4.....Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier)
5.....Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio De Seta)
6.....Le Petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
7.....Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini)
8.....The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
9.....Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
10...Muriel (Alain Resnais)

1964
Canada..........Pour la suite du monde (Michel Brault/Marcel Carrièr)
Denmark........Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
France..........La Punition (Jean Rouch)
Great Britain...A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Italy.............I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
Japan...........The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Poland..........The Passneger (Andrejz Munk)
Sweden........All These Women (Ingmar Bergman)
Switzerland...Band à part (Jean-Luc Godard)
USA.............Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)

1965
1.....Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
2.....Pierrot le Fou ( Jean-Luc Godard)
3.....The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
4.....L'Amour a la Chaine (Claude de Givray)
5.....The Ipcress File (Sidney J Furie)
6.....Mondo Cane 2 (Gualtieri Jacopetti/Franco Prosperi)
7.....Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
8.....Black Peter (Milos Forman)
9.....L'Enfer dans la peau (José Bénazéraf)
10....Lord Jim (Richard Brooks)

1966
1.....Walkover(Jerzy Skolimowski)
2.....Don Quintin the Bitter (Luis Marquina) see note below
3.....Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
4.....The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (Andre Delvaux)
5.....Les Sans espoir (Miklós Jancsó)
6.....Seven Women (John Ford)
7.....The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
8.....Age of Illusions (István Szabó)
......Brigitte et Brigette (Luc Moullet)
......Fist in His Pocket (Mario Bellocchio)

1967
1.....Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2.....Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
3.....Stranded (Julien Compton)
4.....Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
5.....Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
6.....Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7.....Two for the Road (Stanley Donen)
8.....Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
9.....Playtime (Jacques Tati)
10...What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Blake Edwards)

1968
1.....Les Idoles (Marc'o)
2.....Commanche Station(Budd Boetticher)
3.....The Times That Are (Pierre Perrault)
4.....Pop' Game (Francis Leroi)
5.....Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6.....Les Encerclés(Christian Gion)
7.....The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut))
8.....Love for an Idiot (Yasuzo Masamura)
9.....Diabolik (Mario Bava)

American Films of the Sound Era (Dec63/Jan64 issue)
1.....The River (Jean Renoir)
2.....Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
3.....Scarface (Howard Hawks)
4.....Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.....You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
6.....Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
7.....Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
8.....The Fountainhead (King Vidor)
9.....While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
10...The Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir)

French Films since the Liberation (Jan 65)
1.....Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
2.....Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
3.....Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
4.....Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
5.....Les Honneurs de la guerre (Jean Dewever)
6.....Adorable Menteuse (Michel Deville)
7.....Lola (Jacques Demy)
8.....La Ligne de mire(Jean-Daniel Pollet)
9.....Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
10...Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)



A reader posted this comment on one of my other blogs
Sorry to intrude here on this already old post, but I don't see on "My Gleamings" any way to comment nor your e-mail. It is only that I don't think Luc Moullet voted in 1968 Luis Marquina's "Don Quintín el amargao" (supervised and produced by Buñuel in 1935), but rather (in fact, I'm quite sure, since several of Buñuel's Mexican films were re-released or belatedly released) Buñuel's Mexican remake of that same old Spanish play, "La Hija del Engaño" (aka "Don Quintín el amargado", which was used for the French translation of the title), made in 1951 and much better than the 1935 version.
Best,
Miguel María