Bogie56 Posted July 4, 2018 The 1956 National Board of Review Best Foreign Language Film was … The Silent World (1956) Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle, France 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 4, 2018 Michael Gebert’s Golden Armchair Award for the 1956 foreign film was … A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956) Robert Bresson, France 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 4, 2018 The Captain From Kopenick by Germany's Helmut Kautner is a cute film. Heinz Ruhmann plays a cobbler who has been jailed for 15 years for a very small offence. When he is released he is denied a pass that is a requirement to enable one to work. Caught in a Catch-22 he purchases a second-hand Captain's uniform and commandeers a guard on the street and orders them to accompany him to a nearby town. Once there he puts all of the officials on house arrest for corruption and confiscates the treasury. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted July 4, 2018 Crazed Fruit is an interesting Japanese drama from Nikkatsu Studios and director Ko Nakahira. Two brothers vie for the same girl against a backdrop of ennui and disaffected youth. The movie was quite controversial in its home country, although it seems a bit quaint now. Japanese films get categorized into endless sub-genres, and this movie is considered a founding film in the "Sun Tribe" sub-genre, which is basically the equivalent of JD films in the US. In a strange bit of casting, one of the two male leads was the younger brother of the author of the film's source novel. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 The 1956 Argentinian Film Critics Association Best Picture Award went to … The Bitter Stems (1956) Fernando Ayala, Argentina 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 The 1966 Danish Bodil Award for Best Non-European Picture went to … Aparajito (1956) Satyajit Ray, India 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 Italy’s Nastro d’Argento Film Journalists 1956/57 Best Picture winner was … The Railroad Man (1956) Pietro Germi, Italy 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 The Railroad Man by Pietro Germi of Italy was number two on my list. I visited the letterboxd web site to refresh my memory of the film and read a few reviews comparing the film rather unfavourably to De Sica's work. Sure there are stylist similarities but it is rather a tall order to be compared with De Sica. Germi directs and stars in this "Italian kitchen sink" drama of an older railroad worker who has trouble at home and on the job. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 River of the Night by Japan's Kozaburo Yoshimura is a well made film about a kimono maker who knowingly begins an affair with a married man. I saw this years ago at the BFI Southbank and since have been unable to find a dvd copy with English subtitles. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 Vittorio De Sica's The Roof is about a poor newlywed couple who move out of a communal family dwelling due to an argument. The dream then becomes to live in their own squat. The film is about the hoops they must jump through to achieve this. Each day the police arrive at an empty lot outside of the city to evict and tear town any abode that does not have a roof and a door. The challenge then is build a house with both in just one night. The magic of this film is the performances De Sica gets out of the non-professionals playing the young couple. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 5, 2018 The 1956 winner of the Japan Blue Ribbon and Mainichi Awards was … Darkness at Noon (1956) Tadashi Imai, Japan 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 The Winner of the 1956 Cannes Film Festival was this foreign language film … The Silent World (1956) Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle, France 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted July 6, 2018 The Forty First - a female sniper in the Red Army encounters White Army soldiers in the desert and tries to shoot one which would be her "forty first" kill. He surrenders and she is ordered to bring him back to headquarters but the ship they are on is shipwrecked. They grow to love each other but when the White Army ship arrives she shoots him as he tries to escape. This is a very good drama film. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 This foreign language film won at the 1957 Venice Film Festival …. Aparajito (1956) Satyajit Ray, India 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 Merry-Go-Round is a Hungarian film by Zoltan Fabri. Mari Torocsik (who is very good) plays a young girl who rebels against an impending marriage to an older man that her father has arranged. She meets her true love at the fair. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 The Mystery of Picasso by Henri-George Clouzot offers a look at the great painter at work. Clouzot films from the other side of a transparent canvas so that the painting is created before your very eyes without seeing the hands or brushes. It's a n interesting film and the speed with which Picasso knocks these off is phenomenal. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 This foreign language film won the 1956 San Sebastian Film Festival …. The Railroad Man (1956) Pietro Germi, Italy 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 The winner of the 1956 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … If All the Guys In the World … (1956) Christian-Jaque, France The winner of the 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Stay Awake (1956) Amit and Sombhu Mitra, India 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 Deadlier Than the Male by Julien Duvivier is another good vehicle for Jean Gabin. In this one he plays a gourmet chef/owner of a restaurant. A young girl shows up on his doorstep claiming to be the daughter of his deceased ex-wife. Gabin is smitten by her but the film isn't titled Deadler Than the Male for nothing. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 Flowing by Mikio Naruse is another look at the life of a geisha. The performances make this well worth seeing. Isuzu Yamada won the Mainichi Best Actress Award as the lead. But the best performance is by Haruko Sugimura in support as an aging drunken geisha. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 6, 2018 The 1956 winner of the Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Child of Sorrow (1956) Lamberto V. Avellana, Philippines 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted July 7, 2018 Jonathan Rosenbaum in his book Essential Cinema made a list of his thousand favorite film (which includes short films) up to and including 2003. Here's the first of them. I should point out the dating may be a bit capricious 1913-1914 Les Fantomas Louis Feuillade, France 1914 L'Enfant de Paris Leonce Perret, France 1915-1916 *Les Vampires Louis Feuillade, France 1916-1918 Judex Louis Feuillade, France 1918 *Tih Minh Louis Feuillade, France 1919 Barabbas Louis Feuillade, France The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Weine, Germany The Oyster Princess Ernst Lubitsch, Germany 1920 The Parson's Widow Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark The Doll Ernst Lubitsch, Germany 1921 Destiny Fritz Lang, Germany 1922 Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang, Germany Nosferatu F.W. Murnau, Germany Raskolnikov Robert Weine, Germany 1924 L'Inhumaine Marcel L'Herbier, France The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau, Germany Michael Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark *Die Niebelungen Fritz Lang, Germany Strike Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union An asterisk (*) means that the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted July 7, 2018 Carnival in Moscow - A committee is supposed to put on a revue show for the New Year's but the actors find it boring and decide to improve it. Most of the movie just shows the various songs and acts as it counts down to the New Year. This is a fun musical comedy. Lyudmila Gurchenko stars in the main role. 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) My top FF films of 1957 of the 20 that I have seen are …. 1. Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 2. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 3. Don Quixote (1957) Grigori Kozintsev, Russia 4. Throne of Blood (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Japan 5. Tokyo Twilight (1957) Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 6. The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini, Italy 7. He Who Must Die (1957) Jules Dassin, France 8. The Cranes are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Russia 9. Kanal (1957) Andrzej Wajda, Poland 10. The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Japan White Nights (1957) Luchino Visconti, Italy Il Grido (1957) Michaelangelo Antonioni, Italy The Men of Tohoku (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Japan The Wide Blue Road (1957) Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy Confessions of Felix Krull (1957) Kurt Hoffman, Germany Elegy of the North/Banka (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Japan The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) Yasuzo Masumura, Japan and I’ve also seen … El Vampiro (1957) Fernando Mendez, Mexico [dubbed] A Full-Up Train, Kon Ichikawa, Japan Edited July 7, 2018 by Bogie56 3 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted July 7, 2018 1957 Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden The Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini, Italy The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, Japan Kanal, Andrzej Wajda, Poland The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR The Lower Depths, Akira Kurosawa, Japan The Mysterians, Ishiro Honda, Japan El vampiro, Fernando Mendez, Mexico This was a great year for world cinema, and I rank the top 6 on my list as a 9/10 or higher. 1001 Movies You Must See The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov Mother India, Mehboob Khan, India The Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini, Italy The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, Japan Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
