Bogie56 Posted July 15, 2018 The winner of the 1958 Prix Jean Vigo was … Le Beau Serge (1958) Claude Chabrol, France 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 16, 2018 The 1958 Argentinian Film Critics Association Best Picture Award went to … The Boss (1958) Fernando Ayala, Argentina 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted July 16, 2018 theyshootpictures.com top 1000 for 1958 Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda, Poland #221 The Music Room Satyajit Ray, India #285 Mon Oncle Jaques Tati, France #421 Nazarin Luis Bunuel, Spain #578 The Tiger of Eschnapur Fritz Lang, Germany #643 Big Deal on Madonna Street Mario Monicelli #792 Moi, Un Noir Jean Rouch, France #927 Cairo Station Youssef Cahine, Egypt #958 Jonathan Rosenbaum top 1000 movies for 1958 (An asterisk means the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies) Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) Ritwik Ghatak, IndiaAshes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda, Poland*India Roberto Rossellini, ItalyMon oncle Jacques Tati, FranceUne simple histoire Marcel Hanoun, France Note that dates are not exact for either 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 16, 2018 Italy’s Nastro d’Argento Film Journalists 1958/59 Best Picture winner was … Man of Straw (1958) Pietro Germi, Italy 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 16, 2018 The 1958 winner of the Japan Blue Ribbon Award was … The Hidden Fortress (1958) Akira Kurosawa, Japan 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arsan404 Posted July 17, 2018 1.) Mon Oncle. Jacques Tati. France. 2.) I Soliti Ignoti -Big Deal on Madonna Street. Mario Monicelli. Italy. 3.) The Hidden Fortress. Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 4.) La Venganza - Vengeance. Juan Antonio Bardem. Spain. 5.) Les Amants - The Lovers. Louis Malle. France. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 17, 2018 The 1958 winner of the Mainichi Film Award was … Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Japan 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 17, 2018 This foreign language film won at the 1958 Venice Film Festival …. The Rickshaw Man (1958) Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 17, 2018 It Happened In Broad Daylight is a German film by Ladislao Vajda. It stars Heinz Ruhmann (seen in The Captain From Kopenick 1956) as a retiring police detective. When a young girl is found murdered in a forest he makes a pledge to the grief stricken family to find the killer. This may sound familiar. The story was used as the basis of Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) and prior to that the Hungarian film Twilight (1990) by Gyorgy Feher. I have to say that I thought the German original was superior to both of those remakes. Gert Frobe plays the child killer. I had heard that it was this film that impressed the James Bond producers which lead to casting him in the title role of Goldfinger (1964). But for me the best performance came from Michel Simon who plays the homeless man who discovers the girl's body, reports it to the police only to find himself tragically accused of the crime. 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted July 17, 2018 Cairo Station is an excellent multi-character drama centered around the various employees and customers of the title train depot. A crippled young man (director Youssef Chahine) becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman to the point of violence. This is one title that I might not have ever heard of if not for the 1001 Movies books. It was shown on TCM at least once. Highly recommended. Underworld Beauty is a quality example of Japanese exploitation from gifted if eccentric filmmaker Seijun Suzuki. A paroled criminal looks for hidden loot and ends up involved with the title bad girl. It's an indicator of Suzuki's later stuff, although not nearly as crazed and avante-garde. The H-Man is more Japanese science fiction from director Ishiro Honda. It's an odd mix of cops-and-robbers crime drama and "monster created by science-gone-wrong" horror, with a people-dissolving "creature" on the loose. 3 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 17, 2018 The 1959 Locarno International Film Festival foreign film winners included … I, a Negro (1958) Jean Rouch, France The Captain’s Daughter (1958) Vladimir Kaplunovskiy, Russia Lydia Ate the Apple (1958) Wojciech Has, Poland 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 18, 2018 This foreign language film won the 1958 San Sebastian Film Festival …. Eva Wants to Sleep (1958) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 18, 2018 The winner of the 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Picture was …. The Boss (1958) Fernando Ayala, Argentina 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted July 18, 2018 My Wife Makes Music - Beautiful musical from DEFA studios and in glorious Agfacolor. Gerda Wagner (Lore Frisch) is a house wife who wishes to become a singer much to the disgust of her husband Herr Wagner (played by Gunther Simon the famous actor known for portraying Ernst Thalmann. Probably the most famous German actor at that time). After her daughter gets a cold she sings at her recital and it turns out she's great. Greda sings with the famous Italian opera singer Fabiani which strokes jealousy in her husband who goes on a drinking binge and storms into one of her shows. He goes to a bar with his friend Daisy which causes her disgust too. The two are now angry at each other when Herr Wagner takes their two children to the next show where his wife sings "You're so young, You're so beautiful" their song from when they first met. Herr Wagner now realizes how foolish his jealousy was and is happy with his wife's new singing career. This was a great musical with lots of beautiful sets and catchy songs. Even if you don't speak German you will probably hum along. I give this movie a 9/ 10. 3 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 19, 2018 The 1958 winner of the Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Picture Award was … The Town Hero (1958) Tadashi Sawashima, Japan 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 19, 2018 My top FF films of 1959 of the 24 that I have seen are …. 1. The 400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut, France 2. The Bridge (1959) Bernhard Wicki, Germany 3. Fires on the Plain (1959) Kon Ichikawa 4. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais, France 5. The World of Apu (1959) Satyajit Ray, India 6. General Della Rovere (1959) Robert Rossellini, Italy 7. Nazarin (1959) Luis Bunuel, Mexico 8. Black Orpheus (1959) Marcel Camus, Brazil 9. Letter Never Sent (1959) Mikhail Kalatozov, Russia 10. Night Train (1959) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland Pickpocket (1959) Robert Bresson, France Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Grigori Chukrai Les Cousins (1959) Claude Chabrol, France Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujiro Ozu, Japan Le Signe du Lion (1959) Eric Rohmer, France The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959) Roger Vadim, France and I’ve also seen … The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Sergio Leone, Mario Bonnard, Italy [dubbed] Lotna (1959) Andrzej Wajda, Poland Good Morning (1959) Yasujiro Ozu, Japan Hercules Unchained (1959) Pietro Francisci, Italy. [dubbed] Magic Boy (1959) Akira Daikuhara, Tajii Yabushita, Japan A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959) Jiri Trnka, Czechoslovakia Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959) Jean Renoir, France [TVM that premiered at the Venice Film Festival] 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted July 19, 2018 My top FF films of 1959... 1.) Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, Brazil 2.) Ballad of a Soldier, Grigori Chukrai, Russia 3.) Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Alain Resnais, France 4.) The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, France 5.) Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, France 6.) The Soldiers of Pancho Villa, Ismael Rodríguez, Mexico 7.) The World of Apu, Satyajit Ray, India 8.) Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 9.) The Ghost of Yotsuya, Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan 10.) Les Cousins, Claude Chabrol, France 11.) Letter Never Sent, Mikhail Kalatozov, Russia 12.) Farewell to Spring, Keisuke Kinoshita, Japan 13.) Good Morning, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 14.) The Indian Tomb, Fritz Lang, West Germany 15.) The Punch Bowl, Gunter Reisch, East Germany 16.) Santa Claus, René Cardona, Mexico 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2018 1959 Fires on the Plain, Kon Ichikawa, Japan Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, France Ballad of a Soldier, Grigoriy Chukhray, USSR Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan Good Morning, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais, France Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, Brazil The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, France The Man and the Monster, Rafael Baledon, Mexico I've also seen: Battle in Outer Space, Ishiro Honda, Japan The Living Coffin, Fernando Mendez, Mexico Hercules Unchained, Pietro Francisci, Italy Checkerboard, Claude Bernard-Aubert, France The White Warrior, Riccardo Freda, Italy Herod the Great, Viktor Tourjansky, Italy The Head, Victor Trivas, West Germany Nebo zovyot/The Sky Calls, Mikhail Karzhukov & Aleksandr Kozyr, USSR Prince of Space, Eijiro Wakabayashi, Japan 1001 Movies You Must See Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, Brazil Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, France Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais, France Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, France The World of Apu, Satyajit Ray, India 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted July 19, 2018 5 hours ago, LawrenceA said: 1001 Movies You Must See Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, Brazil Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, France Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais, France Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, France The World of Apu, Satyajit Ray, India There aren't any foreign additions for 1959 by the way. However, there will be some for 1960. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arsan404 Posted July 20, 2018 1.) Nazarín. Luis Buñuel. Mexico. 2.) Los Jueves, Milagro/Miracle on Thursdays. Luis García Berlanga. Spain. 3.) El Esqueleto de la Señora. Morales/The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales. Rogelio A. González. Mexico.* 4.) Hiroshima Mon Amour/Hiroshima My Love. Alain Resnais. France. 5.) Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus. Marcel Camus. Brazil. 6.) Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows. François Truffaut. France. *The release date in some websites is 1959, in some others is 1960. I included it because most articles in Spanish date it as a 1959 release. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 20, 2018 The 1959 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Films … Black Orpheus (1959) Marcel Camus, Brazil **** The Bridge (1959) Bernhard Wicki, Germany The Great War (1959) Mario Monicelli, Italy Paw (1959) Astrid Henning-Jensen, Denmark Village by the River (1959) Fons Rademakers, Netherlands 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoraSmith Posted July 20, 2018 The Cow and I, Henri Verneuil, France General Della Rovere, Robert Rossellini, Italy Nella città l'inferno, Renato Castellani, Italy The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, France Le Signe du Lion, Eric Rohmer, France Ballad of a Soldier, Grigori Chukrai, USSR Voulez-vous danser avec moi?, Michel Boisrond, France Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, Brazil Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais, France Destiny of a Man, Sergey Bondarchuk, USSR My penchant for old French comedies is showing. There are also a lot of World War II movies from the perspective of different countries. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 20, 2018 In 1961 BAFTA gave this foreign film a Best Picture Award …. Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Grigori Chukrai Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 21, 2018 The winners of the 1959 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language films included … Black Orpheus (1959) Marcel Camus, Brazil Odd Obsession (1959) Kon Ichikawa, Japan The Bridge (1959) Bernhard Wicki, Germany 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted July 21, 2018 The 1958 German Film Awards Best Picture was … Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959) Frank Wisbar, Germany The 1959 German Film Awards Best Picture was … Roses For the Prosecutor (1959) Wolfgang Staudte, Germany 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
