The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit(Nunnally Johnson)
Seven Men From Now(Budd Boetticher)
The Court Jester(Norman Panama & Melvin Frank)
Bigger Than Life(Nicholas Ray)
Written on the Wind(Douglas Sirk)
Nightfall(Jacques Tourneur)
The Wrong Man(Alfred Hitchcock)
The Burmese Harp(Kon Ichikawa)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(Don Siegel)
Additional 1956 Films By Rating
There's Always Tomorrow(Douglas Sirk)
A Man Escaped(Robert Bresson)
The Searchers(John Ford)
While the City Sleeps(Fritz Lang)
Baby Doll(Elia Kazan)
The Mountain(Edward Dymytrk)
The Girl Can't Help It(Frank Tashlin)
Crazed Fruit(Kō Nakahira)
The Man Who Knew Too Much(Alfred Hitchcock)
Street of Shame(Kenji Mizoguchi)
Full of Life(Richard Quine)
Bob le flambeur(Jean-Pierre Melville)
Early Spring(Yasujiro Ozu)
Forbidden Planet(Fred McLeod Wilcox)
Jubal(Delmer Daves)
Elena and Her Men(Jean Renoir)
Flowing(Mikio Naruse)
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island(Hiroshi Inagaki)
Bus Stop(Joshua Logan)
And God Created Woman(Roger Vadim)
Lust for Life(Vincente Minnelli)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Alexander the Great (Rossen);
Anastasia (Litvak); Aparajito (Ray); Around the World in
Eighty Days (Anderson); The Bad Seed (LeRoy); Carousel
(King); Crime in the Streets (Siegel); Friendly Persuasion
(Wyler); Giant (Stevens); The Great Man (Ferrer); High
Society (Walters); The King and I (Lang); The Mystery of
Picasso (Clouzot); The Ten Commandments (DeMille)
As yet unseen:
As yet unseen: Attack! (Aldrich); There's Always Tomorrow
(Sirk)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.