The Valley Record. A cozy little archive for all my random by-year stuff.
and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Monday, February 9, 2009

1956

17 films seen.

★★★★½
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray) [x2]
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

★★★★
Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Catered Affair (Richard Brooks)
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise)
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)

★★★½
The Court Jester (Melvin Frank/Norman Panama)
Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira)
Hilda Crane (Philip Dunne)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

★★★
Bus Stop (Joshua Logan)

★★½
Giant (George Stevens)

Shorts:
The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)

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