1959 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1959.







30.            LES COUSINS

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29.    LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE

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28.     THE CRIMSON KIMONO

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27.               SHADOWS

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                JOURNEY TO 

26. THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

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  KAAGAZ KE PHOOL कागज के फूल

25. [PAPER FLOWERS]

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24.     FIRST MAN INTO SPACE

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23.          LE BEAU SERGE

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22. IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II

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21.         BLACK ORPHEUS

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20.           THE LOVERS

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19.  SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER

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18.          THE MAGICIAN

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17.                 ARAYA

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16.    NORTH BY NORTHWEST

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15.              APARAJITO

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14.                BEN-HUR

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       THE HUMAN CONDITION:

13. NO GREATER LOVE

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12.         FLOATING WEEDS

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11.           ON THE BEACH

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10.   TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI

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9.          SOME LIKE IT HOT

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8.        WILD STRAWBERRIES

7.                  NAZARÍN

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6.             LOLA MONTÈS

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5.            RIDE LONESOME

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4.           IMITATION OF LIFE

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3.                RIO BRAVO

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2.      ANATOMY OF A MURDER

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1.            THE 400 BLOWS

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ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.
(other titles of '59 that could've place)

MONSIEUR TḔTE

VERBOTEN!

THE HORSE SOLDIERS

SLEEPING BEAUTY

LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL

THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA

東海道四谷怪談 [TŌKAIDŌ YOTSUYA KAIDAN]

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THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

PORK CHOP HILL

THE TINGLER

NIGHT TRAIN [POCIĄG]

A BUCKET OF BLOOD

LOST DOLL 
[ZTRACENÁ PANENKA]

*****

1959
TOP 30

1. THE 400 BLOWS (Truffaut)
2. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Preminger)
3. RIO BRAVO (Hawks)
4. IMITATION OF LIFE (Sirk)
5. RIDE LONESOME (Boetticher)
6. LOLA MONTES (Ophüls)
7. NAZARIN (Bunuel)
8. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Bergman)
9. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Wilder)
10. DON'T TOUCH THE LOOT (Becker)
11. ON THE BEACH (Kramer)
12. FLOATING WEEDS (Ozu)
13. HUMAN CONDITION, PT. 1 (Kobayashi)
14. BEN-HUR (Wyler)
15. APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray)
16. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Hitchcock)
17. ARAYA (Margot Benacerraf)
18. THE MAGICIAN (Bergman)
19. SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (Mankiewicz)
20. THE LOVERS (Malle)
21. BLACK ORPHEUS (Marcel Camus)
22. IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II (Eisenstein)
23. HANDSOME SERGE (Chabrol)
24. FIRST MAN INTO SPACE (Robert Day)
25. KAAGAZ KE PHOOL (Guru Dutt)
26. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Pal)
27. SHADOWS (Cassavetes)
28. CRIMSON KIMONO (Fuller)
29. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Resnais)
30. LES COUSINS (Chabrol)

RUNNER UP

MONSIEUR TETE (Henri Gruel/Jan Lenica), VERBOTEN! (Fuller), HORSE SOLDIERS (Ford), SLEEPING BEAUTY (Geronimi), LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL (John Sturges), BLACK PIT OF DR. M (Fernando Méndez), GHOST OF YOTSUYA (Nobuo Nakagawa), HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (Castle), PORK CHOP HILL (Milestone), THE TINGLER (Castle), NIGHT TRAIN (Kawalerowicz), A BUCKET OF BLOOD (Corman), LOST DOLL (HermÌna Trlov/Josef Pinkava)