My Top 20 by Year - 1953
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 179 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Aug 2024)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Hiroshima (Sekigawa, 1953)
Magia verde (Green Magic, Napolitano, 1953, doc)
Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg (Skanderbeg, Yutkevich, 1953)
Les orgueilleux (The Proud and the Beautiful, Allégret/Portas, 1953)
The Man Between (Reed, 1953)
Titanic (Negulesco, 1953)
I vinti (The Vanquished, Antonioni, 1953)
Fûfu (Husband and Wife, Naruse, 1953)
Himeyuri no tô (Himeyuri Lily Tower, Imai, 1953)
The War of the Worlds (Haskin, 1953)
La valigia dei sogni (Comencini, 1953)
Tsuma (Wife, Naruse, 1953)
Taiheiyô no washi (Eagle of the Pacific, Honda, 1953)
Sie fanden eine Heimat (The Village, L. Lindtberg, 1953)
Devadasu (Raghavaiah, 1953)
Nihon no higeki (A Japanese Tragedy, Kinoshita, 1953)
Gan (Wild Geese, Toyoda, 1953)
Man on a Tightrope (Kazan, 1953)
Anni facili (Easy Years, Zampa, 1953)
Tajemství krve (The Secret of Blood, Frič, 1953)
Magokoro (Sincere Heart, Kobayashi, 1953)
Las tres perfectas casadas (Gavaldón, 1953)
Una di quelle (One of Those, Fabrizi, 1953)
Solange Du da bist (As Long as You're Near Me, H. Braun, 1953)
El niño y la niebla (The Boy and the Fog, Gavaldón, 1953)
El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire, R. V. Barreto, 1953)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (D. Butler, 1953)
Inferno (R. Ward Baker, 1953)
The Kidnappers (Leacock, 1953)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 179 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Aug 2024)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Hiroshima (Sekigawa, 1953)
Magia verde (Green Magic, Napolitano, 1953, doc)
Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg (Skanderbeg, Yutkevich, 1953)
Les orgueilleux (The Proud and the Beautiful, Allégret/Portas, 1953)
The Man Between (Reed, 1953)
Titanic (Negulesco, 1953)
I vinti (The Vanquished, Antonioni, 1953)
Fûfu (Husband and Wife, Naruse, 1953)
Himeyuri no tô (Himeyuri Lily Tower, Imai, 1953)
The War of the Worlds (Haskin, 1953)
La valigia dei sogni (Comencini, 1953)
Tsuma (Wife, Naruse, 1953)
Taiheiyô no washi (Eagle of the Pacific, Honda, 1953)
Sie fanden eine Heimat (The Village, L. Lindtberg, 1953)
Devadasu (Raghavaiah, 1953)
Nihon no higeki (A Japanese Tragedy, Kinoshita, 1953)
Gan (Wild Geese, Toyoda, 1953)
Man on a Tightrope (Kazan, 1953)
Anni facili (Easy Years, Zampa, 1953)
Tajemství krve (The Secret of Blood, Frič, 1953)
Magokoro (Sincere Heart, Kobayashi, 1953)
Las tres perfectas casadas (Gavaldón, 1953)
Una di quelle (One of Those, Fabrizi, 1953)
Solange Du da bist (As Long as You're Near Me, H. Braun, 1953)
El niño y la niebla (The Boy and the Fog, Gavaldón, 1953)
El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire, R. V. Barreto, 1953)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (D. Butler, 1953)
Inferno (R. Ward Baker, 1953)
The Kidnappers (Leacock, 1953)
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- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsCarmilla SalvatorelliA woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.PC.
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerSet to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.OL.
- DirectorWard KimballCharles NicholsStarsThe Mellowmen QuartetLoulie Jean NormanCharlie ParlotaA crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.OL. 10/10.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsÅke GrönbergHarriet AnderssonHasse EkmanThe complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.PC. 9.5/10.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLars EkborgDagmar EbbesenA pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.Cinema. 9/10.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiNathalie PascaudMicheline RollaMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.TV.
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerAlthough first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.OL.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.PC.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxVittorio De SicaWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.PC.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsLolita SevillaManolo MoránJosé IsbertAfter finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.PC.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanThrough drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so if his father, Marvin, won't buy him a rocket ship. Marvin doesn't want a chicken for a son, so he does whatever he can to appease Christopher. But time after time as Marvin fails to come through with the real new rocket ship that Christopher wants, Christopher turns himself into a chicken. Bilgewater, Marvin's co-worker, upon seeing Christopher change himself from a boy to a chicken, thinks he can take advantage of the situation. But Marvin does whatever he possibly can to thwart Bilgewater's plans if only because he wants a human boy as a son instead of a chicken. The illustrator has a specific reason for telling his dog Christopher's story.OL.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.OL.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsBill ThompsonDaws ButlerRed CoffeyA variation on the age-old 'Three Little Pigs' theme, with Droopy and pals being the target of one of the most laid-back wolves you'll ever see.OL.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanThe final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.OL.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.OL.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancA sheepdog thwarts the efforts of a thieving wolf whose tricks include altering the time clock, hiding in a bush, imitating Pan, digging a tunnel, unleashing a wildcat and disguising himself as the dog's coworker.OL. 9/10.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo TanakaA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.PC. 8/10.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMachiko KyôKazuo HasegawaIsao YamagataA samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.Cinema.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.Cinema.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenDon TaylorOtto PremingerAfter two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.TV.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.PC.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMichiyo KogureAyako WakaoSeizaburô KawazuA seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.OL.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaHideko TakamineWhere Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.OL.
