1959

  1. *****

  2. Les 400 Coups (François Truffaut; 99 min; France): 97%
  3. Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray; 105 min; India): 96%
  4. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder; 120 min; USA): 96%
  5. **** 1/2

  6. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock; 136 min; USA): 94%
  7. Anatomy Of A Murder (Otto Preminger; 160 min; USA): 94%
  8. On The Beach (Stanley Kramer; 134 min; USA): 93%
  9. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks; 136 min; USA): 92%
  10. Imitation Of Life (Douglas Sirk; 125 min; USA): 92%
  11. Shadows (John Cassavetes; 81 min; USA): 90%
  12. Ben-Hur (William Wyler; 212 min; USA): 90%
  13. Ohayô (Yasujiro Ozu; 94 min; Japan): 90%
  14. ****

  15. Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz; 114 min; USA): 87%
  16. Kaagaz Ke Phool (Guru Dutt; 148 min; India): 86%
  17. Our Man In Havana (Carol Reed; 111 min; UK): 85%
  18. Il Tempo Si È Fermato (Ermanno Olmi; 83 min; Italy): 84%
  19. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson; 73 min; France): 83%
  20. *** 1/2

  21. Le Signe Du Lion (Eric Rohmer; 103 min; France): 73%
  22. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi; 75 min; USA): 71%
  23. ***

  24. Der Tiger Von Eschnapur (Fritz Lang; 101 min; West Germany/France/Italy): 68%
  25. Lotna (Andrzej Wajda; 90 min; Poland): 60%
  26. ** 1/2

  27. **

  28. * 1/2

  29. *

  30. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais; 90 min; France/Japan): 22%
  31. 1/2

  32. Night Of The Ghouls (Edward D. Wood, Jr.; 69 min; USA): 19%
  33. 0 stars

  34. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Edward D. Wood, Jr.; 79 min; USA): 9%
  35. Yusei Oji (Ejirô Wakabayashi; 85 min; Japan): 2%