Top 10 Films of 1958

1. "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

2. "Eroica" (Andrzej Munk, Poland)

3. "Touch Of Evil" (Orson Welles, USA)

4. "Gigi" (Vincente Minnelli, USA)

5. "Popiol i diament" (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

6. "Mon Oncle" (Jacques Tati, France)

7. "Ewa chce spac" (Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland)

8. "Hidden Fortress" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

9. "Pozegnania" (Wojciech Has, Poland)

10. "Equinox Flower" (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

Other great films:

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad

Anticipation Of The Night
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (France)
Auntie Mame
Big Deal On Madonna Street (Italy)

Les Bijoutiers du claire de lune (France)

Damn Yankees

The First Lad (Soviet Union)

Invention For Destruction (Czechoslovakia)

King Creole
The Magician (Sweden)
Man Of The West

Mi desconocida esposa (Mexico)

A Night To Remember (UK)

Someone Else's Children (Soviet Union)

South Pacific
Tarnished Angels
Teacher's Pet
A Time To Love And A Time To Die

White Wilderness
Zolnierz Krolowej Madagaskaru (Poland)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1958:

1. "En cas de malheur" (Claude Autant-Lara, France)

2. "Naked Venus" (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)

3. "Les Amants" (Louis Malle, France)

4. "A Movie" (Bruce Conner, USA) - short

5. "El Trueno entre las hojas" (Armando Bo, Argentina)

6. "L'Opera-mouffe" (Agnes Varda, France) - short

7. "High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, MGM)

8. "Osmy dzien tygodnia" (Aleksander Ford, Poland)

9. "La Putain sentimentale" (Jean Gourguet, France)

10. "Kalosze szczescia" (Antoni Bohdziewicz, Poland)

Short Top 3:

1. "Dwaj ludzie z szafa" (Roman Polanski, Poland)

2. "Spacerek staromiejski" (Andrzej Munk, Poland)

3. "Les Mistons" (Francois Truffaut, France)

Other great shorts:

Charlotte et son jules (France)

Grand Canyon 
Une Histoire d'eau (France)
Les Raquetteurs (Canada)

Top Commercial:

"Tide Clean" (Tide)

Top TV:

"Have Gun Will Travel: Hey Boy's Revenge" (Lewis Milestone, CBS)

Cartoon Top 10

1. "Sidney's Family Tree" (Gene Deitch, Art Bartsch, Terry)

2. "Dom" (Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica, Poland) 

3. "Cat Feud" (Chuck Jones, Warner)

4. "Knighty Knight Bugs" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

5. "Le Merle" (Norman McLaren, NFB, Canada)

6. "Free Radicals" (Len Lye, USA)

7. "The Juggler Of Our Lady" (Gene Deitch, Al Kouzel, Terry)

8. "Dustcap Doormat" (Gene Deitch, Al Kouzel, Terry)

9. "Sick Sick Sidney" (Gene Deitch, Art Bartsch, Terry)

10. "Tal Farlow" (Len Lye, USA)

Other great cartoons:

Don't Axe Me
Gumshoe Magoo
Hare-less Wolf
Hare-Way To The Stars
Hook Line And Stinker
Magoo's Young Manhood
Mutts About Racing
Paul Bunyan
Robin Hood Daffy
Robin Hoodwinked
Sailing And Village Band
Sheep Wrecked
To Itch His Own
The Tot Watchers
The Vanishing Duck
Waggily Tale

Weak films of 1958:

Bonjour Tristesse
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
The Horse's Mouth (UK)
Houseboat
I Married A Monster From Outer Space
The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness
I Want To Live
Marjorie Morningstar
The Naked And The Dead
Night Of The Blood Beast
The Old Man And The Sea
Petla (Poland)
The Reluctant Debutante
Separate Tables
The Wild Women Of Wongo

Weak shorts:

Amelia And The Angel (UK)
Harmonia (Poland)

Weak cartoons:

Bird In A Bonnet
Carrousel boréal (France)
A Chilly Reception
Dog Tales
Droopy Leprechaun
Feather Bluster
Gopher Broke
Half Empty Saddle
Happy Go Ducky
Hip Hip Hurry
Little Televillain
Misguided Missile
Now Hare This
A Pizza Tweety Pie
Pre-hysterical Hare
Royal Cat Nap
Salmon Yeggs
Scoutmaster Magoo
Signed Sealed and Clobbered
Spring And Saganaki
Tortilla Flaps
Tree's A Crowd
Watch The Birdie
Weasel While You Work
Whoa Be Gone

Top 3 Musicals of 1958

1. "Gigi" (Vincente Minnelli, MGM)

2. "South Pacific"  (Joshua Logan, 20th-Fox)

3. "Damn Yankees" (George Abbott, Stanley Donen, Warner)

The First Lad (1958) ****

Sergei Parajanov's feature film debut and probably the greatest Soviet musical comedy of the 1950's.  Silly, endlessly innovative and profoundly charming, but very different from his later works (and consequently disavowed by the filmmaker himself as too conventional and conformistic).

Equinox Flower (1958) ****

A family patriarch finds it hard to accept that his daughter refuses an arranged marriage, preferring to marry a man she chose herself.

En cas de malheur (1958) ****

Pozegnania (1958) ****

One of Wojciech Has' best films, a complex study in human behavior.

El Trueno entre las hojas (1958) ****

Zolnierz Krolowej Madagaskaru (1958) ***

Someone Else's Children (1958) ***

Invention For Destruction (1958) ***

Les Amants (1958) ***

High School Confidential (1958) ***

Mi desconocida esposa (1958) ***