My Ten Favorite Films from 1950

I must profess this series of entries looking at the Ten Best Films from 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 came to mind after I read a great retrospective piece in the current issue of "Film Comment" about the 50th anniversary of Jan-Luc Godard's landmark French thriller "Breathless" (which was dubiously remade in the 1980s with Richard Gere in the lead).

My ten favorite films from 1960, a very, very good year for film are going to be listed on my other blog "Politics, Culture and Other Wastes of Time."

Here, I will list my ten favorite films from 1950. I must profess that I really want to revisit "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa. It was my favorite Japanese film of all time until I saw "The Pornographers" (1966, d. Shohei Imamura) which is actually my favorite film of all-time (well, at least as of right now).

Here is the list. "Rashomon" is pictured:

1. Rashomon (Japan. d-Akira Kurosawa)
2. Los Olvidados (Mexico. d-Luis Bunuel)
3. Sunset Blvd. (d-Billy Wilder)
4. Night and the City (d-Jules Dassin)
5. Winchester '73 (d-Anthony Mann)
6. Asphalt Jungle (d-John Huston)
7. In a Lonely Place (d-Nick Ray)
8. Panic in the Streets (d-Elia Kazan)
9. Rio Grande (d-John Ford)
10. Broken Arrow (d-Delmer Daves)