Gate of Hell 1953

Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.

Films listed in order of spine numbers. Releases with multiple films are listed as individual items where appropiate.

Last Update: Releases up to July 2024 (Spine #1228)

Source: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list?sort=spine_number

Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have made it into the collection.

Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Criterion&m=dvd&s=spine

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X

The Masters of Cinema Series is a specially curated DVD collection of classic and world cinema using the finest available materials for home viewing.

An ongoing collaboration between mastersofcinema.org and Eureka Entertainment, the MoC Series started in early 2004 and has so far included award-winning DVD editions of films by Carl Th. Dreyer, F. W. Murnau, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Masaki Kobayashi, Roberto Rossellini, Kaneto Shindo, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Peter Watkins, Sadao Yamanaka, Rene Laloux, Fritz Lang, Shohei Imamura, Vittorio De Sica and many more.

MoC Series releases all come with extensive booklets, and where applicable, a host of extra features.

Source: https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc

The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."

This is a list of all films (main feature, extra featurette, making of, box-set meta entry, etc if it has a separate entry on trakt) released under Criterion Collection catalog, Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory collections etc. as DVD/BluRay. So far LaserDisc releases have not been included.

Notes to self:
Reviewed/cross-checked entries till Criterion Collection #200.
Last entry: Criterion Collection Spine #845 / Eclipse Series #44.

The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. (Wikipedia)

Source: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2015/awardCompetition.html

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source.

Winners of the New York Film Critics' Circle (NYFCC) Best Foreign Language Film award since 1938. Updated until 2021.

No awards given from 1941 to 1945, 1962, 1969 to 1977, 1986, 1988, 1992.

:link:https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Winners & Nominees)

Movies released during the 1950s to watch

This list combines 2 books by Patrick Galloway:
#1-51: Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook (2005)
#52-91: Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion (2009)

"Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves provides essential background on the samurai warrior in Japanese culture to help explain what makes these tales of loyalty, revenge and explosive swordsmanship so watchable. It covers top directors and stars and has over 50 original reviews of a wide variety of films, from classics like Samurai Trilogy and Yojimbo to influential films like Lady Snowblood, plus newly released hits like Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi."

"Warring Clans, Flashing Blades picks up where Galloway’s fan-favorite Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves left off, delving deeper into the samurai film and its spin-off genres—yakuza, ninja, and matatabi."

Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Dogs-Lone-Wolves-Handbook/dp/1880656930
http://www.amazon.com/Warring-Clans-Flashing-Blades-Companion/dp/1933330783

The Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. Cannes is extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality. Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or#Award_winners

Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) by Tom Vick is a book about the history of cinema in various regions throughout Asia. This is a list of films mentioned in the book.

Part One: The Old Guard
China: Tradition and Resistance (#1-76)
Japan: Cinema of Extremes (77-266)
India: All That and then Some (267-355)

Part Two: Postwar Booms
Hong Kong: The Fine Art of Popular Cinema (356-459)
Korea: Rising from the Ashes of History (460-573)

Part Three: Recent Arrivals
Iran: A Continuing Conversation (574-632)
Taiwan: The Little Island that Could (633-675)

Part Four: New Players
South and Southeast Asia: Coming Into Focus
Bangladesh (676 & 677), Bhutan (678 & 679), Cambodia (680-682), Indonesia (683-689), Malaysia and Singapore (690-704), Nepal (705 & 706), Pakistan (707), The Philippines (708-732), Sri Lanka (733-737), Thailand (738-766), Tibet (767-772), Vietnam (773-784)
Central Asia and the Middle East: Global Intersections
The Former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, and Mongolia (785-800), The Middle East (801–832), Turkey (833-843)

Part Five: Where to Go from Here
(List of websites and books)

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Asian-Cinema-A-Field-Guide/dp/0061145858/

All nominees including the winners of the Honorary Award.

Note: Un lugar en el mundo (1992) was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film#Winners_and_nominees

List of Nominees and Winners

• ACTOR

MARLON BRANDO "On the Waterfront" - WINNER
HUMPHREY BOGART "The Caine Mutiny"
BING CROSBY "The Country Girl"
JAMES MASON "A Star Is Born"
DAN O'HERLIHY "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"

• ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

EDMOND O'BRIEN "The Barefoot Contessa" - WINNER
LEE J. COBB "On the Waterfront"
KARL MALDEN "On the Waterfront"
ROD STEIGER "On the Waterfront"
TOM TULLY "The Caine Mutiny"

• ACTRESS

GRACE KELLY "The Country Girl" - WINNER
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE "Carmen Jones"
JUDY GARLAND "A Star Is Born"
AUDREY HEPBURN "Sabrina"
JANE WYMAN "Magnificent Obsession"

• ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

EVA MARIE SAINT "On the Waterfront" - WINNER
NINA FOCH "Executive Suite"
KATY JURADO "Broken Lance"
JAN STERLING "The High and the Mighty"
CLAIRE TREVOR "The High and the Mighty"

• ART DIRECTION (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Richard Day - WINNER
"THE COUNTRY GIRL" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
"EXECUTIVE SUITE" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri
"LE PLAISIR" Max Ophuls
"SABRINA" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

• ART DIRECTION (COLOR)

"20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" Art Direction: John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri - WINNER
"BRIGADOON" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
"DESIREE" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
"RED GARTERS" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
"A STAR IS BORN" Art Direction: Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Boris Kaufman - WINNER
"THE COUNTRY GIRL" John F. Warren
"EXECUTIVE SUITE" George Folsey
"ROGUE COP" John Seitz
"SABRINA" Charles Lang, Jr.

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)

"THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN" Milton Krasner - WINNER
"THE EGYPTIAN" Leon Shamroy
"REAR WINDOW" Robert Burks
"SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" George Folsey
"THE SILVER CHALICE" William V. Skall

• COSTUME DESIGN (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"SABRINA" Edith Head - WINNER
"THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE..." Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare
"EXECUTIVE SUITE" Helen Rose
"INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE" Christian Dior
"IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU" Jean Louis

• COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR)

"GATE OF HELL" Sanzo Wada - WINNER
"BRIGADOON" Irene Sharaff
"DESIREE" Desiree
"A STAR IS BORN" Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg, Irene Sharaff
"THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS" Charles LeMaire, Travilla, Miles White

• DIRECTING

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Elia Kazan - WINNER
"THE COUNTRY GIRL" George Seaton
"THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" William Wellman
"REAR WINDOW" Alfred Hitchcock
"SABRINA" Billy Wilder

• DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"THE VANISHING PRAIRIE" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"THE STRATFORD ADVENTURE" Guy Glover, Producer

• DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"THURSDAY'S CHILDREN" World Wide Pictures and Morse Films - WINNER
"JET CARRIER" Otto Lang, Producer
"REMBRANDT: A SELF-PORTRAIT" Morrie Roizman, Producer

• FILM EDITING

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Gene Milford - WINNER
"THE CAINE MUTINY" William A. Lyon, Henry Batista
"THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" Ralph Dawson
"SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" Ralph E. Winters
"20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" Elmo Williams

• HONORARY AWARD

"THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS" Special Award - WINNER

• HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

"GATE OF HELL" Special Award - WINNER

• MUSIC (MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)

"THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" Dimitri Tiomkin - WINNER
"THE CAINE MUTINY" Max Steiner
"GENEVIEVE" Larry Adler
"ON THE WATERFRONT" Leonard Bernstein
"THE SILVER CHALICE" Franz Waxman

• MUSIC (SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE)

"SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin - WINNER
"CARMEN JONES" Herschel Burke Gilbert
"THE GLENN MILLER STORY" Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
"A STAR IS BORN" Ray Heindorf
"THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS" Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman

• MUSIC (SONG)

"Three Coins In The Fountain" in "Three Coins in the Fountain" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn - WINNER
"Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep" in "White Christmas" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
"The High And The Mighty" in "The High and the Mighty" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Hold My Hand" in "Susan Slept Here" Music and Lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers
"The Man That Got Away" in "A Star Is Born" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

• BEST MOTION PICTURE

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Sam Spiegel, Producer - WINNER
"THE CAINE MUTINY" Stanley Kramer, Producer
"THE COUNTRY GIRL" William Perlberg, Producer
"SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" Jack Cummings, Producer
"THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN" Sol C. Siegel, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)

"WHEN MAGOO FLEW" Stephen Bosustow, Producer - WINNER
"CRAZY MIXED UP PUP" Walter Lantz, Producer
"PIGS IS PIGS" Walt Disney, Producer
"SANDY CLAWS" Edward Selzer, Producer
"TOUCHÉ, PUSSY CAT" Fred Quimby, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL)

"THIS MECHANICAL AGE" Robert Youngson, Producer - WINNER
"THE FIRST PIANO QUARTETTE" Otto Lang, Producer
"THE STRAUSS FANTASY" Johnny Green, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (TWO-REEL)

"A TIME OUT OF WAR" Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders, Producers - WINNER
"BEAUTY AND THE BULL" Cedric Francis, Producer
"JET CARRIER" Otto Lang, Producer
"SIAM" Walt Disney, Producer

• SOUND RECORDING

"THE GLENN MILLER STORY" Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director - WINNER
"BRIGADOON" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
"THE CAINE MUTINY" Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
"REAR WINDOW" Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
"SUSAN SLEPT HERE" RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director

• SPECIAL EFFECTS

"20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" Walt Disney Studios - WINNER
"HELL AND HIGH WATER" 20th Century-Fox Studio
"THEM!" Warner Bros. Studio

• WRITING (MOTION PICTURE STORY)

"BROKEN LANCE" Philip Yordan - WINNER
"BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS" Ettore Margadonna
"FORBIDDEN GAMES" François Boyer
"NIGHT PEOPLE" Jed Harris, Tom Reed
"THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS" Lamar Trotti

• WRITING (SCREENPLAY)

"THE COUNTRY GIRL" George Seaton - WINNER
"THE CAINE MUTINY" Stanley Roberts
"REAR WINDOW" John Michael Hayes
"SABRINA" Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman
"SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley

• WRITING (STORY AND SCREENPLAY)

"ON THE WATERFRONT" Budd Schulberg - WINNER
"THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA" Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"GENEVIEVE" William Rose
"THE GLENN MILLER STORY" Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
"KNOCK ON WOOD" Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

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