"If there's anything I admire more than a dedicated friend, it is a dedicated enemy."
- Major Henry Terrill
Dir: William Wyler
DoP: Franz Planer
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: English | Spanish
Genre: Romance | Western
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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August 4, 2016 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Franz Planer, Romance, USA, Western, William Wyler | Tags: Burt Ives, Carroll Baker, Charles Bickford, Charlton Heston, Color, English, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Spanish | Leave a comment
"When all you care about is here, this is a good place to be."
- Emile de Becque
Dir: Joshua Logan
DoP: Leon Shamroy
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: French | English
Genre: Musical | Romance | War
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
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May 31, 2016 | Categories: 1958, 2.20:1, Joshua Logan, Leon Shamroy, Musical, Romance, USA, War | Tags: Color, English, French, John Kerr, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi | Leave a comment
"So often, are you as a blazing torch with flames/ of burning
rags falling about you flaming, / you know not if flames
bring freedom or death. /Consuming all that you must cherish
/if ashes only will be left, and want Chaos and tempest..."
- Krystyna
"...Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike
diamond... /The Morning Star of everlasting triumph."
- Maciek Chelmicki
Dir: Andrzej Wadja
DoP: Jerzy Wójcik
Year: 1958
Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama | War
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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October 5, 2015 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1958, Andrzej Wajda, Drama, Jerzy Wójcik, Poland, War | Tags: Black & White, Ewa Krzyzewska, Polish, resistance, Zbigniew Cybulski | Leave a comment
"So you came to hear my story? Right. Well, I'll tell you an
unlikely Ginza story then. I can't guarantee you'll find it funny,
but it'll teach you something, ladies and gentleman alike."
- Singer
Dir: Shôhei Imamura
DoP: Kumenobu Fujioka
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy |Â Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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July 10, 2015 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Comedy, Drama, Japan, Kumenobu Fujioka, Shôhei Imamura | Tags: Black & White, Frank Nagai, Hisano Yamaoka, Japanese, Masahiko Shimazu, Shôichi Ozawa | Leave a comment
"Upon turning 70 one is expected to go to Narayama.
It is a long-held tradition of the village."
- Orin
Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita
DoP: Hiroyuki Kusuda
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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June 18, 2015 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Drama, Hiroyuki Kusuda, Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita | Tags: Color, Japanese, Kinuyo Tanaka, mountain, old age, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki | Leave a comment
"His uncle, his uncle... he's not even a good
example, far from it. And certainly no genius."
- Monsieur Arpel
Dir: Jacques Tati
DoP: Jean Bourgoin
Year: 1958
Country: France | Italy
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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June 10, 2015 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1958, Comedy, France, Italy, Jacques Tati, Jean Bourgoin | Tags: Adrienne Servantie, Alain Bécourt, Color, factory, French, garden, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, modernism, Mr. Hulot (character) | Leave a comment
"It's difficult raising children, isn't it? Eventually,
all parents have to let go... and that's never easy."
- Shukichi Mikami
Dir: Yasujirô Ozu
DoP: Yûharu Atsuta
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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May 28, 2015 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1958, Comedy, Drama, Japan, Yasujirô Ozu, Yûharu Atsuta | Tags: Chishû Ryû, Color, daughters, father-daughter relationship, Fujiko Yamamoto, Japanese, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shin Saburi, Yoshiko Kuga | Leave a comment
"Everybody up, get dressed, get your lifebelts on, at once.
Everybody up, get dressed, get your lifebelts on, at once."
- Steerage steward
Dir: Roy Ward Baker
DoP: Geoffrey Unsworth
Year: 1958
Country: UK
Language: English |Â Russian
|Â German |Â Italian |Â Polish
Genre: Action |Â Drama |Â History
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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January 15, 2015 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1958, Action, Drama, Geoffrey Unsworth, History, Roy Ward Baker, UK | Tags: Black & White, English, German, Honor Blackman, iceberg, Italian, Kenneth More, Michael Goodliffe, Polish, Russian | Leave a comment
"I've prayed one prayer in my life: Use me, O God! But He
never understood what a devoted slave I'd have been. So I
was never used... But that too is a lie. Step by step you
go into the dark. The movement itself is the only truth."
-Johan Spegel
Dir: Ingmar Bergman
DoP: Gunnar Fischer
Year: 1958
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Genre: Comedy |Â Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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December 8, 2014 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1958, Comedy, Drama, Gunnar Fischer, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden | Tags: Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Black & White, Erland Josephson, Gunnar Björnstrand, illusion, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Swedish | Leave a comment
"Hide a stone among stones and a man among men."
- General Rokurota Makabe
Dir: Akira Kurosawa
DoP: Kazuo Yamasaki
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure | Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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November 6, 2014 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Adventure, Akira Kurosawa, Drama, Japan, Kazuo Yamasaki | Tags: Black & White, gold, Japanese, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, mute, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune | Leave a comment
"This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a
country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel."
- Mike Vargas
Dir: Orson Welles
DoP: Russell Metty
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: English |Â Spanish
Genre: Crime |Â Film-Noir
|Â Thriller
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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July 12, 2014 | Categories: 1958, Crime, Film-Noir, Orson Welles, Russell Metty, Thriller | Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Charlton Heston, Dennis Weaver, honeymoon, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Marlene Dietrich, Mexican-US border, Orson Welles | Leave a comment
"You see madam there are always several photos in a camera."
- Commissaire Cherrier
Dir: Louis Malle
DoP: Henri Decaë
Year: 1958
Country: France
Language: French | German
Genre: Crime |Â Drama |Â Thriller
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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March 3, 2014 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1958, Crime, Drama, France, Henri Decaë, Louis Malle, Thriller | Tags: Black & White, Charles Denner, French, German, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, mistaken identity, motel | Leave a comment
"We'll sleep together always. Â I'll take
care of you. Â My life for yours."
[pause]
"We'll be fine. Â You'll see."
- Jeanne
Dir: Louis Malle
DoP: Henri Decaë
Year: 1958
Country: France
Language: French
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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February 21, 2014 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Drama, France, Henri Decaë, Louis Malle, Romance | Tags: Alain Cuny, Black & White, French, Gaston Modot, Jean-Marc Bory, Jeanne Moreau, Judith Magre | Leave a comment
"Want me to help?"
- François
"We're used to it."
- Marie
Dir: Claude Chabrol
DoP: Henri Decaë & Jean Rabier
Year: 1958
Country: France
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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December 8, 2013 | Categories: 1.33:1, 1958, Claude Chabrol, Drama, France, French New Wave, Henri Decaë, Jean Rabier | Tags: Bernadette Lafont, Black & White, French, Gérard Blain, homecoming, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz | Leave a comment
"This story is about a little girl. It could be about any one of those
little girls playing there. But it isn't. It's about one in particular.
Her name is Gigi."
- Honoré Lachaille
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
DoP: Joseph Ruttenberg
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: English | French
Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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October 12, 2013 | Categories: 1958, 2.35:1, Comedy, Joseph Ruttenberg, Musical, Romance, USA, Vincente Minnelli | Tags: Color, English, Eva Gabor, French, Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan, Maurice Chevalier | Leave a comment
"When you hear the pellets drop, count to ten.
Take a deep breath. It's easier that way."
- San Quentin Capt.
"How would you know?"
- Barbara Graham
Dir: Robert Wise
DoP: Lionel Lindon
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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August 28, 2013 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1958, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Lionel Lindon, Robert Wise, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, Raymond Bailey, Simon Oakland, Susan Hayward | Leave a comment
"There's no way for them to understand. You and I know who killed Madeleine."
- Gavin Elster
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
DoP: Robert Burks
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Mystery | Romance
| Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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August 9, 2013 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock, Mystery, Robert Burks, Romance, Thriller, USA | Tags: Barbara Bel Geddes, Color, Ellen Corby, English, Hitchcockian, impersonation, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Lee Patrick, private investigator, Raymond Bailey | Leave a comment