From The Big Country to Vertigo, these are the best movies from 1958.
One of the best things about going back and viewing movies from decades past is seeing the medium of film grow and develop. Just about everything was dialogue-free for much of the 1920s, color started to be used alongside black-and-white in the 1930s, the 1940s saw filmmakers use cinema to comment on a global war , and the 1950s was when aspect ratios started to widen, and the idea of world cinema really started to take off internationally.
9 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' While it wasn't the first movie Paul Newman starred in, 1958's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was one that raised his profile considerably, and also gave the legendary actor his first Oscar nomination. It's a similarly huge movie in the filmography of Elizabeth Taylor, though wasn't quite as star-making a role for her, given she'd started out as a child actress.
It's a slow-burn movie with a fairly simple premise, but the visuals and interesting use of music are what give The Music Room some more style and complexity. It's a very confidently made film that tells a direct story in an appropriately straightforward and impactful way, and is certainly up there with the greatest and most acclaimed movies Satyajit Ray ever directed.
The protagonist grapples with an assassination task he's given, with the internal conflict driving much of the drama within the film. Ashes and Diamonds proves to be psychologically intense and stunningly shot, when it comes to visuals, overall being a disquieting, eerie, and overall memorable film about what happens to people once a great war finishes, but conflict inevitably continues in other ways.
4 'The Hidden Fortress' When looking over the great samurai epics made by Akira Kurosawa, it's his 1954 film, Seven Samurai, that most people will point to as being his best . Yet his other samurai movies are all worth exploring, too, and the one that most successfully scratches the same itch as Seven Samurai is The Hidden Fortress, which was released just four years after that iconic 1954 film.
2 'Elevator to the Gallows' Elevator to the Gallows might well be the most effortlessly cool crime movie ever made, with a certain amount of style and class that's ensured it's aged extremely well. It follows one man attempting to pull off the perfect crime, yet things naturally go wrong, with Elevator to the Gallows then showing, in painstaking detail, how one misfortune leads to another, and so on.
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