Are Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and Vertigo the two single greatest cinematic achievements of the entire decade of the 1950's? That's the consensus that the film-site Wonders in the Dark came to.
And I'd surely have trouble arguing with that. But these sorts of things are always fraught with impossible choices - who amongst us could stack Rear Window against Sunset Boulevard and come out with a still-functioning brain?
But the list did remind me that the 1950s is a fucking goldmine for film. For real. From Hitch to Welles to Wilder to Sirk to Fellini to Bergman to Kurosawa the list of auteur-worship goes on and on and on until you're a quivering puddle of film-loving dork on the floor. I think it might be my favorite film decade of all.
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And I'd surely have trouble arguing with that. But these sorts of things are always fraught with impossible choices - who amongst us could stack Rear Window against Sunset Boulevard and come out with a still-functioning brain?But the list did remind me that the 1950s is a fucking goldmine for film. For real. From Hitch to Welles to Wilder to Sirk to Fellini to Bergman to Kurosawa the list of auteur-worship goes on and on and on until you're a quivering puddle of film-loving dork on the floor. I think it might be my favorite film decade of all.
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