The 1950s was a decade of giants: Kurosawa, Hitchcock, and Ozu were all at or near their peak, producing films like Vertigo and Tokyo Story that cinema is still measuring itself against. Hollywood simultaneously fought television with widescreen spectacle while its finest directors quietly made their most personal work. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of Pickpocket that I can see myself loving. A morally complex character study of a young Parisian drifter who transforms petty theft into something approaching philosophy, shot in stark black-and-white, directed by one of French cinema's most distinctive voices. On paper,
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
1950s
There's a version of Alice in Wonderland that could genuinely disturb you. Lewis Carroll's original stories are strange in a way that gets under the skin, full of logic that twists back on itself, a world that seems to operate on cruelty dressed up as nonsense,
Genre Documentary
Letter from Siberia (1957)
Genre Horror
★★★ — The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Genre Science Fiction
★★ — Invaders from Mars (1953)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Stolen Face (1952)
Genre Crime
★★½ — Cairo Station (1958)
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
Genre Western
★★½ — Rio Bravo (1959)
Genre Science Fiction
★★★½ — The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Genre Drama
★★ — Glen or Glenda (1953)
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