1958 with the cinema

Events

At the time of the World Fair of Brussels, an international jury of 117 criticisms establishes a classification of best films of all times:

the Battleship Potemkine of Sergueï Eisenstein (1925)
Gold rush of Charles Chaplin (1925)
the Robber of bicycle of Vittorio De Sica (1948)

Among following films, one finds:

the Passion of Jeanne d' Arc of Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
the Great Illusion of Jean Renoir (1927)
Citizen Kane of Orson Welles (1941)
the Raptors of Erich von Stroheim (1923)
Intolerance of David Wark Griffith (1916)
the Mother of Alexandre Dovjenko (1926)
Ground of Alexandre Dovjenko (1930)
the Last of the men of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1924)
the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari of Robert Wiene (1920)

Principal films of the year

Elevator for the police scaffold of Louis Malle with Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau and Georges Poujouly (exit into the room the January 28th).
With the threshold of the life (Nara livet) realized by Ingmar Bergman.
fantastic Adventures (Vynalez Zary) science fiction film of Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia) with Arnots Navratil, Lubor Tokos and Jana Zatloukalova.
Stopping against the Pacific , film of Rene Clement (left to France in April).
Goha realized by Jacques Baratier (Tunisia).
Hiroshima my love , dramatic comedy of Alain Resnais, with Emmanuelle Rivetted, Eiji Okada and Bernard Fresson.
I want to live! ( I Want to Live! ) of Robert Wise with Susan Hayward.
the She-cat on an extreme roof (Cat one has Hot chock Roof) , dramatic comedy of Richard Brooks with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives.
the Barge of happiness of Melville Shavelson with Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Murray Hamilton.
the Thirst for the evil (Touch off Evil) realized by Orson Welles with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlène Dietrich (April 23rd).
the Ball of Cursed the , Edward Dmytryk (April).
the Nightmare of Dracula : British horror of T. Fischer with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee.
the Player drama of Claude Autant-Lara with Gerard Philippe, Liselotte Pulver and Bernard Blier.
the Lovers , of Louis Malle.
the Left-handed person (The Left Handed Gun) realized by Arthur PEN with Paul Newman and Lita Milan.
Genius of the evil (Compulsion) realized by Richard Fleischer with Orson Welles and Diane Varsi.
the Small teacher comedy of Carlo Rim with Darry Cowl, Beatrice Altariba and Yves Robert.
the Pigeon realized by Mario Monicelli (Italy).
the Living room of music (Jalsaghar) , drama of Satyajit Ray (India) with Chhabi Biswas, Ganda Pada Basu and Kali Sarkar.
Fires of the summer (Long The hot summer) realized by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman and Orson Welles.
the Young husbands realized by Mauro Bolognini (Italy).
the Poor wretches carried out by Jean-Paul Chanois with Jean Gabin, Bourvil and Bernard Blier.
Appointments of the documentary devil of Haroun Tazieff.
the Cheaters , film of Flesh-colored Marcel.
the Man of the West , western of Anthony Mann.
Cold sweats (Vertigo) realized by Alfred Hitchcock with James Stewart and Kim Novak (left the May 9th with the the United States, left in France the December 11th).
Witness for the prosecution (Witness for the Continuation) , police film of Billy Wilder with Tyrone Power, Marlène Dietrich and Charles Laughton.
The Fearmakers drama of Jacques Tourneur with Dana Andrews, Dick Foran and Mel Tormé.
Faces of bronze realized by Bernard Concealing (Swiss).

Festivals

May 18th: Cannes

Palm of gold:

When pass the storks ( Letiat Jouravly ) of Mikhaïl Kalatozov

Special price of the Jury:

My uncle of Jacques Tati

Other festivals

July 9th: wild Strawberries , of Ingmar Bergman, Bear of gold to Berlin.
September 7th: the Man with the rickshaw , of Hiroshi Inagaki, Lion of Gold to Venice. the Lovers , of Louis Malle, special price of the jury. Sophia Loren better female role in the Black Orchis of Martin Ritt.

Rewards

Oscars (April 6th 1959)

Gigi realized by Vincente Minnelli with Louis Jourdan and Leslie Charon - Gains the Oscar better film.
My Uncle , of Jacques Tati (Oscar of the better film in foreign language)

Other rewards

Boxoffice

France:

the United States:

Principal births

March 10th: Sharon Stone, American actress
March 17th: Christine Tanguy
March 20th: Holly Hunter, American actress
March 21st: Gary Oldman, American actor
April 3rd: Alec Baldwin, American actor
April 4th: Bernard Campan, French actor
April 21st: Andie MacDowell, American actress
April 29th: Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
May 8th: Martine Dugowson, French director
May 11th: Isabelle Mergault
May 29th: Annette Bening, American actress
June 7th: Prince, singer and American actor
June 22nd: Jacques Bonnaffé, French actor
July 8th: Kevin Bacon, American actor
July 17th: Wong Kar-Wai, realizer hong-kongais
August 3rd: Lambert Wilson, French actor
August 11th: Valerie Stroh, French actress
August 16th: Madonna, singer and American actress
August 18th: Madeleine Stowe, American actress
August 24th: Steve Guttenberg, actor, producer, realizer and American scenario writer
August 25th: Tim Burton, American realizer
August 29th: Michael Jackson, singer and American actor
September 10th: Chris Columbus, American realizer
October 16th: Tim Robbins, actor and American realizer
October 20th: Viggo Mortensen, American actor
October 26th: Pascale Ogier, French actress
November 1st: Charlie Kaufman, scenario writer and American realizer
November 17th: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
November 24th: Alain Chabat, realizer and actor French

Principal deaths

First quarter

Second quarters

June 9th: Robert Donat, British actor

Third quarters

Fourth quarters

November 11th: Andre Bazin, critical and theorist of French cinema
November 15th: Tyrone Power, American actor

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