Are you ready for a three-way showdown? 1955 brings us several classics, including a suspenseful French thriller and a Danish masterpiece that Sight & Sound cited as one of the 25 best films ever made. But it's all going to come down to a battle between three movies, featuring an iconic film villain, James Dean's most famous role, and a hitherto-unknown Indian director whose labor of love finally comes to fruition. But which one film has best stood the test of time?
Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in cinema, first-time directors, "poverty porn," red jackets, homoeroticism, trains, twists, faith, miracles, LOVE, HATE, spoiler alerts, and dead-or-not-dead men in bathtubs - and then we dig into the data and the numbers (and our expert panel votes) to identify the best picture of 1955.
The nominees are Les Diaboliques, Night of the Hunter, Ordet, Pather Panchali, and Rebel Without A Cause. Who wins the Moonlight?