There sure were a lot of natural disasters in 1940 Hollywood movies. Strange Cargo, The Long Voyage Home, The Bluebird; you'd almost think it was like a metaphor or something.

Does anybody want it? If you adhere to last years model, it doesn't take much organizing.

If people want a Movie Club, I'll encourage anybody else to take responsibility for stage-managing it... and if no one else cares to, I probably could do it myself.

Yah, I thought it would be slim...

Makes sense, I guess I can bend the rules in a good cause. 1899 and 1923, if KG has anything that's not otherwise available.

I've only seen two, shame... but I'll happily give a point to

Lisa And The Devil

It'd be easy to make a case for Ayirathil Oruvan (2010) as being horror-adjacent... but maybe 'adjacent' isn't good enough? Time-travel, recurring-nightmare historical cycle and zombies...

To add to the pile of last-minute recommendations, Angels Over Broadway - Ben Hecht is looking awfully proto-noir. Came out six weeks after Stranger On The Third Floor... I haven't watched it yet, but it's in queue. Appears to offer something of the overripe dialogue pushing toward self-parody that ...

Aw, no, Sally guessed it, not I.

Hah, that's on my watchlist, it'll probably be somewhere among the next ten movies I watch that aren't made in Mexico, year poll, or directed by J Franco. Los Pethes Rojos, yeth?

Seen two, I can happily vote for

Flesh And The Devil.

My ballot would only make things more canonical, so I'll pass on this one. I love both KMD and WEHTBJ, but they don't need my help.

The Blue Bird - Walter Lang (Fox Studios, USA) It's sentimental hokum, it's kitschy AF, but it snuck up on me and maybe even hit home just a little bit, so I can't let it go completely unappreciated here among us during this game sequence. Not pictured: the most blatant Maxfield Parrish pastiche I'...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:51 am jordan

'41 at imdb.

My first thought was Frankenstein Created Woman, but no. Could it however be Island Of The Burning Damned?

I was afraid Strange Cargo wouldn't hold up well under a rewatch, but knowing a bit more about Borzage's version of spirituality than I did 20-odd years ago actually made the movie richer & deeper, even justifying Gable's hard-to-swallow tough-guy posturing. Vague echoes of everything from his p...

I''m curious - is no-one liking Poltergeist, or is no-one considering it a Spielberg movie?

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:53 pm with subs

I was really hoping to find an internacionalista copy of Los De Abajo, cuz it's the only Mexican film for the year that I'm enthusiastic about... but such a thing seems not to exist, nor any others that I've seen.

Con el dedo en el gatillo - Luis Moglia Barth, Argentina (no subs available) Narrative content is straight-up Public Enemy, and it's about as crackling and shooty as Wellman, although there are some tangential subplots that weaken the overall effect. What's really striking, though, is how extremely...

Howdy, MDf!

Battement De Coeur - Henri Decoin A little bit Cinderella, a little bit Pygmalion, all cynical and Frenchy if not exactly Lubitschin. Certainly close. Reform school girl falls upward from Fagin's gang to the wife of a promising young diplomat. It's all about the 3 bat 1.JPG who, I do believe, has a...

I tried to watch Green Hell once immediately after heavy dental surgery, looped on codeine-4 and completely unable to focus on anything. Seemed like it was 240 minutes of machetes through underbrush, enough to put me off opiates forever.

I saw last year's Padmaavat, by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Admired the grandiose CGI-ness of it almost in spite of myself, but there seemed to be only a very limited range of effects that SLB was capable of, got a bit wearying (and I felt that his control over the material faltered) toward the end. 3 pa...

You'll laugh! You'll cry! All the feels! Is there any other comparable group online where John Carpenter can tie with Jacques Rivette? I'd be surprised. 1 Satantango - Tarr 2 Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami) 3 Casa de lava (Pedro Costa) 4 Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994) 5 Chungking Ex...

It's all over now, Bebe Buell.

My prelim list The Bank Dick City For Conquest The Fighting 69th Go West - Buzzell Grapes Of Wrath june night Los De Abajo - Urueta The Philadelphia Story Rebecca - Hitchcock Strange Cargo - Borzage They Drive By Night - Walsh You'll Find Out - Butler Funky year; so few national cinemas seem to have...

Choose your favorite films from 1940 (according to IMDb). – Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites. – Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.. Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soo...

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My final Fado - Ruiz Casa de lava (Pedro Costa) Eat Drink Man Woman Exotica - Egoyan In The Mouth Of Madness - Carpenter Jeanne La Pucelle I/II Nadja - Natural Born Killers - Stone 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Pom Poko] - Isao Takahata La Reina De La Noche - Ripstein Satantango - Tarr The Silences Of The Palace