1948 Poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1948 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1948 lists will be Wednesday, Jan 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seen and had feelings for

Bicycle Thieves
La Bien Pagada - Gout
Dos de La Vida Airada - Bustillo Oro
Esquina Bajan - A. Galindo
El Gallo Giro - Gout
Maclovia - E. Fernandez
Mother's Day - J. Broughton
Nosotros Los Pobres - Ismael Rodriguez
The Pirate
Red River
Rio Escondido - E. Fernandez
Rope
Rosenda - Bracho
They Live By Night
Three Godfathers
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

[rischka]

tres noir. watchlist:

AAG

[flip]

deep year, can't list everything i like

Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk)

The Big Clock (John Farrow)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norman Foster)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
Hollow Triumph / The Scar (Steve Sekely)
The Street With No Name (William Keighley)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow)
Rogues' Regiment (Robert Florey)
The Dark Past (Rudolph Mate)
Four Faces West (Alfred E Green)
Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei)
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak)
Pitfall (Andre de Toth)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
He Walked by Night (Alfred Werker)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica)
Yellow Sky (William Wellman)

[Umbugbene]

1. Les parents terribles (Cocteau)
2. Quartet (Annakin, Crabtree, French, Smart)
3. The Big Clock (Farrow)
4. Corridor of Mirrors (Young)
5. They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer)
6. The Eagle with Two Heads (Cocteau)
7. Road House (Negulesco)
8. The Argyle Secrets (Endfield)
9. Key Largo (Huston)
10. Romance on the High Seas (Curtiz)

[liquidnature]

Strong year! The fact that I can post this many likes says a lot.

The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)
The Big Clock (John Farrow)
Fort Apache (John Ford)
Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Three Daring Daughters (Fred M. Wilcox)
The Street with No Name (William Keighley)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak)
The Argyle Secrets (Cy Endfield)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)

[greennui]

1. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
Dédée d’Anvers (Yves Allégret)
A Woman in the Typhoon Area (Hideo Oba)
Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman)
The Apple-Knockers and the Coke (Unknown)
The Banquet (Hasse Ekman)
A Divided World (Arne Sucksdorff)
Break Up (Arne Sucksdorff)
They Caught the Ferry (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

[sally]

oh god. i'm just about to go to bed and you do this.

yay!

will edit in my excitement later/now

fort apache - ford
spring in a small town - fei
drunken angel - kurosawa
unfaithfully yours - sturges
la terra trema - visconti
three godfathers - ford (my 3rd fave xmas movie that i watch every year!)
berlin express - j tourneur
straßenbekanntschaft/street acquaintances - pewas
bílá tma/white darkness - cáp (i forgot about this - total snow movie for bure, also i am the only person that's seen it on letterboxd, i think that's my only own)
impasse des deux anges - m tourneur
mr perrin and mr trail - huntington
gioventù perduta/lost youth - germi
wake of the red witch - ludwig
children of the beehive - shimizu
portrait of jennie - dieterle
the fallen idol - reed

[Silga]

Provisional list:

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)

Key Largo (John Huston)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
The Big Clock (John Farrow)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)

[rischka]

a woman in the typhoon area includes pirates. sold

omg i totally forgot portrait of jennie1!

[karl]

great year for westerns.

bicycle thieves

letter from an unknown woman
a hen in the wind
women of the night (mizoguchi)
treasure of sierra madre
fort apache
red river
the red shoes
drunken angel
louisiana story
the blum affair (engel)
yellow sky
woman (kinoshita)
the portrait (kinoshita)
blood on the moon
moonrise
the fallen idol
pitfall
the search (zinnemann)
spring in a small town

[karl]

bílá tma/white darkness - cáp (i forgot about this - total snow movie for bure, also i am the only person that's seen it on letterboxd, i think that's my only own)

Still have a copy?

[sally]

bílá tma/white darkness - cáp (i forgot about this - total snow movie for bure, also i am the only person that's seen it on letterboxd, i think that's my only own)

Still have a copy?

no sorry, never had one - watched it here: https://dafilms.com/film/10355-white-darkness

[Roscoe]

First go, no order:

DRUNKEN ANGEL
THE RED SHOES
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
BICYCLE THIEVES
A LAD IN HIS LAMP

[brian d]

excited about the first five or so, pretty good with the rest:

children of the beehive (shimizu)
spring in a small town (mu)
krakatit (vávra)
nosotros los pobres (rodríguez)
maclovia (fernández)
les feux de la mer (epstein)
portrait of jennie (dieterle)
yellow sky (wellman)
moonrise (borzage)
la terra trema (visconti)
rope (hitchcock)
the fallen idol (reed)
women of the night (mizoguchi)
fort apache (ford)
hamlet (olivier)
río escondido (fernández)
reubens (haessaerts; storck)
kalpana (shankar)
treasure of the sierra madre (huston)

to see:
white darkness (cáp)
a woman in the typhoon area (oba)
el gallo giro (gout)

[pabs]

The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Litvak)
Rope (Hitchcock)
The Fallen Idol (Reed)
Hamlet (Olivier)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
Red River (Hawks)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Bicycle Thieves (de Sica)



Watched for this poll:



Hope to see:

La terra trema (Visconti)

[...]

Initial list of options

Sure things:

The Pirate

Louisiana Story
Bicycle Thieves
The Red Shoes
Aag
Easter Parade
Letter from an Unknown Woman

Likely:

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Portrait of Jennie
A Hen in the Wind
Spring in a Small Town
La Terra Trema
Berlin Express

Possibly:

Roadhouse
The Amazing Mr X
Macbeth
Hamlet
A Foreign Affair
The Snake Pit
The Quiet One
Ruthless
Fort Apache
Raw Deal
They Live By Night
The Fallen Idol
Arch of Triumph
On Our Merry Way
The Scaredy Cat

Pitfall
Anna Karenina
Oliver Twist
The Big Clock
The Paleface
He Walked by Night
The Foghorn Leghorn
Romance on the High Seas

Women of the Night
Fury at Furnace Creek
Yellow Sky
Behind Locked Doors
Rope
Naked City
State of the Union
Force of Evil
They Caught the Ferry
Wake of the Red Witch
A Song is Born
The Emperor Waltz

Unlikely/No chance:

I Remember Mama
Sorry Wrong Number
Johnny Belinda
Unfaithfully Yours
One Touch of Venus
The Three Musketeers
Feudin', Fussin', and A-Fightin'
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3 Godfathers
Port of Call
Force of Evil
Moonrise
Drunken Angel
Germany Year Zero
Red River
Good Sam
The Street with No Name
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
A Date with Judy
The Luck of the Irish
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Boy with the Green Hair
The Loves of Carmen
Joan of Arc
The Prince of Thieves
The Fuller Brush Man
The Adventures of Don Juan
Words and Music
Melody Time
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Key Largo

[ralch]

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophüls)

Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini)
Hamlet (Olivier)
The Pirate (Minnelli)
Red River (Hawks)
The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger)
Rope (Hitchcock)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei)
La terra trema (Visconti)
They Live by Night (Ray)

[rischka]

lol thx for my first viral twitter post greennui

https://twitter.com/j_christley/status/ ... 40737?s=20

this was fun but it won't make my list

[thoxans]

He Walked by Night (Anthony Mann / Alfred L. Werker)

amore (roberto rossellini)
berlin express (jacques tourneur)
bicycle thieves (vittorio de sica)
force of evil (abraham polonsky)
fort apache (john ford)
pitfall (andre de toth)
red river (howard hawks)
romance on the high seas (michael curtiz)
they live by night (nicholas ray)
without pity (alberto lattuada)

know i have copies of pitfall and the snake pit, so i'll def get to those. not sure what else i have for '48, but i'll scrounge

[ofrene]

They Live by Night
Spring in a Small Town
3 Godfathers
The Red Shoes
Raw Deal
Rope
Yellow Sky
Bicycle Thieves
The Last Stage
Force of Evil

[sally]

i did not imagine that in 1948 i'd still be able to watch a silent film
(the last korean one, and my first experience of byeonsa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y55yzStyEC8&vl=en

[greennui]

lol thx for my first viral twitter post greennui

https://twitter.com/j_christley/status/ ... 40737?s=20

this was fun but it won't make my list

It's a shame that the rest of the film isn't as memorable as her performance!

[karl]

Started off my '48 viewings with a real masterpiece: IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE (Géza von Radványi). How is this not more famous? Most LB reviewers seem to have heard that it's some kind of pro-Soviet propaganda film for the new Hungarian government, so you read absurdities like "the movie gradually degenerates into Soviet bloc kitsch, climaxing with an agonizing exercise in inspirational bathos meant to illustrate the eternal perfidy of greedy landowners and the boundless generosity of the new Communist authority." The landowners are trying to keep the kids from stealing their potatoes and chickens and, since the movie takes place in wartime, Communist authority makes no appearance. The movie is only anti-war - no surprise for '48 - and there's no more "propaganda" here than in any excellent European film of the period.

Also:

UNDER THE SUN OF ROME (Renato Castellani). About a guy who has all the stereotypical vices of the Italian male: vain, lazy, skirt-chasing yet terribly jealous, and how, though it's only after he inadvertently causes a couple of deaths and breaks his long-suffering girl's heart half a dozen times over the course of the film, he finally becomes a responsible adult. The main character is hard to take, but the film is very nice. Good finish.

[oscarwerner]

1.Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)- my top hit
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other 19:
2.The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica)
3.Fort Apache (John Ford)
4.Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
6.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
7.Key Largo (John Huston)
8.La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
9.Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
10.The Search (Fred Zinnemann)
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11.Red River (Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson)
12.Oliver Twist (David Lean)
13.The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
14. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
15. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
16. Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei)
17. The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak)
18. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)
19. The Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod)
20. Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)

[---]

what a year! one of the greats

1. They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)

Muscle Beach (Joseph Strick)
Rope (Hitchcock)
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
Portrait of Jennie (Williiam Dieterle)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Red River (Hawks)
Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
MacBeth (Welles)
Pitfall (Andre de Toth)
Woman Trouble // The Street Has Many Dreams (Mario Camerini)
Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman)

[kanafani]

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)

Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
3 Godfathers (John Ford, 1948)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
He Walked by Night (Anthony Mann, Alfred L. Werker, 1948)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)
Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948)
A Hen in the Wind (Yasujirō Ozu, 1948)
La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti, 1948)
Good Sam (Leo McCarey, 1948)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1948)
Louisiana Story (Robert J. Flaherty, 1948)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
Key Largo (John Huston, 1948)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
Pitfall (Andre De Toth, 1948)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1948)
Ruthless (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1948)
The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948)
Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948)
Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1948)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

[sally]

anyone want a sublime black comedy?

l'armoire volante 100% on my list. anyone having trouble getting hold of it, let me know

[nrh]

l'armoire is great. a vecchiali favorite too!

[sally]

i also exactly screenshotted that