1948 Poll

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Yeah, a brief extension would be great. I forgot about Children of the Beehive until I saw it listed again by ofrene, so I need to at least finish that before the end.

[sally]

Also due to not having internet access for the next couple of days, I'm afraid 1902 is completely out of the window. Only because I went on a mad downloading spree last week is cramming 48 at all possible.

[sally]

bah is this extra time worth it?



blanche fury could have been a ragingly lush, torrid hot technicolor mess of the cathy/heathcliff kind, if only the script hadn't been dire and stewart granger wasn't THE WORST ACTOR IN THE WORLD

oh well, at least i got an allégret in for this year (and he does his ample best with what he's got) if not the one everyone else is watching.

(has anyone else seen blanche fury? did the ending funnel out through someone's intestines? maybe it was an umbilical cord? just....what?)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Jan 2nd it is, then, since there haven't been any horses whinnying. I'll open a thread for January's poll on 1/1 and tot up the results for both December polls the fol;lowing day.

Not defending the over-use of prostitutes in movies, but I would like to point out that they (also) serve a purpose in politicized cinema, as a way of representing the end-stage of Patriarchal oppression, "women under capitalism" thematics...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnwL4-Ghn0

[brian d]

just managed to see one from this year. i feel like a bad forum member. but it was good, and came from a rec from here so maybe it's ok.

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


didn't manage to see:
white darkness (cáp)
el gallo giro (gout)

[greennui]

not only do i FREAKING LOVE french smoky port noirs, but i've been desperately wanting to get some yves allegret in my life... thanks for the heads up!

I've enjoyed everything I've seen from Allégret so far, that one, the brooding Such a Pretty Little Beach and The Proud and the Beautiful which landed Jean-Paul Sartre an Oscar nomination.

so i watched the allegret and it's rather good, esp the ending. simone signoret sadly kinda got typecast as a prostitute after her success in this. marcel dalio has a fine turn as her brutal pimp -- not a role i expected from him! i'm a sucker for a seedy seaport as greennui well knows. also impressive was the use of french, german, english, italian and flemish (film is set in antwerp) i do generally agree w/sally that the percentage of films about prostitutes is ridiculously high and this fetish grows tiresome

The Italian actor had so much Jean Gabin energy that it's almost hard to believe it wasn't Gabin.

[rischka]

yeah i agree, immediately thought of it as a gabin role

[sally]

well, some might see it as representation, and some see it as slobbering heavy breath perpetuation, and i am done with it.

especially as argh i need to watch about 20 movies in about 10 hours gassman come save me

[rischka]

ehh i'll end with the same list i began with. wanted to finish the gosho, a typically humanist romantic melodrama something like brief encounter -- if celia suddenly learned she looked exactly like trevor howard's dead wife lol. some beautiful touches and melancholy ending but not gonna make my list. the doubling:





didn't get to watch AAG

letter from an unknown woman
germany year zero
the pirate
red river
the red shoes
moonrise
ruthless
three godfathers
they live by night
raw deal
treasure of the sierra madre
krakatit
brighton rock
the argyle secrets
macbeth
pitfall
children of the beehive
portrait of jennie
force of evil
bicycle thieves

[john ryan]

1. letter from an unknown woman (ophuls)

the treasure of the sierra madre (huston)
the red shoes (powell & pressburger)
red river (hawks)
bicycle thieves (de sica)
key largo (huston)
the big clock (farrow)
they live by night (ray)
germany year zero (rossellini)
drunken angel (kurosawa)
the fallen idol (reed)
raw deal (mann)
3 godfathers (ford)
rope (hitchcock)
unfaithfully yours (sturges)
easter parade (walters)
portrait of jennie (dieterle)
women of the night (mizoguchi)
the pirate (minnelli)
they caught the ferry (dreyer)

[sally]

okay, i'm all done. watched 61% (42 films) of the ones i planned to watch for this year, which is a pretty good score, only comparable to the 1920's polls, so i guess i liked 48. main conclusions are that compared to the joyful smut & sleaze in un-american films, the code made films ridiculously childish. also that everyone had only just started to process the enormity of the war, and that specifically it drove helmut käutner insane:

[sally]

1. fort apache
la terra trema
drunken angel
spring in a small town
unfaithfully yours
banketten
border street/ulica graniczna
l'armoire volante/the cupboard was bare
romance on the high seas
children of the beehive
nosotros los pobres
kalpana
wake of the red witch
the original sin/der apfel ist ab (käutner)
myriad of lights
noose (gréville)
the small voice (mcdonell)
louisiana story
isole nella laguna
sitting pretty

[mesnalty]

1. The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

Moonrise (Borzage)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)
The Big Clock (Farrow)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei)
Fort Apache (Ford)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
The Pirate (Minnelli)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges)
Macbeth (Welles)

[rischka]

okay, i'm all done. watched 61% (42 films) of the ones i planned to watch for this year, which is a pretty good score, only comparable to the 1920's polls, so i guess i liked 48. main conclusions are that compared to the joyful smut & sleaze in un-american films, the code made films ridiculously childish. also that everyone had only just started to process the enormity of the war, and that specifically it drove helmut käutner insane:

you watched the kautner and i didn't get to it! looks nuts all right. also regretting missing that rodríguez

[sally]

you watched the kautner and i didn't get to it! looks nuts all right. also regretting missing that rodríguez

bit late to talk up the kautner seeing as i only watched it today, but it really is nuts. i have no idea where he got the budget for all those sets & costumes (the film is pretty much an extended dream sequence set in heaven and hell) and kautner even acts in it in quite a large role. literally every second is screenshottable.

also would have liked to talk up kalpana, but only if you like communisty dance-based films, with again, lovely nuts dream sequences.

and the rodríguez was wonderfully relentless. is it bad? it can get worse! and worse! weeeeeee

[Lencho of the Apes]

It's hard for me to take Rodriguez seriously, but the largest audience seemed to loooooove him, so you have to factor that in. I never know quite what hat to wear when I watch his movies. Miguel Inclan smoking marijuana and beating the old wheelchair lady to half-death was memorable...

[Silga]

Final 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)

[thoxans]

watched curtiz's romance on the high seas, really enjoyed it, and added it to my list! who knew that under the good girl image of doris day lurked a saucy hottie? made me appreciate day way more than i did before, like what what's up, doc? did for me and streisand. would obvs make a great double bill with gentlemen prefer blondes

meanwhile, almost done with abbott and costello meet frankenstein. probs won't make my final list, unless the twist ending is that dracula, frankenstein, and the wolf man kill abbott and costello, in which case it'd jump to the top of my list. don't ask me why i went with aacmf over the snake pit, but i did, and it's a choice i'll have to live with the rest of this new year...

[Lencho of the Apes]

Fuga in Francia (1948, Soldati)

L'Armoire Volante -
Bicycle Theives
La Bien Pagada - Gout
children of the beehive - shimizu
Dos de La Vida Airada - Bustillo Oro
A Hen In The wind - Ozu
The Inside Story - Dwan
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
Macbeth - Welles
Maclovia
Myriad Of Lights -
ostatni etap (the last stage)
The :Pirate
Red River
Rio Escondido
Rope
Rosenda - Bracho
Three Godfathers
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

[Lencho of the Apes]

Thing ends in about an hour.

[Lencho of the Apes]

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[Lencho of the Apes]

Many things, ranked by preference!

1
Bicycle Thieves

2
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)

3
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

4
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

5
Fort Apache (Ford)

6
Red River

7
children of the beehive - shimizu
Rope
Spring in a Small Town (Fei)

9
they live by night (ray)

10
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)

11
The Pirate

12
The Big Clock (John Farrow)
the fallen idol (reed)
force of evil
germany year zero (rossellini)
Key Largo (John Huston)
Macbeth - Welles
la terra trema
yellow sky (wellman)

20
drunken angel
Moonrise (Borzage)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
Three Godfathers

25
Fuga in Francia (1948, Soldati)
louisiana story
pitfall


28
Cry of the City (1948, Robert Siodmak)
hamlet (olivier)
He Walked by Night (Anthony Mann, Alfred L. Werker, 1948)
A Hen In The wind - Ozu
ostatni etap (the last stage)
The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges)
women of the night (mizoguchi)

36 - 46
the argyle secrets
Berlin Express (Tourneur)
border street/ulica graniczna
Call Northside 777 (Hathaway)
krakatit
Myriad Of Lights
Les parents terribles / The Terrible Parents (1948, Jean Cocteau)
romance on the high seas
The Search (Zinnemann)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948)
they caught the ferry (dreyer)

[rischka]

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