1946 Poll 2.0

[sally]

not nearly enough bums in 1946

[Lencho of the Apes]

Hoagy Carmichael in Canyon Passage + three hits of acid = Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.

[niminy-piminy]

i guess "Reykjavík" is the last piece of the puzzle.
thus i can post the ballot ↓ and rush ←↑↓→ for the next kinothrills...
https://www.kinometer.com/?list=428

The Talking Magpies (Mannie Davis, 1946, 6m)
Midwinter Sacrifice (Gösta Werner, 1946, 12m)
Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington, 1946, 16m)
The Potted Psalm (James Broughton, Sidney Peterson, 1946, 24m)
Brompton Whit (Cyril Ramsden, Betty Ramsden, 1946, 7m)
Reykjavík of Our Days, First Part (Óskar Gíslason, 1946, 110m)
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren, 1946, 15m)
The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, 1946, 22m)
The Mouse-Merized Cat (Robert McKimson, 1946, 6m)
Number 3: Interwoven (Harry Everett Smith, 1946, 3m)

Walkabout (Charles Mountford, 1946, 18m)
Warsaw Suite (Tadeusz Makarczynski, 1946, 18m)
House Tricks? (Seymour Kneitel, 1946, 7m)
House of Horrors (Jean Yarbrough, 1946, 65m)
The Murderers Are Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte, 1946, 85m)
Beware of Pity (Maurice Elvey, 1946, 105m)
Sylvia and the Ghost (Claude Autant-Lara, 1946, 90m)
We Don't Know the Day... (Bohumil Vošahlík, 1946, 14m)
Farrebique - The Four Seasons (Georges Rouquier, 1946, 90m)
The World of Paul Delvaux (Henri Storck, 1946, 11m)

[Silga]

Final list:

The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stranger (Orson Welles)

Decoy (Jack Bernhard)
Shock (Alfred L. Werker)
Deadline at Dawn (Harold Clurman)
Bedlam (Mark Robson)

[sally]

yay silga! you survived covid!

i still have a few left to watch - found some more longish travelogues, including two canadian films, one with sound!

just watched the 49 min 'visit to hunan' - dir. unnamed colonial missionary, which was unremarkable apart from these two hardcore tiddlers, BOTH of which were smoking cigarettes

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I'd been playing to watch 20 movies for the poll... oh well. If all goes well, I'll be done my work for the semester this evening, which means I'll have the 29th and 30th to binge watch some '46s. Will be sure to report back with some musings on vintage trash!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

*planning -- curses!

[sally]

Will be sure to report back with some musings on vintage trash!

excellent! that's one area (of many) of this poll that's too vast for me to navigate....

[sally]

joyous (thank god) conclusion to the rubble films

bambini in città - luigi comencini

watched without subs, and not a fan of wee ones, especially labouring under artily contrived metaphors of resurgence, but after the gruelling journey these kinds of films have been on, it's a balm to see these children emerging into the light to play!

[sally]

japanese black silhouette figures burning in hell? in 1946? whoa

spider silk - noburô ôfuji

[sally]

exercise musk-ox - 57 mins, b&w with sound, music, narration, professionally shot & produced by national film board
canadian army and air force exercise "musk-ox" - 78 mins, colour, silent, amateur footage shot by lt. col. nac croft


my last two watches for 1946! and an interesting study in film technique since they were both filming exactly the same events....the professional one is snow-beautiful, coherent, but also jingoistic, racist, distancing both in its colonial portrayals and in the narration, which situates it as a past event and makes it seem something that happened so long ago. whereas the amateur colour footage is messy, inchoate, oneiric, and impersonal - there's no 'white man' distinction and everyone just mingles in almost faceless incomprehensible events and actions that could still be happening even now....♥♥♥












and now i guess i have to go and put together a final ballot - how on earth am i going to tie up all this watching i've done?

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Renegade Girl - A Civil War oater starring... Ann Savage and Edward Brophy (?!?) Not good, but a curio.

[sally]

argh bfi added a load more films from 1946 since i last looked! (including a 31 min graphic instructional film on how to castrate a sheep) oh well, on the next go round....or maybe i'll watch 'em and just keep filling up this thread after everyone has moved on

final ballot - unranked

the three children - wanstead & woodford road safety committee
no. 3: interwoven - harry smith
a little phantasy on a 19th-century painting - norman mclaren
brompton whit - betty ramsden, cyril ramsden
midvinterblot - gösta werner
birds of the village - james fisher
aubervilliers - eli lotar
the stone flower - aleksandr ptushko
the locket - john brahm
the chase - arthur ripley
iris and the lieutenant - alf sjöberg
farrebique, or the four seasons - georges rouquier
forgotten faces - yorgos tzavellas
restless blood - teuvo tulio
il testimone - pietro germi
enamorada - emilio fernández
a scandal in paris - douglas sirk
beware of pity - maurice elvey
reykjavík vorra daga, fyrri hluti - óskar gíslason
queen's necklace - marcel l'herbier

[karl]

the best yrs of our lives
notorious
enamorada
iris and the lieutenant

shoeshine
paisan
a day in the country
my darling clementine

diary of a chambermaid
canyon passage
let there be light
the big sleep

panique
the girl i loved
cluny brown
under the bridges

the devil's daughter
farrebique
ditte menneskebarn
sylvie & the phantom

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Suspense (Frank Tuttle) -- Delirious figure-skating musical B noir directed by then-Communist Frank Tuttle. My favourite find of my (admittedly limited) 1946 viewing.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

This'll have to do. So many left unseen.

My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)

Suspense (Frank Tuttle)
Decoy (Jack Bernhard)
Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)
Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery)

Three Strangers (Jean Negulesco)
The Beast with Five Fingers (Robert Florey)
She-Wolf of London (Jean Yarbrough)
My Pal Trigger (Frank McDonald)

Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli)
So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis)
Mysterious Intruder (William Castle)
The Harvey Girls (George Sidney)

Sheriff of Redwood Valley (R.G. Springsteen)
A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo)
Renegade Girl (William Berke)
Trap Happy (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)

[niminy-piminy]

no regrets!
1946 poll 3.0 is still ahead.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Beauty And The Beast - Cocteau
Cantaclaro - Julio Bracho
Sciuscia/Shoe-shine - de Sica
Specter Of The Rose - Hecht

The Big Sleep - Hawks
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Renoir
La Mujer De Todos - Bracho
Notorious - Hitchcock

sunshine follows rain / driver dagg faller regn - gustaf edgren
Unter Die Brucken
El Hijo De Nadie - M. Contreras Torres
L'Idiot - Georges Lampin

Bel Ami - Antonio Momplet
Campeon Sin Corona - Alejandro Galindo
Cloak And Dagger - Lang
Cluny Brown - Lubitsch

midvinterblot/ Midwinter Sacrifice (Gösta Werner)
La Otra - Gavaldon
The Strange Woman - Ulmer
Three Strangers - Negulesco

[rischka]

the best years of our lives
my darling clementine
unter die brucken
panique
la otra
specter of the rose
canyon passage
enamorada
paisan
notorious
black angel
the locket
cluny brown
restless blood
night editor
from this day forward
a scandal in paris
nobody lives forever
duel in the sun
great expectations
it's a wonderful life

[rischka]

you can drop the last one

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

no regrets! 1946 poll 3.0 is still ahead.

That's the spirit !

[lineuphere]

In case I'm not too late...

Beauty and the Beast
The Best Years of Our Lives
A Matter of Life and Death / Stairway to Heaven
Peter and the Wolf

A Day in the Country
Hair-Raising Hare
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Great Expectations

Paisan
The Big Sleep
Driver dagg faller regn |Sunshine Follows Rain
The Killers

Notorious
Gilda
The Stranger
My Darling Clementine

[...]

Ditto

No Regrets for Our Youth
The Best Years of Our Lives
Specter of the Rose
Gilda

My Darling Clementine
Beauty and the Beast
Enamorada
Devil and the Angel

Canyon Passage
Cluny Brown
Utamaro and His Five Women
The Razor's Edge

Bedlam
The Locket
Deadline at Dawn
It's a Wonderful Life

Mysterious Intruder
Little Giant
The Green Years
Night and Day

[ororama]

1. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
5. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
6. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
7. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Morning for the Osone Family (Keisuke Kinoshita)
9.The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
10. The Captive Heart (Basil Dearden)
11. The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)
12. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
13. Murderers Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte)
14. No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
15. Sylvie and the Phantom (Claude Autant-Lara)
16. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
17. The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall)
18. Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)
19. Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery)
20. The Stranger (Orson Welles)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

RESULTS

Number of ballots: 17 Number of films voted for: 129.

1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) / 37

2. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)/ 36

3. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)/ 32

4. La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau) / 29

5. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) / 27

6. Enamorada (Emilio Fernández) / 23

7. Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch) / 22.5

8. Unter den Brücken (Helmut Käutner) / 21.5

9. The Killers (Robert Siodmak) / 21

10. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) / 20.5

11. Gilda / 19.5
12. Paisan / 19
13. Canyon Passage / 18.5
14. Black Angel / 18
15. Lady in the Lake / 16
16. A Day in the Country / 15
— Specter of the Rose / 15
18. Great Expectations / 14.5
19. Green for Danger / 14
— Shoeshine 14

21. Panique / 13.5
— The Postman Always Rings Twice / 13.5
23. Fragment of Seeking / 13
24. The Locket / 12
— A Matter of Life and Death / 12
26. Duel in the Sun / 11.5
27. No Regrets for Our Youth / 11
28. The Stranger / 10.5
29. The Chase / 10
— Decoy / 10
— Nocturne / 10

32. La otra / 9
33. Sunshine Follows Rain / 8.5
34. Iris and the Lieutenant / 8
— Midwinter Sacrifice / 8
— Restless Blood / 8
— Sylvie et le fantome / 8
— Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna / 8
39. The Spiral Staircase / 7.5

40. The Bandit / 7
— Brompton Whit / 7
— Diary of a Chambermaid / 7
— Number 3: Interwoven / 7
— Reykjavik of Our Days, First Part / 7
— The Girl I Loved / 7
46. The Captive Heart / 6
— Farrebique / 6
— Night Editor / 6
— The Private Life of a Cat / 6
— A Scandal in Paris / 6