1945 Poll 2.0

[sally]

sorry, i'm really grumpy with movies at the minute

brief encounter - david lean
dark is the night - boris barnet
they were expendable - john ford

haven't watched the ulmer so might remedy that, and if ekman's moon has subs would watch that

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Another year poll, another glorious find by Lencho. Thanks for the tip. Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes, Republic) was one of the very best '40s Poverty Row movies I've ever seen——one of the best '40s USA movies I've seen, period. At first I didn't think it would work for me at all, but slowly, slowly... and suddenly I was transfixed by its bizarre, devastating art. What a movie! (Or am I forgetting myself and all sense of good taste?)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Or am I forgetting all sense of good taste?

It's hard to tell sometimes, innit? I kept asking myself "How can it really be this good and no-one seems to have noticed it before now?"

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Exactly! At least we're not alone...

[rischka]

yay evelyn! i kinda knew you would love it

[greennui]

and if ekman's moon has subs would watch that

It does

[greennui]

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It 1945 ‘Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar’ Directed by Hasse Ekman - Crossdressing musician farce long before Wilder, though the crossdresser in this one ends up with the woman's liberation movement and runs for office. Ekman lowkey progressive as always. A bit silly but entertaining enough.

[Lencho of the Apes]

no-one seems to have noticed it before now

Apparently, Bordwell mentions it in Reinventing Hollywood, I'll have to look for a copy.

[Angel]

Back to Bataan
Bugambilia
Die letzte Chance (The Last Chance)
Domingo de carnaval (Carnival Sunday)
Due lettere anonime (Two Anonymous Letters)
Falbalas (Paris Frills)
Jealousy
Johnny Angel
La barraca (The Plot of Land)
La dama duende (The Phantom Lady)
Naïs
Objective, Burma!
Pampa bárbara (Savage Pampas)
Scarlet Street
Strange Illusion
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Spanish Main
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
The Way to the Stars
Via Mala

[ofrene]

Brief Encounter
Mildred Pierce
Scarlet Street
The Clock

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Hangover Square
I Know Where I’m Going!
They Were Expendable

A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Children of Paradise
Leave Her to Heaven
The Southerner

Detour
My Name Is Julia Ross
Rome, Open City
The Bells of St. Mary’s

Dead of Night
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Objective, Burma!
Two People

[cinesmith]

Children of Paradise
Rome, Open City
Scarlet Street
Dead of Night
The Body Snatcher

Mildred Pierce
Brief Encounter
Story of G.I. Joe
Blithe Spirit
Fallen Angel

Hangover Square
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Lost Weekend
And Then There Were None
The Picture of Dorian Gray

[rischka]

children of paradise -carne
brief encounter -lean
detour -ulmer
hangover square -brahm
they were expendable -ford

scarlet street -lang
i know where i'm going -p n p
bugambilia -fernandez
the wicked lady -arliss
twilight -bracho

leave her to heaven -stahl
mildred pierce -curtiz
les dames du bois de boulogne -bresson
the story of gi joe -wellman
the clock -minnelli

paris frills -becker
dark is the night -barnet
humayun- khan
identity unknown -colmes
the lost weekend- wilder

[sally]

wandering with the moon - hasse ekman

for all the adorably cute bad boy glint in ekman's progressive eye when he's talking about sex....he's throwing too much at this so it all comes out as a bit chaotic....

....all the repeated references to doubles, falsity, acting, homunculus(!), pretence, and the insane genre diversion into war adventure movie, all sort of hit you over the head (as per the wooden whacks in the smuggler's ship) that this is about how art (this airy-fairy unreal nonsense) can lead to tangible truth/salvation....which is a bit too grand a theme for all the enjoyable cynical smirks of the movie to carry....but anyway, ekman was only in it for about 10 mins and turned out to be disgustingly decent


however, there were enough 'omg this would never remotely happen in a hays code restricted movie' moments to make it watchable

[RogerTheMovieManiac]

Hi greenui!

Not a year I've really explored and the war certainly seems to have made it rather a UK and American-centric year, going by what I've seen/rated.

4 tiers:

Tier 1:
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Dead of Night (Cavalcanti, Crichton, Dearden, Hamer)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger)
The Cummington Story (1945, Grayson, Madison)

Tier 2:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kazan)
Story of G.I. Joe (Wellman)
Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl)
The Way to the Stars (Asquith)
Hangover Square (Brahm)

Tier 3:
Falbalas (Becker)
A Walk in the Sun (Milestone)
Blithe Spirit (Lean)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin)
Arshin Mal Alan (Leshchenko, Takhmasib)

Tier 4:
The Vampire's Ghost (Selander)
La vida en un hilo (Neville)
Swargaseema (Reddy)
The Body Snatcher (Wise)
Anchors Aweigh (Sidney, Hanna & Barbera)

[karl]

children of paradise
brief encounter
rome open city
they were expendable

nob hill
the famous sword bijomaru
dark is the night (barnet)
a tale of archery at the sanjusangendo

i know where i'm going!
the great flamarion
the story of gi joe
the southerner

dames du bois de boulogne
the gate of heaven (de sica)
leave her to heaven
scarlet street

mildred pierce
the house on 92nd street
the strange affair of uncle harry
fallen angel

[Silga]

Final list

Brief Encounter (David Lean)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)

Hangover Square (John Brahm)
Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill)

The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill)
Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (S. Sylvan Simon)
The Naughty Nineties (Jean Yarbrough)

[Holdrüholoheuho]

avantgarde/bauhaus sale off
buy the esthetics of the modernist worldview for a reduced price
and do not disturb...

DO NOT DISTURB ((a student film under the supervision of) László Moholy-Nagy, 1945)

[Holdrüholoheuho]

https://kinometer.com/?list=536

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945, 86m)
Wandering with the Moon (Hasse Ekman, 1945, 105m)
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1945, 3m)
The Eye and the Ear (Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson, 1945, 11m)

Visual Variations on Noguchi (Marie Menken, 1945, 4m)
Majdanek - Europe's Cemetary (Aleksander Ford, 1945, 24m)
Grandpa Planted a Beet (Jiří Trnka, 1945, 10m)
Sally the Sparrow (Unknown, 1945, 9m)

[rischka]

i'm watching anchors aweigh, it won't make my list but it's fun

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Didn't manage to watch/rewatch as much as I'd hoped. My disappointingly all-American list:

They Were Expendable (John Ford, MGM)
Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes, Republic)

Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, PRC)
Thrill of a Romance (Richard Thorpe, MGM)

Yolanda and the Thief (Vincente Minnelli, MGM)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, RKO)

Herr Meets Hare (Friz Freleng, Warner Bros. Cartoons)
Allotment Wives (William Nigh, Monogram)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Final:

Children Of Paradise
Detour
The Southerner
Twilight

Bugambilia
Identity Unknown
Scarlet Street
Spellbound

I Know Where I'm Going
Mildred Pierce
My Name Is Julia Ross
Rome Open City

Club Havana
Me He De Comer Esa Tuna
Sensation Hunters
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

[RenaultR]

One Tier

Detour
They Were Expendable
Rome, Open City