1949 poll

[rischka]

i've started watching under capricorn. knew literally nothing about this except it was hitchcock.







and my dears it certainly is. and deliciously gothic too. hitch made an alarming number of great pictures. we'll see if this is one.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Pirates Of Capri is truly loveable, Edgar G. looks like he's having so! much! fun!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22the+pirate ... iax=images

[rischka]

oooh psycho louis hayward too. heads up: this is on youtube

under capricorn was better than it's reputation suggests. i wish i hadn't read the comments about burt lancaster turning it down. couldn't help seeing him in the cotton role!

[Lencho of the Apes]

We Were Strangers - John Huston

I'm not too keen on Huston, and the first reels of this used back-projection so insistently I started wondering if there was some "meaning" to be read from that choice... But once it picked up speed it became a thing I couldn't notlove, endorsing terrorist activities and armed insurrection like the bestest adventures a boy could ever have. A big ol' FuckYou to HUAC.

Who most certainly deserved it.

Did you ever think you'd see Jennifer Jones like THIS?

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[rischka]

WTF k now i have to watch this

[rischka]

oooh psycho louis hayward too. heads up: this is on youtube

edit: the one on dailymotion looks a bit better. score by nino rota and a decent budget for ulmer. it is fun!!

[Lencho of the Apes]

The copy of Capri that I found at HmB looks rather better; it might be worth the extra trouble. Here are some screencaps.

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[rischka]

delirious fun. i don't even mind that they stole the plot of the scarlet pimpernel!~ but then so did a lot of others i guess

Orczy's premise of a daring hero who cultivates a secret identity disguised by a meek or ineffectual manner proved enduring. Zorro, The Shadow, The Phantom, Superman and Batman followed within a few decades, and the trope remains a popular one in serial fiction today.

[St. Gloede]

We Were Strangers - John Huston

I'm not too keen on Huston, and the first reels of this used back-projection so insistently I started wondering if there was some "meaning" to be read from that choice... But once it picked up speed it became a thing I couldn't notlove, endorsing terrorist activities and armed insurrection like the bestest adventures a boy could ever have. A big ol' FuckYou to HUAC.

Who most certainly deserved it.

Did you ever think you'd see Jennifer Jones like THIS?


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I love John Huston, in fact I have seen everything he made until '58 with the exception of this and Across the Pacific. I have no idea why it was not higher on my radar, but now I have to see it!

[Lencho of the Apes]

I have to!

I'll put a thing in the place late tonight, in case anyone's having a hard time finding this. Check back tomorrow.

[greennui]

Hellfire (R.G. Springsteen, 1949) - This was a lovely, colourful RKO western. Marie Windsor as an outlaw that unwillingly gets a gambling preacher as a travel companion. A little preachy but what the hell.

[...]

So women with weapons is going to be the theme of the year? It'd make for an interesting match with all the Bovaryesque movies that also came out during the year.

[liquidnature]

those screenshots though

[Angel]

So women with weapons is going to be the theme of the year? It'd make for an interesting match with all the Bovaryesque movies that also came out during the year.

Easy Living, Father Was a Fullback, It Happens Every Spring, The Stratton Story, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, plus Champion and The Set-Up...

[...]

Easy Living hits both the sports and the women who want too much/Bovary tips. If Lucille Ball packed heat it'd be a trifecta!

[Lencho of the Apes]

Too bad Gun Crazy was the following year...

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

My watchlist didn't have any westerns on it, but Hellfire looks so gorgeous that I had to add the westerns back in... That now makes for a grand total of 80 titles on my '49 watchlist, eeep.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Hans Le Marin - Francois Villiers

Poetic-realism/Sternbergness. Kinda loses its mojo during the middle third wandering around looking for subplots, but the bleak-n-beautiful noirness of the good parts was enough for me. Plus, Maria Montez trying to imitate Maria Felix, how can that not be a selling-point?

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[greennui]

^ Yeah, I thought it was on the verge of being a really good film. Marcel Dalio in a bit part role as well, essential!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Under Capricorn is absolutely stunning and sorely in need of major critical reappraisal: sumptuous Technicolor and labyrinthine long takes galore

[oscarwerner]

My favorite top 20 movies of 1949
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The Third Man (by Carol Reed)-my top hit
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Other 19 films not in special order:
Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff)
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Sands of Iwo Jima (Allan Dwan)
Champion (Mark Robson)
Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)
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All the King's Men (Robert Rossen)
Between Eleven and Midnight (Henry Decoin)
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
The Passionate Friends (David Lean)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
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Obsession (Edward Dmytryk)
The Walls of Malapaga (René Clément )
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Boys from the Streets (Ulf Greber, Arne Skouen)
Pattes blanches (Jean Grémillon)

[vaka]

1- Le Silence de la Mer
- Stray Dog
- The Third Man
- The Heiress
- Thieves’ Highway
- Late Spring
- Act of Violence
- The Set-Up
- White Heat
- Bitter Rice

[rischka]

nice screens evelyn! i tried to catch that last one but it eluded me. i believe there was an answering frame of bergman w/candlesticks too. what an odd shot

[karl]

Kind Hearts and Coronets is awesome.

[Angel]

Manon

Adam's Rib
Aoi sanmyaku & Zoku aoi sanmyaku (Blue Mountains I & II)
Cielo sulla palude (Heaven Over the Marshes)
Criss Cross
D.O.A.
Døden er et kjærtegn (Death Is a Caress)
Fiamma che non si spegne (The Flame that Never Dies)
I Was a Male War Bride
Il lupo della Sila (Lure of the Sila)
In nome della legge (In the Name of the Law)
Intruder in the Dust
Ojôsan kanpai (Here's to the Young Lady)
Pattes blanches
Rendez-vous de juillet (Rendezvous in July)
Riso amaro (Bitter Rice)
Rotation
San Mao liu lang ji (An Orphan on the Streets)
Thieves' Highway
Twelve O'Clock High

20 more:
Battleground
Champion
Don Juan de Serrallonga
El gran calavera (The Great Madcap)
Fabiola
I pirati di Capri (The Pirates of Capri)
Impact
La città dolente (City of Pain)
Lost Boundaries
Occupe-toi d'Amélie..! (Keep an Eye on Amelia)
Salón México
Samson and Delilah
Sands of Iwo Jima
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Shizukanaru kettô (The Quiet Duel)
The Heiress
The Reckless Moment
Under Capricorn
White Heat
Wuya yu maque (Crows and Sparrows)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S):
Banshun
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Le sang des bêtes
The Third Man

To see before the deadline:
Nemá barikáda
Stalingradskaya bitva I & II
Yotsuya kaidan & Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan: kôhen
Zhong Hua nu er

Wanted:
Ai le zhongnian
Bara en mor
Gatan
Geheimnisvolle Tiefe
Ghazal al-banat
Le point du jour
Les noces de sable
Märchen vom Glück
Sword in the Desert
Unser täglich Brot

[rischka]

Crows and sparrows was great and it will make my list. Also continuing the women w/weapons theme, I watched catene

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1139 ... 97734?s=19

Quite norish. And she should've

[pabs]

Under Capricorn is absolutely stunning and sorely in need of major critical reappraisal: sumptuous Technicolor and labyrinthine long takes galore

I agree.

I think David Thomson's comments here hit the nail on the head. I really admire Thomson's succinctness, and he also mentions his admiration for those awesome long takes.




(From Have You Seen...?, David Thomson (2008).

[rischka]

thanks to nrh for recommending pattes blanches. what an atmosphere!



i was at first skeptical of the obvious story but i should have trusted gremillon. it's as haunting as any of his films

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Just finished the Japanese Invisible Man movie from 1949. It's thoroughly awesome and will definitely make my list.

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can you up?