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I'm going to watch The Queen of Spades and Heaven over the Marshes, but unless those are really good this's final:

In the Name of the Law (Pietro Germi)

The Third Man
Le Silence de la Mer
Stray Dog
Kind Hearts and Coronets
My Love Has Been Burning aka Flame of Love (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Twelve O'Clock High
Thieves' Highway
Act of Violence
Reign of Terror aka The Black Book
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Late Spring
Au royaume des cieux (Julien Duvivier)
Such a Pretty Little Beach
The Mill on the Po (Alberto Lattuada)
The Last Illusion (Josef von Báky)
The Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju)
The Set-up
Pattes Blanches
The Earth Cries Out (Duilio Coletti)

Late Spring

A Hometown in Heart
Criss Cross
Deatb Is a Caress
Flame of My Love
Jour de fete
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Reign of Terror
Stray Dog
The Heiress
The Passionate Friends
The Reckless Moment
The Set-Up
The Silence of the Sea
The Small Back Room
The Third Man
White Heat

Rendezvous in July (Becker)

Act of Violence (Zinnemann)
Adam's Rib (Cukor)
Battleground (Wellman)
Chains (Matarazzo)
The Earth Cries Out (Coletti)
The Great Madcap (Buñuel)
Here's to the Young Lady (Kinoshita)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Life in Shadows (Llobet Gracia)
Not Wanted (Clifton, Lupino)
The Pirates of Capri (Ulmer)
The Reckless Moment (Ophüls)
Samson and Delilah (DeMille)
Sands of Iwo Jima (Dwan)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford)
Shockproof (Sirk)
Twelve O'Clock High (King)
Whisky Galore! (Mackendrick)
White Heat (Walsh)

Final list:

1. House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Champion (Mark Robson)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
Whirlpool (Otto Preminger)

I'm in the middle of Germi's In nome della legge and it feels like a kind of mix of Visconti and Pasolini. Loving it!

Evelyn wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:15 pm Japanese Invisible Man movie

I had to go look for a replacement copy of this, and while I was searching, I ran across a JPN-1957 Invisible Man Mets The Human Fly which now intrigues me no end. Human Fly a la Vincent Price? Before Vincent Price? Gimme!

Going to watch INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS soon as part of today's japanese 1949 double-bill

started with the relatively unseen HERE'S TO THE YOUNG LADY by kinoshita, starring setsuko hara as a potential bride (wow). great stuff. won't quite make my list, but a solid 3.5/5 and the best kinoshita i've had so far. the music is huge in this movie. from the western score to the japanese folk songs to the classical music ballet scenes, this is a story told to the temperment of music. hara is great, and it's nice to see her outside of a kurosawa/ozu flick (i don't think i had until this)

Final list:

1. The Silence of the Sea (Melville)

Such a Pretty Little Beach (Allegret)
Mahal (Amrohi)
Rendezvous in July (Becker)
Bitter Rice (De Santis)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
The Passionate Friends (Lean)
Flame of My Love (Mizoguchi)
Late Spring (Ozu)
White Heat (Walsh)
Inspiration (Zeman)

Mahal
The Third Man
Crows and Sparrows
Late Spring
Bitter Rice
The Heiress
Jour de fete
Easy Living
Portrait of an Assassin
Madame Bovary
White Heat
DOA
Christmas USA
Salon Mexico
La oveja Negra
Barkley's of Broadway
Small Back Room
Prince of Foxes
It's a Great Feeling
Cossacks of the Kuban

Final list I guess. Had to leave out a few I would have rather kept, mostly crime thrillers and a couple more musicals, but I figure everyone else has the kudzu that is "noir" covered and I can't list everything, so this will have to do.

Living in Shadows (Llorenç Llobet-Grácia, 1949)

Mr. Shosuke Ohara (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1949)
Rendezvous in July (Jacques Becker, 1949)
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949)
Border Incident (Anthony Mann, 1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, 1949)
Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu, 1949)
Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949)
The Big Day (Jacques Tati, 1949)
Salon Mexico (Emilio Fernández, 1949)
Mahal (Kamal Amrohi, 1949)
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise, 1949)
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller, 1949)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1949)
Caught (Max Ophüls, 1949)
A Hometown in Heart (Yoon Yong-Kyu, 1949)
Flame of My Love (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1949)
Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949)

Muh final ballot:

Mr. Shoshuke Ohara - Shimizu

Barsaat - Kapoor
Una Familia De Tantas - Galindo
Hans Le Marin - Villiers
Knock On Any Door - Ray
Late Spring - Ozu
Lola Casanova -
La Malquerida - Fernandez
La Oveja Negra - Rodriguez
Pueblerina - Fernandez
Salon Mexico - fernandez
San Mao Liu lang Ji / An orphan named San Mao - Gong Yan / Ming Zhao
Une si jolie petite plage - Allegret
La Silence De La Mer - Melville
Stray Dog - Kurosawa
Third Man - reed
We Were Strangers - Huston
White Heat - Walsh
Yotsuya Kwaidan 1/2 - Kinoshita

The current thing will become the previous thing in approximately four (4) temporal units.

FUCK

can I add Pattes Blanches?????

I literally JUST finished it

A mostly not boring list! (from #3 onward...)

1
Third Man - reed

2
Late Spring - Ozu

3
Riso Amaro - de Santis
Stray Dog - Kurosawa
Thieves' Highway - Dassin

6
Mr. Shoshuke Ohara - Shimizu
Pattes Blanches - Gremillon
La Silence De La Mer - Melville

9
Criss-Cross - Siodmak
The Set-Up - Wise

11
Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown)
Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King)
Under Capricorn - Hitchcock
White Heat - Walsh

15
The Heiress
kind hearts and coronets (hamer)
Une si jolie petite plage - Allegret
The Small Back Room - Powell/Pressburger

19
Døden er et kjærtegn (1949, Edith Carlmar)
In The Name Of The Law - Germi
life in the shadows (llorenç llobet-graciá)
Mahal
The reckless Moment - Ophuls
Rendezvous En Juillet - Beckr
Salon Mexico - fernandez

26
act of violence
Adam's Rib (George Cukor)
Battleground (William Wellman)
I Shot Jesse james - Fuller
Jour de fete - Tati
maeumui gohyang/a hometown in heart (yoon yong-kyu)
Manon - Clouzot
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - Ford
Shockproof - Sirk
Waga Koi Wa Moenu / My Love Burns - Mizoguchi

37 - 44
DOA - Mate
Hellfire (R.G. Springsteen)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Madame Bovary - Minnelli
Mura de Malapaga -Clement
The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)
Reign Of terror - Anthony Mann
Whirlpool - Preminger

Page one of the thread is always the last one I tabulate, so bure got in there with that thing.

thx lencho for boosting ohara shosuke-san who ended in the top ten!

1949 was a very good year list

and everyone fighting the battle against the third man who still came out on top. one of my longstanding faves from earliest cinephilia so i could never leave it out

this result is ok with me except crows and sparrows deserved more views...

don't like The Third Man, and was never a fan of it. Don't understand why people love it.
Cotten's character is such an asshole and creep - thank god Miss Valli gives him the cold shoulder...