1936 poll

[dominicano1970]

The New Road (Gosho)

By the Bluest of Seas (Barnet)
Craig's Wife (Arzner)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
Desire (Borzage)
The Devil-Doll (Browning)
The Final Chord (Sirk)
Fury (Lang)
Let's Have a Dream (Guitry)
The Life and Loves of Beethoven (Gance)
Lloyds of London (King)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
Next Time We Love (Griffith)
The Plainsman (DeMille)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
The Road to Glory (Hawks)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (Dieterle)
Things to Come (Menzies)

[rischka]

i think i've got that gosho somewhere....

craig's wife is totally nuts. i love roz russell ♥ thought i'd seen all the good arzners

[sally]

i think i've got that gosho somewhere....

ooh, if you've got it can you put it in the place? not that i'll have time to watch it for the poll, but it was one of the ones i was looking for but couldn't find, and i'll always watch one of his whenever. there's also another gosho from 36 (woman of the mist) that's on youtube but the quality is appalling and i can't watch it

[pabs]

I watched more than half an hour of Camille and had to stop. The story bored me. Greta Garbo's enunciation is sometimes terrible. The end of her lines sometimes just trail off into completely garbled nonsense-sounds. Garbled Garbo.

I've not seen anything else of 1936 specifically for this poll and I'm not feeling motivated about it either.

[rischka]

i think i've got that gosho somewhere....

ooh, if you've got it can you put it in the place? not that i'll have time to watch it for the poll, but it was one of the ones i was looking for but couldn't find, and i'll always watch one of his whenever. there's also another gosho from 36 (woman of the mist) that's on youtube but the quality is appalling and i can't watch it

ok let me get sorted. i might have woman of the mist too...

[rischka]

done

[sally]

oh you

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

It doesn't look like I'll get to another movie before month's end, so here lies my final ballot. Ghastly timing to fall into a funk with one's viewing habit right when we're polling a year from my favourite screen decade. Ah well, it happens, and I did at least get in two '36 Bela Lugosi's, one of which makes my list (thanks greg!)

Too many goodies to choose from, so emphasis on diversity and the underseen.

1. La vie est à nous (Parti Communiste Français)
Three Smart Girls (Henry Koster)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
Cheer Up (Leo Mittler)
The Princess Comes Across (William K. Howard)
Captain January (David Butler)
Page Miss Glory (Tex Avery)
Big Brown Eyes (Raoul Walsh)
The CooCoo Nut Grove (Friz Freleng)
Naniwa erejî / Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Bullets or Ballots (William Keighley)
Postal Inspector (Otto Brower)
Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger)
Glückskinder / Lucky Kids (Paul Martin)
Jailbreak (Nick Grinde)
Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich)
Stage Struck (Busby Berkeley)
Wife vs. Secretary (Clarence Brown)

[sally]

just watched gypsy melody and as per lencho, why didn't the jokes land? the script was there, and greville makes it look lovely. so....is he just not great at comedy? is it the unzippy britishness of it? it should have worked, but it didn't quite, and i'm sad about that

oooh and cinematography by claude friese green, how random

[sally]

more ooo, vmv 6, desperately dull title, and literally the same story i've seen over and over, but it's very finnish, sea-based and has regina linnanheimo being all weirdly naturalistic young girl and totally un-tulio. i enjoyed it cuz i like everything finnish, and the print quality is pristine....but not making my final list, even tho it's adventure fun

WAVES WASHING THE SAND (that's the title, this time) on the other hand is last-minute argh, i LOVED this, seashore based existential chinese crime fatalism. but the print quality is cack.

[ofrene]

Modern Times

The Only Son
Mr. Thank You
A Day in the Country
Fury
My Man Godfrey
The Story of a Cheat
Sisters of the Gion
Osaka Elegy
Dodsworth
Sabotage

[brian d]

thank goodness for short films, managed to fit in three and it brings me up to a nice round 20 and this might be the only time i vote for an ozu film in any of these polls

rose hobart (cornell)
redes (zinnemann; gómez muriel)
mr thank you (shimizu)
vámanos con pancho villa (de fuentes)
by the bluest of seas (barnet)
amar jyoti (shantaram)
priest of darkness (yamanaka)
the fountain of arethusa (kirsanoff)*
the prisoner of shark island (ford)
sisters of the gion (mizoguchi)
the only son (ozu)
le retour à la vie (dulac)
may (zahradníček, burian)*
modern times (chaplin)
allá en el rancho grande (de fuentes)
les bas-fonds (renoir)
carne de fieras (guerra)
houses of poverty (storck)
sant tukaram (damle; fattelal)
jeune fille au jardin (kirsanoff)*

[Lencho of the Apes]

Learning that 25 horses died during the shooting of battle scenes for ]b]Charge Of The Light Brigade]/b] takes some of the fun out of watching imperialist occupiers killing brown people to further their own economic interests.

[thoxans]

some of the fun

would it help to know they were arabian horses?

[rischka]

watched a bunch of stuff but added just 4*

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
vamanos con pancho villa
swing time
César
story of a cheat
mr thank you
follow the fleet
by the bluest of seas
3 godfathers
desire - borzage
show boat - whale
my man godfrey
the only son - ozu
dodsworth
sisters of the gion
sabotage
ceiling zero - hawks*
das madchen irene*
craig's wife*
the new road - gosho*

here's an adorable shot of tanaka and takamine (who was just 12)



sorry i didn't get to: allotria, intermezzo, gluckskinder

[sally]

das mädchen irene was great - started off thinking it was just some irritating little girl film and then i was like 'kill them ALL!!!'

[niminy-piminy]

das mädchen irene was great - started off thinking it was just some irritating little girl film and then i was like 'kill them ALL!!!'

!!!

[Lonnie]

1. Jánošík (Martin Frič)

A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)  -- is this one allowed?
Fury (Fritz Lang)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
The Girl Irene (Reinhold Schünzel)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
Tochuken Kumoemon/Man of the House (Mikio Naruse)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
The Black Network (Roy Mack)  -- to make up for Swing Time
Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
The Lion Dance (Yasujiro Ozu)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Il caso Valdemar (Ubaldo Magnaghi/Gianni Hoepli)

[ororama]

1. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Mayerling (Anatole Litvak)
Intermezzo (Gustaf Molander)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)
Show Boat (James Whale)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Frank Capra)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks)
Dracula's Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
Mr. Thank-You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Soigne Ton Gauche (René Clément)
‎Black and White Rhapsody (Martin Frič)

[sally]

oh...not gonna vote for it cuz i've limited myself to one per director (poor renoir, poor poor guitry) but louis jouvet and a snail?? YES.

[sally]

final list

fährmann maria / ferryman maria
café moszkva / café moscow
tredowata / leper
lang tao sha / waves washing the sand
allotria
tochuken kumoemon / man of the house
faisons un rêve... / let's make a dream
intermezzo
craig's wife
rose hobart
u samogo sinego morya / by the bluest of seas
the devil-doll
show boat
arigatô-san / mr. thank you
gion no shimai / sisters of the gion
secret agent
le crime de monsieur lange
dodsworth
das mädchen irene / the girl irene
dracula's daughter

would have loved to have seen janosik and the henri storck, but i'm not on kg so

and yeah. not knowing my fred astaire that well, that scene in swing time was a shock

[rischka]

fred's one and only blackface scene i assure you!! he and bill robinson were friends and it was meant as a tribute. blackface was a vaudeville thing that even black people did. greg explained this to me the first time i saw wonder bar. still can't quite stomach that one. and i will never watch holiday inn with that condescending bing crosby number. i do totally get where you're coming from. but i adore fred ♥

[niminy-piminy]

would have loved to have seen janosik

i hope, it is not too late going to "Resources".

as i said in František Vláčil poll that "Shadows of a Hot Summer" triggered in infant-me for a while a home invasion trauma, "Jánošík" on the other hand formed my first concept of "the worst possible death". i watched it already as an infant too and within my unripe brain i could not think of anything worse than being hanged on the hook (i didn't know yet people can be cooked in brazen bull and alike). whenever i contemplated it, i was almost getting an unpleasant sensation inbetween my ribs, so i had to force my mind to think of something else to avoid self-imposed suffering. whoever wants to realize a hook is not just an innocent hand prosthetic for a pirate, go to "Resources" as well...

[lineuphere]

1. The Only Son (Yasujirō Ozu)

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
Thru the Mirror (David Hand)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Priest of Darkness (Yamanaka)
Big Brown Eyes (Raoul Walsh)
Redes (Zinnemann; Gómez Muriel)
I Love to Singa (Tex Avery)
Men Are Not Gods (Walter Reisch)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
Camille (Cukor)
San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)

[john ryan]

Final list:

1. The Story of a Cheat (Guitry)

Modern Times (Chaplin)
A Day in the Country (Renoir)
The Only Son (Ozu)
My Man Godfrey (la Cava)
Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
Mr. Thank You (Shimizu)
Swing Time (Stevens)
I Love to Singa (Avery)
By the Bluest of Seas (Barnet)
Carnival in Flanders (Feyder)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)
Fury (Lang)
Cesar (Pagnol)
Libeled Lady (Conway)
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
Redes (Muriel, Zinnemann)
Dodsworth (Wyler)
Things to Come (Menzies)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Ceiling Zero - Hawks

Achhut Kanya -
Alla En El Rancho Grande -
The Circus - Grigory Aleksandrov
Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
Devil Doll - Browning
Dodsworth - Wyler
Dracula's Daughter
Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar)
Follow The Fleet -
Fury - Lang
The General Died At Dawn - Milestone
Prometheus - Kava
Redes - Fred Zinnemann, E. Gomez Muriel
Rose Hobart
Sabotage - Hitchcock
Sant Tukaram - V G
Secret Agent- Hitchcock
Theodora Goes Wild
Vamonos Con Pancho Villa - de Fuentes

[thoxans]

My Man Godfrey (Ozu)

dopest ozu

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. My Man Godfrey (La Cava)

Craig's Wife (Arzner)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Sant Tukaram (Damle and Fattelal)
Let's Go with Pancho Villa (de Fuentes)
The Story of a Cheat (Guitry)
Fury (Lang)
The Only Son (Ozu)
Mr. Thank You (Shimizu)
Dodsworth (Wyler)

[john ryan]

My Man Godfrey (Ozu)

dopest ozu

Ozu really sped things up with that one.

Fixed.

[...]

It's that time again eh? sigh... Didn't get to watch anything new yet again, but hopefully I'll have more time and opportunity soon.

Garden of Allah
Mayerling
Rembrandt
Swing Time
Dodsworth
Postal Inspector
Mr. Thank You
The Story of a Cheat
Poppy
Yiddle with His Fiddle

By the Bluest of Seas
Rose Hobart
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Secret Agent
Things to Come
Our Relations
Let's Go with Pancho Villa
The Devil Doll
Pennies from Heaven
Private Number


Oh and just to be clear Wonderbar is totally racist, but I find the particular way it uses its racist conceptions to be fascinating and meaningful within its context for revealing a subtext to the story that comes from seeing it from a modern perspective. Fred's tribute to Bill Robinson is kinda the opposite, something that had one meaning when it was made, where Astaire's attempt to celebrate Robinson now comes off in a contrary manner for how the history of blackface is now understood, but the total prohibition, as right as it is in today's context, misses some of the complicating elements in some uses of it in the past, such as in Astaire's tribute among others.