1954 poll 2.0

[thoxans]

choose your favorite films from 1954 (according to imdb)

each person can vote for up to 20 films. do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. ballots can be formatted as follows:
- five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- no tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film

a tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
-- a five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
-- a four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
-- a two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
*any number of films up to 20 that is not a multiple of five, four, or two cannot be tiered. apologies to enthusiasts of 19, 17, 13, 11, 9, 7, 3, and 1

users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. you may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline. ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list

deadline for 1954 lists will be saturday, july 31st, at approximately whatever time i feel like yo

[Lencho of the Apes]

Preliminary-style, I like these a lot

La Ilusion Viaja En Tranvia
Rear Window
El Rio Y La Muerte - Bunuel
La Strada


and these a little

As Negro - Fernando Mendez
Los Aventureros - Fernando Mendez
Human Desire - Lang
Private Hell 36 - Don Siegel
Rebelion De Los Colgados - A Crevenna, E Fernandez (Local critics dismissed it for lurid, irreponsible, exploitative... all I really remember is a fade-out on P Armendariz asking a young peasant woman "You like those boots, don't you?")
Them!

[niminy-piminy]

https://youtu.be/L9VoRmjxvPs

[greennui]

Human Desire (Fritz Lang)
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
Princess of the Nile (Harmon Jones)
An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
Nus masculins (François Reichenbach)
Last Spring (François Reichenbach)
Another Sky (Gavin Lambert)
L’air de Paris (Marcel Carné)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

Godzilla (Ishirō Honda)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
The Purple Plain (Robert Parrish)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)
The Beacon (Wolfgang Staudte)
The Raid (Hugo Fregonese)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
The Last Bridge (Helmut Käutner)

Watchlist:

A Lesson in Love (Ingmar Bergman)
Boris Godunov (Vera Stroyeva)
Dial M for Murder (rewatch)
Johnny Guitar (rewatch)
Journey to Italy (rewatch)
La Strada (rewatch)
Sansho the Bailiff (rewatch)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (rewatch)
Seven Samurai (rewatch)
The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Them! (Gordon Douglas)'

[rischka]

tough tough year

journey to italy
a free woman
an inn at osaka
the crucified lovers
seven samurai
brigadoon
human desire (i see you greennui)
illusion travels by streetcar
shield for murder
sound of the mountain
another sky (thx greg from 1.0)
the raid
touchez pas au grisbi
late chrysanthemums
rear window
wuthering heights
silver lode
naukari
magic city
the adventures of hajji baba (perhaps not pc but give it a try!)

watchlist:

ditch (shindo)
four guns to the border
passion (dwan)
raices
senso
broken lance
river of no return
impulse (endfield)
fear (la paura)
amar
the purple plain

[niminy-piminy]

ballot...

The Way to the Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)
Gyromorphosis (Hy Hirsh)
Man is in Pain (Larry Jordan)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
Crazeologie (Louis Malle)
Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Helmut Käutner)
Wuthering Heights (Luis Buñuel)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)

Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel)
Closed Vision (Marc’O)
The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey)
The Grasshopper and the Ant (Lotte Reiniger)
By Word of Mouse (Friz Freleng)
Puss in Boots (Lotte Reiniger)
In Paris Parks (Shirley Clarke)
The Flea Circus (Tex Avery)
Thumbelina (Lotte Reiniger)
Kutasek and Kutilka - Getting Up in the Morning (Jiří Trnka)

--------------------------------

in the last few yrs, logged (4!)...
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi)
THE FARM OF TOMORROW (Tex Avery)
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (Stanley Donen)
GYROMORPHOSIS (Hy Hirsh) probably made in 1956 but unreliable databases like IMDb or Ltbxd list it as a 1954 film so gonna include it in 1954 ballot
THE SLEEPING TIGER (Joseph Losey)
SENSO (Luchino Visconti)

in a more distant past, watched (1!)...
ILLUSION TRAVELS BY STREETCAR (Luis Buñuel)
HOBSON'S CHOICE (David Lean)
REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
ANIMAL FARM (Joy Batchelor, John Halas)
PIGS IS PIGS (Jack Kinney)
SILVERY WIND (Václav Krška)
JAN HUS (Otakar Vávra)

watched for the poll (15)...
KUTASEK AND KUTILKA - GETTING UP IN THE MORNING (Jiří Trnka)
CRAZY TOWN (Izzy Sparber)
EVOLUTION (Jim Davis)
FORM PHASES IV (Robert Breer)
5/ THE EXTRAORDINARY CHILD (Stan Brakhage)
THE FLEA CIRCUS (Tex Avery)
HOWDY DOODY AND HIS MAGIC HAT (Gene Deitch)
THE WAY TO THE SHADOW GARDEN (Stan Brakhage)
IN PARIS PARKS (Shirley Clarke)
10/ INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (Kenneth Anger)
HOMESTEADER DROOPY (Tex Avery)
BEWITCHED BUNNY (Chuck Jones)
DESISTFILM (Stan Brakhage)
I'M COLD (Tex Avery)
15/ THURSDAY'S CHILDREN (Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton)
CRAZEOLOGIE (Louis Malle)
MAN IS IN PAIN (Larry Jordan)
THE CHANGING EARTH (Bert Haanstra)
SOCIAL LION (Jack Kinney)
20/ BY WORD OF MOUSE (Friz Freleng)
THE SEAPREME COURT (Seymour Kneitel)
ARE YOU AMONGST THEM? (Jerzy Hoffman, Edward Skórzewski)
PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Helmut Käutner)
CLOSED VISION (Marc’O)
25/ THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT (Lotte Reiniger)
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (Lotte Reiniger)
THUMBELINA (Lotte Reiniger)
PUSS IN BOOTS (Lotte Reiniger)
THE FROG PRINCE (Lotte Reiniger)
30/ WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Luis Buñuel)

[rischka]

i may rewatch sansho the bailiff after all it was the #1 FILM OF ALL TIME as voted by the mubi forum lol

[Pretentious Hipster]

I'll try to stay on top of it this time lol should post here more anyways

Unranked

The Purple Plain - Robert Parrish
七人の侍 [Seven Samurai] - Akira Kurosawa
山椒大夫 [Sansho the Bailiff] - Kenji Mizoguchi
Another Sky - Gavin Lambert
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - Kenneth Anger
Salt of the Earth - Herbert Biberman
Μαγική Πόλη [The Magic City] - Nikos Koundouros
噂の女 [The Woman in the Rumor] - Kenji Mizoguchi
大阪の宿 [An Inn at Osaka] - Heinosuke Gosho
近松物語 [The Crucified Lovers] - Kenji Mizoguchi

[flip]

The Purple Plain (Robert Parrish)
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)
The Raid (Hugo Fregonese)
Ride Clear of Diablo (Jesse Hibbs)

Shield for Murder (Howard Koch/Edmond O'Brien)
Human Desire (Fritz Lang)
Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
The Mad Magician (John Brahm)
Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)

Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland)
Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel)

Cattle Queen of Montana (Allan Dwan)
The Outcast (William Witney)
Twelve Angry Men (Franklin Schaffner)
The 'Maggie' (Alexander Mackendrick)

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[rischka]

adding purple plain to watchlist. ulysses (with kirk douglas and anthony quinn!!!) is pretty damn good







one of the few times kirk douglas is perfect for the role. they were all so young and beautiful. yes even kirk

[karl]

Sansho is my all time #1. Mizoguchi was really on fire in 1954. Good to see the love for Purple Plain.

Contendahs (as in I coulda been a)

Sansho
Crucified Lovers
Woman in the Rumor
7 Samurai
Sound of the Mountain
Purple Plain
Gold of Naples
Human Desire
Garden of Evil
The High and the Mighty
La Spiaggia (Lattuada)
Sabrina
Journey to Italy
The Anna Cross aka Anna Round the Neck
Senso
Raíces
Abismos de Pasión
Rear Window
Garden of Women (Kinoshita)
Silver Lode
On the Waterfront
La Strada
An Inn in Osaka
Magnificent Obsession
Late Chrysanthemums
Hobson's Choice
Touchez pas au grisbi
The Far Country

[Curtis, baby]

Drive A Crooked Road
La Strada
On the Waterfront

Hands Off the Loot
Seven Samurai
Shield for Murder

Dial M for Murder
Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi
Illusion Travels by Streetcar

White Christmas
Sansho the Bailiff
Johnny Guitar

Rear Window
Silver Lode
The Sleeping Tiger

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Expressive esoterica recs:
- Homesteader Droopy (Tex Avery)
- Bewitched Bunny (Chuck Jones)
- Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman)
- Masterson of Kansas (William Castle)
- Ride Clear of Diablo (Jesse Hibbs)
- Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese)
- The Raid (Hugo Fregonese)
- An American in Rome (Steno)

[sally]

it's only when you do year polls you realize eg for instance bloody hell mizoguchi what were you on to knock out three masterpieces this year?

also, two of cinema's hottest men looking hot in great films:
giorgos foundas in magic city and omar sharif & his ripped shirt in siraa fil-wadi

then korea doing the non-woman woman thing in the hand of destiny, but, still, good film, and one of the best indonesian films i've seen - after the curfew. i really really loved another sky when i saw it moons ago, but not sure if it holds up now?

& nothing that's making me desperately excited on my watchlist, so probably won't get to many, but uh, i have never seen seven samurai so might rectify that. at least there appears to be less singing & dancing this year thank god! (at least, it seems easier to avoid it)

[greennui]

An Odyssey film from this era is mighty tempting but Douglas in the lead role, not so much.

Def need to prioritize the Seven Samurai rewatch, t'was the first old foreign canon film I watched as a teenager. Loved it but haven't seen it since

Obscurest film on my list: Princess of the Nile. An entertaining, trashy B film, basically where Lang got the snake dance idea from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdOvr1HXWdg

[greennui]

The Beacon (Wolfgang Staudte) - Visually striking mood piece. Whiskey Galore as directed by Jean Epstein or something like that, heh.

[sally]

is it available somewhere obvious or if not can you put in res?

[greennui]

is it available somewhere obvious or if not can you put in res?

Obviously.

[rischka]

I'm not an izzy fan and you're missing out. I'll watch the snake movie tho and the lighthouse movie

[nrh]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Amar (Mehboob Khan)
Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman)
Passion (Allan Dwan)
Silver Lode (Allan Dwan)
Cattle Queen of Montana (Allan Dwan)
Aar Paar (Guru Dutt)
Boot Polish (Prakash Arora) *
Andha Naal (S. Balachander)
Taxi Driver (Chetan Anand)
Brigadoon (Vincente Minelli)
The Raid (Hugo Fregonese)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)


*this was ghost directed by raj kapoor

[rischka]

ok admittedly kirk doesn't sing in ulysses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU

[nrh]

20,000 leagues under the sea does something very powerful - represent the full range of guys that exist. from kirk to james mason to peter lorre to paul lukas. there might be other types of men (a george sanders or a cary grant are rare butterflies) but this movie really hits all the bases.

[rischka]

that's a bold claim! haven't seen it since i was a kid and now i kind of want to xD

[oscarwerner]

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
---
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
---
Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
---
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
Sound of the Mountain ( Mikio Naruse)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Robert Vernay)
Magic City (Nikos Koundouros)
----
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen)
The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
Animal Farm ( Joy Batchelor, John Halas)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)

[wba]

Films seen: 50+


Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, USA)
Across the Heart (Guru Dutt, India)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Helmut Käutner, West Germany)
Hands Off the Loot (Jacques Becker, France/Italy)
Broken Lance (Edward Dmytryk, USA)

Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman, USA)
Apache (Robert Aldrich, USA)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
The Sweetest Fruit (Franz Antel, West Germany)
Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman, USA)

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, USA)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Silent Angel (Harald Reinl, West Germany)
A Bullet Is Waiting (John Farrow, USA)
The Road (Federico Fellini, Italy)

[niminy-piminy]

1954 poll No3:
EVOLUTION (Jim Davis)

https://archive.org/details/1954JimDavisEvolution

[niminy-piminy]

1954 poll No4:
FORM PHASES IV (Robert Breer)

https://youtu.be/x1M0N5fUYac

[niminy-piminy]

1954 poll No5:
THE EXTRAORDINARY CHILD (Stan Brakhage)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4k93kc

[St. Gloede]

Seems to have been a very strong year for Japanese dramas (not to mention Kenji Mizoguchi, with 3 listings), however, Another Sky is the top recommendation from me.

1. Bangiku / Late Chrysanthemums (1954, Mikio Naruse)
2. Sanshô dayû / Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
4. Another Sky (1954, Gavin Lambert)

5. Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
6. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Nijûshi no hitomi / Twenty-Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
8. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954, Jacques Rivette)

9. The Barefoot Contessa (1954, Joeseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Huis-clos / No Exit (1954, Jacqueline Audry)
11. Siraa Fil-Wadi / The Blazing Sun / Trouble in the Valley (1954, Youssef Chahine)
12. Ôsaka no yado / An Inn at Osaka (1954, Heinosuke Gosho)

13. White Christmas (1954, Michael Curtiz)
14. Very Cruz (1954, Robert Aldrich)
15. Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
16. La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)

17. Garden of Evil (1954, Henry Hathaway)
18. La Ilusión viaja en tranvía / Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954, Luis Bunuel)
19. The Raid (1954, Hugo Fregonese)
20. Uwasa no onna / The Woman in the Rumor (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)