1955 Poll 2.0

[wba]

Wonderful year!

Films seen: 60*

My Top 20

DIe Deutschmeister (Ernst Marischka, Austria)
EIn Herz voll Musik (Robert Adolf Stemmle, West Germany)
Kokoro "The Heart" (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, USA)
Alibi (Alfred Weidenmann, West Germany)

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)
Pather Panchali "Song of the Little Road" (Satyajit Ray, India)
Ukigumo "Floating Clouds" (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
The Kentuckian (Burt Lancaster, USA)
Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, USA)

Revenge of the Creature (Jack Arnold, USA)
Sissi (Ernst Marischka, Austria)
Five Guns West (Roger Corman, USA)
3rd Ave. El (Carson Davidson, USA)
Solange du lebst "As Long as You Live" (Harald Reinl, West Germany)

Ordet "The Word" (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan, USA)
Die Barrings (Rolf Thiele, West Germany)
The Court Jester (Melvin Frank/Norman Panama , USA)
We're No Angels (Michael Curtiz, USA)

[rischka]

you guys are missing out on the littlest outlaw



next up the tall men

[rischka]

the tall men is right snowy

[rischka]

ok only the beginning was snowy but it is in scope! i'd have to say it's pretty minor walsh but i enjoy these actors deciding who is indeed the tallest man

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1536 ... DL6NeRx3OQ

i know some people have no jane russell tolerance but i like her. i just wonder if that off the shoulder blouse was in her contract, it's practically all she gets to wear

[...]

Who doesn't like Jane Russell? I mean, sure, she's sometimes misused, but when the role's a fit for her, she's aces.

[St. Gloede]

Very interesting top picks, wba. Do you know if Die Deutschmeister, Ein Herz voll Musik or Alibi are out with English subtitles anywhere?

[wba]

^^ I love German(-language) cinema, and Ernst Marischka and Robert Adolf Stemmle are two of my all-time favorite filmmakers.
Unfortunately 90% of German cinema isn't available with "foreign language"-subtitles, as far as I know - I'm afraid I can't help you there.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Well, I've watched Women's Prison (Ida Lupino, butch lesbian sadist warden) and Jungle Moon Men (Johnny Weissmuller vs. supernatural 'moon' (?) goddess) for the poll so far. Glad I got these unseen vaulted critics' favourites out of the way first, so that now I can focus on diving into the mindless trash I haven't seen (Pather Panchali, French Cancan) Gotta keep my priorities straight.

[sally]

still LOVING the home movies



glynis & david's party 1955




was gonna say that english parties of 1955 appear to be almost EXACTLY the same (in food, atmosphere and accoutrements, especially the food, god) as N-years later, (and sorry but glynis is a proper veruca salt little bitch) but then the...............games............started

creep.............



creeeeeeeeep....(no! too young! surely!)



quite right, keep those hands out of shot



OH. MY. GOD. she loves it. why did i never get to go to parties like this?


and there were adults watching this..............

[sally]

oh and tho bfi maybe geoblocked, this might not be, if you want to watch the filth in full (even has a bird ending)

https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19673/

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1537 ... 6NwyQJrJOw

kawashima's tales of ginza is an interesting attempt to blend a sort of documentary about japan's post war culture with drama, romantic comedy and film noir elements. the structure is a bit difficult to follow but maybe on rewatch it will conquer me.

[niminy-piminy]

glynis & david's party 1955

for a moment, i thought Glynis might be possessed (due to the way she is wildly rolling her eyes in one scene).
but when i played the scene in stop-motion it became clear she is not displaying a white-eyed possessed look (her eye iris is continuously perceptible and she is just making a silly eye twist before taking a look on the right).


thus i abandoned my initial suspicion that this elder guy ↓ is actually an exorcist — and all that is framed as Glynis's "birthday party" is really Glynis's exorcism session.


in any case, only those individuals who are perceived as possessed (or in a pact with the devil) are usually made to wear silly hats (by other (respectable) members of society).

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Lol at Lencho roasting all of us in his Letterboxd review for Fleeing No More: "Another eye-opening gift for the asshole who's seen everything."

[Lencho of the Apes]

Self very definitely included.

[Angel]

Des Teufels General (The Devil's General)
Djevojka i hrast (The Girl and the Oak)
Ensayo de un crimen (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz)
Land of the Pharaohs
Les grandes manoeuvres (The Grand Maneuver)
Meeuwen sterven in de haven (Seagulls Die in the Harbour)
Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist)
Murder Is My Beat
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum)
Orgullo (Pride)
Piagol
Shiinomi gakuen (The Shiinomi School)
Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)
Stella
Tennessee's Partner
The Big Combo
The Court Jester
The Tall Men
Tsuki wa noborinu (The Moon Has Risen)
Yôkihi (Princess Yang Kwei-fei)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Aguaespejo granadino
All That Heaven Allows
Du rififi chez les hommes
French Cancan
Kiss Me Deadly
Les diaboliques
Lola Montès
Moonfleet
Nuit et brouillard
Ordet
Pather Panchali
The Night of the Hunter
Ukigumo

Wanted
Bel Ami
Han ye
Koko ni izumi ari
La meilleure part
Poprygunya
Suchkind 312
Vildfåglar

[niminy-piminy]

random viewings this evening...

A FLIRTATIOUS WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)

The story of a woman who decides to copy the gesture

https://youtu.be/iXMJpJGiHmI

DERVISHES (Aco Petrovski)

rites that aim to achieve mystical ecstasy

https://youtu.be/fSoEAPY4CaM

WHAT ABOUT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY? (Herk Harvey)

A teen drops out of a gang when they mug his father for his pencil.

https://youtu.be/XA0jvZ2QNvU

[sally]

very jolly 'we are the future' report of the construction of calder hall power station at sellafield. was not so jolly two years later when it had one of the world's worst nuclear accidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1538 ... iJT1eCoxmA

i enjoyed artists & models more than i ever expected. they aren't lying when they say it's like a cartoon

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Finally watching Ulmer's Naked Dawn for the first time. I kept waiting for Arthur Kennedy to show up, and then, now 12 minutes in, I finally realized... oh, that's Arthur Kennedy with a lot of makeup and hair dye Not doing much for me yet, but we'll see!

[sally]

springtime frost - armands, leimanis

it's really difficult to watch fiction features at the minute (i guess i'd be going thru one of my dry movie spells if it wasn't for all the other non-fiction footage around) so this 80 mins took about 3 hours. nevertheless totally rooting for the mad bitch. she loves a man so hard & long that she murders her own child for him, and he prefers the so-good-&-innocent-she's-virtually-retarded virgin? he might as well have married a sack of potatoes. men are so weird.

[niminy-piminy]

this picture is adorable!

[...]

Wanted to watch more, but moving soon and the political situation kept that from happening, so a nice dull list.

Ordet
Oklahoma!
Devdas
Lola Montes

Kiss Me Deadly
Smiles of a Summer Night
Stella
The Trouble with Harry

The White Angel
Floating Clouds
La Pointe Courte
Il Bidone

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Pather Panchali
French Can Can
Princess Yang Kwei Fei

We're No Angels
The Big Knife
Daddy Long Legs
Sincerely Yours

[ofrene]

missed many but..

All That Heaven Allows
Lola Montes
Ordet
Pather Panchali
There’s Always Tomorrow

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
French Cancan
Kiss Me Deadly
The Long Gray Line
The Night of the Hunter

Forever a Woman (Eternal Breasts)
Islands of Fire
Rebel Without a Cause
The Age of Swordfish
The Cobweb

Floating Clouds
It’s Always Fair Weather
Mr. Arkadin
Rififi
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

[rischka]

i'll make a list and i'm going to put artists & models on it altho dino's constant leering still offends me

All That Heaven Allows
Lola Montes
Ordet
Pather Panchali
There’s Always Tomorrow

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
artist & models
Kiss Me Deadly
it's always fair weather
The Night of the Hunter

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
The Cobweb
the naked dawn
tennessee's partner
eternal breasts

floating clouds
rififi
la pointe courte
princess yang kwei-fei
the long gray line

[greennui]

Shame that I won't get around to watch Ludwig. By the way, how is it possible that Anton Walbrook never played that role??

[karl]

Ordet
Lola Montes
The Wolves (Shindo Kaneto)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

Smiles of a Summer Night
A Bloody Spear on Mt. Fuji
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Pather Panchali

Stella (Kakogiannis)
Tales of the Taira Clan
Unfinished Story (Ermler)
Il Bidone

Marital Relations (Toyoda)
Twilight Saloon (Uchida)
Growing Up (Gosho)
All That Heaven Allows

Magdana's Donkey
Floating Clouds
Lyana (Barnet)
Springtime Frost (Armands & Leimanis)

[lineuphere]

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
A Hole of My Own Making (Tomu Uchida)
The Eternal Breasts (Kinuyo Tanaka)
Ludwig II (Helmut Käutner)

Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Stella (Michael Cacoyannis)
The Last Ten Days (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
Orchard Street (Ken Jacobs)

Shree 420 (Raj Kapoor)
Princess Yang Kwei-fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
No More Fleeing (Herbert Vesely)
La Pointe-courte (Agnès Varda)

Sea Countrymen (Vittorio De Seta)
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Keisuke Kinoshita)
Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

[rischka]

oh no i forgot shindo!!!

All That Heaven Allows
Lola Montes
Ordet
Pather Panchali
There’s Always Tomorrow

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
the wolves (shindo)
artist & models
Kiss Me Deadly
it's always fair weather

The Night of the Hunter
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
The Cobweb
the naked dawn
tennessee's partner

eternal breasts
floating clouds
rififi
la pointe courte
princess yang kwei-fei

please disregard my previous list THANK YOU

[nrh]

Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
Lola Montes (Ophuls)
There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk)
The Long Gray Line (Ford)
Tennessee's Partner (Dwan)

It's Always Fair Weather (Donen)
The Naked Dawn (Ulmer)
The Cobweb (Minnelli)
All that Heaven Allows (Sirk)
Artists & Models (Tashlin)

Violent Saturday (Fleischer)
Shree 420 (Kapoor)
Mr. Arkadin (Welles)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Preminger)
The Big Combo (Lewis)

The Man from Laramie (Mann)
The Indian Fighter (de Toth)
Run for Cover (Ray)
Land of the Pharaohs (Hawks)
Mr. & Mrs. 55 (Dutt)

shamefully haven't seen almost any of the japanese movies from this year, really one of my only mizoguchi blind spots.

[rischka]

and please drop the naked dawn for mr & mrs '55 xD

ulmer will get enough votes w/o me