1947 Poll 2.0

[sally]

the chips are down - jean delannoy

scripted by sartre, incoherent futility, don't get the love for this film






plus an egregious episode of cat crushing

[sally]

hope this regrettable submersible accident puts an end to libertarian techbro arrogance about safety regulations

it probably won't tho. they didn't learn anything from the unsinkable titanic apparently

https://gizmodo.com/oceangate-titan-dav ... 1850557931

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

[rischka]

Leave those animals be! I once thought about diving but I think I'm over it now

[niminy-piminy]

IN THOSE DAYS (Helmut Käutner, 1947)

Playfulness of French New Wave, tempo and pure energy of Scorsese or Spielberg.

[niminy-piminy]

mac fridge's assembly line filmmaking of 1947.
"Beware!" and an episode of "Čapek's Tales" made in one go.
very efficient!

beware! - martin frič, paľo bielik

ČAPEK'S TALES (Martin Frič, 1947)

[niminy-piminy]

run, lola, run!
tempo and pure energy of tom tykwer.

[niminy-piminy]

after the war, nearly everyone was nuts
(and yes! i agree even the 1947 underwater divers in "silent landscapes" were behaving like pigs)
but this is the most demoralizing film of 1947


unfortunately, i can't unwatch it



evil all-inclusive:
pedophile cop, racist cop, boozing cop, violent cop
misogyny & uxoricide
hearing voices (of a religious bigot) & sororicide

[sally]

anahit - amo bek-nazaryan

getting in some practice for next como by watching something without subtitles, but it's a mythical tale directed by a silent film maestro so i think i got it. (prince meets beautiful girl, she rejects the dilettante until he learns a real trade, he chooses weaving, makes a fine carpet, they get married, some plotters kill his mother, he gets lured into their prison and spends his time weaving whilst wife is waiting at home learning sword-play, one day a salesmen brings a carpet which she recognises so off she goes to battle with the evil bitch princess in massive girl fight to save all the men.....oh it was just a dream....)

the sound technology is still cruel to the scenery so as a film it's a bit stulted, but it's also very fresco-ish....









plus, armenian extras are ripped

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Wow, beautiful stills. I think I'll add that to my watchlist.

[Angel]

Unranked ballot:
Anjô-ke no butôkai (The Ball at the Anjo House)
Antoine et Antoinette (Antoine and Antoinette)
Caccia tragica (Tragic Hunt)
Dark Passage
Driftwood
Ehe im Schatten (Marriage in the Shadows)
Fatalità (Fatality)
Framed
Haru no mezame (Spring Awakens)
In jenen Tagen (In Those Days)
Kekkon (Marriage)
La perla (The Pearl)
Nagaya shinshiroku (Record of a Tenement Gentleman)
Song hua jiang shang (Along the Sungari River)
The Woman on the Beach
They Made Me a Fugitive
Unconquered
Vivere in pace (To Live in Peace)
Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (The Spring River Flows East)
Zwischen gestern und morgen (Between Yesterday and Tomorrow)

HMs:
L'onorevole Angelina, The Lady from Shanghai, Crossfire, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, Daisy Kenyon, Cheyenne, I Walk Alone, Black Gold, Jassy, El retrato, The Beginning or the End, Le diable au corps, Zakazane piosenki, Valahol Európában, Ének a búzamezökröl...

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Ltbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
Black Narcissus
Miracle on 34th Street
Monsieur Verdoux
Out of the Past

To watch before the deadline:
Fushichô
Uomini e cieli
Whispering City

Wanted:
...och efter skymning kommer mörker
Jiafeng Xuhuang
Les frères Bouquinquant
Tian tang chun meng

[sally]

pour une nuit d'amour / passionnelle - edmond t. gréville





good old gréville...much better than those fucking revolting german films that are so full of saints it's a wonder anything bad happened in germany at all.

i'll leave it to zynab to sum up the film...

“The evidence is in now. God Himself is afraid of scandal.”

GOTHIC INCEL NOIR taking place in Victorian Provincial Gehenna—I think the most cruel, godless world I’ve seen in a dramatic feature of this era. Tradition and ritual reign supreme but belief among the initiates, even those to whom it should mean the most, is nil. High prices are paid for the purity of what one already knows to polluted. Sickly sweet waltz music coming from the ballroom, a glittering ribbon circling the pearly neck of Odette Joyeux, silk velvet draperies concealing a corpse lying on the bed, rococo engraving on a candelabra with a secret…it all signals a decadent eroticism that is impossible to take joy in. The film’s ending is also deeply unconventional for a studio product of the 40s; it teases a deus ex machina that never comes. I was shocked. The hopeless cynicism of it might be too much for even today’s audiences to take. Hollywood has never, and would never, make a Zola adaptation like this. It felt like film noir through the eyes of Georges Bataille.

[rischka]

pretty outlandish set up that recalls the invisible man









i rewatched dark passage. i think i'll add it to my list

[ofrene]

Daisy Kenyon
Out of the Past
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Lady from Shanghai

Body and Soul
Le Tempestaire
Nightmare Alley
The Ball at the Anjo House
The Fugitive

Antoine and Antoinette
Brute Force
Black Narcissus
Monsieur Verdoux
Quai des Orfèvres

[rischka]

fireworks
captain from castile
black narcissus
daisy kenyon
dark passage
body and soul
forever amber
nightmare alley
jenny and the soldier
le tempestaire

desert fury
the web
quai des orfevres
the czech year
the ghost and mrs muir
woman on the beach
ball at the anjo house
one wonderful sunday
spring awakens
the devil thumbs a ride

[rischka]

i found an mgm musical to watch so there may be a last minute substitution

it's 'good news' directed by charles walters, a film with a few major problems starting with the leads. they can't sing



there are some splendid numbers as with most freed unit productions, the best/worst being 'pass that peace pipe' (hint: it hasn't aged well)



i can't add it to my list but it was fun to see a new-to-me mgm musical, a good mix of cringe and genuine laughs with a lot of great dancing



kind of perfect for this holiday weekend. i must say i'm curious about kismet after seeing it in lencho's letterboxd rotation

[sally]

jenny and the soldier - johan jacobsen

looooooooooooove it, THIS is how to deal with post-war moral chaos. even the potentially irritating god stuff that i got a bit worried about (looking snarkily at you bergman) is ambiguous cuz at the end the (surprisingly cute, given that he's an idiot) hero is cheerfully like 'yes but whatever, nonsense, smoooooooch'....

and karin nellemose plays the coolest female character i've seen in ages, total idol...


we're all just zeros, like the surprisingly modern apartments that house us






definitely not filmed in hollywood




1947 denmark paging 21st century usa

[rischka]

SOLD

i even have a copy of this, not sure how i missed it THANK YOU

[sally]

SOLD

i even have a copy of this, not sure how i missed it THANK YOU

[sally]

final ballot

captain from castile - henry king
forever amber - otto preminger
the brothers - david macdonald
le tempestaire - jean epstein
snow trail - senkichi taniguchi
along the sungari river - jin shan
the spring river flows east - chusheng cai, zheng junli
odd man out - carol reed
the ghost and mrs muir - joseph l. mankiewicz
record of a tenement gentleman - yasujirō ozu
jenny and the soldier - johan jacobsen
the strike - karel steklý
song of the cornfields - istván szőts
passionnelle - edmond t. gréville
antoine and antoinette - jacques becker
the czech year - jiří trnka
beware! - martin frič
it happened in europe - géza von radványi
anahit - amo bek-nazaryan
sandmosen

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I have a new rule, which I'm happy with: I can only vote for movies I've seen since I started keeping a diary of my viewings in Excel, which was July 2021. Unfortunately, that means my ballot here is sparse indeed. I'm planning to fill this out in viewing over the next two months (though obviously that won't count towards the poll).

Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)

Anjô-ke no butôkai (Kōzaburō Yoshimura)
The Pretender (W. Lee Wilder)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Birth of a Notion (Robert McKimson)

Key Witness (D. Ross Lederman)
Razzia (Werner Klinger)

[niminy-piminy]

https://kinometer.com/?list=507

The Czech Year (Jiří Trnka, 1947, 75m)
Widdicombe Faire (Unknown, 1947, 6m)
Primitive Painters of Charlevoix (Jean Palardy, 1947, 22m)
Namatjira the Painter (Charles Mountford, Ralph Foster, 1947, 22m)
Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947, 78m)
Don Quixote (Rafael Gil, 1947, 137m)
The Cage (Sidney Peterson, 1947, 28m)

Judo Jymnastics (William Forest Crouch, 1947, 3m)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger, 1947, 11m)
La poulette grise (Norman McLaren, 1947, 6m)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947, 100m)
The Strike (Karel Steklý, 1947, 77m)
Beware! (Martin Frič, Paľo Bielik, 1947, 85m)
The Chips Are Down (Jean Delannoy, 1947, 105m)

he leads us into a world where phantasy always harbors and where realism is astonishingly innocent

https://youtu.be/kHkHEAGdLVI

[rischka]

i'm adding jenny and the soldier to my first tier too i slept on this one ♥ ♥

[Lencho of the Apes]

Final ballot...

The Ball At The Anjo House
Encadenada (El Yugo)
The Kneeling Goddess
Le Tempestaire - Epstein

The Lady From Shanghai
The Man I Love -- Walsh
Record Of A Tenement Gentleman
Silence Is Golden - Clair

Body And Soul
Monsieur Verdoux
The Pearl
The Red House

One Wonderful Sunday - Kurosawa
Que Verde Era Mi Padre
El Tigre De Jalisco
Los Verdes Paraisos - Christensen

[karl]

If the ballots ain't yet tallied:

ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY
MONSIEUR VERDOUX
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE
BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE

OUT OF THE PAST
LOVE OF THE ACTRESS SUMAKO
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN

BRUTE FORCE
VIVERE IN PACE
THE DAMNED (Clement)
BODY AND SOUL

NIGHTMARE ALLEY
THE CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE
RIDE THE PINK HORSE
KISS OF DEATH

MARRIAGE (Kinoshita)
ONCE MORE (Gosho)
ODD MAN OUT
13 RUE MADELEINE