Ha! You, me, zedz, Murdoch and the poor sap who voted for Tragic Hunt need to start a club.domino harvey wrote:01 Whirlpool
And if the rest of you mugs want to start making amends, TCM is airing They Made Me a Fugitive next Thursday.
Ha! You, me, zedz, Murdoch and the poor sap who voted for Tragic Hunt need to start a club.domino harvey wrote:01 Whirlpool
Ah! I just realized I forgot Never Give a Sucker an Even Break! That should have been top 20...matrixschmatrix wrote:44. The Bank Dick (Edward Cline, 1940)- Maybe this would have done better if it came out a year earlier? It feels more of a piece with 30s humor, and maybe pales a bit in comparison to the more ambitious Sturges and Ealing comedies. But on the other hand, it's funny as hell.
I actually watched this a couple of weeks ago hoping to add it to my list but had problems with the first half hour or so of the film, which felt rather clunky in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on (Is it the strange mincing, prancing performance of the German General adding to the comedy of the opening scene? The rather fake-looking sets? The American accents, especially the Brooklyn cabbie and the annoying young boy of the family?) Is this Brechtian alienation, or just clunky set up?matrixschmatrix wrote:19. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang, 1943)- I'm hoping this one's because everyone wants a better print than the Kino. It's hard-edged, nasty stuff even with the original ending cut out, and it's a view on the ethics of resistance that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Actually, apparently I didn't. It is a great film, thoughknives wrote:Our Town: I'm assuming Dom is one of the other ones to vote for this majestic mess that criticizes and endorses just about every contradictory aspect of itself with one of the greatest climaxes of the decade.
Loved Our Town, a spectacular mess of a film that I love every time I watch it. I wonder who is the third person who ranked it?24.) Our Town(1940) Sam Wood
I've finally caught up with your big (little) noir recommendation, 'Tomorrow Is Another Day', Dom: nice little movie, with good work by all concerned, even if not quite in the 'They Live By Night' or 'Gun Crazy' classdomino harvey wrote:TOP 10 PLUS ORPHANS
01 Whirlpool
02 Hail the Conquering Hero
03 Air Force
04 Red River
05 Rebecca
06 Heaven Can Wait
07 Mrs Miniver
08 It Had To Be You
09 Out of the Past
10 the Song of Bernadette (ALSO AN ORPHAN-- ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME)
18 the Bishop's Wife (OUCH)
19 the Fan (OUCH AGAIN)
25 Dragonwyck
26 Here Comes Mr Jordan
38 Once More, My Darling
39 the Crystal Ball
43 Battleground
48 Juke Girl (At least Thieves Highway got dropped)
50 the Big Steal
Sympathetic to Orphans Johnny Belinda and the Devil Thumbs a Ride, as they were just out of my Top 50
And Tomorrow is Another Day is eligible for the forthcoming 50s list, HINT HINT EVERYONE READING THISYojimbo wrote: I've finally caught up with your big (little) noir recommendation, 'Tomorrow Is Another Day', Dom: nice little movie, with good work by all concerned, even if not quite in the 'They Live By Night' or 'Gun Crazy' class
As is my (current) favourite Antonioni, also starring Steve Cochran, 'Il Grido'domino harvey wrote:And Tomorrow is Another Day is eligible for the forthcoming 50s list, HINT HINT EVERYONE READING THISYojimbo wrote: I've finally caught up with your big (little) noir recommendation, 'Tomorrow Is Another Day', Dom: nice little movie, with good work by all concerned, even if not quite in the 'They Live By Night' or 'Gun Crazy' class
I thought it was interesting that you and someone else voted for both this and Remorques, while zedz and I both voted for Pattes blanches and Le ciel est à vous, as though his films from either half of the decade were oil and water. But then someone else voted for Lumière and Pattes, which makes no sense at all.Cold Bishop wrote:6. Lumière d’été (Jean Grémillon, 1943)
In many ways, a vote for Grem's cumulative work this decade, among the finest run in all the cinema. Likewise, this orphaning was sort of inevitable, as the vote-splitting was bound to happen. Would be interesting to see how these films spread themselves out over the lists.
I had this on my first rough list but then I took it off, basically because I wasn't in the mood to write a run-down about Pabst films in the 40s and because I thought nobody else would vote for it anyway. Well, sorry for that. It's a wonderful film about the beginnings of professional theatre in Germany, not unlike "Les enfants du Paradis" in some respects.the preacher wrote:Komödianten (G.W. Pabst, 1941) 42
I am not a big fan of Pabst but this one is really underrated
Uh, I did. I think maybe ten of the films I voted for even made the Top 100.TMDaines wrote:Why do people just not vote for what they to believe the greatest fifty films to be instead of just trying to be contrary?