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In one of his darkest roles, 50-year-old Cagney is at his unhinged best, a powder keg of neuroses and sadistic impulses who can feign insanityas he does in the prison infirmaryfor only so long before his delusions overtake him completely. Such is Ozus skill as a director that he can devastate us just by filming a man peeling an apple, a perfect image that captures Late Springs compassion with heartbreaking clarity. Not many films can say they introduced one standard, let alone multiple ones, a la The Trolley Song or Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which was later ranked as the third most-performed Christmas song of all timeyou can thank Garland for the initial take on it, and she seems considerably more comfortable in her own skin here than in The Wizard of Oz. This is one of the 1940s Westerns that portrayed the psychologically disturbing aspects of life, rather than the traditional Westerns that swung more optimistic, writes the Toronto Film Society. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, derived almost wholesale from the outsize life of Louisiana governor Huey Long, Robert Rossens All the Kings Men, despite its expansive scope, wastes no time in plunging its seemingly idealistic characters into the deep morass of moral gray. Leave it toOrson Wellesto create the last cast-iron masterpiece of the original film noir era. And, of course, some of the most beautiful and evocative scenes of endless skies and endless prairies to be found. John Hustons treasure-hunt adventure is less about mining gold than mining the human psyche through action and distrust and conflict. Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall in her first feature film appearance, in front of the camera, and Howard Hawks behind it. More polished examples of noir exist than this poverty row production from the B-movie pumphouse Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), but here in 68 minutes and shot in six days is a perfect distillation of the genres essence. The film is lively and dynamic and visually arresting. In French with English subtitles. On Christmas Eve, suicidal George Bailey (the sublime Jimmy Stewart) receives a visit from a sort of junior angel who calls himself Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Timeless, big-hearted and disarmingly sincere, this film is one I defy you to have one cynical comment about. woman, and it is one of the most brilliant soundtracks of its day. He painstakingly storyboarded the drama to include complex camerawork and lighting schemes, evocative POVs, and an uninterrupted seven-minute take whose logistics boggle the mind. Ultimately Clarence jumps into the river before George can do it; activating the suicidal man to save Clarence rather than kill himself. 13. Robert Mitchum dominates, whether in his tte--ttes with Kirk Douglas or his simmering flirtations with Jane Greer. All rights reserved. Like Double Indemnity, Michael Curtizs Mildred Pierce succeeds on the strength of its leading lady; in this case thats the immortal Joan Crawford, who plays the films central character, not to mention all of its heart and soul. Considered by many to be a major turning point in Hitchcocks career, this film, still very much in the spy/noir realm, is his first serious attempt at a love story. By contrast, Roberto Rossellinis Rome, Open City denies its viewers the admittedly mild succor granted us by Bicycle Thieves, offering instead a raw, righteous outrage that stems from Rosselinis national pride. WebFrench/Spanish co-production: The Atomic Monsieur Placido: Robert Hennion: Liliane Bert, Ren Gnin: Comedy: Au fil des ondes: Pierre Gautherin: Robert Lamoureux, A life insurance investigator is subsequently sent to piece together the events that led to the Swedes demise. (You might even believe, given both the passage of time and enough viewings of The Third Man under your belt, that Welles himself is the architect of the piece, but of course youd be 100% wrong if you did.) Andy Crump. With a beauty for the ages as his star, Vidor doesnt have to do much, and his static, voyeuristic direction shows in fact he didnt. Joan Fontaine plays a young woman in 1900 Vienna who falls in love with a concert pianist. Dom Sinacola. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Gre. When are you making an honest-to-goodness piece of art, and when are you just playing a sick game of nostalgie de la boue? In June 1940, the village of Villeneuve awakes to the arrival of the German army, and the next four years of occupation have a shattering effect on the lives of all its It was restored partially in 1946 and to its original condition in 1990. Film production stopped completely during the summer of 1940; however, The film overemphasizes minutiae of its mise en scne, extends scenes past their natural end points, and hoovers any sense of gratification out of its climax. Angels of the Streets

Hes a fraud, his work is empty, and he knows it, so like any hack who desperately needs artistic validation to assuage his feelings of creative guilt, he hefts a hobo stick over his shoulder and hits road in the guise of a down-on-his-luck tramp, followed all the while by a lavish double-decker bus as well as the inescapable grip of his own prestige. The producer was originally planning to hire John Huston to direct The Stranger; Welles got the job because of an ill-timed military tour that took Huston (literally and figuratively) out of the picture.

The Children of Paradise Mildred Pierce is a strong woman driven by an inexhaustible love for her children, Veda (Ann Blyth) and Kay (Jo Ann Marlowe), but shes also stymied by the restricting grasp of a patriarchal society. New directors Please consider upgrading to a Pro accountfor less than a couple bucks a month, youll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats pages (example), the ability to select (and filter by) your favorite streaming services, and no ads! Learn more. Throw it on at your next Halloween party, and youll see that it holds up remarkably well. See also:High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef vonSternberg). There are Claude Rains and Cary Grant both ass over teakettle for Bergman (and how could you not be?). Nobody knew what to call film noirs when they first started coming out of Hollywood in the early 1940s. There are tragic consequences, naturally. also a system of state support.

Nevertheless, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This postwar psychic landscape is subversive as helland suburban too, no longer confined to metro limits. Kindler has has moved to a small New England town and married the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice, teaches at a prep schoolessentially has erased every possible trace of his former identity, save one: a longtime obsession with clocks.

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Wilson releases a repentant former associate of Kindlers, hoping the man will lead him to the fugitive. The story of a proud, well-off Midwestern family whose position and stability are compromised by the advent of the automobile, The Magnificent Ambersons was itself a victim of the vicissitudes of mass production-but that hasnt stopped it from being an enduring and masterful Welles classic. As with Bacall here, its not Bogarts finest collaboration with director John Huston, but the palpable sense of atmospheric dread and post-war disillusionment make this a trip worth taking. J.V. Frank Capras adaptation of this darkly comedic Broadway play (some of the Broadway cast reprised their roles in the film) stars Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, one of a family of Mayflower bluestocking WASP types who have, over the generations, becomeI think the phrase is criminally insane? The real Dr. Edwardes is missing and feared dead. An American thug in Buenos Aires, our narrator Johnny Farrell (Ford) cheats, and then cheats some more: first at the casino of an older businessman involved in a Nazi cartel, and then with the businessmans young new wife, his ex, Gilda (Hayworth). Like Rashomon, Drunken Angel puts male toughness on trial and makes it look ridiculous, but the study of manliness might be a smokescreen for Kurosawas veiled jabs at the board of censors installed by the U.S. government in post-World War II Japan. well as suchle Morgan (b. Akira Kurosawa shoots every scene in the pursuit of making his audience swelter, yanking us into the frame and effectively immersing us in his neorealist depiction of Tokyo. Epic, lavish, tragic and enchanting, this film has enormous style and a kind of poetry to it. uniforms and flags were rarely present within the frameand the As a result, it took home the Oscar for Best Picture in 1940. A.C. On some level its more of a mystery/romance, with the veracity of the ghosts in real doubtnot unlike Guillermo Del Toros modern Crimson Peak, without all the visual bluster. By showing its audience the positive side of capitalism in action, the film reminds us of its negative side, too, posturing about Christmass true meaning and capturing New York City at the peak of its bustling consumerist culture. This Freudian melodrama a big favourite ofJean-Luc Godard finds him at fulltilt. Join here. Letterboxd Limited. Go to the content Go to the footer No thanks At the same time, screwball comedies proliferated. Vichy government. This neo-realist film is has been considered by many to be the greatest film of all time. It received a special Academy Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Film several years before the category officially existed. creative, periods of French cinema. A.G. Taking up the themes hed turned over in his two previous filmsthe now-iconic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Vampyr (1932)Dreyer brought his souls concerns onto an international stage by heading once again into the past, telling of a pastor (Thorkild Roose) and ersatz witch hunter in 1623 whos spared a woman accused of witchcraft in order to wed her daughter, Anna (Lisbeth Movin). (Committee for the Organization of the Film Industry) was established, as right-wing views was no higher than during the prewar years Creeping in stark contrast to Universals monster movies of the same era, it leans on suspense and carefully constructed shots rather than Jack Pierce makeup to make an impression. StarringPeter Lorreas the stranger of the title, its a short, cheap B-movie in which many of the hallmarks of the emerging style are brought together: an urban setting, slanted shadows, voice-over narration and the story of a wrong man falsely accused. Johnny and Gilda hurl emotional and physical hostilities as they love-hate on each other, both felt in equal measure. This monothematic approach underscores the characters shared fascination with this dead (or is she?) Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. The best music, movies, TV, books, comedy and more. The plot is simple: A woman (Judy Holliday) shoots and injures her cheating husband (Tom Ewell) after catching him in the act, so District Attorney Adam must represent the prosecution (cheating asshole) while Amanda, energized by her husbands blindness regarding a womans helplessness when it comes to adultery, takes up the defense. Apolitical fishing boat captain Harry Morgan (Bogart) is living in the Marquis Hotel, and fending off friend-smuggling requests from the French hotelkeeper, when he meets Marie Browning (Bacall), a charming pickpocket, in the hotel. Shes not, and not once does Hepburnperfectly castgive any impression that shell fall for it, being clearly the smartest person in any room and fully aware of what kind of effect her extra-marital flirting has on her wussy husband. at least, its the most definitive Crawford performance of all time.) Others, like Pierre Chenal The American occupation whitewashes and corrupts Japanese culture in equal measure, and Drunken Angel captures it all with deft humanism. Significant Vichy films include

Theres no better way to describe Jacques Tourneurs Out of the Past than perfect. For many, this is the epitome of all things noir, a sprawling, rambling examination of betrayal and seduction peppered with shrapnel-sharp dialogue. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 When you think of Italian neorealist cinema, your mind probably zips straight right on over to Vittorio De Sicas Bicycle Thieves, a beautifully made movie about the harsh realities of life in postwar Italy. The Wizard of Oz gets more populist attention, but Meet Me in St. Louis is the best Judy Garland musical by an easy margin.

For most of the 1940s and 50s, this style of crime film was dominant. A.C.

And the agent whos on call to help them do it is, well, hes a bit of a temptation. Hot on the heels of the Great Depression and the traumatising violence of the war, film noir reflected a world-weary fatalism in the American mood (and in the many European migr filmmakers who had fled to Hollywood). Lumire d't What holds up beautifully is Waynes fascinating slow fade from strapping man in the prime of life to defeated old guy, placed against Matts ascendancy. See also:Caught (Max Ophuls), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), White Heat (RaoulWalsh).

A list of films produced in France in 1944. Itself based on an Emile Zola novel, Renoirs film is a coal-caked tale of lust, adultery and murder set among railway workers. for the industry overall. With colour productions such asThe Killers(1964) a remake of the1946 classic andPoint Blank(1967), noir began its evolution into a more knowing style that was steeped in its own myth and legacy. , Grmillon, 1943), Top of the World! as the bottom falls out from under him. WebIn 1940, prior to the occupation, the French government started to censor the participation of Jews in important roles in their society, what they called positions of responsibility. Thus, they were prohibited to direct, produce or participate in any key role in theater or cinema in France. Reviews of the time call them tough melodramas, murder mysteries or simply crimedramas. 1946. Adapted from Maxwell Andersons hit Broadway play, the resulting chamber piece swaps the Spanish Civil War for the second World War. But in addition, you might notice that the film remains eerily timely in an age in which the influence and power of the mass media (and the accrual of gauche, pointless wealth) is a topic of constant discourse. George Cukors Adams Rib is a curio of a time when misogyny wasnt so much a fault as a societal given, which may be why the dynamic between married lawyers Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) and Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn, whose character thankfully wasnt named Eve) feels at once well-balanced and hilariously unreal. Dont even think about checking your phone while youre watching this. Web100 titles 1. According to Hemingways biography, The Killers marked one of the only times the author was legitimately impressed by an adaptation of his work. Mark Rozeman. In the same year as Sunset Blvd. (And its pretty brilliant now, for that matter.) (Both Stewart and Capra commented that it was their favorite of all the films theyd respectively worked on.) It performed solidly at the box office, though not spectacularly. place structures that both supported and regulated the industry. This was the decade of Hepburn and Tracy, Bogart and Bacall, of nostalgia and neo-realism, star-crossed lovers and double-crossing villains. 1948 brought a tranche of New York noirs, such as The Naked City and Force of Evil, in which tough stories were shot on location and with a more naturalistic sense of teeming modern life. In another example of how the repressive Production Codes of the time gave rise to a much more exciting scene than he might otherwise have made, Hitchcock got around the no kisses longer than three seconds by breaking the performers apart every three seconds for some kind of embrace and then resuming the kiss. (19041990) and Louis Jouvet (18871951), took refuge in , Pagnol, 1940), Joan Fontaine stars as a woman haunted by the memory of her husbands (Laurence Olivier) first wife. We should, however, think not of Welles but of Carol Reed, The Third Mans bizarrely under-sung director, who fought for Welles casting as the shockingly amoral Harry Lime, ensured that the film would be shot on location in Vienna, and fused its aesthetic with expressionist flair, using light and shadows in ways that at the time had yet to be attempted (and which since have yet to be as stunningly replicated). Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et Le Bte) (1946). The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940) Approved | 142 min | Comedy, Drama 7.3 Rate A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant. Erotically supercharged hijinks ensue. See also:Brute Force (Jules Dassin), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), The Lady from Shanghai (OrsonWelles). In 1960, the release of Jean-Luc GodardsBreathlessand Franois TruffautsShoot the Pianist, which lovingly parodied and reinvented old crime movie tropes, heralded a new self-awareness about genre that slowly bled back across the Atlantic to Hollywood. Bonnie Stiernberg, 40. (Check out the drugstore scene where Wilson plays checkers with Billy House.) More than seven decades after its release, this film is still snort-soda-out-your-nose funny. (Hawks, though a fan of Hemingways, felt that To Have and Have Not was his worst novel, and reportedly told him so.) A.G. Charlie Chaplins first talkie was a biting satire that he wrote, directed, produced, scored, and starred in-as both of the lead roles, a fascist despot who bears a rather marked resemblance to Adolf Hitler and a persecuted Jewish barber.

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Gene Hackman as thedetective Vienna who falls in love with Gene Hackman as thedetective defy you to another dimension Then it won a bunch of Academy Awards. It was the film where the young starlet met director Vincente Minnelli, her future husband and father of Liza, and its a formative production in the history of the American musical in general. After Jarretts plottingly protective ma (Margaret Wycherly) get killedby his equally scheming wife (Virginia Mayo), though she convinces him his right-hand man did the deedhe stages a break, and his next heist. Everyones in love with Gene Tierneyeven the guy whos come to investigate her murder. A.C. Amy Glynn, If you want to know what an artists critique of postwar censorship in Allied-occupied Japan looks like, just watch Yasujiro Ozus Late Spring and keep your eyes peeled for the Coca Cola sign. David Raskins score is a haunting chromatic tune that plays in some variation through the entire film-perhaps the first and certainly one of the best uses of music to advance a theme in the film (obsession, in this case) and influence how we see characters. It takes much more to show honest to goodness bravery on pain of death. There were a lot of great noirs in the 40s. If youre a fan of the screwball niche of comedy filmmaking, you have to know Sullivans Travels, one of the best examples of its category; screwball movies arent simply about zaniness but energy, inertia, momentum, the snowballing power of a silly premise when backed by an intelligently designed madness. Notes. But at times the framing makes Hayworths erotic physicality all the more charged, and dangerous. But this Paramountproductionwas first out of the door, featuringAlan Laddin a star-making role as a taciturn killer-for-hire who gets in up to the neck after recovering a stolen chemical formula.

On that note, the damage is no longer rooted in his environment; Jarretts a disaster from the inside out, dysfunctional in his very wiring (thanks, ma!). A.G. Its one of those films that really send you to another dimension. Truthfully, youll want to watch it more than once for Howard Hawks direction, Sidney Hickoxs dread-inducing cinematography, and Chandlers barbed exchanges, not to mention the raw chemistry and animal magnetism of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The 220 feature-length films that constitute the Vichy cinema are not (That said, Chaplin later recounted that he could never have made the satirical film even a year or two later, as the extent of the horrors in German concentration camps became clearer.) Fantasia ran at New Yorks Broadway Theatre for 49 consecutive weeks, the longest film run ever at the time. established at the small spa town of Vichy, in the unoccupied zone of One of the first titles to be preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry, The Maltese Falcon is landmark filmmaking. What gaslighting is (and isnt) is defined by this film. Developed in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, Day of Wrath was Carl Th. The Well-Digger's Daughter Title Director Cast Genre Notes As Long as I Live: Jacques de Baroncelli: Edwige Feuillre, Jacques Berthier, Jean Debucourt: Drama: Co-production with Italy Back Its a story of the malignancy of lust for wealth, and if youre looking for a happy ending, this movies not your go-to; Davis ends up very, very alone. 1944 was the year the levee broke, and the noir style with its glamorous cynicism began to permeate a larger number of releases.

1940: Stranger on the Third Floor Director: Boris Ingster Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Latvian-born Boris Ingster only ever directed three films (he later became a TV producer on shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. A.G. Grmillon, and Carn in 1943 as a. ( Her First Affair It was remade in 1990, with Gene Hackman as thedetective. The film understands wartime trauma in ways most war films simply dont; it captures Italys emotional, and sociopolitical fragility in the aftermath of World War II on celluloid like an insect trapped in amber, indulging in slight degrees of wish fulfillment while staging a credible representation of Italian resistance to German occupation in 1944. A list of French films of the 1940s that I've seen in 2020. was the COIC, which would become the Centre National de la emerged from the ranks, including Jean Delannoy (b. #41. See also:The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), Gilda (Charles Vidor), The Killers (RobertSiodmak). What ended up happening, though, was a really interesting investigation into how music could be represented visually in the animated medium. This is a movieas are many spy moviesthat is essentially about trust. We distilled our list based on a little bit of each of those things, but overall, its a suggestion of required viewing material for anyone who aspires to cultural literacy. But folded within the tale of Shukichi Somiya (Chishu Ryu) and Noriko Somiya (Setsuko Hara) lie a handful of barbs aimed at censorship protocols imposed upon Ozu during Late Springs production, which is itself a nod to the kind of tension Japanese citizens had to live with every single day of the occupation. In fact, try to blink as little as possible. The production team didnt consider it a big deal, in fact; just one of hundreds of films being made that year (despite a major league cast and great writers). Webnabuckeye.org. Hellmans script is caustic and relentlessly grim, Wylers camera work is high-strung and spooky, and Davis plays the main character as an icy villain. Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Line Noro Votes: 653 Rossellini contrasts Italian fear with Italian heroism, creating opportunities for the movies German characters to look inward and realize that force of arms isnt the same thing as force of courage. From Malle to Melville, Carn to Clouzot, this is Time Outs ultimate guide to the best French movies ever released. Web1940s: Film and Theater Hollywood's golden age had reached a peak by 1940. The story is direct and crisply toldwhat makes this film a must-see classic is that it might be the ultimate in dazzling on-screen chemistry.

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