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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. (19081980), Andr Cayatte (b. As is the case with many films of the 1940s, especially those foreign selections made or released in the shadow of World War II occupationby the Axis or otherwise (see also: Kurosawas navigation of American censors during the U.S.s squatting in Japan)Le Corbeau is a morally thorny tale, infatuated more with the indelible darkness of all human beings than in exploring any sense of hope that the world need not be a crappy place. 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. See also:The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), The Phenix City Story (PhilKarlson). As one would expect from any Western of the mid-20th century, there are a lot of violent Indians to fend off; Dunsons love interest is slaughtered along with most of a California-bound wagon train, and in one scene where Dunson and his codger-companion Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan) are in retaliatory combat, Dunson finds one of the Indians is wearing a silver bracelet that had belonged to his own mother. If youre of the impression that Quentin Tarantino invented the concept of a nonlinear crime story involving boxers and hitmen, Robert Siodmaks adaptation of Ernest Hemingways celebrated short story is a must-watch. A.C. ( 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). The film is about more than prickly mother-daughter relationships, of course, specifically the murder of Mildreds second husband. L'Herbier. #41. Like most of Hitchcocks work, what makes it truly spooky are its relatable themesin this case, living in someone elses shadow and worrying that a loved ones hiding something.
Johnny and Gilda hurl emotional and physical hostilities as they love-hate on each other, both felt in equal measure. Amanda Schurr. Akira Kurosawa plays with noir tropes more than he plays to them, deflating film noirs inherent machismo by revealing the chief heavies of his cast as scrabbling cowards. The minute Russells Lindy Johnson stalks into the newspaper office run by her ex-husband Walter Burns (Grant), you know its to tell him shes getting remarried and leaving journalism to raise a family, and you know thats not how its going to end. In fact, try to blink as little as possible. A ruthlessly cynical tale of backstabbing and avarice, and one that might not increase your love for humanity, but riveting. At the same time, screwball comedies proliferated. Timeless, big-hearted and disarmingly sincere, this film is one I defy you to have one cynical comment about. WebFrench feminine coming of age cinema, a list of films by elliegocher Letterboxd List by elliegocher Pro Grid List Updated 6 months ago Visibility Filters Sort by List Order Service Genre Decade French feminine coming of age cinema is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Dont go to blaming meit aint my fault, an employee of the Shawnee Land and Cattle Company tells a group of farmers as he casually evicts them from their own land. Five nuns are sent to establish a convent, school and hospital in a former harem. 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. Wilson continues to prove Kindlers identity, and Kindler goes to greater and greater lengths to conceal it. uniforms and flags were rarely present within the frameand the Adult, adventure. Robinson is electrifying as the ex-bootlegger, whose hostages include John Barrymore as the wheelchair-bound father of Bogarts deceased war colleague, Bacall as the soldiers widow, and Academy-Award winner Claire Trevor as Robinsons mistreated moll. ), but the first of these is an acorn from which the great oak of film noir would grow. ( A list of films produced in France in 1950. Widely regarded as one of the finest ghost stories of the 40s, The Uninvited carries itself with a dignity not seen in most Universal monster movies or Poverty Row cheapies. The second World War was, of course, a heavy thread through the first half of the decade, providing fodder for stories on the one hand and on the other, a desire for the escapist balm of comedies and musicals. Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall in her first feature film appearance, in front of the camera, and Howard Hawks behind it. 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 A list of films produced in France in 1944. (Institute for Film Studies) in 1944, under the direction of This postwar psychic landscape is subversive as helland suburban too, no longer confined to metro limits. Can you believe there was a time when Katharine Hepburn was known in Hollywood as box office poison? Registered charity 287780, Buy Odds against Tomorrow on BFI dual format edition (Blu-ray/DVD), 1 great film noir for every year (1940-59). As so often in noirs pessimistic universe, fate sticks out a foot to trip him up en route this time in the shape of dangerous sirenAnnSavage. (William Randolph Hearst was not pleased, and tried to have the movie suppressed. Together they pop, but no matter how brightly they might shine, Out of the Past remains a masterwork coated in darkness from page to screen. The term film noirstuck. (Disney scrapped a portion of the Rite of Spring sequence that showed the discovery of fire out of concern that it would provoke angry Creationists; but biologists, paleontologists and astronomers, for example, were consulted.) Hes nobodys sap. Interestingly, Spades creator, Dashiell Hammettwho once worked as a P.I.called the character a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been, and, in their cockier moments, thought they approached. In Bogarts brusque yet smooth hands, that sounds about right. A prototypical war of the sexes comedy in which each side represents the status quo for his or her respective gender, Adams Rib transcends its dumbest Mars-vs-Venus trappings by portraying Tracys Bonner as a stuffy turd too caught up in his derision of women to do anything about the fact that a famous musician lothario (David Wayne) is getting mighty close to cuckolding him, were Amanda Bonner a dunce susceptible to shameless advances. Hard-talking men fall for duplicitous dames, as cigarette smoke wreaths around them on dark street corners or in rooms with the slatted blinds pulleddown. Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins. 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. Notably, the COIC created what would [10] Escape to the Sun.

Though only the films opening scenes were shot on location (the rest on the Warner Bros. lot), the exotic setting and meteorological fate render isolation to an extreme degree. 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. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot treats as a given that the world is a crappy place, through and through, detailing how the denizens of a small French town (anywhere) are pitted against one another through a series of poison pen letters sent by the titular Raven. Latin America. He finds work there, and then sex with the proprietors seductive wife (Lana Turner). One of the first titles to be preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry, The Maltese Falcon is landmark filmmaking. WebFilm Movement - French Surrealism (1924-1941) "Surrealism was an avant-garde art movement in Paris from 1924 to 1941, consisting of a small group of writers, artists, and filmmakers, including Andr Breton (18961966), Salvador Dali (19041989), and Luis Buuel (19001983). The imagery of the dream ends up helping to resolve the case (go, psychiatry! As the letters pile up and one cancer patient (Roger Blin) commits suicide (due to a letter from the Raven informing him that his cancer is terminal), the town grows increasingly desperate to find the culprit, sparking a witch hunt that catches Dr. Germain in the midst of his many lies. As one might imagine, things dont go well for Anna. Graham Greenes work inspired several classic noirs, including the British variants Brighton Rock (1947) and The Third Man (1949). Directed by A. Edward Sutherland and co-written by the acerbic Wylie, Murders in the Zoo is a shorter full-length film (it lasts just a few minutes over an hour) about an insanely jealous big-game hunter named Eric Gorman (played by horror stalwart Lionel Atwill) and the lengths he goes to in order to exact revenge. Robert Ryanplays the prejudiced ex-con who is reluctantly teamed with Belafontes jazz musician on a bank job, with Gloria Grahame also turning up as a sexually frustratedneighbour. The story of a young Russian immigrant with a dark family past, it combines aspects of film noir and mystery movies with Hitchcockian suspense, while pioneering several staple tropes of horror cinema that have been used hundreds if not thousands of times since. The fault goes all the way to the bank in Tulsa, but really, knowing whos to blame for your misfortunes doesnt put a roof over your head, and The Grapes of Wrath proclaims boldly its belief in people before profit right up to Henry Fondas iconic closing speech, a poetic dedication to the need for social justice in a nation caught under the heel of corporate greed.

A.G. The 1940s saw the emergence of the auteur, filmmaking led by the director as opposed to the writer. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). The cumulative effect represents a primal deviationmake that devolutionfrom social conformity and civilization. Mark Rozeman. The Well-Digger's Daughter What puts you on the edge of your seat in this film is how you get there. become IDHEC, Institut des Hautes tudes Cinmatographiques 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. Right. More than seven decades after its release, this film is still snort-soda-out-your-nose funny. Otto Premingers masterful orchestration of convoluted twists and turns, and stellar performances by Tierney, make Laura a great film noir. A.G. This is the film where Bogart and Bacall met, sparking one of Hollywoods most legendary love affairs, and that chemistry is very much in evidence in their crackling on-screen interactions. American films were not available. Top of the World! as the bottom falls out from under him. (Everyones a critic.) Bonnie Stiernberg, 40. A.C. The 220 feature-length films that constitute the Vichy cinema are not A historical piece set in the 1820s Paris theater world, it centers on an enigmatic performer named Garence (Arletty) and four men who are drawn to her, each for slightly different reasons. When movies such as Double Indemnity, Laura and Murder, My Sweet (all 1944) saw delayed release in Paris after the end of the Second World War, critics likened them to the romans noirs of 1930s crime novelists such as Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett. Cast. By the time you read this letter, I might be dead. This haunting romance by Max Ophls is one of those star-crossed love stories that, if it doesnt tug at your heart, you might want to check to make sure you have one. 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. Shows sold out across the country, yet Fantasia initially ran at a loss due to the expense of the state-of-the-art Fantasound systems along with theater lease and other production costs. A.C. WebSeven best French films by year (1930-1939) Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc 70 titles 1. For three years Hollywood was not a WebFrench/Spanish co-production: The Atomic Monsieur Placido: Robert Hennion: Liliane Bert, Ren Gnin: Comedy: Au fil des ondes: Pierre Gautherin: Robert Lamoureux, There are tragic consequences, naturally. The story commences with two assassins entering a small-town gas station and executing The Swede (Burt Lancaster), a former professional boxer. To this day, it doesnt seem entirely fair that so much credit for Cat People is almost universally given to producer Val Lewton, rather than director Jacques Tourneur or writer DeWitt Bodeen, but its true of the entire run of low-budget horror films that Lewton produced at RKO. Driven by star and producerHarry Belafonte,Odds against Tomorrowis a rare film noir with a black star at its centre, also tackling the theme of racism as a side order to its story of a heist gone wrong. 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. Genre. This is a list of films produced in the French cinema, ordered by year and decade of release on separate pages. Gilda represents the oft-discussed male gaze of noir at its most blatantshes largely a fetishized object. The truest mark of the films brilliance is its accessibility: Even if you know zip about postwar history, youll be dazzled by Ozus unparalleled discipline as a filmmaker, charmed by Haras wonderful performance, and moved by the themes present in the fabric of the narrative, especially its painful depiction of what it means to let go of the ones we love most. Its a trajectory that will seem pretty traditional when it comes to stories like thisa clear progenitor is Citizen Kane, replete with Rossens dedicated eye to following the films god-like politician, Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), as he both attains and, especially, freefalls from gracebut with a contemporary sense of cynicism when it comes to the American political landscape, it helps to get a reminder, if melodramatic, that corruption and power have always been blasphemous bedfellows. The Return of Frank James (1940) - Director: Fritz Lang - IMDb user rating: 6.6 - Runtime: 92 minutes Robert Mitchum dominates, whether in his tte--ttes with Kirk Douglas or his simmering flirtations with Jane Greer. Everyones in love with Gene Tierneyeven the guy whos come to investigate her murder. The violent, stylized set pieces are as visceral as the verbal confrontations. Join here. See also:Caught (Max Ophuls), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), White Heat (RaoulWalsh). His second, a period drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, was destroyed (in Welles view) when he lost control of the editing to RKO. She plays a small-town mother attempting to protect her family from blackmail after the accidental death of her daughters suitor. Cattle ranch established, along with serious father-son issues. (Hawks, though a fan of Hemingways, felt that To Have and Have Not was his worst novel, and reportedly told him so.) His first feature, Citizen Kane earned him the ire of the influential media mogul William Randolph Hearst. Disney, who wasnt much of a classical music buff, found his famously boundless curiosity piqued by the concept of using animation to support music rather than the other way around, and plunged into the project with enthusiasm, believing it would open peoples ears (like his own) to classical music they had previously ignored. Observe the recurring image of the bubbling muck that serves as one of the films central locations. Rather than writing storyboards and creating a soundtrack, the production team sat in meetings listening to Paganini and Stravinsky and Mussorgsky until Disney connected the sounds with images and built on it from there. 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. ( D.S. A.G. Famed for the groundbreaking FX of its iconic transformation scene, and aided by the same top-notch makeup that Jack Pierce employed in Frankenstein, it raised the bar for horror FX substantially. Jean Marais (Beast) and Josette Day (Belle) deliver enchanting performances. There were French and Italian adaptations of James M. Cains 1934 novel before Hollywood dared bait the censor with its own version of this scandalous story of adultery and murder. The film has so much going for it beyond the musicsleek, stylish, twisted Otto Preminger direction, and great performances by Tierney, Dana Andrews as the detective, Vincent Price as Lauras waste-of-space fianc, and Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker, the journalist who claims to have been Lauras mentor. A.C. Theres espionage. Light of Summer 1920). All rights reserved. Just watch the visual motif of that boudoir introduction recur in the Put the Blame on Mame musical number-turned-striptease. 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. Today, with the rest of Dreyers oeuvre to reflect on (especially Ordet, which was his only commercial success, despite being just as ponderous and obtuse as Day of Wrath), this film is simpler to parse. Of these,The ProwlerstarsVan Heflinas a cop called to investigate a peeping tom who then falls for the woman hes helping. Web70 titles 1. Still, Cagney is mesmerizing to watch self-destruct. A.G. This is a tale of grand passion both between men and women and between actors and audiences, and actors and the stages they inhabit. 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). You just put your lips together and blow. Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner at the typewriter. - Film (1944) - SensCritique", "Review of the film l'Aventure est au coin de la rue (1944)", "La vie de plaisir - Film (1944) - SensCritique", "Review of the film le Carrefour des enfants perdus (1944)", "MCDXXIX-MCMXLII (De Jeanne d'Arc Philippe Ptain) (1944)", French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_French_films_of_1944&oldid=1108669220, Lists of 1944 films by country or language, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 17:32. When movies such as Double Indemnity, Laura and Murder, My Sweet (all 1944) saw delayed release in Paris after the end of the A paean to the ungodly power of unrequited love, a gut-wrenching treatise on self-centeredness, and in the deft hands of Max Ophls, more contemplative and penetrating than melodramatic. Web1940s: Film and Theater Hollywood's golden age had reached a peak by 1940. The doomy atmospherics and fatalism of noir have their roots in a moody cycle of 1930s French dramas, so it makes sense that one of that eras finest films Jean Renoirs La Bte humaine (1938) should be remade in America, and by no less a director than Fritz Lang.

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. To celebrate #Noirvember, we select one essential film from each of the peak years of classic American noir. Its difficult to adapt to the new surroundings.

Late Spring isnt about American control of Japanese territories in the 1940s; rather, its about a father and daughter going about their business within that world, a film that honors minutiae and celebrates the mundane with superlative grace. A.G. Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945). 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. A significant number of directors from Accuse levez-vous! So, yeah-come for the psychopathology lesson, but stay for the stunning Gods-eye style direction by Cuckor (no unreliable narrators here! The Argentinean intrigue is marked by crackling dialogue and cast in lush shadows by cinematographer Rudolph Mat, but Vidor wisely recognizes the film belongs to Hayworth, a femme fatale of epic proportions. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 A.G. Sign up for BFI news, features, videos and podcasts. 1940: Taking over French Cinema online Watch online, Paris, 1940. D.S. A list of French films of the 1940s that I've seen in 2020. 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. Film production was at a low due to the height of the Second World War. number of members of the film community fled to the United States, Gilda taunts Johnny throughout the film, goading him with her sex appeal, and for his part, Vidor teases us, tooGilda, are you decent? Define decent. Then its reputation began to grow. Its the film that made Lon Chaney Jr. a household name on par with his father, throwing him into the same career of genre films as the famed Man of a Thousand Faces during the silent film era. The Wizard of Oz gets more populist attention, but Meet Me in St. Louis is the best Judy Garland musical by an easy margin. 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. WebRelease in France: 1940 4. brink filming locations; salomon outline gore tex men's Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock were doing some of their best work. David F. Friedman, John Alderman, Jude Farese. A.S. Long before the Boomers came to know Fred MacMurray as the kindly father on My Three Sons, the actor essayed his best performance in Double Indemnity as the deplorable, hard-boiled Walter Neff, who falls for a married temptress (Barbara Stanwyck) who talks him into killing her husband. The desire to personalize this film despite so many interventions were probably fundamental to the development of its nightmare-like tone and the use of reflective surfaces to provide depth and dimension in his constructed set. (Sadomasochism much?)

(Its also the blueprint for an entire niche of movies, the shomin-geki, a genre in Japanese film, television and theater that favors realism and which portrays the lives of working class Japanese families.) It all kicks off with one of the most famous opening shots in film history: a three-minute tracking shot that ends with abang. A.C. MCDXXIX-MCMXLII (De Jeanne d'Arc Philippe Ptain), "Review of the film l'Ange de la nuit (1944)", "Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs (1943)", "Premier de corde de Louis Daquin - (1944) - Film - Drame", "Florence est folle! This adaptation of a Broadway hit was a vehicle to get her career back on track after a series of flops. Greed is not good. 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. Good satire can be powerful, and this film was: Released while the United States was still formally at peace with Germany, it stirred greater public attention and condemnation of the Nazis and Mussolini, anti-Semitism and fascism. One of the many interesting things about Casablanca is its epic durability the story feels as fresh and real today as it did in 1945.

It was restored partially in 1946 and to its original condition in 1990. French migr directorJacques Tourneurwas a master of shadowy gothic horror, but his firsttrue noirmight be the ultimate example of the cycle, ticking off all its hallmarks from flashbacks to femme fatales into a concoction thats nothing short of intoxicating. Web100 titles 1. Sullivans Travels doesnt exactly answer these questions as much as it wields them like blunt instruments for punishing its protagonist, John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), a hot ticket in Hollywood known for churning out money-making flicks with no substantive value. A free trial, then 4.99/month or 49/year. See also:The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), Gilda (Charles Vidor), The Killers (RobertSiodmak). To a large extent, best is a meaninglessly subjective term.

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