1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Show Boat (James Whale)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
Craig’s Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
Confessions of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
Camille (George Cukor)
San Francisco (Woody Van Dyke)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)
Charlie Chan at the Opera (H. Bruce Humberstone)
Our Relations (Harry Lachman)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
Rose Marie (W. S. Van Dyke)
Flash Gordon (Frederick Stephani [Ray Taylor])
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Reefer Madness (Louis Gasnier)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
good call on Flash Gordon.
You can start preparing the next polls: 1992 and 1974.
just finished up those lists.
Seems 74 was a great year
1. Partie de campagne
Camille
Libeled Lady
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
The Story of a Cheat
Theodora Goes Wild
Poll closes Saturday, August 6.
1. The Petrified Forest (Archie B. Mayo, USA)
The Devil Doll (Tod Browning, USA)
Fury (Fritz Lang, USA)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
Hitori Musuko / The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
Swing Time (George Stevens, USA)
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, USA)
Sisters of Gion / Gion no Shimai (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
1. The Petrified Forest (Archie B. Mayo, USA)
The Devil Doll (Tod Browning, USA)
Fury (Fritz Lang, USA)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
Hitori Musuko / The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
Swing Time (George Stevens, USA)
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, USA)
Sisters of Gion / Gion no Shimai (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
1. A Day in the Country
Sisters of the Gion
Osaka Elegy
Arigato-san
Camille
Fury
The Lower Depths
Modern Times
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Wow. I have not been kind to 1936. I have only seen 4 films from this year and I only liked (well, loved) one. So, here’s my list:
1) Modern Times
The Road to Glory
Camille
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Desire
The Devil-Doll
Fury
Lloyd’s of London
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
The Plainsman
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Cesar
A Day in the Country
Let Us Do a Dream
They Were Five
Final Accord
Things to Come
By the Bluest of Seas
The Only Son
The Only Son (Ozu)
Lots of films I like a lot this year, but not so many masterpieces. I probably could have added five or ten more, but this time I had no problem choosing No. 1.
1-A Day in the Country
Sisters of the Gion
My Man Godfrey
Dodsworth
Libelled Lady
Wife vs. Secretary
Desire
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Modern Times
Sabotage
Swing Time
The Crime of M. Lange
The Last of the Mohicans
Secret Agent
Show Boat
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Plainsman
Road to Glory
Ceiling Zero
Intermezzo
1. "A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
“La belle equipe” (Julien Duvivier)
“Dodsworth” (William Wyler)
“Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein” (Erich Engels)
“The Crime of Monsieur Lange” (Jean Renoir)
“Fahrmann Maria” (Frank Wisbar)
“Fury” (Fritz Lang)
“Gion no shimai” (Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella” (Vasili Zhuravlyov)
“The Lower Depths” (Jean Renoir)
“Modern Times” (Charlie Chaplin)
“My Man Godfrey” (Gregory La Cava)
“Naniwa Elegy” (Kenji Mizoguchi)
“The Only Son” (Ozu)
“Rose Hobart” (Joseph Cornell)
“Show Boat” (James Whale)
“The Story of a Cheat” (Sacha Guitry)
“Swing Time” (George Stevens)
“Things to Come” (William Cameron Menzies)
“Yidl mitn fidl” (Joseph Green)
“Fahrmann Maria” (Frank Wisbar)
That is a great choice! Although it is not usually mentioned in the books of film history (the 1934-1945 German cinema has been unjustly neglected for decades, everyone knows why), one of the most fascinating films of the decade.
(apologies for the Japan dominated list but it has by far the most 1930 films I’ve seen)
Arigato-san (Shimizu)
The Only Son (Ozu)
A Day in the County (Renoir)
Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
Sisters of Gion (Mizoguchi)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Woman of the Mist (Gosho)
Morning’s Tree Lined Street (Naruse)
Priest of Darkness (Yamanaka)
The Road I Travel With You (Naruse)
One of the best years in Japanese 1930’s cinema, with masterpieces by Shimizu, Ozu and Mizoguchi. Itami’s Capricious Young Man is supposed to be good as well, but unforunately there’s no subtitles for it yet. In 1937 Japan would produce 562 films in a year! Possibly more films in one year than in a 100 years in my little country.
Come And Get It (Hawks and Wyler)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Capra)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
The Only Son (Ozu)
Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
Secret Agent (Hitchcock)
Sisters Of The Gion (Mizoguchi)
Man, I should have started a list of all the films which didn’t make the final cut for these polls since some of those sound damn interesting and are much less well known.
1.La belle équipe
With both endings (the first very well shot, the other perhaps hasty and simplistic but plotly more in line with the collective effort)
Beethoven
Ceiling Zero
Come and Get It
Fährmann Maria
Fury
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Lloyd’s of London
Mayerling
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Thank You
My Man Godfrey
Tarzan Escapes
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
The Devil-Doll
The General Died at Dawn
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Road to Glory
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Deliberately excluded (TSPDT top 250, IMDb top 250):
A Day in the Country
Modern Times
Wanted:
Akanishi Kakita
Lo squadrone bianco
Mon père avait raison
My iz Kronshtadta
Oboroyo no onna
Redes
Schlußakkord
The Green Pastures
…
1. Garden of Allah
2. Rembrandt
3. Mayerling
4. The Only Son
5. Partie de Champagne
6. Mr. Thank You
7. My Man Godfrey
8. Dodsworth
9. Rose Hobart
10 Poppy
11 Story of a Cheat
12 Wife vs Secretary
13 Secret Agent
14 Bohemian Girl
15 The Plainsman
16 Pennies from Heaven
17 Blind Woman of Sorrento
18 Yidl mitn Fidl
19 Daniel Boone
20 Postal Inspector
As is often the case I had to leave off quite a few films I liked as much as the ones I chose. Swing Time, Follow the Fleet for the Face the Music and Dance number if nothing else, Girls’ Dormitory, Libeled Lady, Sabotage, Modern Times, San Francisco, The Great Ziegfield, Devil Doll, Crime of Monsieur Lange, Theodora Goes Wild, Prisoner of Shark Island, Our Relations, Osaka Elegy, Anthony Adverse, Lloyds’ of London,The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Wedding Present, The General Died at Dawn, and I Love to Singa, as well as a number of others, could have all made the cut, but then again I do tend to like the films of the thirties much more than most people so take that as you will. I am sorry I didn’t get a chance to watch Sisters of Gion before I voted though since I should be receiving it soon.
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1. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
2. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
3. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
4. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Fury (Fritz Lang)
6. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
7. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
8. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Mayerling (Anatole Litvak)
10. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Frank Capra)
11. Show Boat (James Whale)
12. Mr. Thank-You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
13. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
14. The Princess Comes Across (William K. Howard)
15. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Henry Hathaway)
16. Things To Come (William Cameron Menzies)
17. Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks)
18. Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
19. Poppy (A. Edward Sutherland)
20. Laburnum Grove (Carol Reed)
08/06/2011 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1936-poll
Thanks to all who contributed!
Rich Uncle Skeleton
I’m updating my vote. I’ve replaced The Story of Louis Pasteur with The Plow that Broke the Plains. Can’t believe I forgot about that.
145 W. 21 (Burckhardt)
After the Thin Man (Van Dyke)
Bullets or Ballots (Keighley)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Curtiz)
The CooCoo Nut Grove (Freleng)
The Devil is a Sissy (Van Dyke)
Follow the Fleet (Sandrich)
I Love to Singa (Avery)
Love Before Breakfast (W. Lang)
Love on the Run (Van Dyke)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
The Milky Way (McCarey)
The Plow that Broke the Plains (Lorentz)
Poppy (Sutherland)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
The Singing Kid (Keighley)
Swing Time (Stevens)
Theodora Goes Wild (Boleslawski)
Three Little Wolves (Hand)
Three Smart Girls (Koster)