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Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Sun, 15 May 2016 10:51:04 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/15/2016 14:51

And the poll is closed 😄 Will be posting the list now.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Sat, 14 May 2016 22:39:52 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/15/2016 02:39

badseed wrote:

So how many hours away are we from this thing?

The deadline is in 1.5 hours, and I'll be posting the list in about 12 or 13 hours.

The list looks really solid right now. There's still about 15 films that aren't currently going to make the cut that I'm a bit sad about, but oh well 🙁 I always post the 5 runner-ups.

Hoping you guys like the list 😁

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Sat, 14 May 2016 22:25:39 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/15/2016 02:25

Hayden wrote:

It still stands that no one has picked the same #1 or #2 film. Which is remarkable considering the amount of lists I've received.

That's pretty intense. I'm sure it's gonna be full of quality. I also think it will be interesting if any Disney movies make the cut, and if so, which one(s). I had Sleeping Beauty on my first list but decided to cut it from the final one. Funny my 90s list was loaded with animated films even though I'd place a lot of the 50s ones ahead of them. I guess that just goes to show how much more I like the 50s than the 90s for film in general.

I'm totally game for a Seventh Seal win. It's kinda like Ennio Morricone's Oscar. He deserved to win more before but I'm glad he still got it. My guess is Seven Samurai (because it's the obvious guess), with my backup guess probably being Sunset Blvd (as I've seen a lot of love for it on these boards).

Here's another fun guess. The highest-rated film that I have not seen will be The Ballad of Narayama, at #72. I'm making this guess simply because it caught my eye as I was browsing Criterions at the mall today.

So how many hours away are we from this thing?

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Sat, 14 May 2016 10:35:37 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/14/2016 14:35

It still stands that no one has picked the same #1 or #2 film. Which is remarkable considering the amount of lists I've received.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Sat, 14 May 2016 10:31:39 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/14/2016 14:31

I should note that currently our #5-9 range is ridiculously close. Less than 10 points between them. Our #2 and #3 are also really close.

So, just a reminder that even if you can only compile a list of 10 or 15 films, it can make a big difference 😄

...Also... our 100-120 range has way too many good films in it 😨 7 of which are quite high on my list. So I'm hoping some people manage to bump those.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Mercury — Sat, 14 May 2016 10:18:07 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 05/14/2016 14:18

badseed wrote:

Fun fact for my list:

Yasujiro Ozu has the most films (5) followed by Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan with 4. Kenji Mizoguchi and Robert Bresson have 3 each, while Fellini, Resnais, Ford, Kubrick, Cukor, Kobayashi, Wajda, Bunuel, Clouzot, Renoir, Huston, Mackendrick and Donen all have 2. That leaves 39 other directors with a single film each.

Nice. My leaders are Wilder with 7, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi with 5, and Ozu and S. Ray with 4. After that there are several with 2 or 3 I imagine, but I haven't checked that out.

Hayden wrote:

Final day for lists :)

Yay! My final bet for #1 is The Seventh Seal.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Sat, 14 May 2016 09:55:14 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/14/2016 13:55

Final day for lists 😄

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Fri, 13 May 2016 17:33:44 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/13/2016 21:33

Fun fact for my list:

Yasujiro Ozu has the most films (5) followed by Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan with 4. Kenji Mizoguchi and Robert Bresson have 3 each, while Fellini, Resnais, Ford, Kubrick, Cukor, Kobayashi, Wajda, Bunuel, Clouzot, Renoir, Huston, Mackendrick and Donen all have 2. That leaves 39 other directors with a single film each.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

CA Dreamin — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:04:44 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 05/13/2016 19:04

Hayden wrote:

Still hoping to get a few more :)

Yeah yeah yeah. I'll get mine to you some time later today after I run a couple errands. Here's a sneak preview:

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. North by Northwest
3. Vertigo
4. High Noon
5. The Killing
6. 12 Angry Men

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:22 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/13/2016 15:00

Thanks Badseed, made the edit. 😄

Also, thanks to everyone else who PMed lists today. Still hoping to get a few more 😄

The only hint I'm going to give is that currently I can't find minimalist posters for 2 films in our top 10 🤣 So I'm just going to hope they get booted out.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Fri, 13 May 2016 02:15:44 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/13/2016 06:15

Final list. Lots different from the one I posted before, but actually thinking hard about it over a month changes things. Still this was really hard to do.

1. Vertigo
2. Pather Panchali
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Tokyo Story
5. Night and Fog
6. Wild Strawberries
7. Seven Samurai
8. Ordet
9. The Wages of Fear
10. Ugetsu

11. The 400 Blows
12. Ikiru
13. The Searchers
14. Hiroshima mon Amour
15. Rashomon
16. All About Eve
17. Ashes and Diamonds
18. La Strada
19. Umberto D
20. Paths of Glory

21. Diary of a Country Priest
22. Singin' in the Rain
23. Sunset Boulevard
24. Sansho the Bailiff
25. On the Waterfront
26. A Man Escaped
27. The Cranes Are Flying
28. Anatomy of a Murder
29. The Life of Oharu
30. Diabolique

31. Touch of Evil
32. Los Olvidados
33. The World of Apu
34. In a Lonely Place
35. Smiles of a Summer Night
36. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
37. Nights of Cabiria
38. North By Northwest
39. A Face in the Crowd
40. A Star is Born

41. Ace in the Hole
42. Pickpocket
43. The Bridge on the River Kwai
44. Kanal
45. The Night of the Hunter
46. Early Summer
47. Sweet Smell of Success
48. Some Like it Hot
49. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
50. Throne of Blood

51. Forbidden Games
52. The Bad and the Beautiful
53. Floating Weeds
54. Johnny Guitar
55. The Earrings of Madame de...
56. A Streetcar Named Desire
57. Aparajito
58. Rear Window
59. Mon Oncle
60. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

61. Limelight
62. The Big Heat
63. Richard III
64. Othello
65. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
66. The Ladykillers
67. Rio Bravo
68. Death of a Salesman
69. Strangers on a Train
70. Ivan the Terrible, Part II

71. The Red Balloon
72. The Day the Earth Stood Still
73. 3:10 to Yuma
74. Rififi
75. Horror of Dracula
76. The River
77. The Lavender Hill Mob
78. A Place in the Sun
79. 12 Angry Men
80. The Music Room

81. The African Queen
82. Death of a Cyclist
83. East of Eden
84. Early Spring
85. Summer with Monika
86. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
87. Bob le Flambeur
88. Shadows
89. Winchester '73
90. Gun Crazy

91. Equinox Flower
92. Born Yesterday
93. Witness for the Prosecution
94. French Cancan
95. The Asphalt Jungle
96. Ballad of a Soldier
97. Bad Day at Black Rock
98. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
99. The Killing
100. The Quiet Man

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:25:28 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/13/2016 02:25

badseed wrote:

So yeah I redid my list on paper and am quite proud off it. Now I just need to update it on here.

badseed wrote:

Well I had my list done, but Hulu got me.

The Cranes Are Flying was fantastic.

Yeah broskis, not sure where yall got that. Those were the last mentions I made of my list. Obviously not submitted.

Ah, woops. I had tallied it about a day after you made that post. Should have realized it hadn't been updated when Cranes wasn't on it.

But yeah, it isn't an issue 😁 Easy fix once you submit your final one.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:14:04 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/13/2016 02:14

badseed wrote:

So yeah I redid my list on paper and am quite proud off it. Now I just need to update it on here.

badseed wrote:

Well I had my list done, but Hulu got me.

The Cranes Are Flying was fantastic.

Yeah broskis, not sure where yall got that. Those were the last mentions I made of my list. Obviously not submitted.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:05:23 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/13/2016 02:05

Oh yeah, as far as I know (and I haven't been under the influence of anything to keep me from knowing) I haven't changed anything on this thread; the list you see is the one I originally posted. I didn't think I gave the impression that I had officially submitted, just that I had privately completed my final list. I was planning on sending a PM and posting it here at the same time like I did last time. The new one is a bit different. I'll submit it in the next 3-6 hours though I swear. Hope it doesn't take too much time for you to fix it up.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Thu, 12 May 2016 21:14:25 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/13/2016 01:14

badseed wrote:

You've got a real knack for building anticipation. These always get so exciting near the end. I like the fact that you have them in order already. Makes me feel like my list is gonna be a big difference maker, even though only you know how big of a difference that will be.

Quote:

Badseed, I thought you submitted a list and then a revision of the list on this thread already. ? Is there more changes coming?

Actually, yeah 🤣 Badseed, I have your list added up. I put it in the tally when you said you revised it. If you want to make any changes to it, that's perfectly fine though.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Mercury — Thu, 12 May 2016 21:08:57 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 05/13/2016 01:08

Badseed, I thought you submitted a list and then a revision of the list on this thread already. ? Is there more changes coming?

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Thu, 12 May 2016 20:18:04 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/13/2016 00:18

Hayden wrote:

badseed wrote:

I've got my list complete, it's just a matter of taking 20 minutes to type it up on my crappy phone because somebody didn't want to pay the internet bill.

Hayden, any surprises in that top 25? I remember being mildly shocked that stuff like Groundhog Day and Blow-Up made the top 10s for their respective decades. I wonder what could creep its way up unexpectedly this time. I'm not even sure what would be considered a surprise this time, as there's at least 20 or 30 movies that could reasonably make top 5. It would have to come out of nowhere. Maybe a Wajda film.

Another (slightly) bold prediction: no James Dean. Or all James Dean. One or the other.

Groundhog Day was almost the #1 believe it or not. It changed last second.

As for surprises, I guess that's more an opinionated matter, but in my opinion there are certainly at least 3 surprises in our top 25. Mostly pleasant ones. The real surprise is going to be the order they're in :mrgreen:

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:54:39 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/12/2016 23:54

badseed wrote:

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

badseed — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:48:04 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/12/2016 23:48

I've got my list complete, it's just a matter of taking 20 minutes to type it up on my crappy phone because somebody didn't want to pay the internet bill.

Hayden, any surprises in that top 25? I remember being mildly shocked that stuff like Groundhog Day and Blow-Up made the top 10s for their respective decades. I wonder what could creep its way up unexpectedly this time. I'm not even sure what would be considered a surprise this time, as there's at least 20 or 30 movies that could reasonably make top 5. It would have to come out of nowhere. Maybe a Wajda film.

Another (slightly) bold prediction: no James Dean. Or all James Dean. One or the other.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 50's [Poll] [Closed]

Hayden — Thu, 12 May 2016 17:52:22 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/12/2016 21:52

2 more days 😨

Hoping to see some more lists come in. The top 25 is still really close. There's no serious runaway at this point.