Best Films of the 40s (V2)[Poll]
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Olli
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The film Meshes of the Afternoon is too short. This film is only 14 minutes long. The limit here is 30 minutes. 😉
Another good short films are:
Le Tempestaire - Jean Epstein 1947 - 23 min
Inspiration - Karel Zeman 1949 - 13 min
At Land - Maya Deren 1944 - 15 min
Jammin’ the Blues - Gjon Mili 1944 - 10 min
What good short films from the 1940s do you know?
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Our Minds Know EXACTLY What We Need...
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... until we get it. Watched this - Ossessione from 1943 - last night, and absolutely LOVED this! I think it may be my first Italian Neorealist film, but I'll certainly be adding more to my queue subito subito!! Any suggestions? Anyone else obsessed with Ossessione?! 😈
It easily cracks my Top 5 films of the 1940s (so far)!
Repo's 1940s Film Rankings
Suspicion (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
Ossessione (1943)
Casablanca (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Uninvited (1944)
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| Repo wrote: | Watched this - Ossessione from 1943 - last night, and absolutely LOVED this! I think it may be my first Italian Neorealist film, but I'll certainly be adding more to my queue subito subito!! Any suggestions?
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Ossessione is a great choice as an entry point, indeed. It's easy to draw parallels to American cinema and film noir.
The neo-realist canon consists of Vittorio De Sica (Ladri di biciclette, Sciuscià), Roberto Rossellini (Roma città aperta, Paisà, Germania anno zero) and Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, La Terra Trema). Can't really go wrong with any of them. If you need a place to start, I guess one could argue that De Sica's more "poetic" and sentimental (but always deeply rooted to reality nonetheless) style is more accessible than Rossellini's more raw, "primitive" approach. Germania anno zero is probably the most "difficult" film of the bunch (there's a great deal of humanity in the first two parts of his trilogy, while this one approaches nihilistic territory) and La Terra Trema the most ambitious (keeps the neo-realist, documentary-like form, but adds an operatic scope and incorporates the Marxist ideology).
Shout-out to Aniki Bóbó (1942), a Portuguese film that foresaw the neo-realist movement.
| Olli wrote: | | What good short films from the 1940s do you know? |
It might not fit the Academy's definition of a short film by a few seconds ("40 minutes or less, including all credits"), but it has to be Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne anyway. It is truly remarkable how (minor spoiler alert) it captures the full spectrum of the human experience from pure bliss to devastating tragedy despite its simple premise and short running time.
The question is whether it qualifies as a '40s film or not. Based on the available info (shot in 1936 and released in 1946) and according to
| Hayden wrote: | Films must have an international premiere date between January 1st 1940 and December 31st 1949.
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it does.
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Good stuff kokkinos, I would add Bitter Rice (Riso amaro, 1949) by Giuseppe De Santis to the list. Watched it recently, a spectacular neorealist drama/crime movie. Mezmerizing atmosphere and setting, shot by Otello Martelli (La Dolce Vita, Stromboli, Paisan, La Strada...)
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Agreed.
Giuseppe De Santis is one of the neglected filmmakers that pushed the boundaries of neo-realism (Luigi Zampa, Alberto Lattuada, Pietro Germi, Carlo Lizzani would be some other names that deserve a mention.)
Even though Riso Amaro is not the most representative sample of neo-realism in a strict sense, it could be viewed as a natural follow-up to Ossessione in many ways, such as the American influence, the theme of desire and the sensual tone, not to mention that De Santis actually co-wrote Ossessione.
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Olli
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After watching 261 films from the 1940s with a running time of over 30 minutes, here are my top 100... Following these are 50 more films that I also enjoyed. 😁
Also see my List in Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/p1ZvC
1. It's a Wonderful Life 1946
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943
3. The Grapes of Wrath 1940
4. Odd Man Out 1947
5. Brief Encounter 1945
6. Casablanca 1942
7. Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) 1948
8. The Third Man 1949
9. Sullivan's Travels 1941
10. Double Indemnity 1944
11. Arsenic and old Lace 1943
12. Out of the Past 1947
13. To Be or Not to Be 1942
14. 晩春 (Banshun / Late Spring) 1949
15. The Thief of Bagdad 1940
16. The Red Shoes 1948
17. Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) 1944
18. The Lost Weekend 1945
19. A Matter of Life and Death 1946
20. The Lady Eve 1941
21. Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City) 1945
22. The Sea Wolf 1941
23. The Uninvited 1944
24. White Heat 1949
25. Notorious 1946
26. One of Our Aircraft is Missing 1942
27. The Ox-Bow Incident 1943
28. The Letter 1940
29. Yellow Sky 1948
30. 素晴らしき日曜日 (Subarashiki nichiyôbi / One Wonderful Sunday) 1947
31. Shadow of the Doubt 1943
32. The Set-Up 1949
33. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
34. Aniki-Bóbó 1942
35. Meet John Doe 1941
36. Unter den Brücken (Under the Bridges) 1946
37. Brute Force
38. I know where I'm going 1945
39. The Sea Hawk 1940
40. Murder, My Sweet 1944
41. Ossessione (Obession) 1943
42. Citizen Kane 1941
43. Nightmare Alley 1947
44. The Great Dictator 1940
45. My Darling Clementine 1946
46. Now, Voyager 1942
47. Rope 1948
48. Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) 1945
49. Gaslight 1944
50. Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
51. Le Corbeau 1943
52. The Maltese Falcon 1941
53. Black Narcissus 1947
54. La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) 1946
55. Spellbound 1945
56. The Talk of the Town 1942
57. A Canterbury Tale 1944
58. Oliver Twist 1948
59. The Shop around the Corner 1940
60. 野良犬 (Nora inu / Stray Dog) 1949
61. Distinto amanecer (Another Dawn) 1943
62. Great Expectations 1946
63. Laura 1944
64. D.O.A. 1949
65. Rebecca 1940
66. 小城之春 (Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun / Spring in a small Town) 1948
67. Wir machen Musik (We make Music) 1942
68. Kiss of Death 1947
69. I Wake Up Screaming 1941
70. The Body Snatcher 1945
71. Romanze in Moll (Romance in a Minor Key) 1943
72. Lifeboat 1944
73. The Palm Beach Story 1942
74. High Sierra 1941
75. Quai des Orfèvres (Jenny Lamour) 1947
76. Mildred Pierce 1945
77. Isabelita 1940
78. Obsession 1949
79. Act of Violence 1948
80. The Postman always rings twice 1946
81. The More the Merrier 1943
82. A Letter to Three Wives 1948
83. The Lady from Shanghai 1947
84. Sciuscià (Shoeshine) 1946
85. The Woman in the Window 1944
86. Emberek a havason (People of the Mountains) 1942
87. The Westerner 1940
88. Hangover Square 1945
89. Hellzapoppin' 1941
90. 酔いどれ天使 (Yoidore tenshi / Drunken Angel) 1948
91. Große Freiheit Nr.7 (Port of Freedom) 1944
92. Panique (Panic) 1946
93. This Gun for Hire 1942
94. Whisky Galore! 1949
95. La Main du Diable (Carnival of Sinners) 1943
96. 簪 (Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin) 1941
97. Detour 1945
98. Born to Kill 1947
99. The Ghost Breakers 1940
100. Red River 1948
101. Cabin in the Sky 1943
102. I married a Witch 1942
103. Christmas in July 1940
104. Brighton Rock 1948
105. And Then There Were None 1945
106. Criss Cross 1949
107. The Lodger 1944
108. The Spiral Staircase 1946
109. In jenen Tagen (In Those Days) 1947
110. 49th Parallel 1941
111. Thieves' Highway 1949
112. 信子 (Nobuko) 1940
113. The strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946
114. Scarlet Street 1945
115. Film ohne Titel (Film Without Title) 1948
116. How Green was my Valley 1941
117. Monsieur Verdoux 1947
118. Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (The Angel and the Lyre) 1944
119. I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) 1943
120. Bambi 1942
121. The Seventh Victim 1943
122. The Big Sleep 1946
123. The Reckless Moment 1949
124. 父ありき (Chichi ariki / There was a Father) 1942
125. The Suspect 1944
126. Kleider machen Leute (Clothes make the Man) 1940
127. Blood on the Moon 1948
128. Pursued 1947
129. The Clock 1945
130. Dumbo 1941
131. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
132. The Glass Key 1942
133. 蜂の巣の子供たち (Hachi no su no kodomotachi / Children of the Beehive) 1948
134. Suspicion 1941
135. Paisà 1946
136. I Walked with a Zombie 1943
137. Liebe 47 (Love '47) 1949
138. The Philadelphia Story 1940
139. The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945
140. The Whistler 1944
141. Dead of Night 1945
142. Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) 1943
143. Ball of Fire 1941
144. Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
145. The Blue Dahlia 1946
146. A Chump at Oxford 1940
147. Cat People 1942
148. Jour de fête 1949
149. Der Herr vom anderen Stern 1948
150. Boomerang 1947
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