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Old 06-25-2008, 04:43 PM   #1
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Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

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1. Brief Encounter (Lean)
2. Rome, Open City (Rossellini)
3. Detour (Ulmer)
4. And Then There Were None (Clair)
5. I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger)

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6. Children of Paradise (Carne)
7. Dead of Night (bunch of guys)
8. The Body Snatcher (Wise)
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Old 06-25-2008, 04:53 PM   #4
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2. San Pietro
3. Rome, Open City
4. The House on 92nd Street
5. Brief Encounter

I should probably watch Children of Paradise again some day.
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Old 06-25-2008, 05:05 PM   #5
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1. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
2. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
3. I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
4. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
5. And Then There Were None (René Clair)

6. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
7. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
8. Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)
9. Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
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Old 06-25-2008, 05:08 PM   #6
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Old 06-25-2008, 05:49 PM   #7
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Old 06-25-2008, 05:53 PM   #8
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Heh all I've seen from this year is two films produced by Val Lewton. I should really see more from the 1940s.
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Old 06-26-2008, 01:03 AM   #10
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Where be the Leave Her to Heaven love at? :(
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Old 06-26-2008, 01:12 AM   #12
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1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
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Old 06-26-2008, 01:32 AM   #13
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I see no mention here of Objective, Burma!. This is a very modern war movie which lacks the propaganda prevalent in war movies from the 40s. Don't be put off by iconic Errol Flynn - he is perfect in a serious role. Easily the best war film from the 40s.
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Old 06-26-2008, 01:44 AM   #14
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i've only seen two i would put on a list. Mildred Pierce and Children of Paradise. Brief Encounter is the only other one i've seen and it's awful.
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1. Childen of Paradise
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2. Isle of the Dead
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I'm eager to see The Body Snatcher.
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Scarlet Street and I Know Where I'm Going somewhere down the line.
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I'm eager to see The Body Snatcher.
If you liked Isle of the Dead you'll really dig The Body Snatcher, which is the better of the two. Borris Karloff gives an awesome and extremely creepy scene stealing performance in that film.
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Spellbound

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Country: USA

The head of the Green Manors mental asylum is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run to try to solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.

Earned an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography (BW) and Best Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov). Ingrid Bergman was named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle. The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dalí. David O. Selznick was opposed to using Dalí from an expense point of view, until he realized the marketing mileage that could be gained from such a hiring.

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And Then There Were None

Director: René Clair

Country: USA

Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island. Suddenly one of them is dead, then the next ... One of the group must be the murderer, but the person suspected is always the person who is murdered next.

Based on a novel by Agatha Christie, originally published in the UK with the title Ten Little Niggers. The novel has also been published under the title Ten Little Indians. The film's ending is radically different than the novel, using the conclusion Christie herself wrote for the 1943 stage version.

"Clair’s camera seems as interested as we are in getting to the bottom of this mystery, and can be seen peeking through keyholes and around corners as it spies on the guests, who are usually found to be spying on yet another guest. The director is ceaselessly inventive visually, and the games that he continuously plays with the audience never hamper the thrills: they only leave us wanting more." - Jeremy Heilman
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