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Thank you Mae for another wonderful tournament. Can't wait to start the 50s!
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I'm calling it now. Hitchcock and Kurosawa in the final - guaranteed!
Could be! I've gone over my DVD shelf and my "movies viewed" spreadsheet and the vast majority of the '50s films I've enjoyed are either Japanese or Hitchcock. For the Japanese, pretty much split between Kurosawa and Ozu, but a couple of others that are right up there. Kurosawa is better known in the West, but I suggest to anyone reading this to watch Ozu's Tokyo Story and Floating Weeds. I know that his Good Morning is fairly well known, but that one never did much for me.
For those who mainly think of Kurosawa for his samurai or period films, I really do suggest Ikiru. A better film about human nature you would be hard pressed to find. If you happen to watch the Criterion version, I heartily recommend the commentary, which provides some really interesting cultural perspective. Out of all Kurosawa's films, this is the one I will revisit over and over because it's just so profound.
But regardless of the above, I predict a certain non-Japanese, non-Hitchcock film might win it. I'll be interested to see if I'm right.
And I'll be nominating one of my favorites: an action/comedy/swashbuckling romance that is in my top 10 of all time.
Can't wait for the actual contest to open!
Besides a Hitchcock or any of a number of great foreign films of the 50s or Kubrick's Paths of Glory, I would want Sunset Blvd. to win.
Sunset Blvd is amazing. Of course Hitchcock is a favorite of mine too. But lets not forget that this was the era of James Dean, so I'm hoping at least one of his films can make it far in the tournament.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I think I've seen Giant about 30 times.
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
I did indeed watch Rebel without a Cause on a continuous loop back in college studying Organic Chemistry. I know I've seen it at least 60 times now.
EDIT: It also was at a time in my life when all I had was a dvd/vhs player with not many titles to choose from.
A few more links:
https://frametrek.com/best-movies-of-the-1950s/
https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/m...movie_50s.html
https://horrorobsessive.com/2020/05/...-horror-films/
https://whitecitycinema.com/category...-of-the-1950s/
https://vocal.media/geeks/a-filmmake...s-of-the-1950s
http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/30...an-art-cinema/
https://geektyrant.com/news/10-great...never-heard-of
https://www.filminquiry.com/underrated-1950s-noir/
Hi everyone, welcome to 2022 and our fourth year of this tournament! I know!
I'll be opening up the 1950s nominations thread next Monday the 10th, so hopefully everyone took this holiday down time to unwind and do all the holiday and family things, but also got some of their favorite '50s movies together for nominations! See you soon!
Just a quick friendly reminder that nominations for the 1950s open up on Monday!
Sadly I won’t be taking part. Thank you for all the hard work but there is literlly nothing that interests me from that era.
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Just remembered that 12 Angry Men is a 50's film. That will definitely be one my dark horses to win the whole thing. What a great film.
Vertigo
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Dial M for Murder
Damn, Hitchcock kinda owned the 50's, didn't he?
So we have our list of 160 titles for the 1950s and the schedule has been posted in the first post. We're underway with Round 1 starting on January 31! In the meantime, this is where you can currently stream all of the nominees, if you wish to use the time to catch up on some of these films:
- 12 Angry Men: Amazon Prime; Kanopy
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Disney+
- A Christmas Carol
- A Face in the Crowd: Criterion Channel
- A Man Escaped: Criterion Channel
- A Night to Remember: Criterion Channel; Hoopla
- A Place in the Sun: Hoopla
- A Star Is Born: HBO Max
- A Streetcar Named Desire: HBO Max
- A Summer Place
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
- Ace in the Hole: Criterion Channel; Hoopla
- Alice in Wonderland: Disney+
- All About Eve: Criterion Channel
- All That Heaven Allows
- An Affair to Remember
- An American in Paris
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Bad Day at Black Rock: TCM
- Bell, Book and Candle
- Ben-Hur
- Blackboard Jungle
- Bus Stop
- Calamity Jane
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: HBO Max
- Cinderella: Disney+
- Creature from the Black Lagoon: Criterion Channel
- Diabolique: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Roku; Plex
- Dial M for Murder: Kanopy; TCM
- Diary of a Country Priest
- Dracula
- East of Eden: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; TCM
- Elevator to the Gallows: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Plex
- Floating Weeds: Criterion Channel
- Forbidden Games
- Forbidden Planet
- From Here to Eternity: Criterion Channel
- Funny Face
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Giant
- Gidget: Plex
- Gigi
- Glen or Glenda: Hoopla
- Godzilla: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Roku
- Gun Crazy
- Harvey: Criterion Channel
- High Noon
- Hiroshima Mon Amour: Criterion Channel
- House of Wax
- House on Haunted Hill: Amazon Prime; Hoopla; Kanopy; Roku
- Houseboat
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- I Want to Live!
- Ikiru: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Imitation of Life
- In a Lonely Place: Amazon Prime; Plex
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Kanopy
- Johnny Guitar: Criterion Channel
- Journey to the Center of the Earth: Disney+
- King Creole
- King Solomon's Mines
- Kiss Me Deadly
- La Strada: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- Lady and the Tramp: Disney+
- Limelight: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Marty: Amazon Prime
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Niagara: Criterion Channel
- Night and the City: Criterion Channel
- Nights of Cabiria: Mubi
- North by Northwest: HBO Max
- Oklahoma!: Disney+
- Old Yeller: Disney+
- On the Beach
- On the Waterfront: Criterion Channel
- Ordet: Criterion Channel
- Orpheus: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- Pather Panchali: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy; Plex
- Paths of Glory: Hoopla; Kanopy
- Peter Pan: Disney+
- Pickpocket: Criterion Channel
- Pillow Talk
- Plan 9 from Outer Space: Mubi; Hoopla; Roku
- Quo Vadis
- Rashomon: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy; Plex
- Rear Window: Criterion Channel
- Rebel Without a Cause: HBO Max
- Rififi
- Rio Bravo
- Roman Holiday
- Run Silent, Run Deep
- Sabrina
- Sansho the Bailiff: Criterion Channel
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Seven Samurai: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- Shane: Hulu; Paramount+
- Singin' in the Rain: HBO Max
- Sleeping Beauty: Disney+
- Some Like It Hot: TCM
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- South Pacific
- Stage Fright
- Stalag 17: Hoopla; Roku
- Strangers on a Train
- Suddenly, Last Summer: Criterion Channel
- Sunset Boulevard
- Sweet Smell of Success: Criterion Channel
- Tea and Sympathy
- The 400 Blows: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad: Plex
- The African Queen: IMDB TV
- The Asphalt Jungle: Criterion Channel
- The Bad and the Beautiful: Criterion Channel
- The Bad Seed
- The Big Heat
- The Blob: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Plex
- The Breaking Point
- The Bridge on the River Kwai: TCM
- The Caine Mutiny
- The Cranes Are Flying: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- The Day the Earth Stood Still: Hoopla
- The Defiant Ones: Amazon Prime; Kanopy; TCM
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Earrings of Madame de…: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- The Fly: Criterion Channel
- The Hidden Fortress: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- The Incredible Shrinking Man
- The Killing: Amazon Prime; Criterion Channel; Hoopla; Kanopy
- The King and I
- The Life of Oharu: Criterion Channel
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: Criterion Channel
- The Night of the Hunter: Amazon Prime; Criterion Channel; Hoopla
- The Quiet Man: Hulu; Paramount+
- The Red Badge of Courage
- The River: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- The Robe
- The Searchers
- The Seven Year Itch
- The Seventh Seal: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- The Ten Commandments
- The Thing from Another World
- The Three Faces of Eve: Criterion Channel
- The Tingler: Hoopla; Plex; Roku
- The Trouble with Harry: Criterion Channel
- The Wages of Fear: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- The War of the Worlds: Hulu; Paramount+
- The Wrong Man
- Them!
- Throne of Blood: HBO Max; Criterion Channel
- To Catch a Thief: Paramount+
- Tokyo Story: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy; IMDB TV
- Touch of Evil
- Ugetsu: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Umberto D.: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Vertigo: Criterion Channel
- White Christmas: Netflix
- Wild Strawberries: HBO Max; Criterion Channel; Kanopy
- Winchester '73
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Written on the Wind