Cinemas were a popular haven from the cold and Hard-talking men fall for duplicitous dames, as cigarette smoke wreaths around them on dark street corners or in rooms with the slatted blinds pulleddown. By contrast, Roberto Rossellinis Rome, Open City denies its viewers the admittedly mild succor granted us by Bicycle Thieves, offering instead a raw, righteous outrage that stems from Rosselinis national pride. Together they pop, but no matter how brightly they might shine, Out of the Past remains a masterwork coated in darkness from page to screen. L'Herbier. past, especially the nineteenth century, was preferred to the present. linked by any specific style or topic. A list of films produced in France in 1940 : Title. The movies borrowed angular lighting effects from 1920s German films and a poetic gloominess from 1930s French films, wrapping it all up in tantalising packages of grit, glamour andcynicism. Like Double Indemnity, Michael Curtizs Mildred Pierce succeeds on the strength of its leading lady; in this case thats the immortal Joan Crawford, who plays the films central character, not to mention all of its heart and soul. Fantasia ran at New Yorks Broadway Theatre for 49 consecutive weeks, the longest film run ever at the time. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, derived almost wholesale from the outsize life of Louisiana governor Huey Long, Robert Rossens All the Kings Men, despite its expansive scope, wastes no time in plunging its seemingly idealistic characters into the deep morass of moral gray. Jean Marais (Beast) and Josette Day (Belle) deliver enchanting performances. This is not a bad movie; in fact its a treasure. Mark Rozeman.

On the surface a murder mystery revolving around yet another archetype, that of the titular MacGuffin, The Maltese Falcon is in essence a character study, a definitive assurance of masculinity and the cool objectivity it entails, by way of one Sam Spade. There are tragic consequences, naturally. 2. See also:High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef vonSternberg). Though films were banned if deemed too demoralizing, the film industry was Go to the content Go to the footer No thanks Of course the first half of the decade was under Nazi occupation and Vichy rule, and it's fascinating to see how this is reflected in the films of the era. Stefan, the pianist (Louis Jourdan) is remarkably clueless, and, reading the letter as hes preparing to leave town to evade a duel, follows Lisa through a series of flashbacks starting when she was 14, progressing through an episode where theyd had a brief tryst, to her marrying someone else and giving birth to Stefans child, to him trying to seduce her at a chance encounter without realizing she was the same woman, to their childs death from typhus, which is threatening to carry her off as she writes the letter. Notably, the COIC created what would Based on a novel by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, this isa noirof rare tenderness, withJames Masonsuperb as the doleful blackmailer slowly falling for hisprey.

In one of his darkest roles, 50-year-old Cagney is at his unhinged best, a powder keg of neuroses and sadistic impulses who can feign insanityas he does in the prison infirmaryfor only so long before his delusions overtake him completely. Erotically supercharged hijinks ensue. Two bank robbers and an insurance investigator all take up his trail, pursuing him into the snowywilderness. handicapped; nonetheless, the Vichy period proved to be a prosperous time (Hawks, though a fan of Hemingways, felt that To Have and Have Not was his worst novel, and reportedly told him so.) Clouzot (19071977), and Robert Bresson (19011999). (Institute for Film Studies) in 1944, under the direction of On some level its more of a mystery/romance, with the veracity of the ghosts in real doubtnot unlike Guillermo Del Toros modern Crimson Peak, without all the visual bluster. It is impeccable in every sense. As serial widow murderer Charlie, who comes west to hide out with his sisters unsuspecting family,Joseph Cottenoozes contempt, calling the world a foul sty.

Bogarts antihero is a man of honor, as it suits himhe has no qualms about kissing his dead partners widow while the bodys still warm, or turning in the guilty woman he loves to the police. Developed in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, Day of Wrath was Carl Th. The truest mark of the films brilliance is its accessibility: Even if you know zip about postwar history, youll be dazzled by Ozus unparalleled discipline as a filmmaker, charmed by Haras wonderful performance, and moved by the themes present in the fabric of the narrative, especially its painful depiction of what it means to let go of the ones we love most.

The cumulative effect represents a primal deviationmake that devolutionfrom social conformity and civilization. He was dogged by cut-happy producers (its not even clear how much footage was removed but Welles was relieved of the first 16 pages of his script before principal photography even started) and contrarian casting and locations choices (Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead to play the investigator; the studio cast Robinson; likewise he got a budget-driven no on filming the prep school scenes at The Todd School in Illinois, his own alma mater). This is one of the 1940s Westerns that portrayed the psychologically disturbing aspects of life, rather than the traditional Westerns that swung more optimistic, writes the Toronto Film Society. Sporting a glorious Technicolor palette of vibrant hues, it feels every bit the prestige picture that it is, but on a more inherent level its one of the most purely charming and universally entertaining musicals of this era, regardless of the audience its playing to.

In modern times, the types of films that most resemble the earliest films are The Black Maria by Thomas Edison Which of the following does NOT characterize the American film business in the 1910s and 1920s? ), Bergmans Dr. Petersen isnt as emotionless as she seems, and justice is served in the end-all good. The French had the solution. With a beauty for the ages as his star, Vidor doesnt have to do much, and his static, voyeuristic direction shows in fact he didnt. Hes a titan of cinema, casting his shadow over American film from the time his career began until the day he died, and though hes been gone for over thirty years his influence is still felt in movies the world over. Robert Mitchumis the garage-man whose past comes back to bite him,Jane Greerthe alluring temptress, and the labyrinthine plot moves between small-town California, Lake Tahoe and Acapulco, daring you to keepup. Good satire can be powerful, and this film was: Released while the United States was still formally at peace with Germany, it stirred greater public attention and condemnation of the Nazis and Mussolini, anti-Semitism and fascism.

, Grmillon, 1943), No high-suspense mystery here. (Sadomasochism much?) Graham Greenes work inspired several classic noirs, including the British variants Brighton Rock (1947) and The Third Man (1949). Mysterious, rich in feeling, deliciously creepy, and with jewel-tone supporting performances by Angela Lansbury and Joseph Cotten, it was a great psychological thriller in its day and it remains one now. On that note, the damage is no longer rooted in his environment; Jarretts a disaster from the inside out, dysfunctional in his very wiring (thanks, ma!). But perhaps most striking is the use of actual footage from concentration camps, which are still shocking to look at today but were exceedingly potent in the 1940s when large numbers of Americans still did not understand that the camps really existed. brink filming locations; salomon outline gore tex men's If youre a fan of the screwball niche of comedy filmmaking, you have to know Sullivans Travels, one of the best examples of its category; screwball movies arent simply about zaniness but energy, inertia, momentum, the snowballing power of a silly premise when backed by an intelligently designed madness. Just watch the visual motif of that boudoir introduction recur in the Put the Blame on Mame musical number-turned-striptease. The Wizard of Oz gets more populist attention, but Meet Me in St. Louis is the best Judy Garland musical by an easy margin. (Check out the drugstore scene where Wilson plays checkers with Billy House.) As one would expect from any Western of the mid-20th century, there are a lot of violent Indians to fend off; Dunsons love interest is slaughtered along with most of a California-bound wagon train, and in one scene where Dunson and his codger-companion Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan) are in retaliatory combat, Dunson finds one of the Indians is wearing a silver bracelet that had belonged to his own mother. A.G. The minute Russells Lindy Johnson stalks into the newspaper office run by her ex-husband Walter Burns (Grant), you know its to tell him shes getting remarried and leaving journalism to raise a family, and you know thats not how its going to end.

Also, we just think these are some damned fine films. A list of French films of the 1940s that I've seen in 2020. See also:Brute Force (Jules Dassin), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), The Lady from Shanghai (OrsonWelles).

A British and then To celebrate #Noirvember, we select one essential film from each of the peak years of classic American noir.

How much does an artist need to suffer for their art? Before there were Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury voicing animated, animate household items, there was Jean Cocteau. Despite the basic unlikability of the majority of the characters, its a remarkably riveting film; a testament to Wylers directorial choices, in which we see character surehandedly reflected in small physical details and hard angles. ), butthe firstof these is an acorn from which the great oak of film noir would grow. Although autocratic and reactionary, the You arguably need to see it before you can use that word and understand what youre saying. The story is direct and crisply toldwhat makes this film a must-see classic is that it might be the ultimate in dazzling on-screen chemistry. WebSeven best French films by year (1930-1939) Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc 70 titles 1. The fourth and final film teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall doesnt rank with their other onscreen pairingsthe real dance here is between Bogie, as a returning veteran, and Edward G. Robinson, as a gangster who has Bogies war buddys island resort in a stranglehold, just in time for a hurricane to make landfall. Nobody knew what to call film noirs when they first started coming out of Hollywood in the early 1940s. The violent, stylized set pieces are as visceral as the verbal confrontations. It performed solidly at the box office, though not spectacularly. A.C. See also:The Lineup (Don Siegel), Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner), Thunder Road (ArthurRipley). 1900s A Trip To The Moon/Le Voyage Dans La Lune What gaslighting is (and isnt) is defined by this film. Can you believe there was a time when Katharine Hepburn was known in Hollywood as box office poison? As a result, it took home the Oscar for Best Picture in 1940. From Malle to Melville, Carn to Clouzot, this is Time Outs ultimate guide to the best French movies ever released.

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A romantic drama with political tones and a ton of wit, it features superb performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Paul Henreid (for starters). Its savage and sexual, deeply unsettling in its nihilism and yet not utterly without hope; the final shot offers a respite of sorts from Tourneurs otherwise unblinking sobriety. On Christmas Eve, suicidal George Bailey (the sublime Jimmy Stewart) receives a visit from a sort of junior angel who calls himself Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). When movies such as Double Indemnity, Laura and Murder, My Sweet (all 1944) saw delayed release in Paris after the end of the Second World War, critics likened them to the romans noirs of 1930s crime novelists such as Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett. the Comit d'Organisation des Industries du Cinma Gilda taunts Johnny throughout the film, goading him with her sex appeal, and for his part, Vidor teases us, tooGilda, are you decent? Define decent. was the COIC, which would become the Centre National de la

Web100 titles 1. As is the case with many films of the 1940s, especially those foreign selections made or released in the shadow of World War II occupationby the Axis or otherwise (see also: Kurosawas navigation of American censors during the U.S.s squatting in Japan)Le Corbeau is a morally thorny tale, infatuated more with the indelible darkness of all human beings than in exploring any sense of hope that the world need not be a crappy place. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of serviceapply. Casablanca (1942) PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War 8.5 Rate 100 Metascore A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not Seven years before his powerhouse turn in The Big Heat, Glenn Ford played second fiddle to Rita Hayworthhow the hell could you not?in Charles Vidors exotic thriller. A.G. Sexual blackmail and postwar espionage: A classic cocktail and one that packs a punch. The film has so much going for it beyond the musicsleek, stylish, twisted Otto Preminger direction, and great performances by Tierney, Dana Andrews as the detective, Vincent Price as Lauras waste-of-space fianc, and Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker, the journalist who claims to have been Lauras mentor. The film is lively and dynamic and visually arresting. Greed is not good. But this Paramountproductionwas first out of the door, featuringAlan Laddin a star-making role as a taciturn killer-for-hire who gets in up to the neck after recovering a stolen chemical formula. To a large extent, best is a meaninglessly subjective term. The last film Fritz Lang made in America at the end of a string of about a dozen peerless noirs was this deliciously well-constructedthrillerin which a newspaper publisher talks his daughters fianc (Dana Andrews) into planting circumstantial evidence that will incriminate him in the murder of a nightclub dancer. Film production was at a low due to the height of the Second World War. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The Bicycle Thief is both a sentimental portrait of a father and son, and a dramatization of the social issues of its era. Sign up for BFI news, features, videos and podcasts. French migr directorJacques Tourneurwas a master of shadowy gothic horror, but his firsttrue noirmight be the ultimate example of the cycle, ticking off all its hallmarks from flashbacks to femme fatales into a concoction thats nothing short of intoxicating. [10] Escape to the Sun. Cocteau was a poet as well as a filmmaker, and this is a strong example of how the two crafts inform one another, in the way it harnesses imagery to create metaphorical connections. The other thing that is likely to grate upon the sensibilities of modern viewers is the tacit understanding (whether Hawks deliberately placed it there or whether it happened by default) is the white guys can take whatever they want attitude that pervades the minds of the characters. A.S. Though only the films opening scenes were shot on location (the rest on the Warner Bros. lot), the exotic setting and meteorological fate render isolation to an extreme degree. Its possible that Welles inventiveness was partially forged by the constraints under which he found himself working on all of his early films. Critical opinion has settled pretty solidly on the best films of the cinematically prolific 1940s; look at ten lists and youll see a lot of overlap. Its both a classic and a somewhat unconventional Western, and its a killer drama. Jimmy Stewart and Ruth Hussey round out the cast as reporters in not-so-clever disguise. Robinson is electrifying as the ex-bootlegger, whose hostages include John Barrymore as the wheelchair-bound father of Bogarts deceased war colleague, Bacall as the soldiers widow, and Academy-Award winner Claire Trevor as Robinsons mistreated moll. Aside from Bogies legendary turn, the other performances are spot-on: among them, an already scandalized Mary Astor as the femme fatale; Sydney Greenstreet (Casablanca) as hulking baddie Kasper Fat Man Gutmanastonishingly, his film debut; and Peter Lorre as an obviously gay associate of Gutmans whose homosexuality was muted for the folks at the Hays Code. Even Veda is contemptuous of Mildred for daring to have the moxie to have it all. A brother and sister move into a crumbling seaside manor to discover restless spirits with a connection to the young granddaughter of the former owner. A couple of friends on a fishing trip in Wyoming make the mistake of stopping to help at a car accident in this undervalued latter-day noir. The Return of Frank James (1940) - Director: Fritz Lang - IMDb user rating: 6.6 - Runtime: 92 minutes Ultimately Clarence jumps into the river before George can do it; activating the suicidal man to save Clarence rather than kill himself.

Wilson continues to prove Kindlers identity, and Kindler goes to greater and greater lengths to conceal it.

You may not be able to imagine this film without Welles, but try imagining it without Reed: Youd have no film at all, and wed be robbed of one of the most significant archetypes of filmmaking in the mediums short lifespan. A.G. Vichy regime initiated an ambitious program to restore France to her

Disney, who wasnt much of a classical music buff, found his famously boundless curiosity piqued by the concept of using animation to support music rather than the other way around, and plunged into the project with enthusiasm, believing it would open peoples ears (like his own) to classical music they had previously ignored. Famed for the groundbreaking FX of its iconic transformation scene, and aided by the same top-notch makeup that Jack Pierce employed in Frankenstein, it raised the bar for horror FX substantially. We love what we love, and for some of us its romantic comedies and for others its monster movies, while for others its about this cinematic innovation or that groundbreaking foray into previously unexplored subject matter. place structures that both supported and regulated the industry. Others, like Pierre Chenal In another example of how the repressive Production Codes of the time gave rise to a much more exciting scene than he might otherwise have made, Hitchcock got around the no kisses longer than three seconds by breaking the performers apart every three seconds for some kind of embrace and then resuming the kiss. 2023 Paste Media Group. competitor in the French market, so audiences chose between German films, See also:The Big Heat (Fritz Lang), The Hitch-hiker (Ida Lupino), Pickup on South Street (SamuelFuller). the film industry in advancing this agenda and almost immediately put in In the same year as Sunset Blvd. A film stuck in time, place and temperament, Miracle on 34th Street is one of the two heavy favorites, along ith Its a Wonderful Life, in the battle for the title of greatest Christmas movie ever,. (1930) 110 min | Crime, Drama 5.6 StarringPeter Lorreas the stranger of the title, its a short, cheap B-movie in which many of the hallmarks of the emerging style are brought together: an urban setting, slanted shadows, voice-over narration and the story of a wrong man falsely accused. See also:The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis), Sunset Blvd. Cattle ranch established, along with serious father-son issues. In the end its a two-and-a-half-minute kiss and probably much more intimate and entrancing than it would have been without the constraints he was fighting. A prototypical war of the sexes comedy in which each side represents the status quo for his or her respective gender, Adams Rib transcends its dumbest Mars-vs-Venus trappings by portraying Tracys Bonner as a stuffy turd too caught up in his derision of women to do anything about the fact that a famous musician lothario (David Wayne) is getting mighty close to cuckolding him, were Amanda Bonner a dunce susceptible to shameless advances. See also:Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky), Moonrise (Frank Borzage), Raw Deal (AnthonyMann). Angels of the Streets

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Overall, the film is more a distance runner than a sprinter and a brilliant example of Disneys strange, maverick, expansive imagination. The story commences with two assassins entering a small-town gas station and executing The Swede (Burt Lancaster), a former professional boxer. Smart, sweet, and witty; probably the quintessential film of the 1940s, and one of the best feel-good movies of the 20th century.

Web1940s: Film and Theater Hollywood's golden age had reached a peak by 1940. The Vichy regime was quick to recognize the strategic importance of Hot on the heels of the Great Depression and the traumatising violence of the war, film noir reflected a world-weary fatalism in the American mood (and in the many European migr filmmakers who had fled to Hollywood). A ruthlessly cynical tale of backstabbing and avarice, and one that might not increase your love for humanity, but riveting. ( Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945). Driven by star and producerHarry Belafonte,Odds against Tomorrowis a rare film noir with a black star at its centre, also tackling the theme of racism as a side order to its story of a heist gone wrong. It was remade in 1990, with Gene Hackman as thedetective. Director.

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See also:Clash by Night (Fritz Lang), Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson), Sudden Fear (DavidMiller). Director Henri-Georges Clouzot treats as a given that the world is a crappy place, through and through, detailing how the denizens of a small French town (anywhere) are pitted against one another through a series of poison pen letters sent by the titular Raven. Depending on your mood, Drunken Angels climactic brawl between Toshiro Mifunes Matsunaga and Reizabur Yamamotos Okada may either read as hilarious, pathetic or tragic. A.G. We should, however, think not of Welles but of Carol Reed, The Third Mans bizarrely under-sung director, who fought for Welles casting as the shockingly amoral Harry Lime, ensured that the film would be shot on location in Vienna, and fused its aesthetic with expressionist flair, using light and shadows in ways that at the time had yet to be attempted (and which since have yet to be as stunningly replicated). But in addition, you might notice that the film remains eerily timely in an age in which the influence and power of the mass media (and the accrual of gauche, pointless wealth) is a topic of constant discourse. The film won an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording and is considered one of the best war films of the 1940s. (Disney scrapped a portion of the Rite of Spring sequence that showed the discovery of fire out of concern that it would provoke angry Creationists; but biologists, paleontologists and astronomers, for example, were consulted.) D.S. The desire to personalize this film despite so many interventions were probably fundamental to the development of its nightmare-like tone and the use of reflective surfaces to provide depth and dimension in his constructed set. Regardless, Day of Wrath stands as a masterfully composed, exquisitely compelling glimpse at what happens when austerity is left to its own devices. But folded within the tale of Shukichi Somiya (Chishu Ryu) and Noriko Somiya (Setsuko Hara) lie a handful of barbs aimed at censorship protocols imposed upon Ozu during Late Springs production, which is itself a nod to the kind of tension Japanese citizens had to live with every single day of the occupation. Like most of Hitchcocks work, what makes it truly spooky are its relatable themesin this case, living in someone elses shadow and worrying that a loved ones hiding something. The 1940s saw the emergence of the auteur, filmmaking led by the director as opposed to the writer.

Late Spring isnt about American control of Japanese territories in the 1940s; rather, its about a father and daughter going about their business within that world, a film that honors minutiae and celebrates the mundane with superlative grace. There were a lot of great noirs in the 40s. But at times the framing makes Hayworths erotic physicality all the more charged, and dangerous. The city is nearly a character more than it is a backdrop, though of course the hero is Murakami (the great Toshiro Mifune, here appearing in the third of his sixteen eventual roles in Kurosawas filmography), a coltish young detective who is obsessed to the point of detriment with retrieving his stolen service gun. Shows sold out across the country, yet Fantasia initially ran at a loss due to the expense of the state-of-the-art Fantasound systems along with theater lease and other production costs. The great granddaddy of all convoluted noirs, The Big Sleep fully embodies every single identifying feature of Raymond Chandlers writing: dialogue that sears itself into viewers brains, rough-cut men, seductive femme fatales, plenty of violence, a respectable body count, and enough plot curveballs to give even the most accomplished noirs twist envy. The real Dr. Edwardes is missing and feared dead. She plays a small-town mother attempting to protect her family from blackmail after the accidental death of her daughters suitor. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Ultimately, of course, his undoing is a clockliterally. For most of the 1940s and 50s, this style of crime film was dominant. Regardless, Cat People was a populist hit in its day before being reevaluated decades later as a landmark of 40s horror. From the moment Hayworth whips her sultry tresses into frameto this day, a disarmingly forward, come-hither introduction made more so by her bare shoulderswere as gobsmacked as Fords drooling puppy dog. RKO cut the film from two hours, five minutes to one hour, twenty minutes and showed it in mono to trim costs. One of the best was noir masterRobert Siodmaks Scorsese-inspiringCry of the City, starringVictor Matureas a cop who finds himself on the opposite side of the law from hardened childhood friendRichardConte. emerged from the ranks, including Jean Delannoy (b. The story of a proud, well-off Midwestern family whose position and stability are compromised by the advent of the automobile, The Magnificent Ambersons was itself a victim of the vicissitudes of mass production-but that hasnt stopped it from being an enduring and masterful Welles classic. Out of the Past looks about as bleak as it feels. Critics called its stylised lighting pretentious, but this heady combination was here tostay. An American thug in Buenos Aires, our narrator Johnny Farrell (Ford) cheats, and then cheats some more: first at the casino of an older businessman involved in a Nazi cartel, and then with the businessmans young new wife, his ex, Gilda (Hayworth). See also:The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), Gilda (Charles Vidor), The Killers (RobertSiodmak). Maybe his words read as the wildest of exaggerations back in 1970, but in 2017 they ring as genuinely as John Fords 1940 adaptation of John Steinbecks 1939 novel. WebFrench Cinema: A Critical Filmography (1940-1958) 1. While there he befriends an undercover fed (Edmond OBrien, whose other noirs include The Hitch-Hiker) bent on nailing him for greater crimes.

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. A.G. Referred to by many as the first major noir (after the more obscure 1940 film Stranger on the Third Floor), this John Huston classic set the bar for the archetypal detective, the subgenre as a whole, and the rest of star Humphrey Bogarts career.

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