1954's Best Movies: 70 Years Later

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rear window ahead of waterfront, with a third pick coming from the reserve list in the form of seven brides

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There's at least one big Godzilla fan lurking out there.

the political intent behind waterfront is idiotic and it makes me unable to enjoy the movie

SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi; Japan) [#84]	10
CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI (Kenji Mizoguchi; Japan) [#817]	0

Impressive grouping

The best one is Johnny Guitar.

the political intent behind waterfront is idiotic and it makes me unable to enjoy the movie

Orson Welles mentioned this when someone asked about Kazan in 1982. (I think it was at a guest lecture for a French film school):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6DC4AjTG2M

I voted for Sansho the Bailiff, but FWIW, Rear Window, Seven Samurai, Johnny Guitar and Journey to Italy are all possibly my favorite films from those respective directors, and Chikamatsu Monogatari is a masterpiece too. It really was a tremendous year.

OTW so shrewdly inverts what actually happened that its ersatz leftism impresses me in the right circumstances.

I went Hollywood this year and voted for Rear Window last week b/c it's the film I would've watched at that moment -- the only lodestar in these exercises.

I loved Rear Window,Seven Samurai,Johnny Guitar and Sansho the Bailiff, but ended up voting for La Strada, a sentimental favorite film from a director I know you all hate

haven't seen Chikamatsu Monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) yet, but it is on the Criterion Channel

La Strada is crushingly sad in the end, not many films do that so effectively for me.

I was kinda shocked by ILX’s low regard for Fellini in the Morbsies poll.

missed this poll, Sansho The Bailiff would have got +1 otherwise. I have had dreams about this movie, it's totally imprinted on my subconscious self.

I feel like Fellini is easy to fall in love with particularly as a budding young film enthusiast and then also easy to fall out of love with, as sentimental or facile or self-indulgent. I love at least four of his movies including La Strada. He's defensible for bringing Giulietta Masina to the world alone.

I like I Vitelloni without reservation.