1934's Best Movies: 90 Years Later

It's gonna be Scarlet Empress for me, but this is a really well-rounded collection imo

WC Fields takes this

Vigo's film is one of my absolute favorites, Just beautiful.

Vigo is the only I've seen.

Sternberg is a gap

the scarlet empress is such deranged delirious fun. a lot of affection for the thin man series (third one is best imo) but doesn't really hold water here.

would vote for judge priest if i could tho, all three will rogers ford films are phenomenal

I'll go for The Black Cat, perhaps the most feverish Universal horror and certainly the most underrated. Ulmer's European roots in clear evidence with all this talk of decadence and the spectre of WWI. Amazing set design. Nasty and sad and of course it has a jarringly upbeat ending.

The Thin Man and It Happened One Night also good choices.

Have seen all the Hollywood entries here plus L'Atalante and I'll go for The Scarlet Empress.

It Happened One Night was groundbreaking, but Twentieth Century in the supplementary list is a bit funnier imo iirc fwiw.

I'd go for Twentieth Century if it were an option too

Barrymore is hysterical in it: "I close the iron door on you!'

ting-a-ling-a-ling!

I watched The Thin Man three weeks for the third time and was -- well, disappointed? It moved slower than I remembered.

you start to feel the drag once it gets into the dective stuff and loy is sidelined

exactly

_i love you again_ is an underrated van dyke/loy/powell vehicle with a ridiculous premise i’ll go to bat for

an alternative 1934 rec is maria forteza’s poetic short mallorca, which was rediscovered a few years ago and touted as the first spanish film directed by a woman. can be watched here: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=851089728749755&vanity=XBarbeta

Double Wedding is my fave Powell/Loy outside of the thinmamverse.

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I was part of The Scarlet Empress hive, but a little sad I didn't throw a vote the way of The Goddess - Ruan Lingyu is astonishing, and conjures fond memories of reading Mu Shiying short stories / visiting the Shanghai Film Museum.