1939's Best Movies: 80 Years Later

1949's Best Movies: 70 Years Later
1959's Best Movies: 60 Years Later
1969's Best Movies: 50 Years Later
1979's Best Movies: 40 Years Later
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rules

This is most definitely Rules, but Only Angels Have Wings and Last Chrysanthemums are as strong as any movies I've not voted for in these polls.

Stagecoach - one of the best action movies of all time

The Rules of the Game would get my vote if Midnight weren't on the list.

The Wizard of Oz.

The Roaring Twenties is almost as great as Manny Farber makes it out to be, also.

The Rules of the Game
Midnight
Only Angels Have Wings
The Wizard of Oz
Stagecoach
Young Mr. Lincoln
Mr. Smith
The Roaring Twenties
Gunga Din
Ninotchka
Gone with the Wind
Le Jour se Leve

Haven't seen Last Chrysanthemums

In a total cultural vacuum, I'd probably rank Gone with the Wind as a more significant storytelling achievement than The Wizard of Oz. But only in a vacuum would I make that claim.

In any case, we already have Only Angels Have Wings to clobber both of 'em to filth.

I really have to see Last Chrysanthemums. I've only seen a handful of Mizoguchis but feel like he might be the best director ever.

when I saw Young Mr. Lincoln at a revival a couple months ago, the audience applauded at the end. it was awesome. throwing it a vote

Stagecoach better than ever in this year's rewatch

it's with Rules and Only Angels at the top (wd have to see Mizoguchi again)

Lincoln is indeed an excellent work, but at times anticipates Perry Masonism

I'd probably rank Gone with the Wind as a more significant storytelling achievement

Leaving all the, y'know, Stuff to the side, I think the last quarter in particular flags significantly until the final flourish. Saintly Melanie's death was done to slapstick perfection by Dinah Shore in Carol Burnett's parody.

Not half as funny as the death of Bonnie Blue Butler in the real movie.

In the much ballyhooed first TV broadcast in 1976, Bonnie's accident was followed by an aspirin ad.

saw The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums within the last year and it really made an impression on me. I'm voting for that

I was so frightened by The Wizard of Oz as a 5 year old that I hid behind the sofa with my 4 year old sister when the flying monkeys appeared

There are so many excellent films here in so many genres that choosing among them must be reduced to a whimsically chosen basis for the winner's presumed superiority. Therefore, I'm voting for Wizard of Oz because I am a sucker for films with great and memorable songs and it has the best songs of any film on the list.

this is an incredible list, yeah. i've seen 10 of these films and could imagine voting for at least 8 of them. but yeah, had to go with rules of the game.

Will do a 1929 poll and a 2009 poll and then, in the style of ILM, poll the winners from each decade.

Rewatched parts of Stagecoach and ... I just think everything people like about it is done better in Only Angels Have Wings.

I watched it last night, liking it less than I did twenty years ago, but I've watched more and better Ford since.

I don't get Renoir tbh

What is there not to get?

Whatever made him THE GREATEST... Rules of the Game made no impression on me and Grand Illusion, well, I should rewatch it. But he reminds me of Cukor - DULL

bring my cat o nine tails

Now that Criterion has released practically every one of his major 1930s films, I recommend re-starting your reeducation with La Chienne, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, La Bete Humaine, etc.

Will do! thanks

and they're fun!

I do sympathize. When I screened TROTG for students last week I carefully avoided mentioning it often ranked #2 in many polls.

wizard of oz

Hoping Criterion gets around to TCoML someday soon.

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xp really liked La Chienne, Boudu Saved from Drowning, La Bete Humaine, haven't been able to see The Crime of Monsieur Lange yet

I prefer TCoML to TRotG. But it has been a long time since I've seen TRotG.

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Good show, Wizard of Oz. Ninotchka would have been my second choice. Use to play the Garbo-laughs scene for my students every year.

my best friend from college is writing another book about Garbo, am looking forward to it

The right movie won, and I feel even better now having thrown my vote toward Only Angels Have Wings.