1943's Best Movies: 80 Years Later

Unlike with previous polls -- where I've gone with the contenders in the top 2,000 films -- I ended up going with the 25 highest-ranking 1945 titles to fill the options out.

I suspect the Archers will steamroll, so let me vote for Day of Wrath.

A really tough, and ludicrous, contest between The Seventh Victim vs. The Gang's All Here for me

MESHES for sure

Voted Day of Wrath - so few Dreyer films, when one comes up you gotta vote for it.

Have never seen a Grémillon, but like this anecdote from Pedro Costa:

“One day, Jean-Marie Straub told me a moral tale, the story of Jean Grémillon. He told me of how tall a man he was, how serious a filmmaker he was, the finest craftsmen French cinema has ever known. He told of how this true communist was broken and prevented from making films by the ever-rotting industry, because Grémillon was interested in fragile human beings and desires and class struggles. Jean-Marie, twenty years old, just arrived in Paris, was in the queue for L'amour d'une femme, Grémillon‘s last feature. On another line, fewer people were queuing for the American The Robe. The owner of the theater went by the Grémillon crowd whispering: ’Step on over to The Robe, don‘t go see this, it‘s a movie by a drunkard!’ I urge you to go watch all the films by Jean Grémillon!“

I'll give Day of Wrath a fresh look sooner or later ... right now it's behind Gertrud, Jeanne, Ordet and Vampyr.

I watched most of the films in that Grémillon set released by Eclipse: they're okay at best.

I'd upgrade LUMIÈRE D'ÉTÉ from "okay" to "interesting." But for me the real battle is between I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE and THE SEVENTH VICTIM.

Shadow of a Doubt, followed by Zombie. Haven't seen Meshes, Day of Wrath, or The Seventh Victim.

The two Lewtons are tough to beat. Le Corbeau has almost as bleak a worldview.

Couldn't decide between a few of these so went for I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE as it's the only movie here with a Roky Erickson song named after it (I think)

Of the six I've seen, Meshes of the Afternoon over Shadow of a Doubt. Day of Wrath is vague in my memory, Ossessione even more so.
I've meant to see the Bresson for a long time, and Robin Wood wrote an interesting article about the Tourneur film that made me feel I should catch up with it.

It won't win, but everyone owes it to themselves to see The Gang's All Here for some prime Busby Berkeley/Carmen Miranda non-acid, acid hallucinations

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Halfway think I should've just had I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim as a single joint option

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Meshes of the Afternoon is a good choice

Happy to see The Seventh Victim a strong runner up