ILX 1930S FILM POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD

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Well, it's been over a year since the 1940s film poll, and nobody took the baton I tried to hand off at the end, so... what the hell. For the first time in a year, I think have the time and presence of mind to actually do this. Even if the diminishing returns in these polls as we go further back suggests that I'll be lucky to get 20 ballots. But they'll be good ballots.

Copying the rules more or less verbatim from the last one:

Rules
The nominations thread will be open through the end of February, with voting to start in March. Nominations are completely open, as many and as often as you want. Cut-off dates are 1930-39, with IMDB as before the arbitrator of release dates. I generally value the nominations threads in these things more than the actual results, because it's where I'm most likely to hear about things I don't know, or be encouraged to see something I've written off. For voting itself, I'll allow up to 50 films on each ballot. But anyway, those details will come in the actual voting thread.

In terms of making nominations, just listing films is fine, by title, year, and director. But any write-ups, raves or links to good sources will be very welcome. As the month goes along I'll keep updating a rolling compendium of nominated titles. For non-English films, titles can be either translated or in original language, whichever you prefer.

I'll start out with 10 obvious ones that i actually also really love:

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
La Règle du Jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Leontine Sagan)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
You Can't Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)

I guess I could help myself by at least starting the list alphabetically. For ease of organization, articles will count as the first word (whether in English or otherwise). So, reshuffled:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
La Règle du Jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Leontine Sagan)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
You Can't Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra)

oops, title should obviously say ILX, not ILM. will put in mod request.

M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Duck Soup (1933, Marx Bros)
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Disney)
Gone With The Wind (1939, idk a bunch I guess Victor Fleming)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)

My rah-rah'ing for Duck Soup:

"Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff."

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Stellar idea - can't contribute many original nominations, but I'll be following the results like hell.

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"If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

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(1939, idk a bunch I guess Victor Fleming)

Could apply verbatim to Wizard of Oz, obv. But you've gotta say Fleming had a pretty good year.

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Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938, Michael Curtiz)
Imitation of Life (1934, John M. Stahl)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939, John Ford)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford)

I love Peter Lorre a lot and yet when I first saw M I didn't realize it was him. I guess he was a lot heavier in M than in Casablanca?

Are short films valid?

I'm not a '30s guy, but:

Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)

Short films are valid, sure. Meshes of the Afternoon placed in the '40s poll.

Some more:

A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack)
L'Age d'Or (1930, Luis Bunuel)
Sons of the Desert (1933, William A. Seiter)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
The Old Dark House (1932, James Whale)

Make Way For Tomorrow

Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
La Règle du Jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)
Me And My Gal (1932, Raoul Walsh)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
Other Men's Women (1931, William Wellman)

Five more later, when I've done a more thorough search of my memory.

Enthusiasm (Dziga Vertov, 1930)
Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)
Menschen am sonntag (Siodmak, Siodmak, Ulmer and Zinnemann, 1930)

Zero de conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933)

OK, quick list update:

Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938, Michael Curtiz)
A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939, John Ford)
Duck Soup (1933, Marx Bros)
Enthusiasm (Dziga Vertov, 1930)
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
Gone With The Wind (1939, idk a bunch I guess Victor Fleming)
Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
Imitation of Life (1934, John M. Stahl)
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack)
L'Age d'Or (1930, Luis Bunuel)
L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
La Règle du Jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Leontine Sagan)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)
Me and My Gal (1932, Raoul Walsh)
Menschen am sonntag (Siodmak, Siodmak, Ulmer and Zinnemann, 1930)
Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
Other Men's Women (1931, William Wellman)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Disney)
Sons of the Desert (1933, William A. Seiter)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Old Dark House (1932, James Whale)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
You Can't Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford)
Zero de conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933)

Night Must Fall (1937, Richard Thorpe)
Heroes For Sale (1933, William Wellman) - I trust everyone has gotten a hold of that William Wellman edition of Forbidden Hollywood? It's a revelation, really.

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir)

A Farewell To Arms (1932, Frank Borzage) - love this one. I maybe the only one who does.

I Was Born, But... (Ozu, 1932)
The River (Pare Lorentz, 1938)
Wife! Be Like A Rose! (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
Land Without Bread (Bunuel, 1933)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, 1932)

Oh fuck, let's have (most of) the rest of the Marx Bros:

Animal Crackers
Horse Feathers
Monkey Business
A Day At The Races

Trouble In Paradise
Modern Times

Oh, and:

City Lights

The Threepenny Opera (German)
The Threepenny Opera (French)

Oh no you didn't!

Confessions of A Cheat (Sacha Guitry, 1936)
Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
Scarface (Hawks, 1932)
Rain (Joris Ivens, 1931)

Rain (Lewis Milestone, 1932)

La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)

oh, like I have time for this!

Dead End (Wyler, 37)
Footlight Parade (Bacon, 33)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! (Milestone, 33)
It's a Gift (McLeod/Fields, 34)
La Bête Humaine (Renoir, 38)
La Chienne (Renoir, 31)
Le Jour se Lève (Carné, 39)
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian, 32)
Man's Castle (Borzage, 33)
Pépé le Moko (Duvivier, 36)
Port of Shadows (Carné, 38)
Rose Hobart (Cornell, 36)
Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 32)
The Awful Truth (McCarey, 37)
The Blood of a Poet (Cocteau, 30)
The Music Box (Parrott/Laurel & Hardy, 32)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 39)
Twentieth Century (Hawks, 34)
Way Out West (Horne/Laurel & Hardy, 37)

and uh, most of what's here:

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42nd Street!

Silly me, forgot the years:

Animal Crackers (1930, Heerman)
Horse Feathers (1932, McLeod)
Monkey Business (1931, McLeod)
A Day At The Races (1937, Wood)
Trouble In Paradise (1932, Lubitsch)
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)
The Threepenny Opera (German) (1931, Pabst)
The Threepenny Opera (French) (1931, Pabst)

Here's a few of my faves that haven't been repped yet:

Counsellor At Law (1933, Wyler)
Wuthering Heights (1939, Wyler)
The Petrified Forest (1936, Archie Mayo)
Adventure of Robin Hood (1938, Curtiz)
Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935, Henri de la Falaise)
Pygmalion (1938, Howard/Asquith)
The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Lang)

Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko)
Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)
Island of Lost Souls (1932, Erle Kenton)
Grand Hotel (1932, Edmound Goulding)
Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933, Frank Capra)
The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale)
Bombshell (1933, Victor Fleming)
The Black Cat (1934, Edgar Ulmer)
The Gay Divorcee (1934, Mark Sandrich)
Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
The Good Fairy (1935, William Wyler)
Mad Love (1935, Karl Freund)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Frank Lloyd)
Hands Across the Table (1935, Mitchell Leisen)
Captain Blood (1935, Michael Curtiz)
Alice Adams (1935, George Stevens)
Day in the Country (1936, Jean Renoir)
Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
Osaka Elegy (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Libeled Lady (1936, Jack Conway)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936, Richard Boleslawski)
Prisoner of Zenda (1937, John Cromwell)
Stage Door (1937, Gregory La Cava)
You Only Live Once (1937, Fritz Lang)
Shall We Dance? (1937, Mark Sandrich)
Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938, Mark Donskoi)
Room Service (1938, William Seiter)
You and Me (1938, Fritz Lang)
La Marsellaise (1938, Jean Renoir)
The Roaring Twenties (1939, Raoul Walsh)
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939, George Marshall)
Beau Geste (1939, William Wellman)
At the Circus (1939, Edward Buzzell)
Son of Frankenstein (1939, Rowland V. Lee)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
Jamaica Inn (1939, Alfred Hitchcock)
Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)
Gunga Din (1939, George Stevnes)

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936, Capra)

"City Lights" and "42nd Street" alreadymentioned

Also:

"Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933)
"Footlight Parade" (1933)
"Colleen" (1936)
"There Goes the Bride" (1932)
"Three on a Match" (1932)
"Baby Face" (1933)
"Employees' entrance" (1933)
"Tabu" (1931)
"The Gay Divorcee" (1934)
"Top Hat" (1935)
"Night Nurse" (1931)

Others already mentioned.

Gah, the only three I could think of have already been nominated - which, actually, is pretty good, as I wasn't sure anyone else would go for Rose Hobart.

Oh, Mr Porter! (1937, Marcel Varnel)

Oh, okay, just ran across this film which I haven't watched for a while, and never outside of an academic setting, but I'll see if I can track it down again before voting:

Borderline (1930, Kenneth MacPherson)

Gah, the only three I could think of have already been nominated - which, actually, is pretty good, as I wasn't sure anyone else would go for Rose Hobart.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 13:12 (36 minutes ago)

haha my ballot would basically be

1. La Regle Du Jeu
2. Bringing Up Baby

um

ok L'Age D'Or can come too

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939, Sam Wood)

The Mascot (Władysław Starewicz, 1933) (short film)
Tale Of The Fox aka Le Roman de Renard (Władysław Starewicz, 1937)

is all I can think of at the moment that hasn't already been mentioned.

LJ (and indeed everyone else), ubuweb has Rose Hobart up for free. It's only c20 minutes long, and reportedly Dali threw a tantrum at a screening because it was exactly how he wanted to make films.

Good lord.

I may curtail the nominations period and end it Feb. 15. I think by then we will have pretty well mined the territory.

This far in any nobody's nominated All Quiet on the Western Front? (Milestone, 1930)

What were your other two, Em? Did I mention them? :D

Will do that...now I think!

Well, the two that sprang to mind were L'Age D'Or and Vampyr, though I did then also think of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Gold Diggers of 1933 (which I might vote for just for the one dance sequence I've seen of it).

Ubuweb let me see five minutes then refused to load any more :( Will watch the rest when it does, but yeah it's pretty great, especially after I looked down the page to read a little more about it. Someone should do that with a really bad British nu-comedy

wait that wouldn't work though, not enough space or poise in the shooting

Design for Living (1933, Ernst Lubitsch)
Destry Rides Again (1939, George Marshall)
A Dream Walking (1934, Dave Fleischer)
Have You Got Any Castles? (1937, Frank Tashlin)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, Charles Brabin)
The Mummy (1932, Karl Freund)
Picture Snatcher (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
The Public Enemy (1931, William Wellman)
Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
The Raven (1935, Lew Landers)The Scarlet Empress (1934, Joseph von Sternberg)
Stand-In (1937, Tay Garnett)
Svengali (1931, Archie Mayo)
Two Seconds (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
The Women (1939, George Cukor)

The Raven (1935, Lew Landers)
The Scarlet Empress (1934, Joseph von Sternberg)

Two films, obviously

The Old Dark House
Gabriel Over The White House

Sylvia Scarlett 1935
The Blue Light 1932
I'm No Angel 1933
A Story of Floating Weeds 1934
Mr Thank You 1936
(holy shit emil.y ya gotta see Golddiggers of 33!)

Picture Snatcher (Bacon, 33)

A Star Is Born (1937, William Wellman)
Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen)
Jezebel (1938, William Wyler)
Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy)
Nothing Sacred (1937, William Wellman)
Porky in Wackyland (1938, Bob Clampett)
Show Boat (1936, James Whale)
Three Little Pigs (1933, Burt Gillett)

Oh, okay, just ran across this film which I haven't watched for a while, and never outside of an academic setting, but I'll see if I can track it down again before voting:

Borderline (1930, Kenneth MacPherson)

― emil.y, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:45 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

can i veto this awful film?

It would be entertaining to introduce negative votes into polling. Like, you can pick 5 movies to take votes away from...

But no.

could it be disqualified as an unreleased film? like, it had literally about a dozen screenings in the actual 1930s. a couple at festivals, a few at provincial film societies.

La Bete Humaine (1938, Jean Renoir)
You Only Live Once (1937, Fritz Lang)
Land Without Bread/Les Hurdes (1933, Bunuel)
Nothing Sacred (1937, William Wellman)
Come And Get It (Hawks-Wyler 1938)
Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
The Awful Truth (1937, McCarey)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933, Capra)
My Man Godfrey (1936, La Cava)

Oh, okay, just ran across this film which I haven't watched for a while, and never outside of an academic setting, but I'll see if I can track it down again before voting:
Borderline (1930, Kenneth MacPherson)

― emil.y, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:45 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

can i veto this awful film?

― read before patoing (history mayne), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think it's an incredibly interesting artefact, both of an inchoate and often misguided cosmopolitanism and as early work of Robeson. I would be interested to know what makes you feel so strongly about it that you feel it needs to be vetoed rather than not voted for, but go ahead and pull it if you must.

like, it had literally about a dozen screenings in the actual 1930s. a couple at festivals, a few at provincial film societies.

You know that's a preposterous reason to veto any film so quit trolling and/or take your heart pill.

In fact, here's another film that's going on the list that had even less screenings than Borderline and is a stone cold fave:

Tomatos Another Day (1930,James Sibley Watson, Jr.)

And here's one that had no screenings at all:

Jack’s Dream (c,. 1938, Joseph Cornell)

Tomatos Another Day! watched that recently with some friends, we were all transfixed.

Teacher's Pet (McGowan/Our Gang, 30)

Hell's Angels (1930, Hughes)
One Hour With You (1932, Lubitsche)

I Love to Singa (!936, Avery)

^^^ love that

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Morning Glory (1933, Lowell Sherman)
Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)
Gion no shimai, aka Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Zangiku monogatari, aka The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)

Salt for Svanetia (Kalatozov, 1930)

Have watched Tomatos Another Day twice now, it is amazing and has shot straight into my top 5.

See what would have happened if we walked with Mme. Mayne?

Ok I've never understood nominations. Can't I just vote for whatever 1930s films I want?

*bump*

Um.

Did this ever actually happen?

I don't think it did, but I'm hoping to launch an all-time movie poll this fall.

Funny, I was actually just thinking about this the other week, that I should go back and revive it. It got derailed by other things in my life and I never got back to it. But if there's interest, I can compile all the nominations already made and reopen nominations for a few weeks.