MC Yearly Consensus - 1943

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the voting is closed, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

You may begin now.

IMDB Power Search (http://www.imdb.com/list)

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Hangmen Also Die!
4. The More the Merrier
5. Heaven Can Wait

6. The Seventh Victim
7. I Walked with a Zombie
8. Stormy Weather
9. The Ox-Bow Incident
10. Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman

[Raiders]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
2. The Seventh Victim (Robson)
3. Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
5. This Land Is Mine (Renoir)

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6. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger)
7. I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur)
8. Le Corbeau (Clouzot)
9. Hangmen Also Die (Lang)
10. Ossessione (Visconti)

[Pop Trash]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. I Walked With a Zombie

[Philosophe_rouge]

I heart everyone who includes a Val Lewton in their top 5, it killed me that 2 just made the cut. Truly wonderful and exciting films.

[Pop Trash]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
2. The Seventh Victim (Robson)
3. Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
4. This Land Is Mine (Renoir)
5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger)

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6. I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur)
7. Le Corbeau (Clouzot)
8. Hangmen Also Die (Lang)
9. Ossessione (Visconti)

Isn't that Maya Deren in your avatar? And you're not voting for Meshes?? :confused:

[Spinal]

Isn't that Maya Deren in your avatar? And your not voting for Meshes?? :confused:

:confused:

[Yxklyx]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
2. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
3. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)

6. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
7. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
8. Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
9. The More the Merrier (George Stevens)
10. The Song of Bernadette (Henry King)

[Spinal]

1. Hangmen Also Die!
2. Meshes of the Afternoon
3. Day of Wrath
4. Porky Pig's Feat

[Pop Trash]

:confused:
Nevermind, he edited it.

[Raiders]

Nevermind, he edited it.

I did not. You quoted it, didn't you?

[Pop Trash]

I did not. You quoted it, didn't you?
I swear that said The Seventh Victim for #1 and no Meshes five minutes ago. Then when I refreshed the page both your list and my quote were different. :crazy:

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. Ossessione
3. The Ox-Bow Incident
4. Le Corbeau
5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

[origami_mustache]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. Ossessione
3. Falling Hare
4. The Spider and the Tulip
5. Victory Through Air Power

[Bosco B Thug]

Heck, all three of those Lewton films came out in 1943? I did not realize that.

1. I Walked With a Zombie
2. The Seventh Victim
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. The Leopard Man

[monolith94]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. The Leopard Man

[Russ]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. I Walked with a Zombie
3. Red Hot Riding Hood
4. The Song of Bernadette
5. Porky Pig’s Feat

[Duncan]

The 40's aren't my strong point. I think I've only seen 2 from this year that I like enough to put on my list.

Edit: nvrmnd

1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. Red Hot Riding Hood
3. Meshes of the Afternoon

[Raiders]

3. Red Hot Riding Hood

NOW I will edit my list.

[Russ]

For your consideration, here's Tex Avery's classic Red Hot Riding Hood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtYQouzNsk), and Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig's Feat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI) (probably his best for WB).

[soitgoes...]

1. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid)
4. A Corny Concerto (Robert Clampett)
5. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
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6. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
8. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (Robert Clampett)
9. Red Hot Riding Hood (Tex Avery)

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

[Grouchy]

I'm gonna have to sit this one out. The only good film I have is Shadow of a Doubt. Wish I'd seen the Val Lewton or, like, anything else.

[Melville]

For your consideration, here's Tex Avery's classic Red Hot Riding Hood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtYQouzNsk), and Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig's Feat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI) (probably his best for WB).
Awesome.

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. Red Hot Riding Hood
3. Porky Pig's Feat
4. Shadow of a Doubt

[Derek]

1 This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir)
2 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
3 Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 The Raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
5 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
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6. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
7. Air Force (Howard Hawks)
8. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
10.The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)

[SirNewt]

Wow, the 40's are usually where I excel in the consensuses but this year is way off my radar.

[Bosco B Thug]

For your consideration, here's Tex Avery's classic Red Hot Riding Hood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtYQouzNsk), and Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig's Feat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI) (probably his best for WB). Wow, those were hilarious. The nightclub scene in RHRH was non-stop goods.

[Spinal]

Didn't care for Red Hot Riding Hood as much as I thought I would. The battle of the sexes is kind of coarse and it never really lives up to its promise of offering a satisfactory update of the fairy tale. Mildly amusing at best.

Liked the Porky/Daffy short much better. Lots of laughs and even kinda arty in places. The fall down the stairs ... :lol:

[Bosco B Thug]

Didn't care for Red Hot Riding Hood as much as I thought I would. The battle of the sexes is kind of coarse and it never really lives up to its promise of offering a satisfactory update of the fairy tale. Well, yeah, this is totally true. The characterization of the Grandma is admirable, but I was disappointed it meant the sudden complete ignorance of the fairy tale's plot.

Still think most of it was priceless, though.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
2. The Leopard Man (Tourneur)
3. The Raven (Clouzot)
4. Falling Hare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8mWGCeBu8) (Scribner)
5. I Walked With a Zombie (Tourneur)

[Raiders]

Didn't care for Red Hot Riding Hood as much as I thought I would. The battle of the sexes is kind of coarse and it never really lives up to its promise of offering a satisfactory update of the fairy tale. Mildly amusing at best.

El Wrongo. I don't get it, what isn't satisfactory? Also, the entire short is way coarse, and intentionally so, why pick on one piece?

[Boner M]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Seventh Victim
4. Day of Wrath
5. I Walked With a Zombie

[baby doll]

What a year!

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
3. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)

Bubblin' under: Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot); Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer); Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch); The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur).

[Yxklyx]

Put me in as a mild detractor of Red Hot Riding Hood. I was expecting something more risque - Betty Boop from 10 years earlier was much more spicier.

[Raiders]

Put me in as a mild detractor of Red Hot Riding Hood. I was expecting something more risque - Betty Boop from 10 years earlier was much more spicier.

I fail to see how being more risque would help as it isn't the intention. This isn't really offering the same kind of material at Betty Boop cartoons.

[Yxklyx]

I fail to see how being more risque would help as it isn't the intention. This isn't really offering the same kind of material at Betty Boop cartoons.

Yeah, it's just the same old stuff. I expected it to be different from the other Looney Tunes - a change of pace, but it wasn't much. I was hoping for an anomaly like Porky in Wackyland. I mean it's fine - but nothing compelling.

[Spinal]

El Wrongo. I don't get it, what isn't satisfactory? Also, the entire short is way coarse, and intentionally so, why pick on one piece?

They alter the characters, but they don't really update the story. The wolf hits on Hood at the bar, but then she completely disappears from the plot. It merely becomes a chase sequence which hinges upon the notion that I find it humorous that the wolf meets up with a horny grandmother. Hood in a sexy outfit. Wolf making goo-goo eyes. The simplest of sexual stereotypes. Not a lot to it.

[Raiders]

They alter the characters, but they don't really update the story. The wolf hits on Hood at the bar, but then she completely disappears from the plot. It merely becomes a chase sequence which hinges upon the notion that I find it humorous that the wolf meets up with a horny grandmother. Hood in a sexy outfit. Wolf making goo-goo eyes. The simplest of sexual stereotypes. Not a lot to it.

I don't remember anyone claiming this "updated" the story, but I would say in some ways it does. Superficially, it alters the setting and changes around the plot so that the grandmother is herself a "wolf." It makes the wolf's "devouring" of Red a lot more sensuous. You could say the film emasculates the wolf character and empowers the women, though with the kind of empowerment Tarantino might dub feminism. The film from the beginning stresses a tiredness with the same old thing and the properness, and morality, of the original, and from there it lets loose a modern fable set in nightclubs and the big city where women, no matter what age, are hardly the kind of helpless damsels we are spoon fed in some of the old fables.

I really can't argue about the rest since I find the zaniness and the breakneck imagery to be uproarious, and perfectly pitched, and obviously you do not.

[Spinal]

Come on, Raiders. I'll accept that you found it funny. But don't try to sell me on the idea that it's a piece of feminism. :lol:

[Raiders]

Come on, Raiders. I'll accept that you found it funny. But don't try to sell me on the idea that it's a piece of feminism. :lol:

I didn't. Read again and consider my thoughts on Tarantino's "feminism."

[Spinal]

I didn't. Read again and consider my thoughts on Tarantino's "feminism."

OK, but you're suggesting that the depictions of women in the film are empowering in the sense that they are not 'helpless damsels'. Perhaps my problem is that I've seen Into the Woods recently and they do it a whole lot better.

[Raiders]

OK, but you're suggesting that the depictions of women in the film are empowering in the sense that they are not 'helpless damsels'. Perhaps my problem is that I've seen Into the Woods recently and they do it a whole lot better.

Yeah yeah, Sondheim fanboy.

:P

I do really want to see that one...

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Meshes of the Afternoon
4. Le Corbeau
5. Heaven Can Wait

[dreamdead]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4. Red Hot Riding Hood

[Melville]

Didn't care for Red Hot Riding Hood as much as I thought I would. The battle of the sexes is kind of coarse and it never really lives up to its promise of offering a satisfactory update of the fairy tale. Mildly amusing at best.
I didn't think it was trying to update the fairy tale. From the moment the staccato, tough-guy narration begins, it seems more like a parody of an update...and a pretty funny one, I thought. But I can't get enough of these early, zany cartoons. I loved the whole chase from the nightclub to Gramma's penthouse.

[Spinal]

I didn't think it was trying to update the fairy tale. From the moment the staccato, tough-guy narration begins, it seems more like a parody of an update...and a pretty funny one, I thought. But I can't get enough of these early, zany cartoons. I loved the whole chase from the nightclub to Gramma's penthouse.

Direct quote from the cartoon: "All right, we'll do the story a new way."

[Melville]

Direct quote from the cartoon: "All right, we'll do the story a new way."
And then comes the parody. What follows has just as ridiculous a tone as what came before, but at the opposite extreme...and with more zaniness. It never would have occurred to me that the "modern" version was meant to be a serious re-envisioning of the story.

[Spinal]

And then comes the parody. What follows has just as ridiculous a tone as what came before, but at the opposite extreme...and with more zaniness. It never would have occurred to me that the "modern" version was meant to be a serious re-envisioning of the story.

It never would have occurred to me that it would be serious either. However, I do think that it is suggested that they will tell the same story.

None of this would matter if the toon was funny. That's the major problem. It's not.

[Raiders]

None of this would matter if the toon was funny. That's the major problem. It's not.

Inconceivable.

[Melville]

It never would have occurred to me that it would be serious either. However, I do think that it is suggested that they will tell the same story.
I thought the "update's" almost complete disregard for the original story was part of what made it funny.


None of this would matter if the toon was funny. That's the major problem. It's not.
Even the bit with the taxi? Come on, that's gold!

[Mysterious Dude]

Even the bit with the taxi? Come on, that's gold!
Yes, but I'm pretty sure they stole it from the Marx brothers.

[Spinal]

It's got a couple decent gags, but there's no way it deserves to be placed alongside great films by Lang and Dreyer, which unfortunately will probably fall below it.

[Russ]

The most important thing to Tex were the gags. The story was merely a vessel with which to deliver them. Most people could tell stories a lot better than Avery. Few, if any, attained his level of funny.

[Qrazy]

1. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. Le Corbeau
3. Meshes of an Afternoon
4. Shadow of a doubt
5. Red Hot Riding Hood

[Melville]

Yes, but I'm pretty sure they stole it from the Marx brothers.
Hey, if it works, it works.

[Spinal]

Last day.

[ledfloyd]

1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. The More the Merrier
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

[Spinal]

Counted, but not ready to post yet. New ballots are still OK for a bit. Edits must happen in a new post.

[Spinal]

#10

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Hangmen Also Die!

Director: Fritz Lang

Country: USA

An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech 'protector' Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he evades the widening Nazi dragnet, protected by his fellow Czechs even to the point of self-sacrifice.

Earned two Academy Award nominations including Best Sound and Best Original Score. During the McCarthy era, this was one the films labeled subversive by the HUAC on the suspicion that it contained dialogue that might be construed as pro-communist. It wasn't seen again in the United States until the mid-'70s.

"It's suffused with a sense of political idealism that would seem to be antithetical to the sort of gloomy fatalism that pervades most noirs. It is, instead, a political thriller, albeit a political thriller that doubles as a sort of valentine to the Czech resistance movement ... a fascinating, beautifully crafted film." - Nathan Rabin

[Spinal]

#9

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Day of Wrath

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Country: Denmark

In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture and confession, the young wife of the town's aging pastor falls in love with the pastor's son. Her confession of this illicit affair to her husband brings on severe consequences.

Though the film is outwardly a chronicle of a religious witch-hunt, it contains many subtler comparisons to the behavior of the Nazis. Dreyer, who did not receive an on-screen credit, fled Denmark for Sweden where he remained until the war was over. An adaptation of Anne Pedersdotter by Norwegian playwright Hans Wiers-Jenssen.

"Dreyer's movie anticipates but goes beyond the usual readings of witch hysteria as misogyny or McCarthy-ite bullyism. The action can be be seen as a literal embrace of evil, a tragic choice made by the powerless ... This classic movie has severity, power and high seriousness; it's as gripping as any thriller." - Peter Bradshaw

[Spinal]

#8

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The Seventh Victim

Director: Mark Robson

Country: USA

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

The original story for the film was to be about an orphaned heroine caught in a web of murder against a background of the Signal Hills oil wells. Producer Val Lewton wanted the story to go in a different direction and called in a second writer to help reshape it. May be regarded as an unofficial prequel to Lewton's 1942 film Cat People. Tom Conway's character Dr. Judd appears in both films, and Elizabeth Russell, who plays Mimi, reappears (in the same clothes) as the unnamed 'cat woman'.

"It's the suffocating sense of dread that lingers in the air that the film is best known for—and, of course, its lesbian subtext ... Next to Welles, I don't think any director has shot staircases as menacingly as Robson does here, and the final pessimistic leg of the film ... rivals the hall of mirrors climax from Lady from Shanghai in terms of sheer force of invention, will, and emotion." - Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#6 (tie)

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Red Hot Riding Hood

Director: Tex Avery

Country: USA

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as an adult nightclub dancer.

The original ending had the Wolf married to Grandma, with him and his wolf sons cheering Red at the nightclub. Censors disapproved of the suggestion of bestiality in this ending, and so it was changed. In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was rated the seventh greatest cartoon of all time.

"As the title implies, it's a hilarious and raunchy updating of the story Little Red Riding Hood, featuring a wildly escalating series of physical gags that catapults the short from one moment to the next; after the opening minutes, there's little regard for traditional narrative, just a series of riotous slapstick routines ... This is a masterpiece of outlandish slapstick ..." - Ed Howard

[Spinal]

#6 (tie)

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Le Corbeau (The Raven)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Country: France

Vicious poison-pen letters spread rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town. One after another, they turn on each other as their hidden secrets are unveiled. But the one secret that no one can uncover is the identity of the letters' author.

The screenplay is based on a true story which took place in Tulle (Corrèze, France) in the 1920s. Clouzot and several other cast and crew members were barred from work once France was liberated from the Germans because they had worked for Continental Films, a German production company. In 1947, Clouzot's ban was lifted.

"The film's unrelenting pessimism and grim take on human nature simultaneously upset the left wing, the right wing, the Catholic Church, the Nazis, and the post-Vichy French government ... Obviously, Clouzot must have been doing something right to enrage so many people. " - Nathan Rabin

[Spinal]

#5

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I Walked With a Zombie

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Country: USA

A young Canadian nurse goes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager. The patient seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. The nurse determines to succeed, even if it means using a voodoo ceremony.

Val Lewton did not like the article "I Walked With A Zombie" by Inez Wallace that had been optioned, so he adapted the story to fit the novel Jane Eyre. Edith Barrett, who played the mother, was actually two years younger than Tom Conway, who played her older son, Paul.

".. I Walked With a Zombie is a master class in sight, sound, and suggestion from beginning to end ... Tourneur's images cast an unnerving spell, suggesting that the emotionally frustrated living may be the real zombies." - Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#4

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The Ox-Bow Incident

Director: William A. Wellman

Country: USA

Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.

The last movie ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture which received no other Academy Award nominations. Named Best English Language Film by the National Board of Review. Henry Fonda, who had a deferment, enlisted in the U.S. Navy immediately upon completing filming.

"... The Ox-Bow Incident's greatest achievement might be its look: the flagrant artificiality of its soundstage-based sets only heightens its desirable expressionistic flavor, while a shot of Fonda reading a letter, composed in such a way as to conceal his eyes, is beyond indelible, just unspeakably perfect and devastating. It should tell you something that this was among Orson Welles' favorite films." - Bill Chambers

[Spinal]

#3

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Country: UK

An imposingly rotund general has fought in the Boer War and the first world war. He still believes he can win any fight with honor and maintaining 'gentlemanly conduct'. It takes an old German friend of his to point out how much the rules have been changed when fighting the Nazis.

Colonel Blimp was a British cartoon character in a then well-known strip. The producers decided to use the name for the movie. According to the directors, the idea for the film came not from the comic strip, but from a scene cut from their previous film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which an elderly member of the crew tells a younger one, "You don't know what it's like to be old."

"Rarely does a film give us such a nuanced view of the whole span of a man's life. It is said that the child is father to the man. Colonel Blimp makes poetry out of what the old know but the young do not guess: The man contains both the father, and the child." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#2

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Shadow of a Doubt

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Country: USA

Young Charlie Newton not only shares a name with her favorite uncle, but a special bond. So, when life is too dull she calls on him to visit. However, upon the arrival of two detectives and a series of unusual clues, young Charlie starts to suspect that the man she once idolized is not what he seems and that her life may be in danger.

Earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Original Story. Hume Cronyn's first acting role. Alfred Hitchcock often said that this was his favorite film. The film was remade in 1958 as Step Down to Terror.

"Despite being his sixth Hollywood production, Shadow of a Doubt is the picture where Alfred Hitchcock first discovered America, locating the mirror image for the ominous instability lurking barely an inch under the cozy surfaces of his native England. The doubling effect is appropriate, for this is a film of doppelgangers, full of the kind of tantalizing motifs and patterns that led the directors-in-waiting at Cahiers du Cinéma to prick through the director's cheery façade to find the anguished Catholic dismayed at the world's submerged dangers." - Fernando F. Croce

[Spinal]

#1

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Director: Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid

Country: USA

A solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook: discordant images a woman sees as she comes home. She naps and, perhaps, dreams.

Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book Film at Wit's End that Meshes was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit. The original print had no score. However, a musical score influenced by classical Japanese music was added by Deren's third husband, Teiji Ito, in 1959.

"Over a century of cinema, there is one film that clearly stands out, above all others, as a near-perfect cinematic distillation of the essence of the dream experience. That film is Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon." - Giovanni Fazio

[Spinal]

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (67)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (62.5)
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (39)
4. The Ox-Bow Incident (25)
5. I Walked With a Zombie (21)
6t. Le Corbeau (20.5)
6t. Red Hot Riding Hood (20.5)
8. The Seventh Victim (15.5)
9. Day of Wrath (14.5)
10. Hangmen Also Die! (11)

Very close:
The Leopard Man (10)