Sunday, July 12, 2009

1939 The Greatest Year For Movies

Ty Burr writes in The Boston Globe The unrivaled year for moviemaking: 1939 "Yet 1939 trumps them all, and only partly on the extraordinary quality of the movies themselves. Rather, the year marked the peak of the Hollywood studio system - a factory in the paradoxical business of mass-producing individual dreams."
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  1. MegsMon Jul 13, 08:24:00 AM EDT

    I read that article and actually wondered as reading, 'how many of the 1939 movies has Howard seen' and also 'does Howard agree' ... soooo....?

    And, you need to create a rating system or something so us non-movie people can keep up

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  2. HowardMon Jul 13, 09:40:00 AM EDT

    Of what's mentioned in the article I've seen 11, all are worth seeing. Assuming everyone has seen Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz, Ninotchka is my next fav:
    Goodbye Mr. Chips
    Gone With the Wind
    Gunga Din
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Ninotchka
    Only Angels Have Wings
    Stagecoach
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Wizard of Oz
    Wuthering Heights
    Young Mr. Lincoln

    I haven't seen the following though I just recorded The Women on TiVo last week and will get to it soon:
    Dark Victory
    Destry Rides Again
    Each Dawn I Die
    Golden Boy
    Intermezzo
    Juarez
    Love Affair
    Midnight
    The Old Maid
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    The Roaring Twenties
    The Women

    Looking at the oscar nominated films there are a lot more worth seeing including:
    Beau Geste
    Of Mice and Men
    Drums Along the Mohawk
    The Four Feathers
    The Mikado
    The Rains Came

    I've been keeping a spreadsheet of every film I've seen this year, so I'll have lots of data to provide when the year is over about what I've seen.

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