Best Films 1930s (Ed Gonzalez)
Опубликовано чт, 03/07/2025 - 23:4810 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1930-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):
1930:
1. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
2. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
3. L’ Age D’Or (Luis Buñuel)
4. Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
5. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
6. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
7. Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
8. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. All Quiet On the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
Honorable Mention: Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch), Min and Bill (George W. Hill), Hell’s Angels (Howard Hughes), Anna Christie (Clarence Brown), Free and Easy (Edward Sedgwick), Our Blushing Brides (Harry Beaumont), Prix de Beaute (Augusto Genina)
Blind Spots: Salt for Svanetia (Mikheil Kalatozishvili), People on Sunday (Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer and Fred Zinnemann), The Royal Family of Broadway (George Cukor and Cyril Gardner), The Devil to Pay! (George Fitzmaurice), Holiday (Edward H. Griffith), The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
1931:
1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. Stolen Heaven (George Abbott)
3. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
4. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. Le Million (Rene Clair)
7. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
8. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
10. Man of the World (Edward Goodman & Richard Wallace)
Honorable Mention: The Last Flight (William Dieterle), La Chienne (Jean Renoir), The Front Page (Lewis Milestone), Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod), This Modern Age (Nick Grinde), À Nous la Liberté (Rene Clair), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), The Champ (King Vidor), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian), City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
Blind Spots: Tokyo Chorus (Yasujirô Ozu), The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra), Hippolyt, the Lackey (Steve Sekely), Limite (Mario Peixoto), Girls in Uniform (Leontine Sagan), Marius (Alexander Korda & Marcel Pagnol), The Black Camel (Hamilton MacFadden), Emil and the Detectives (Gerhard Lamprecht), Erik Charell (Congress Dances), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra), Laugh and Get Rich (Gregory La Cava), Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman), Other Men’s Women (William A. Wellman), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Piel Jutzi), Girls About Town (George Cukor)
1932:
1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
4. ¡Que viva México! (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
5. Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
6. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
8. Rain (Lewis Milestone)
9. If I Had a Million (Lots of People)
10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
Honorable Mention: Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding), One Hour With You (George Cukor and Ernst Lubistch), I Was Born, But… (Yasujirô Ozu), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg), Three on a Match (Mervyn LeRoy), The Old Dark House (James Whale), A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage), So Big! (William A. Wellman), Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock)
Blind Spots: Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle), Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille), This Is the Night (Frank Tuttle). and Doctor X (Michael Curtiz)
1933:
1. Hallelujah I’m a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
2. Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
3. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
4. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter)
7. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
8. Liebelei (Max Ophüls)
9. Secrets (Frank Borzage)
10. The Private Life of Henvy VIII (Alexander Korda)
Honorable Mention: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy), Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu), 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon), Ever in My Heart (Archie Mayo), Passing Fancy (Yasujirô Ozu), Lady for a Day (Frank Capra), The Devil’s Brother (Hal Roach & Charley Rogers), Baby Face (Alfred E. Green), I’m No Angel (Wesley Ruggles), Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner)
Blind Spots: Man’s Castle (Frank Borzage), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz), Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon), Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon), The Good Companions (Victor Saville), Only Yesterday (John Stahl), The Silver Cord (John Cromwell), The Stranger’s Return (King Vidor), Our Betters (George Cukor), Hello, Sister (Eric Von Stroheim), Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava), Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman), The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi), Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)
1934:
1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Three Songs of Lenin (Dziga Vertov)
4. Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl)
5. Liliom (Fritz Lang)
6. Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty)
7. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
8. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
9. Six of a Kind (Leo McCarey)
10. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
Honorable Mention: We’re Not Dressing (Norman Taurog), You’re Telling Me! (Erle C. Kenton), Judge Priest (John Ford), Our Daily Bread (King Vidor), It Happened One Night (Frank Capra), The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks), The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich), The Story of the Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu), Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown)
Blind Spots: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), Hips Hips Hooray! (Mark Sandrich), No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage), Mills of the Gods (Roy William Neill), One More River (James Whale), Death Takes a Holiday (Mitchell Leisen), Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen), La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophüls), The Lost Patrol (John Ford), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin), Fog Over Frisco (William Dieterle), The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee), 6 Day Bike Rider (Lloyd Bacon), Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage), Plunder of Peach and Plum (Ying Yunwei)
1935:
1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. The Informer (John Ford)
3. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding & Sam Wood)
5. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
6. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
7. Roberta (William A. Seiter)
8. The Devil Is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
10. Toni (Jean Renoir)
Honorable Mention: The Good Fairy (William Wyler), Top Hat (Mark Sandrich), Mad Love (Karl Freund), Goin’ to Town (Alexander Hall), Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen), Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown), The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle), Man on the Flying Trapeze (Clyde Bruckman & W.C. Fields), Alice Adams (George Stevens), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)
Blind Spots: The Raven (Lew Landers), Four Hours to Kill! (Mitchell Leisen), ’G’ Men (William Keighley), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway), Lucrezia Borgia (Abel Gance), The Ghost Goes West (René Clair), The Phantom Light (Michael Powell), Ah, Wilderness! (Clarence Brown), Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder), The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley), No More Ladies (Edward H. Griffith & George Cukor), The Whole Town’s Talking (John Ford), Naughty Marietta (Robert Z. Leonard & W.S. Van Dyke), The Black Room (Roy William Neill), Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
1936:
1. Fury (Fritz Lang)
2. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Desire (Frank Borzage)
4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
5. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
6. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu)
8. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
9. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
10. Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
Honorable Mention: Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies), Dodsworth (William Wyler), Libeled Lady (Jack Conway), Swing Time (George Stevens), Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer), Camille (George Cukor), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra), Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock), The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning), The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)
Blind Spots: They Were Five (Julien Duvivier), It’s Love Again (Victor Saville), Cesar (Marcel Pagnol), The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes), The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir), Show Boat (James Whale), Woman of Osaka (Kenji Mizoguchi), Mary of Scotland (John Ford), After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), The Plainsman (Cecile B. DeMille), Craig’s Wife (Dorothy Arzner), San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke), These Three (William Wyler), Mayerling (Anatole Litvak), The Garden of Allah (Richard Boleslawski), Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler), Three Godfathers (Richard Boleslawski), The Road to Glory (Howard Hawks), Small Town Girl (William A. Wellman), Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
1937:
1. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
3. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
4. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
5. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6. Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
7. Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
8. Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
10. The Hurricane (John Ford)
Honorable Mention: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Lots of People), History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage), The Last of Mrs. Cheney (Richard Boleslawski), Topper (Norman Z. McLeod), Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman), Way Out West (James W. Horne), A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman), It’s Love I’m After (Archie Mayo), Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich), A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
Blind Spots: Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka), Dick Tracy (Alan James & Ray Taylor), Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen), Bizarre, Bizarre (Marcel Carné), Life Dances On (Julien Duvivier), Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel), Angel (Ernst Lubitsch), Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen), Regain (Marcel Pagnol), To New Shores (Douglas Sirk), They Won’t Forget (Mervyn LeRoy), Confession (Joe May), The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell), Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford)
1938:
1. The Human Beast (Jean Renoir)
2. Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev)
4. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
6. The Citadel (King Vidor)
7. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl)
8. The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
10. You Can’t Take It With You (Frank Capra)
Honorable Mention: The Baker’s Wife (Marcel Pagnol), Block-Heads (John G. Blystone), Room Service (William A. Seiter), Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard), Swiss Miss (John G. Blystone), Three Comrades (Frank Borzage, 1938), The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding), La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir), Boys’ School (Christian-Jaque), The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoy)
Blind Spots: Mad About Music (Norman Taurog), Mars Attacks the World (Ford Beebe and Robert F. Hill), Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné), Ask a Policeman (Marcel Varnel), The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason), King of Alcatraz (Robert Florey), The Shopworn Angel (H.C. Potter), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norman Taurog), The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage), Joy of Living (Tay Garnett), Sidewalks of London (Tim Whelan), A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon)
1939:
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
6. The Women (George Cukor)
7. Daybreak (Marcel Carne)
8. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
9. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
10. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
Honorable Mention: Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford), Midnight (Mitchell Leisen), The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding), Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch), Love Affair (Leo McCarey), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra), Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock), Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
Blind Spots: The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker), Beau Geste (William Wellman), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle), and The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)
