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FILMS
WANTS TO
What films would 1 like to see again? Time is very hard on films, so how many would survive another showing I cannot tell, but anyway here is the list.
Birth of a Nation, because it revealed the hitherto undreamed of potentialities of the cinema.
ToVable David — one of the most sincere pictures ever made in Hollywood.
There is also Stark Love by Carl Brown, a Hollywood cameraman who went into the foot hills of Tennessee and made the first dramatic film with real characters I can remember — a forerunner to the grand picture Michael Powell has recently made in the Shetlands {Edge of the World).
None of Hollywood's big spectacle pictures do I remember very well, but Von Sternberg's Underworld and his best film, The Case of Lena Smith, are outstanding. I can also add to the Hollywood list almost every film Raymond Griffith ever made, Chaplin's pictures, of course, particularly his Gold Rush and also a certain picture by Lubitsch called Kiss Me Again.
More recent pictures from Hollywood are the Three Cornered Moon, the Thin Man, Theodora Goes Wild, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, and Dodsworth.
Among the Russian pictures are Potemkin and Dovzhenko's Earth, which is the best picture I have ever seen.
Among the German films, Caligari, of course, comes first. There is also The Last Laugh and certain of the old Ufa documentaries, like the "Timber" film.
Of the French films there are Rene Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris, and Feyder's Crainquebille, and the more recent and wonderful La Matemelle.
Of the British dramatic films Hitchcock's
SEE AGAIN
Blackmail is memorable. And another more memorable still which I happened to see in India: Turn of the Tide. Of the recent British dramatic pictures, Farewell Again is the best.
But Michael Powell's Edge of the World, because it was made with real people and incorporated so wonderfully the character of the country in which it was taken, will be remembered after the other British dramatic films are forgotten.
Many of the British documentary films made during the past two years I have not yet seen, but of the older ones those I most want to see again are Granton Trawler, which had more spume in it than any picture of the sea, Drifters, and also one of the best films ever made anywhere at any time, Night Mail.
As I said before there are many good documentary films I have not yet seen, but the years won't affect them as it does the dramatic films, so there still is plenty of time.
Above:
"La Matemelle" Left:
"Granton Trawler"
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