My Top 20 by Year - 1935
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 53 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Nov 2022)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Les Misérables (Boleslawski, 1935)
Orizuru Osen (The Downfall of Osen, Mizoguchi, 1935)
The Scoundrel (Hecht/MacArthur, 1935)
La kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders, Feyder, 1935)
Uwasa no musume (The Girl in the Rumour, Naruse, 1935)
Crime and Punishment (von Sternberg, 1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (Conway, 1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dieterle/Reinhardt, 1935)
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (Cukor, 1935)
Saakasu goningumi (Five Men in the Circus, Naruse, 1935)
Pension Mimosas (Feyder, 1935)
The Good Fairy (Wyler, 1935)
The Ghost Goes West (Clair, 1935)
Roberta (Seiter, 1935)
Otome-gokoro - Sannin-shimai (Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, Naruse, 1935)
Front Page Woman (Curtiz, 1935)
The Call of the Wild (Wellman, 1935)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (Bruckman, 1935)
Munkbrogreven (The Count of the Old Town, Adolphson, 1935)
Xin nu xing (New Women, Chusheng Cai, 1935)
Dangerous (A. E. Green, 1935)
Mazurka (W. Forst, 1935)
Barbary Coast (Hawks/Wyler, 1935)
The Gilded Lily (Ruggles, 1935)
The Raven (Landers, 1935)
Reckless (Fleming, 1935)
Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague, A. Robison, 1935)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Hathaway, 1935)
Novyy Gulliver (The New Gulliver, Ptushko, 1935)
Hands Across the Table (Leisen, 1935)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 53 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Nov 2022)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Les Misérables (Boleslawski, 1935)
Orizuru Osen (The Downfall of Osen, Mizoguchi, 1935)
The Scoundrel (Hecht/MacArthur, 1935)
La kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders, Feyder, 1935)
Uwasa no musume (The Girl in the Rumour, Naruse, 1935)
Crime and Punishment (von Sternberg, 1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (Conway, 1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dieterle/Reinhardt, 1935)
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (Cukor, 1935)
Saakasu goningumi (Five Men in the Circus, Naruse, 1935)
Pension Mimosas (Feyder, 1935)
The Good Fairy (Wyler, 1935)
The Ghost Goes West (Clair, 1935)
Roberta (Seiter, 1935)
Otome-gokoro - Sannin-shimai (Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, Naruse, 1935)
Front Page Woman (Curtiz, 1935)
The Call of the Wild (Wellman, 1935)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (Bruckman, 1935)
Munkbrogreven (The Count of the Old Town, Adolphson, 1935)
Xin nu xing (New Women, Chusheng Cai, 1935)
Dangerous (A. E. Green, 1935)
Mazurka (W. Forst, 1935)
Barbary Coast (Hawks/Wyler, 1935)
The Gilded Lily (Ruggles, 1935)
The Raven (Landers, 1935)
Reckless (Fleming, 1935)
Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague, A. Robison, 1935)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Hathaway, 1935)
Novyy Gulliver (The New Gulliver, Ptushko, 1935)
Hands Across the Table (Leisen, 1935)
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- DirectorOskar FischingerThis is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue environment, one red cube slowly drifts on a reflecting floor. Suddenly there are multiple red cubes drifting and dancing in various formations. Over the course of the film the angularity of square shapes are transformed into circular and cylindrical shapes. The climax of the film features a multitude of these shapes in Busby Berkeley-like formation, as various circular figures grow and disappear among a simulated sky, with the blue colors giving way to red.PC. 10/10.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsAdolf HitlerHermann GöringMax AmannThe infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.PC. 9/10.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsHermann GöringRudolf HessAdolf HitlerAfter German generals complained about the army's lack of presence in Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", she produced this propaganda piece for them.PC.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsSara BernerHarriette HaddonPurv PullenThree orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they're caught by the maid, the young daughter of the house "rescues" them from the cold out outside.OL.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.PC.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerFilm shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.OL. 9/10.
- DirectorLen LyeAnimated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.OL. 8/10.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShagaidaSergey StolyarovStepan ShkuratA Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.OL.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail GipsiA hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.PC.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTakeshi SakamotoYoshiko OkadaChôko IidaUnemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.OL.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.OL.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.OL.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSachiko ChibaYuriko HanabusaToshiko ItôWhen she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.OL.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.OL.
- DirectorSam WoodEdmund GouldingStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.TV.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.PC.
- DirectorNorman McLarenMontage and animation in two Acts: the preparation for the Glasgow Arts School Ball; and the ball itself.PC.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsDorothy ComptonMarcellite GarnerBeatrice HagenBig race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.OL.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsEdward G. RobinsonJean ArthurArthur HohlA meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.TV.
- DirectorSadao YamanakaStarsDenjirô ÔkôchiKiyozoKunitarô SawamuraA man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.TV.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCharles BlavetteCelia MontalvánJenny HéliaIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.OL.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerMickey and friends have various levels of enjoyment skating on a frozen river. As Mickey and Minnie glide romantically, Donald plays tricks on Pluto and ends up in trouble himself with a kite, from which Mickey must save him.OL.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsBilly BletcherDon BrodieLeo ClearyRobin is crooning to a Mae West-like Jenny Wren when he is shot with an arrow. A court is convened; the judge, an owl, keeps singing the title. A variety of birds are brought to the witness stand, but nobody knows a thing.OL. 8/10.
