I entered a Mexican film on that, man. I believe there a bunch of Argentine films out there since they’re modeled off the Hollywood. Germany invaded France and blitzkrieging through eastern front. Japanese are also hammering china and it seems to kill the film production.

Germany still be making propaganda pieces like that anti-Semitic one you mentioned though

I wonder the materials making film seems to scaled back

yeah I tried to check out the Mexican one but couldn't find a decent quality version.

I expected to come across more German stuff based off that conversation Fassbinder had with Churchill in Basterds about Goebells version of Hollywood doing remarkably well but apparently not.

Stalin had throttled any creativity that mightve existed out of his industry but it seems like Czech had some interesting stuff if I could just find decent versions.

saw a really cozy Shimizu yesterday, which apparently got criticized at the time for the being "a "la-di-da" film in times when film stock was precious" so yeah total war demands definitely hampered everything. felt weird seeing such a nice movie, knowing what Japan was doing in China/SE Asia and what they were preparing to do to Pearl Harbour.

I got the restored version that looks clean.

I watched the Hitler's Hollywood documentary a while ago. pretty interesting stuff.

The Lady Eve is film of the year, obviously.

1941:

1. How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
2. They Died with Their Boots On (Walsh)
3. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)
4. Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu)
5. Citizen Kane (Welles)
6. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
7. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
8. The Strawberry Blonde (Walsh)
9. Swamp Water (Renoir)
10. High Sierra (Walsh)
11. Tobacco Road (Ford)
12. H.M. Pulham, Esq. (Vidor)
13. Stormy Waters (Gremillon)
14. Meet John Doe (Capra)
15. Man Hunt (Lang)
16. 49th Parallel (Powell)
17. Doctors Don't Tell (J. Tourneur)
18. Sergeant York (Hawks)
19. Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu)
20. The Little Foxes (Wyler)
21. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock)
22. That Uncertain Feeling (Lubitsch)

#2 is a surprise didnt know you cared for Flynn/de Havilland. or is just the Raoul factor, your mvp with three flicks holy.

also Kane looking low for such a Welles stan

I f***s with both them but its def a Walsh thing mainly haha

And Kane still amazing, just not as good as a handful of his others (or the ones i put above it here)

But yeah Raoul was cooking it the f*** up this year

How Green Was My Valley

Bergmans claim that Ford was the G.O.A.T. makes more sense after that revisit

can you not wait till way after the last minute to post your list this time @sace I need recs

its alright. hope for a 4K digital release tho.

watch the one I watched today

Already have it queued up

dawg idk what it is about roy rogers westerns but I really do be diggin them on some weird level

47 Ronin is like 4 hours long, hard pass

I feel like I used to see Roy Rogers westerns semi-regularly as a kid but I have not seen one since I've grown up Tonto and hi-ho Silver and all of that been in my brain forever

The budget you get when you decide to toe the militaristic line

i seen at least a few of em when i was a kid

shouts out to him

they all exist in really horrible quality online, im surprised their isn't some sort of bluray boxset

tcm did a great restoration of the trail of robin hood years ago and it still hasn't been released on video

Have you seen The Lady Eve @Fella

great performance from Davis

always in for some Herbert Marshall

halfway through 47 Ronin and feel like I've been watching it for 1000 fkng hours