My Top 20 by Year - 1937
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 67 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Dec 2022)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Kaze no naka no kodomo (Children in the Wind, Shimizu, 1937)
Non-Stop New York (Stevenson, 1937)
The Hurricane (Ford, 1937)
Regain (Harvest, Pagnol, 1937)
Maytime (R. Z. Leonard, 1937)
Souls at Sea (Hathaway, 1937)
Stage Door (La Cava, 1937)
Confession (J. May, 1937)
A Damsel in Distress (Stevens, 1937)
The Good Earth (various, 1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (Cromwell/Van Dyke, 1937)
Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937)
Koi mo wasurete (Forget Love for Now, Shimizu, 1937)
It's Love I'm After (Mayo, 1937)
True Confession (Ruggles, 1937)
They Won't Forget (LeRoy, 1937)
Black Legion (Mayo/Curtiz, 1937)
Shall We Dance (Sandrich, 1937)
Conquest (C. Brown/Machaty, 1937)
That Certain Woman (Goulding, 1937)
Tovarich (Litvak, 1937)
Seventh Heaven (H. King, 1937)
Bílá nemoc (The White Plague, H. Haas, 1937)
Pietro wyzej (Neighbors, Trystan, 1937)
Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug, Ucicky/Jannings, 1937)
Saratoga (Conway, 1937)
Zu neuen Ufern (To New Shores, Sirk, 1937)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 67 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Dec 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):
Kaze no naka no kodomo (Children in the Wind, Shimizu, 1937)
Non-Stop New York (Stevenson, 1937)
The Hurricane (Ford, 1937)
Regain (Harvest, Pagnol, 1937)
Maytime (R. Z. Leonard, 1937)
Souls at Sea (Hathaway, 1937)
Stage Door (La Cava, 1937)
Confession (J. May, 1937)
A Damsel in Distress (Stevens, 1937)
The Good Earth (various, 1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (Cromwell/Van Dyke, 1937)
Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937)
Koi mo wasurete (Forget Love for Now, Shimizu, 1937)
It's Love I'm After (Mayo, 1937)
True Confession (Ruggles, 1937)
They Won't Forget (LeRoy, 1937)
Black Legion (Mayo/Curtiz, 1937)
Shall We Dance (Sandrich, 1937)
Conquest (C. Brown/Machaty, 1937)
That Certain Woman (Goulding, 1937)
Tovarich (Litvak, 1937)
Seventh Heaven (H. King, 1937)
Bílá nemoc (The White Plague, H. Haas, 1937)
Pietro wyzej (Neighbors, Trystan, 1937)
Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug, Ucicky/Jannings, 1937)
Saratoga (Conway, 1937)
Zu neuen Ufern (To New Shores, Sirk, 1937)
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- DirectorsWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.Cinema. 10/10.
- DirectorsGraham HeidWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenAs a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.OL.
- DirectorOskar FischingerMental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.PC.
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Made in 1937 so it actually belongs here. - DirectorLen LyeAbstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.OL.
- DirectorMary Ellen ButeTo the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.OL. 10/10.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.PC. 9/10.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.TV.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsVictor MooreBeulah BondiFay BainterAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.PC. 8/10.
- DirectorSadao YamanakaStarsChôjûrô KawarasakiKan'emon NakamuraTsuruzô NakamuraThe lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.OL.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsJean GabinGabriel GabrioSaturnin FabreA wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.OL.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsFrançoise RosayMichel SimonJean-Pierre AumontIn Victorian London, a crime novelist and his wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against the "evils" of crime fiction.OL.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySharon LynnStan and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to its rightful owner, but they soon discover that the task is not as easy as it looks.OL.
- DirectorOktavijan MileticStarSime MarovFilm about a hat which changes its owners, until it ends up in the possession of a beggar who collects charity with it.Orig. title: Šešir.
OL. - DirectorsIrene StarewiczWladyslaw StarewiczStarsClaude DauphinRomain BouquetSylvain ItkineWhen Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.PC.
- DirectorsWilliam A. WellmanJack ConwayVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorFredric MarchAdolphe MenjouYoung Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.TV.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRalph BellamyA married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.TV.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMarie BellFrançoise RosayLouis JouvetChristine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.OL.
- DirectorsAchille-Pierre DufourJean PainlevéThe film begins with methodical descriptions of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional space. It then looks at a two-dimensional world inhabited by flat mice. It imagines how a human, from the third dimension could interact with that world. It then suggests how beings from a fourth dimension might interact with us. Next the film posits time as a fourth dimension, with scenes to aid comprehension. An off-screen narrator, graphs, and clever photography provide explanations and illustrations. The film asks viewers to use their imaginations.OL.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey, Donald and Goofy run the "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" agency. They receive a call from lonely and bored ghosts to come to their house where they are scared silly by the hilarious haunts and taunts of these spirited pranksters.OL.
- DirectorsAchille-Pierre DufourJean PainlevéWe begin on planet Earth, with a demonstration of measuring distances using triangulation. Then, an imaginary voyage begins from earth to the moon, on to Mars, Saturn, the closest star (besides the sun), and beyond to the edge of our universe. The film depicts imagined landscapes, and it speculates on universes beyond ours. It ends with philosophical musings about the significance of Earth.OL.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.PC.
- DirectorMartin RikliA short black and white film which documents the discovery of X-Rays and how they can be used for medical purposes.OL. 8/10.
