January 20, 2014

best films 1936

A day in the country  (France)  Jean Renoir
By the bluest of blue seas  (Russia) Boris Barnet
Modern times  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin
Mr thank you  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu
Osaka elegy  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
Rose hobart  (Usa)  Joseph Cornell
Sisters of the gion  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The crime of monsieur lange  (France)  Jean Renoir
The only son (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The story of a cheat (France) Sacha Guitry

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Sisters of the gion
Best Director:  Boris Barnet
Best Performer: Paul Robeson

Achievement Award: Hiroshi Shimizu

best films 1935

An inn in tokyo  (Japan)  Yusijiro  Ozu
Bride of frankenstein  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Crime and punishment  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Little man what now  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Pot worth a million ryo  (Japan)  Sadao Yamanaka
Ruggles of red gap  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Steamboat round the bend  (Usa) John Ford
The devil is a woman  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The downfall of osen  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The thirty nine steps (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Three sisters with maiden hearts  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Wife be like a rose  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse


The Golden Gongs:

Best Picture:  The downfall of osen
Best Director:  Josef Sternberg
Best Performer:  Edward Arnold

Achievement Award:  Mikio Naruse

January 19, 2014

best films 1934

A story of floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa) John Stahl
It happened one night  (Usa/Italy) Frank Capra
Judge priest  (Usa) John Ford
L'atalante  (France)  Jean Vigo
La signora di tutti  (Italy/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Masquerade (Austria) Willi Forst
Our neighbour miss yae  (Japan)  Yasujiro Shimazu
Shen nu  (China)  Wu Yonggang
The man who knew too much  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The scarlet empress  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The thin man  (Usa)  WS Van Dyke
Twentieth century  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: A Story of Floating Weeds
Best Director:  Jean Vigo
Best Performer: Ruan Lingyu

Achievement Award:  Alfred Hitchcock

January 17, 2014

best films 1933

Bombshell  (Usa)  Victor Fleming
Daybreak  (China)  Sun Yu

42nd St (Usa) Lloyd Bacon
Hallelujah i'm a bum  (Usa)  Lewis Milestone
Liebelei  (Germany) Max Ophuls
Mans castle  (Usa) Frank Borzage
Passing fancy  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Only yesterday  (Usa)  John  Stahl
Sons of the desert (Usa) William Seiter
The invisible man  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Topaze  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The invisible man
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer: Una O Connor

Achievement Award:  Frank Borzage

best films 1931

An american tragedy  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Blonde crazy  (Usa)  Roy del Ruth
Dishonoured  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Kameradschaft  (Germany) George Pabst
La chienne  (France)  Jean Renoir
M  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
Marius  (France/Hungary)  Alexander Korda/Marcus Pagnol
The champ  (Usa)  King Vidor
The peach girl  (China)  Bu Wancang 

The public enemy (Usa) William Wellman


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Marius
Best Director:  Fritz Lang
Best Performer:  Wallace Beery

Achievement Award:  William Wellman

best films 1932

Back street  (Usa/Azerbijan)  John Stahl
Boudu saved from drowning  (France)  Jean Renoir
Fanny  (France)  Marcus Pagnol
I was born but  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Me and my gal  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
Night at the crossroads  (France)  Jean Renoir
Scarface  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
Trouble in paradise  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Vampyr  (Germany/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Where now are the dreams of youth  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu


Best Picture:  Boudu saved from drowning
Best Director:  Yasujiro Ozu
Best Performer:  Raimu

Achievement Award:  Howard Hawks

best films 1930

Au bonheur des dames  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Earth  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko
L'age d'or  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Laughter  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast
Morocco  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Prix de beaute  (France/Italy)  Augusto Genina
The blue angel  (Germany/Austria)  Josef Sternberg 
The dawn patrol  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The tale of the fox  (France/Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
Westfront 1918  (Germany)  GW Pabst


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Earth
Best Director: Alexander Dovshenko
Best Performer:  Marlene Dietrich

Achievement Award:  Luis Bunuel


The Hall of Fame 

Victor Sjostrom           
Georges Melies           
Albert Capellani           
Yevgeni Bauer   
Jean Epstein        
DW Griffiths              
Alexander Dovshenko
FW Murnau
Mauritz Stiller
Sergei Eisenstein           
Ferdinand Zecca
Carl Dreyer
Ernst Lubitsch
Andre Antoine
Maurice Tourneur
Ladislas Starevich
Edwin Porter
Vsevelod Pudovkin
King Vidor
Leonce Perret
Josef Sternberg
GW Pabst
Fritz Lang
Robert Weine
Mario Caserini
Giovanne Pastrone
Francesca Bertilini
Lucien Nonguet
Charlie Chaplin
Erich Stronheim
Gustavo Serena
Louis Feuillade
Abel Gance
Alfred Hitchcock
Harold Lloyd
Marcel L'Herbier
Cecil B Demille
Max Linder                  

cineometer 1930: Usa 48, Fra 42, Rus 26, Ger 22, Swe 15, Ita 8, Den 4, Bri 2, Oz 1, Ind 1