Well, a week late, but here we are. You've seen the Top Ten, you've looked at the nominees. Now, after 77 films screened and 32 nominated, here are the winners of the 1952 Retro Hollmann Awards:
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Monday, August 12, 2024
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
The 1952 Retro Hollmann Awards: Nominees
Following my Top Ten, I took a few days to consider, very carefully, what I consider the best in 1952 cinema. Here they are, 32 films across 18 categories, the nominees for the 1952 Retro Hollmann Awards:
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
My Top Ten of 1952
Wish I could get these posts done on time, but one does have a full-time job and a social life. Anyway, A few days later than I wanted, but here we go.
Anyway, here are the 77 films I watched for 1952:
Actor's and Sin
Affair in Trinidad
The Atomic City
The Bad and the Beautiful
Because You're Mine
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Bend of the River
Big Jim McLain
The Big Sky
The Black Castle
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Brighton Rock
The Browning Version
The Bushwhackers
The Card (aka The Promoter)
Caribbean
Carrie
Clash by Night
Come Back, Little Sheba
Cry, the Beloved Country
Deadline - U.S.A.
Five Fingers
Flat Top
A Girl in Every Port
The Greatest Show on Earth
Hans Christian Andersen
The Harlem Globetrotters
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Jack and the Beanstalk
Japanese War Bride
The Jazz Singer
Just for You
The Las Vegas Story
The Lavender Hill Mob
Lure of the Wilderness
The Lusty Men
Macao
Man Bait
The Man in the White Suit
The Medium
The Member of the Wedding
The Merry Widow
Million Dollar Mermaid
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Monkey Business
Moulin Rouge
My Cousin Rachel
My Six Convicts
My Son John
Navajo
The Narrow Margin
O. Henry's Full House
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Park Row
Pat and Mike
Plymouth Adventure
The Pride of St. Louis
The Quiet Man
Rancho Notorious
Rashomon
Red Planet Mars
Road to Bali
Scandal Sheet
Singin' in the Rain
The Sniper
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Son of Paleface
The Star
Stars and Stripes Forever
Steel Town
Sudden Fear
The Thief
Viva Zapata!
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
What Price Glory
With a Song in My Heart
Ironically, given the delay, this was one of the quickest Top Tens I've ever made. With apologies to the briefly-considered The Bad and the Beautiful, The Black Castle, Brighton Rock, Million Dollar Mermaid, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Rashomon, and especially the two that did almost make it, My Cousin Rachel and Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, here are my ten favorite films of 1952, in alphabetical order:
Monday, July 15, 2024
1952: Quiet Man, September Cinema
September's here, bringing a bouquet of solid cinema - among them, the Best Picture nominee The Quiet Man.
Long in development, The Quiet Man started life as a short story by Maurice Walsh, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1933. Director-producer John Ford originally envisioned it as a more dramatic story with the Troubles and the IRA firmly part of the story, as in The Informer. By 1952, we'd had a World War and were in the middle of a Red Scare; except for two joking references, the Troubles and the IRA were no longer part of the picture. Instead, what we get is the story of a man escaping his past by following an ideal of someone else's memory, the Ireland his mother told him about. Indeed, what we get is a love story between an American and an Irishwoman, each learning how to adjust to the other's culture.
The film was a hit with audiences and the Oscars, and was one of six or seven exceptional films released that September:
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