Film Gourmand

 The best film of 1946, according to FilmGourmand’s Methodology , is William Wyler’s film "The Best Years of Our Lives". The literary basis of the script for the film was the novel “Glory for Me” written in blank verse by war correspondent McKinlay Kantor. But in addition to the novel, the war recollections of William Wyler, who spent 3 years in Europe, participating in the operations of World War II as a front-line operator with the rank of major of the US Air Force, were added to the film. Filming began in April 1946, 7 months after the end of World War II. William Wyler, as an experienced documentary filmmaker, sought to ensure maximum credibility in everything. For this purpose, real war veterans were invited to participate in the film, the actors acted in their own clothes, and authentic props were used. Roger Ebert, in his 2007 review , noted that "Seen more than six decades later, it feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then ...

 The best Danish film, according to FilmGourmand, is "Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)". Director Bille August. The film premiered in Copenhagen on December 13, 1987. The Swedish film company also participated in the creation of this film. But at all international film festivals, "Pelle the Conqueror" represented Denmark. The film "Pelle the Conqueror" is a film adaptation of one of the four parts of the epic novel of the Danish writer Martin Andersen-Nexø (1869-1954), the founder of the Danish Communist Party. The novel was published in 1906-1910. In the Soviet Union, this novel was published in a 10-volume collected works in 1951-1954. In 1988, "Pelle the Conqueror" received 4 Bodil awards: as the best Danish film (needless to say) and in three acting nominations. In the same 1988, the film was awarded the Palme d'Or of the Cannes International Film Festival. In the same year, Bille August's film was nominated for the European Film...

 The best film of world cinema of 1945, according to FilmGourmand, was recognized "The Lost Weekend" by Billy Wilder. The film premiered on October 5, 1945 in London, UK. The film "The Lost Weekend" was a champion in many ways. Firstly, the film’s release on the screens caused fierce resistance from different angles: on the one hand, the alcohol lobby offered $ 5 million to put the film on the shelf, as it saw strong anti-alcohol propaganda in the film. On the other hand, the organizations of the teetotalers and, with their filing, the censorship committee, demanded that the film be banned, as it is supposedly outright propagandizing drunkenness. As a result, the film was released in a very small print run. But the film was met with rave reviews from critics and viewers. And this prompted the Paramount Pictures film company to ignore both alcohol producers and teetotalers along with censors, and increase the film’s circulation. As a result, in the first year, the fe...

 On January 30, 1937 in London, in the family of the outstanding British actor Michael Redgrave ("Browning Version") and his wife, also an actress, Rachel Kempson, a daughter was born - Vanessa. Vanessa's very fate was destined to become an actress. And not only because of the origin of the acting family. Moreover, one of the most famous acting families: Vanessa's dad was knighted in 1959 for his contribution to the development of the British theater. Blow-Up. Director Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966. Movie's Rating - 8,681; 253rd Rank in the Golden Thousand. The fact that the girl was destined to become an actress was announced on the day of her birth by none other than the world-famous British actor Laurence Olivier. And he did it literally during the play "Hamlet", in which Vanessa's dad played the role of Laertes. “Our Laertes,” said Olivier, playing the role of Hamlet, “daughter was born that night, the future great actress.” The Devils. Director K...

 The first in the list of the best films of world cinema of 1944, according to FilmGourmand, is Billy Wilder’s film noir “Double Indemnity”. The premiere of the film "Double Indemnity" took place on July 3, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland (USA).  The plot of the film is based on a novel written by journalist James Mallahan Cain. As the basis of the Cain's novel were used the circumstances of the crime, which was committed in 1927 by a housewife from Queens, New York, USA, Ruth Snyder with the support of her lover - insurance agent Henry Judd Gray. The motive that pushed Ruth to the crime was the fact that her husband, Albert Snyder, hung in the bedroom a portrait of his bride, who died 10 years before marriage to Ruth, and also named his former yacht after his former bride. (Men, do not commemorate your ex in the presence of your present! Even if they have already died.) At trial, it turned out that Ruth had made 8 attempts to kill her husband, and only the last one, committe...

 The cinema of Czechoslovakia (namely Czechoslovakia, not the Czech Republic; we wrote about the best film of the Czech Republic here ) is presented in the Golden Thousand with 7 pictures. The list of these movies is headed by the film "Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street)" directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. The literary basis of the film "Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street)" was the story "The Trap (Past)" by Ladislav Grosman, published in 1962. Ladislav Grosman, who grew up in a family of Slovak Jews, experienced all the hardships that fell to the lot of the Jewish people during the Second World War. His parents and three out of five brothers died under the German bombing, and he himself went through the so-called a "labor camp" organized by the Nazis for young and healthy Jews. In 1964, Ladislav Grosman, with the participation of Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, reworked his story into a script called "Obchod na korze". Ján Ka...