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Wow, I'm disappointed and surprised not to be able to vote for Singin' in the Rain in the final. It turns out that I voted with the minority in both of the final four matchups, after rewatching Vertigo (and having only watched Rear Window for the first time in February, and wanting both Hitchcocks to be fresh). Not that I dislike Seven Samurai at all -- I voted for it in previous rounds when I had also seen the other film.
Singin' in the Rain is also my wife's favorite movie.
Vertigo is my favorite film of the 1950s--bar none. But close behind is Seven Samurai, the greatest foreign film and Japanese movie of all time and Kurosawa's magnum opus. So fitting that the tournament comes down to Hitchcock vs. Kurosawa, the filmmakers who created their best works in that decade. Rear Window is a superlative picture by the master, but I'm pulling for the dark horse here: Seven Samurai, #20 in the most recent Sight & Sound Poll and #1 on the BBC's 2018 poll of the greatest foreign language films of all time. So pumped that I'm rewatching Seven Samurai right now, and it's as glorious as ever, no matter what Adam says.
Singin’ in the Rain is as perfect as jt gets, but 50s Madness simply has to come down to Kurosawa vs. Hitchcock.
This match-up has me toying with thoughts of seppuku. Seven Samurai forever.
Thrilled beyond belief that the final four have whittled down to a hell of a lineup. But while my dream final matchup would pit my favorite Hitchcock against my favorite Kurosawa—only one of them is my #3 of all time. Seven Samurai all the way, baby.
The Seven Samurai and The Seventh Seal were my entries into becoming a (somewhat poor) cinephile…curated by the great Roger Evert when he did film commentary for a local Chicago PBS station.
Please let me know the better Samurai movies that I have missed.
The pinnacle of cinematic joy over kabuke theatre any day, thank you.
Quintessential agony of Madness, but as much as I love Seven Samurai and all the movies it influenced and what a rich text it is, it might not be the best samurai movie ever made, and I know that we are just judging the 50s, but that’s the bar that Singin’ in the Rain sets - not only a great movie musical about movies themselves from the 50s, but maybe the greatest of its kind ever made and that’s why it gets my vote
At this stage of mi life, I'll take the singing & dancing. Also, Seven Samurai is perfect, but not top 5 Kurosawa and Singin' in the Rian could be my favorite classic-Hollywood musical.
P.S. If ever AI is ever going win our approbation, a good start would be by creating “The Singin’ Samurai,” directed by Stanley Kurosawa, starring Toshirô Kelly.
Singin' has no chance of losing, but it would make my day, week, and year if it did.
Cosmo Brown could've rescued the baby from that fire, but Kikuchiyo couldn't make em laugh.