(M) *Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) A-

Daniel's Favorite Films: 1915-1949

I realized that I couldn't possibly attempt a list of my favorite movies of all time, since I have too many gaps in my viewing history. So I'm going to do a pre-1950s list for now. I'm afraid my taste tends to be rather gay, too, which explains why Stella Dallas makes it and Stagecoach doesn't.

The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene)
The Kid (1921, Charles Chaplin)
Greed (1924, Erich Von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
Menilmontant (1925, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The first half of Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström)
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Camille (1936, George Cukor)
Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
Nothing Sacred (1937, William Wellman)
Stage Door (1937, Gregory La Cava)
Stella Dallas (1937, King Vidor)
Bringing up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
The Women (1939, George Cukor)
Fantasia (1940, James Algar)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)
Lifeboat (1944, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)
Phantom Lady (1944, Robert Siodmak)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti)
The first half of The Best Years of Our Live (1946, William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
La Belle et La Bête (1946, Jean Cocteau)
Brief Encounter (1946, David Lean)
The young part of Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)
Lady in the Lake (1946, Robert Montgomery)
Notorious(1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell)
Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
D.O.A. (1949, Rudolph Maté)
Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

My Top 111 Favorite Films Of ALL TIME

In chronological order:

THE LAST LAUGH (1924, F.W. Murnau)
SEVEN CHANCES (1925, Buster Keaton)
METROPOLIS (1926, Fritz Lang)
SUNRISE (1927, F.W. Murnau)
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
TABU (1931, F.W. Murnau)
SCARFACE (1932, Howard Hawks)
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
L'ATALANTE (1934, Jean Vigo)
THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (1936, Jean Renoir)
GRAND ILLUSION (1937, Jean Renoir)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937, Fritz Lang)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938, Howard Hawks)
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939, Howard Hawks)
RULES OF THE GAME (1939, Jean Renoir)
THE WOMEN (1939, George Cukor)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940, Howard Hawks)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
CITIZEN KANE (1941, Orson Welles)
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942, Orson Welles)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
LE CORBEAU (1943, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
DAY OF WRATH (1943, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944, Howard Hawks)
NOTORIOUS (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
QUAI DES ORFEVRES (1947, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948, Orson Welles)
RED RIVER (1948, Howard Hawks)
I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (1949, Howard Hawks)
PUCE MOMENT (1949, Kenneth Anger)
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (1950, Robert Bresson)
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950, Jules Dassin)
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
CASQUE D'OR (1952, Jacques Becker)
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953, Howard Hawks)
TOKYO STORY (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
UGETSU (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
JOHNNY GUITAR (1954, Nicholas Ray)
REAR WINDOW (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
A STAR IS BORN (1954, George Cukor)
KISS ME DEADLY (1955, Robert Aldrich)
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
A MAN ESCAPED (1956, Robert Bresson)
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956, Douglas Sirk)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958, Otto Preminger)
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958, Orson Welles)
VERTIGO (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
BREATHLESS (1959, Jean-Luc Godard)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1959, Douglas Sirk)
SHADOWS (1959, John Cassavetes)
L'AVVENTURA (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
PSYCHO (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
LE TROU (1960, Jacques Becker)
L'ECLISSE (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
HATARI! (1962, Howard Hawks)
LA JETEE (1962, Chris Marker)
MY LIFE TO LIVE (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
THE BIRDS (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
GERTRUD (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
SCORPIO RISING (1964, Kenneth Anger)
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964, Jacques Demy)
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, Kenneth Anger)
PIERROT LE FOU (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (1966, Robert Bresson)
MASCULIN FEMININ (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
PLAYTIME (1967, Jacques Tati)
WEEKEND (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH (1968, Stan Brakhage)
STOLEN KISSES (1968, Francois Truffaut)
LE BOUCHER (1970, Claude Chabrol)
EYES (1971, Stan Brakhage)
McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971, Robert Altman)
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972, Werner Herzog)
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974, Tobe Hopper)
F FOR FAKE (1975, Orson Welles)
NASHVILLE (1975, Robert Altman)
ERASERHEAD (1977, David Lynch)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978, George Romero)
SANS SOLEIL (1982, Chris Marker)
PAULINE AT THE BEACH (1983, Eric Rohmer)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
THE SACRIFICE (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
MIAMI BLUES (1990, George Armitage)
EXOTICA (1994, Atom Egoyan)
SATANTANGO (1994, Bela Tarr)
CLUELESS (1995, Amy Heckerling)
GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN (1995, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (1997, Atom Egoyan)
RUSHMORE (1998, Wes Anderson)
GEORGE WASHINGTON (2000, David Gordon Green)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000, Bela Tarr)
LOVESONG (2001, Stan Brakhage)
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001, Wes Anderson)
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)
GERRY (2002, Gus Van Sant)
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
DOGVILLE (2003, Lars Von Trier)
ELEPHANT (2003, Gus Van Sant)
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004, Wes Anderson)

What's your top 111 favorite films of all time, Cory?

(M) *Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House (Potter, 1948) B+

(M) /25th Hour/ (Lee, 2003) B+

Book

Silas Marner (George Eliot) - pro/mixed

(M) Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968) A

(M) Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1958) A-

(M) /The Manchurian Candidate/ (Demme, 2004) B

Book

An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) - mixed/pro

(M) Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950) A

(M) Dick (Fleming, 1999) B

(M) Crash (Haggis, 2004) B+

Okay, sorry, had to add a few:


A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A People's History of the United States
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
No Ordinary Time
The Waves

What I've read lately . . .

The Moon and Sixpence (W. Somerset Maugham) - pro
Sanctuary (William Faulkner) - PRO/pro
Orlando (Virginia Woolf) - PRO
Wolf Willow (Wallace Stegner) - mixed
The Wayward Bus (John Steinbeck) - pro/PRO
Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor) - mixed/con
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov) - pro

Cory's summer reading list:

A Delicate Balance
A Director Prepares
A Short History of Nearly Everything
All My Sons
Anthem
Atonement
Burial at Thebes
Catch-22
Chaucer in Rome
Crime and Punishment
Crossing to Safety
Empire Falls
Fahrenheit 451
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Garden State
Middlesex
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sons and Lovers
Swimming to Cambodia
The Elegant Universe
The Known World
Tragedies by Lorca
Ulysses
Unbearable Lightness of Being
White Noise
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

(Th) /The Pillowman/ (at the Booth Theater; Written by Martin McDonagh) B+

(M) Mr. Death (Morris, 1999) A

(M) The Fog of War (Morris, 2003) A