Crime Without Passion(Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur)
It's a Gift(Norman McLeod)
The Scarlet Empress(Josef von Sternberg)
L'Atalante(Jean Vigo)
The Gay Divorcee(Mark Sandrich)
Little Man, What Now?(Frank Borzage)
The Thin Man(W.S. Van Dyke)
The Black Cat(Edgar G. Ulmer)
Additional 1934 Films By Rating
The Man Who Knew Too Much(Alfred Hitchcock)
Plunder of Peach and Plum(Ying Yunwei)
Twentieth Century(Howard Hawks)
Treasure Island(Victor Fleming)
The Scarlet Pimpernel(Harold Young)
A Story of Floating Weeds(Yasujirō Ozu)
The Count of Monte Cristo(Rowland V. Lee)
The Merry Widow(Ernst Lubitsch)
The Goddess(Wu Yonggang)
Babes in Toyland(Gus Meins & Charles Rogers)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Cleopatra (DeMille);
Gentlemen Are Born (Green); One More River (Whale)
As yet unseen:Man of Aran (Flaherty);
Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl); You're Telling Me!
(Kenton)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.