There's No Business Like Show Business(Walter Lang)
Sansho the Bailiff(Kenji Mizoguchi)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar(Luis Buñuel)
Beachhead(Stuart Heisler)
Sound of the Mountain(Mikio Naruse)
PHFFFT(Mark Robson)
Twenty-Four Eyes(Keisuke Kinoshita)
Senso(Luchino Visconti)
Gorilla at Large(Harmon Jones)
Godzilla(Ishirô Honda)
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):Andriesh (Bazelian &
Paradjanov); The Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz); Broken
Lance (Dmytryk); Carmen Jones (Preminger); The Country
Girl (Seaton); The Far Country (Mann); The Glenn Miller
Story (Mann); Knock on Wood (Panama & Frank); Private Hell
36 (Siegel); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Donen);
Suddenly (Allen); Them! (Douglas); 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea (Fleischer)
As yet unseen:The Crucified Lovers
(Mizoguchi)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.