It's Always Fair Weather(Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
Rififi(Jules Dassin)
Richard III(Laurence Olivier)
Summertime(David Lean)
Killer's Kiss(Stanley Kubrick)
Artists and Models(Frank Tashlin)
French Cancan(Jean Renoir)
To Catch a Thief(Alfred Hitchcock)
The Ladykillers(Alexander Mackendrick)
Bad Day at Black Rock(John Sturges)
Marty(Delbert Mann)
The Tall Men(Raoul Walsh)
Guys and Dolls(Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Pather Panchali(Satyajit Ray)
My Sister Eileen(Richard Quine)
La Pointe-Courte(Agnès Varda)
Lady and the Tramp(Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
Kismet(Vincente Minnelli)
Violent Saturday(Richard Fleischer)
The Seven Year Itch(Billy Wilder)
The Phenix City Story(Phil Karlson)
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer(Thorold Dickinson)
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple(Hiroshi Inagaki)
Man With the Gun(Richard Wilson)
Good Morning, Miss Dove(Henry Koster)
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):I Live in Fear (Kurosawa);
Lola Montès (Ophüls); Love Me or Leave Me
(Vidor); Mister Roberts (Ford/LeRoy); Picnic (Logan);
This Island Earth (Newman); The Trouble With Harry
(Hitchcock)
As yet unseen:The African Lion
(Algar); The Big Combo (Lewis); The Criminal Life of Archibaldo
de la Cruz (Buñuel); Run for Cover (N. Ray)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.