Taking up Ed Howard's challenge in a recent meme (which originated on the Blog Cabins site), inviting readers to construct an alphabetical listing of favorite films (one per letter), I've essayed my own list. As Howard notes, the result of such a project is inevitably "very different than what [one] might pick if simply asked for favorite films without such restrictions". I've paired each film selected with an accompanying review and, just as I've limited my selections to one work per director, so I've restricted the reviews to one piece per critic.Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
Review by Travis Mackenzie Hoover
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
Review by Josh Vasquez
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Review by David Phelps
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
Review by Ian Johnston
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Review by Michael Koresky
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974)
Review by Robert Castle
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
Review by Eric Henderson
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Review by David Bordwell
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
Review by Keith Uhlich
Judex (Louise Feuillade, 1916)
Review by Ray Young
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)
Review by Roger Ebert
Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
Review by Gary Morris
Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
Review by Andrew Schenker
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Review by James Leahy
The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)
Review by Wagstaff
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993)
Review by Nick Schager
Quintet (Robert Altman, 1979)
Review by Nick Pinkerton
The River (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1997)
Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Review by Acquarello
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
Review by Bill Chambers
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke, 2002)
Review by J. Hoberman
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)
Review by Leo Goldsmith
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Review by Fred Camper
Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1975)
Review by Fernando F. Croce
Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)
Review by Ed Gonzalez
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933)
Review by Jeffrey M. Anderson
2 comments:
Nice list. One thing I noticed in looking over various people's lists is that Hawks shows up in almost all of them.
I love you list sir! I just a few days ago had a friend suggest this idea, see what you think:
http://rupertpupkinspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/03/cinematic-alphabet.html
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