Friday, January 5, 2007

1963

1. Lord of the Flies (Brook) ****
2. Contempt (Godard) ****
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini) ****
4. The House is Black (Farrokhzad) ****
5. High and Low (Kurosawa) ***1/2
6. The Great Escape (J. Sturges) ***
7. The Silence (Bergman) ***
8. The Pink Panther (Edwards) ***
9. Charade (Donen) ***
10. The Birds (Hitchcock) ***
11. Shock Corridor (Fuller) **1/2
12. Black Sabbath (Bava/Billitteri) **1/2
13. Bye Bye Birdie (Sidney) **1/2
14. Tom Jones (Richardson) **

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Kramer)

1962

1. Winter Light (Bergman) ****
2. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) ****
3. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico) ****
4. My Life to Live (Godard) ****
5. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel) ***1/2
6. The Trial (Welles) ***1/2
7. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) ***1/2
8. Sanjuro (Kurosawa) ***1/2
9. La jetée (Marker) ***1/2
10. Period of Adjustment (Hill) ***1/2
11. Carnival of Souls (Harvey) ***
12. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich) ***
13. Lolita (Kubrick) ***
14. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer) ***
15. The War Game (Zetterling) ***
16. Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage) ***
17. Mondo Cane (Cavara/Jacopetti/Prosperi) **
18. Jules and Jim (Truffaut) *1/2
19. Prelude: Dog Star Man (Brakhage) *

The Music Man (DaCosta)

1961

1. Viridiana (Bunuel) ****
2. The Hustler (Rossen) ****
3. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) ****
4. Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman) ***1/2
5. Yojimbo (Kurosawa) ***1/2
6. The Innocents (Clayton) ***1/2
7. The Forgotten Faces (Watkins) ***1/2
8. West Side Story (Robbins/Wise) ***
9. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda) ***
10. La Notte (Antonioni) ***
11. The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky) ***
12. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz) **1/2
13. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards) **1/2
14. The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (Freleng/Pratt) **
15. The Misfits (Huston) **
16. Cannery Woe (McKimson) **
17. A Woman is a Woman (Godard) *1/2

1960

1. The Virgin Spring (Bergman) ****
2. L'Avventura (Antonioni) ****
3. Peeping Tom (Powell) ****
4. Psycho (Hitchcock) ****
5. The Young One (Buñuel) ***1/2
6. La Dolce Vita (Fellini) ***1/2
7. The Apartment (Wilder) ***1/2
8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse) ***
9. Spartacus (Kubrick) ***
10. Eyes Without a Face (Franju) **1/2
11. Breathless (Godard) **1/2
12. The Little Shop of Horrors (Corman) *1/2

1959

1. The 400 Blows (Truffaut) ****
2. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai) ****
3. Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais) ****
4. Ben-Hur (Wyler) ***1/2
5. The World of Apu (Ray) ***1/2
6. North by Northwest (Hitchcock) ***1/2
7. Pickpocket (Bresson) ***
8. Some Like it Hot (Wilder) ***
9. Baton Bunny (Jones/Levitow) ***
10. The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (Watkins) **1/2
11. Floating Weeds (Ozu) **1/2
12. Nazarin (Bunuel) **1/2
13. The House on Haunted Hill (Castle) **1/2
14. Mexicali Schmoes (Freleng) **1/2
15. Here Today, Gone Tamale (Freleng) **
16. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood) *

The Shaggy Dog (Barton)

1958

1. The Music Room (S. Ray) ***1/2
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Geronimi/Kinney) ***1/2
3. The Fly (Neumann) ***1/2
4. Robin Hood Daffy (Jones) ***1/2
5. Touch of Evil (Welles) ***1/2
6. The Magician (Bergman) ***
7. The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) ***
8. Vertigo (Hitchcock) ***
9. Mon Oncle (Tati) ***
10. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Monicelli) ***
11. Brink of Life (Bergman) **1/2
12. Fiend Without a Face (Crabtree) **
13. The Blob (Yeaworth) **
14. Tortilla Flaps (McKimson) *1/2

1957

1. Wild Strawberries (Bergman) ****
2. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) ****
3. The Seventh Seal (Bergman) ****
4. What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) ****
5. 12 Angry Men (Lumet) ****
6. Paths of Glory (Kubrick) ****
7. The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozishvili) ****
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean) ***1/2
9. The Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) ***1/2
10. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) ***1/2
11. La Cravate (Jodorowsky) ***
12. Ali Baba Bunny (Jones) ***
13. Show Biz Bugs (Freleng) ***
14. Zero Hour! (Bartlett) ***
15. An Affair to Remember (McCarey) **1/2

Old Yeller (Stevenson)

1956

1. The Wrong Man (Hitchcock) ***1/2
2. Aparajito (S. Ray) ***1/2
3. A Man Escaped (Bresson) ***1/2
4. The Killing (Kubrick) ***
5. Crazed Fruit (Nakahira) ***
6. Baby Doll (Kazan) ***
7. The Red Balloon (Lamorisse) ***
8. Bob le flambeur (Melville) ***
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock) ***
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel) **1/2
11. Around the World in 80 Days (Anderson) **1/2
12. ... And God Created Woman (Vadim) **
13. Written on the Wind (Sirk) **
14. The Searchers (Ford) *1/2

Moby Dick (Huston)

1955

1. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton) ****
2. I Live in Fear (Kurosawa) ****
3. Diabolique (Clouzot) ****
4. Night and Fog (Resnais) ****
5. Richard III (Olivier) ****
6. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel) ***1/2
7. Rififi (Dassin) ***1/2
8. Pather Panchali (S. Ray) ***1/2
9. One Froggy Evening (Jones) ***1/2
10. To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock) ***
11. The Trouble With Harry (Hitchcock) ***
12. Knight-Mare Hare (Jones) ***
13. The Mad Masters (Rouch) ***
14. Rebel Without a Cause (N. Ray) **1/2
15. Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman) **1/2
16. Killer's Kiss (Kubrick) **

1954

1. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) ****
2. Animal Farm (Batchelor/Halas) ****
3. La Strada (Fellini) ***1/2
4. Wuthering Heights (Bunuel) ***1/2
5. Rear Window (Hitchcock) ***
6. Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock) ***
7. Godzilla (Honda) ***
8. Bewitched Bunny (Jones) ***
9. Johnny Guitar (N. Ray) **1/2
10. On the Waterfront (Kazan) **1/2
11. Them! (Douglas) **

1953

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu) ****
2. El (Bunuel) ****
3. Duck Amuck (Jones) ****
4. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi) ****
5. Summer With Monika (Bergman) ***1/2
6. Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman) ***1/2
7. The Brute (Bunuel) ***1/2
8. Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (Jones) ***1/2
9. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones) ***1/2
10. Shane (Stevens) ***1/2
11. Madame De ... (Ophuls) ***1/2
12. Southern Fried Rabbit (Freleng) ***
13. Peter Pan (Geronimi/Jackson/Luske) ***
14. The Tell-Tale Heart (Parmelee) ***
15. Bully for Bugs (Jones) ***
16. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Tati) **1/2
17. I Confess (Hitchcock) **1/2
18. House of Wax (De Toth) **1/2
19. From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann) **1/2
20. Kiss Me Kate (Sidney) **1/2
21. Stalag 17 (Wilder) **1/2
22. King Lear (McCullough) **
23. Beat the Devil (Huston) *1/2

1952

1. Ikiru (Kurosawa) ****
2. Umberto D (De Sica) ****
3. Rabbit Seasoning (Jones) ****
4. Water, Water Every Hare (Jones) ***1/2
5. Othello (Welles) ***1/2
6. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly) ***1/2
7. Forbidden Games (Clément) ***1/2
8. High Noon (Zinnemann) ***1/2
9. Mexican Busride (Buñuel) ***

1951

1. The Browning Version (Asquith) ***1/2
2. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock) ***1/2
3. Rabbit Fire (Jones) ***1/2
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise) ***
5. The Red Badge of Courage (Huston) ***
6. Bunny Hugged (Jones) ***
7. The African Queen (Huston) ***
8. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan) ***
9. Early to Bet (McKimson) **1/2
10. Susana (Bunuel) **1/2
11. Flying Padre (Kubrick) **

1950

1. Los Olvidados (Bunuel) ****
2. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) ****
3. All About Eve (Mankiewicz) ****
4. Orpheus (Cocteau) ***1/2
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa) ***1/2
6. Un chant d'amour (Genet) ***1/2
7. Gun Crazy (Lewis) ***
8. To Joy (Bergman) ***
9. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Jones) ***
10. The Asphalt Jungle (Huston) ***
11. D.O.A. (Mate) ***

1949

1. Stray Dog (Kurosawa) ****
2. The Devil's Wanton (Bergman) ***1/2
3. The Third Man (Reed) ***1/2
4. High Diving Hare (Freleng) ***1/2
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer) ***1/2
6. Long-Haired Hare (Jones) ***1/2
7. Fast and Furry-ous (Jones) ***
8. Rabbit Hood (Jones) ***
9. Puce Moment (Anger) **

1948

1. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica) ****
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) ****
3. Hamlet (Olivier) ***1/2
4. Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges) ***1/2
5. Bugs Bunny Rides Again (Freleng) ***
6. Rope (Hitchcock) ***
7. The Foghorn Leghorn (McKimson) ***
8. Red River (Hawks/Rosson) ***
9. Germany Year Zero (Rossellini) **1/2
10. They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer) **1/2

1947

1. Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger) ***1/2
2. Mickey and the Beanstalk (Luske) ***
3. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles) **1/2
4. Inki at the Circus (Jones) **

1946

1. Notorious (Hitchcock) ****
2. Great Expectations (Lean) ****
3. Peter and the Wolf (Geronimi) ****
4. My Darling Clementine (Ford) ****
5. Shoeshine (De Sica) ****
6. The Stranger (Welles) ***1/2
7. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) ***1/2
8. Hair-Raising Hare (Jones) ***1/2
9. Baseball Bugs (Freleng) ***1/2
10. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) ***
11. Crisis (Bergman) ***
12. A Night in Casablanca (Mayo) **1/2
13. The Big Sleep (Hawks) **

1945

1. Children of Paradise (Carne) ****
2. Brief Encounter (Lean) ***1/2
3. Fresh Airedale (Jones) ***1/2
4. Spellbound (Hitchcock) ***
5. Hare Conditioned (Jones) ***
6. Hare Tonic (Jones) ***
7. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Kurosawa) **1/2
8. Detour (Ulmer) **1/2

In the Aleutians (Jones)

1944

1. Lifeboat (Hitchcock) ***1/2
2. Henry V (Olivier) ***1/2
3. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (Eisenstein) ***1/2
4. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges) ***1/2
5. Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra) ***1/2
6. Double Indemnity (Wilder) ***
7. Laura (Preminger) ***
8. At Land (Deren) ***
9. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Freleng) ***
10. National Velvet (Brown) **1/2
11. Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (Jones) **1/2
12. The Uninvited (Allen) *1/2

1943

1. Hangmen Also Die (Lang) ****
2. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid) ****
3. Day of Wrath (Dreyer) ****
4. Porky Pig's Feat (Tashlin) ***1/2
5. Yankee Doodle Daffy (Freleng) ***
6. Tortoise Wins By a Hare (Clampett) ***
7. Super-Rabbit (Jones) ***
8. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger) ***
9. Wackiki Wabbit (Jones) ***
10. Le corbeau (Clouzot) **1/2
11. Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery) **1/2

1942

1. Casablanca (Curtiz) ****
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz) ***
3. Porky's Cafe (Jones) ***
4. Saboteur (Hitchcock) **1/2
5. Bambi (Hand) **1/2
6. Cat People (Tourneur) **1/2
7. Conrad the Sailor (Jones) **1/2

1941

1. The Lady Eve (Sturges) ****
2. Citizen Kane (Welles) ****
3. The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle) ***1/2
4. Tortoise Beats Hare (Avery) ***
5. Dumbo (Sharpsteen) ***
6. Wabbit Twouble (Clampett) ***
7. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges) **1/2
8. The Wolf Man (Waggner) **
9. The Maltese Falcon (Huston) **

1940

1. His Girl Friday (Hawks) ****
2. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) ****
3. Pinocchio (Luske/Sharpsteen) ***1/2
4. Rebecca (Hitchcock) ***1/2
5. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) ***
6. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor) ***
7. The Bank Dick (Cline) **1/2
8. The Great Dictator (Chaplin) **

1939

1. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming) ****
2. Wuthering Heights (Wyler) ****
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra) ***1/2
4. Gone With the Wind (Fleming) **1/2
5. The Rules of the Game (Renoir) **1/2
6. Stagecoach (Ford) **1/2

1938

1. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks) ***1/2
2. The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock) ***1/2
3. Porky in Wackyland (Clampett) ***1/2
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley) ***1/2
5. Brave Little Tailor (Gillett) ***
6. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein/Vasilyev) ***
7. The Night Watchman (Jones) **

1937

1. The Grand Illusion (Renoir) ****
2. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey) ***1/2
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Various) ***1/2
4. Pepe Le Moko (Duvivier) ***1/2
5. You Only Live Once (Lang) ***

1936

1. Sabotage (Hitchcock) ***1/2
2. Modern Times (Chaplin) ***
3. Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Fleischer) ***
4. Swing Time (Stevens) ***
5. I Love to Singa (Avery) **1/2
6. Things to Come (Menzies) *1/2

Reefer Madness (Gasnier)

1935

1. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale) ***1/2
2. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock) ***
3. A Night at the Opera (Wood) ***
4. Balloon Land (Iwerks) ***
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dieterle/Reinhardt) **1/2

Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
Komposition in Blau (Fischinger)

1934

1. Les Misérables (Bernard) ***1/2
2. The Thin Man (Van Dyke) ***1/2
3. It Happened One Night (Capra) ***1/2
4. L'Atalante (Vigo) **1/2

1933

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang) ****
2. Land Without Bread (Bunuel) ***1/2
3. The Invisible Man (Whale) ***
4. Duck Soup (McCarey) ***
5. Zero for Conduct (Vigo) ***
6. King Kong (Cooper/Schoedsack) **

1932

1. Vampyr (Dreyer) ****
2. The Blood of a Poet (Cocteau) ***1/2
3. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy) ***1/2
4. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch) ***
5. Scarface (Hawks/Rossen) ***
6. Freaks (Browning) **1/2
7. Island of Lost Souls (Kenton) **1/2
8. The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel/Schoedsack) **

1931

1. M (Lang) ****
2. Tabu (Murnau) ****
3. City Lights (Chaplin) ***1/2
4. Frankenstein (Whale) ***
5. Dracula (Browning) ***
6. The Public Enemy (Wellman) **1/2

The Threepenny Opera (Pabst)

Thursday, January 4, 2007

1930

1. L'age d'or (Bunuel) ***1/2
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone) ***1/2
3. City Girl (Murnau) ***
4. Swing You Sinners! (Fleischer) ***
5. Under the Roofs of Paris (Clair) **1/2
6. Juno and the Paycock (Hitchcock) **

1929

1. Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel) ****
2. Pandora's Box (Pabst) ***
3. The Man With the Movie Camera (Vertov) ***

1928

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) ****
2.
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein) ****
3. The Cameraman (Sedgwick) ***1/2
4. The Circus (Chaplin) ***1/2
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner) ***1/2

6. The Man Who Laughs (Leni) ***1/2

Steamboat Willie (Disney/Iwerks)

1927

1. Metropolis (Lang) ****
2. The General (Bruckman/Keaton) ****
3. Sunrise (Murnau) ****
4. College (Horne) ***1/2
5. The Unknown (Browning) ***
6. The Gaucho (Jones) ***

1926

1. Faust (Murnau) ***1/2
2. Battling Butler (Keaton) ***

1925

1. Seven Chances (Keaton) ****
2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin) ***1/2
3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) ***1/2
4. Go West (Keaton) ***
5. The Phantom of the Opera (Julian) **1/2

1924

1. The Last Laugh (Murnau) ****
2. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton) ****
3. The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh) ***1/2
4. The Navigator (Crisp/Keaton) ***
5. Greed (von Stroheim) ***
6. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Kuleshov) **1/2

1923

1. Safety Last! (Newmeyer/Taylor) ****
2. Our Hospitality (Blystone/Keaton) ***1/2
3. The Balloonatic (Cline/Keaton) ***1/2
4. The Love Nest (Cline/Keaton) ***
5. A Woman of Paris (Chaplin) ***
6. Three Ages (Keaton) **1/2

1922

1. Nosferatu (Murnau) ***1/2
2. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Christensen) ***
3. Cops (Cline/Keaton) ***
4. Daydreams (Cline/Keaton) ***

1921

1. The Goat (Keaton/St. Clair) ****
2. The Play House (Keaton) ***1/2
3. Hard Luck (Cline/Keaton) ***1/2
4. The High Sign (Cline/Keaton) ***
5. I Do (Roach) **1/2
6. The Three Musketeers (Niblo) **

1920

1. One Week (Cline/Keaton) ****
2. Neighbors (Cline/Keaton) ****

3. Convict 13 (Cline/Keaton) ***
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene) ***
5. An Eastern Westerner (Roach) ***

Pre-1920

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Lumiere/Lumiere, 1895)
Voyage to the Moon (Melies, 1902)
Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth/Stow, 1903)
The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903)
The Dancing Pig (1907)
The Golden Beetle (Chomon, 1907)
Richard III (Calmettes/Keane, 1912)
Gertie the Dinosaur (McCay, 1914)
The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)
Hypocrites (Weber, 1915)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Cabanne/Emerson, 1916)
Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)
Ask Father (Roach, 1919) ***