Dan Sallitt
Freelance critic, filmmaker
USA
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| Rio Bravo | 1958 | Howard Hawks |
| Angel | 1937 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks |
| Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| To Have and Have Not | 1945 | Howard Hawks |
| Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford |
| La Maman et la Putain | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
| The General | 1926 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
| Daisy Kenyon | 1947 | Otto Preminger |
Comments
Morocco
1930 USA
The talkies peaked very early!
To Have and Have Not
1945 USA
On November 10, 1972, I walked into this film a dilettante, and walked out a crazed cinephile.
Fort Apache
1948 USA
Secretly this was always my favorite Ford.
Further remarks
I decided to throw out the one-film-per-director unwritten rule this time. The results are a bit embarrassing, and push me deeper into the embrace of the classic American cinema, which comprises only a small portion of my filmgoing in recent decades. I made a simultaneous 15-best list for Craig Keller, and the last five films were Safe (Haynes), The Searchers (Ford), Ma nuit chez Maud (Rohmer), Journal d'un curé de campagne (Bresson), and Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey).