My Top Ten (till 1949)

Submitted by WB on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 01:30
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  • 1949

  • Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin / USA)
  • Orphée "Orpheus" (Jean Cocteau / France)
  • I shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller / USA)
  • The Third Man (Carol Reed / UK)

  • 1948

  • Xiao cheng zhi chun "Spring in a small Town" (Mu Fei / China)
  • Ladri di biciclette "Bicycle Thieves" (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)
  • Rope (Alfred Hitchcock / USA)

  • 1947

  • Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / UK)

  • 1946

  • 1945

  • Les enfants du paradis "Children of Paradise" (Marcel Carne / France)
  • Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne “The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne“ (Robert Bresson / France)
  • A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren / USA)

  • 1944

  • Laura (Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited) / USA)

  • 1943

  • Vredens dag "Day of Wrath" (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Denmark)
  • Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder / USA)
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid / USA)
  • Lassie Come Home (Fred M. Wilcox / USA)
  • Above Suspicion (Richard Thorpe / USA)
  • Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch / USA)
  • Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang / USA)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock / USA)
  • The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks / USA)

  • 1942

  • Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper / USA)
  • Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock / USA)
  • La nuit fantastique "Fantastic Night" (Marcel L'Herbier / France)
  • Cat People (Jacques Tourneur / USA)
  • Billion Dollar Limited (Dave Fleischer / USA)
  • Native Land (Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand / USA)

  • 1941

  • Superman (Dave Fleischer / USA)
  • The Wolf Man (George Waggner / USA)
  • Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen / USA)

  • 1940

  • The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan / UK, USA)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford / USA)
  • They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh / USA)
  • The Letter (William Wyler / USA)

  • 1939

  • The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming / USA)
  • Stagecoach (John Ford / USA)

  • 1938

  • Detstvo Gorkogo "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky" (Mark Donskoy / Soviet Union)
  • La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir / France)
  • La bête humaine “The Human Beast“ (Jean Renoir / France)
  • Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carne / France)

  • 1937

  • Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman / USA)
  • Ninjo kami fusen "Humanity and Paper Balloons" (Sadao Yamanaka / Japan)
  • Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier / France)
  • Les perles de la couronne “Perles of the crown“ (Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jaque / France)

  • 1936

  • Sant Tukaram "Saint Tukaram" (Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal / India)
  • Three Blind Mousketeers (David Hand / USA)
  • Suzy (George Fitzmaurice / USA)
  • Thru The Mirror (David Hand / USA)
  • Three Little Wolves (David Hand / USA)
  • Fetiche en voyage de noces (Wladyslaw Starewicz, Irene Starewicz / France)
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer / USA)

  • 1935

  • The Robber Kitten (David Hand / USA) **1/2 / **** 1.14.06

  • 1934

  • Ukigusa Monogatari "A Story of Floating Weeds" (Yasujiro Ozu / Japan) [79] 3.17.06
  • The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg / USA) **1/2 / **** 1.10.06
  • L'atalante (Jean Vigo / France) **1/2 / **** 10.22.05
  • The Big Bad Wolf (Burt Gillett / USA) **1/2 / **** 1.14.06
  • Fétiche "The Mascot" (Wladyslaw Starewicz / France) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • The Grasshopper and the Ants (Wilfred Jackson / USA) **1/2 / **** 1.14.06
  • The Flying Mouse (David Hand / USA) **1/4 / **** 1.14.06
  • Dames (Ray Enright / USA) ** / **** 5.06.05

  • 1933

  • 1. Ganga Bruta (Humberto Mauro / Brazil)
  • 2. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack / USA)
  • 3. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch / USA)
  • 4. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian / USA)
  • 5. Dezertir "Deserter" (Vsevolod Pudovkin / Soviet Union)
  • 6. Zéro de conduite “Zero for Conduct“ (Jean Vigo / France)
  • 7. Three Little Pigs (Burt Gillett / USA)
  • 8. Las Hurdes "Land Without Bread" (Luis Bunuel / Spain)
  • 9. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor / USA)
  • 10. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" (Fritz Lang / Germany)

  • 1932

  • 1. Boudu sauvé des eaux "Boudu Saved from Drowning" (Jean Renoir / France)
  • 2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy / USA)
  • 3. Freaks (Tod Browning / USA)
  • 4. Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke / USA)
  • 5. Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (Slatan Dudow / Germany)
  • 6. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding / USA)
  • 7. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg / USA)
  • 8. Red Dust (Victor Fleming / USA)
  • 9. The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor / USA)
  • 10. The Mummy (Karl Freund / USA)

  • 1931

  • 1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin / USA)
  • 2. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Germany, France)
  • 3. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg / USA)
  • 4. Le million "The Million" (René Clair / France)
  • 5. À nous la liberté “Liberty for Us“ (René Clair / France)
  • 6. Kameradschaft "Comradeship" (Georg Wilhelm Pabst / Germany, France)
  • 7. Frankenstein (James Whale / USA)
  • 8. Die 3 Groschen-Oper “The Threepenny Opera“ (Georg Wilhelm Pabst / Germany)
  • 9. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy / USA)
  • 10. The Front Page (Lewis Milestone / USA)

  • 1930

  • 1. L'âge d'or "The Golden Age" (Luis Buñuel / France)
  • Sous les toits de Paris "Under the Roofs of Paris" (René Clair / France)
  • Le roman de Renard "The Tale of the Fox" (Wladyslaw Starewicz, Irene Starewicz / France)
  • Zemlya "Earth" (Alexandr Dovzhenko / Soviet Union)
  • Le sang d'un poète "The Blood of a Poet" (Jean Cocteau / France)
  • Der Blaue Engel (Josef von Sternberg / Germany)
  • À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo / France)

  • 1929

  • Blackmail [sound version] (Alfred Hitchcock / UK) ***1/2 / **** 1.31.05
  • Blackmail [silent version, piano soundtrack by Joachim Bärenz] (Alfred Hitchcock / UK) ***1/4 / **** 1.31.05
  • Asphalt (Joe May / Germany) [56] 4.07.06
  • Matchmaking Mamma (Harry Edwards / USA) [51] 3.23.06

  • 1928

  • Un chien andalou "An Andalusian Dog" (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí / France) [100] 3.18.06
  • Arsenal (Alexandr Dovzhenko / Soviet Union, Ukraine) **3/4 / **** 12.15.05
  • Potomok Chingis-Khana "Storm over Asia" [live music composed by Bernd Schultheis, performed by Ensemble Kontraste / wrong aspect ratio] (Vsevolod Pudovkin / Soviet Union) [65] 8/10 1.25.08
  • Sadie Thompson [score by Joseph Turrin] (Raoul Walsh / USA) ** / **** 1.16.06
  • Zvenigora [live music by Eunice Martins] (Aleksandr Dovzhenko / Soviet Union) [49] 1.25.06
  • Campus Vamp (Harry Edwards / USA) [48] 3.23.06

  • 1927

  • The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone / USA) [74] 1.22.06
  • The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock / UK) [68] 1.28.06
  • Amour noir et amour blanc "Love in Black and White" (Wladyslaw Starewicz / France) **3/4 / **** 12.14.05
  • Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness [live music by Hildegard Pohl and Yogo Pausch / wrong aspect ratio] (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack / USA) [59] 7/10 1.26.08

  • 1926

  • Le rat de ville et le rat des champs "The Town Rat and the Country Rat" (Wladyslaw Starewicz / France) **3/4 / **** 12.11.05
  • The Great K & A Train Robbery [original score by William Perry] (Lewis Seiler / USA) **1/2 / **** 12.08.05
  • Battling Butler (Buster Keaton / USA) **1/2 / **** 11.21.05
  • The Son of the Sheik [live organ score] (George Fitzmaurice / USA) **1/4 / **** 5.29.05
  • The Black Pirate [original score, conducted by Robert Israel] (Albert Parker / USA) ** / **** 12.03.05

  • 1925

  • Cobra [soundtrack by Rodney Sauer, Susan Hall] (Joseph Henabery / USA) *** / **** 6.05.05
  • Go West (Buster Keaton / USA) [65] 4.06.06
  • Paris qui dort "The Crazy Ray" [edited 35min. version / musical score by Jean Wiener] (René Clair / France) **1/2 / **** 7.20.05
  • Sally of the Sawdust (David Wark Griffith / USA) *1/2 / **** 10.18.05

  • 1924

  • The Iron Horse (John Ford / USA) **3/4 / **** 7.15.05

  • 1923

  • Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone / USA) ***1/2 / **** 10.23.05
  • Felix in Fairyland (Otto Mesmer / USA) [64] 3.24.06

  • 1922

  • Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty / USA, France) *** / **** 7.12.05
  • Puss in Boots (Walt Disney / USA) [65] 4.04.06
  • La souriante Madame Beudet "The smiling Madame Beudet" (Germaine Dulac / France) **1/2 / **** 10.20.05

  • 1921

  • Be my Wife [fragment: 13 min.] (Max Linder / USA) ***1/4 / **** 1.12.06
  • Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder / USA) **3/4 / **** 1.12.06
  • Tol'able David (Henry King / USA) **3/4 / **** 5.27.05
  • Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (Winsor McCoy / USA) [64] 1.18.06
  • Rhythmus 21 "Rhythm 21" (Hans Richter / Germany) [63] 3.24.06
  • Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (Winsor McCoy / USA) [62] 1.18.06
  • The Paleface (Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline / USA) [60] 4.05.06
  • Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (Winsor McCoy / USA) [58] 1.18.06

  • 1920

  • Way Down East [color-tinted] (David Wark Griffith / USA) [72] 4.01.06
  • The Scarecrow (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton / USA) [63] 4.05.06
  • The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo / USA) **1/2 / **** 10.11.05
  • Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch / Germany) **1/4 / **** 3.10.05
  • Nomads of the North (David M. Hartford / USA) [54] 6/10 1.30.08

  • 1919

  • Die Austernprinzessin "The Oyster Princess" (Ernst Lubitsch / Germany) **1/4 / **** 7.14.05

  • 1918

  • Out of the Inkwell (Dave Fleischer / USA) [61] 3.25.06
  • The Whispering Chorus (Cecil B. DeMille / USA) * / **** 10.21.05
  • The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay / USA) 3/4* / **** 1.18.06

  • 1917

  • 1916

  • 1. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (David Wark Griffith / USA) ***3/4 / **** November 2004
  • The Count (Charles Chaplin / USA) ***1/4 / **** 3.28.05
  • The Vagabond (Charles Chaplin / USA) *** / **** 3.29.05
  • Behind The Screen (Charles Chaplin / USA) **1/2 / **** 3.29.05
  • Civilization (Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, Walter Edwards (uncredited), David Hartford (uncredited), Jay Hunt (uncredited), J. Parker Read Jr. (uncredited) / USA) **1/2 / **** 12.08.05
  • The Fireman (Charles Chaplin / USA) **1/4 / **** 3.29.05

  • 1915

  • Liliya Belgii “The Lily of Belgium“ (Wladyslaw Starewicz / Russia) **3/4 / **** 6.04.05
  • Young Romance (George Melford / USA) **1/2 / **** 10.25.05
  • Regeneration (Raoul Walsh / USA) **1/4 / **** 10.24.05
  • Gryozy "Daydreams" [english intertitles] (Yevgeni Bauer / Russia) [53] 2.05.06
  • Tysiacha vtoraia khitrost "The 1002nd Ruse" [english intertitles] (Yevgeni Bauer / Russia) [45] 2.01.06

  • 1914

  • Gertie (Winsor McCay / USA) **1/2 / **** 1.16.06
  • Max decore "Max sets the Style" (Max Linder / France) **1/4 / **** 1.11.06
  • Ditya bolshogo goroda "Child of the Big City" [english intertitles] (Yevgeni Bauer / Russia)[52] 2.01.06

  • 1913

  • The mothering Heart (David Wark Griffith / USA) **1/2 / **** 7.09.05
  • Strekoza i muravey “The Dragonfly and the Ant” (Wladyslaw Starewicz / Russia) **1/2 / **** 6.04.05
  • Le hasard et l'amour "Love's Surprises" (Max Linder / France) **1/2 / **** 1.11.06
  • Max fait de la photo "Max takes a Picture" (Lucien Nonguet / France) **1/4 / **** 1.11.06
  • Noch pered Rozhdestvom “Christmas Eve“ (Wladyslaw Starewicz / Russia) *3/4 / **** 6.04.05

  • 1912

  • The New York Hat (David Wark Griffith / USA) **1/2 / **** 6.20.05
  • An unseen Enemy (David Wark Griffith / USA) **1/4 / **** 7.09.05
  • Max reprend sa liberte "Troubles of a Grasswidower" (Max Linder / France) **1/4 / **** 1.11.06
  • How a mosquito operates (Winsor McCay / USA) **1/4 / **** 1.16.06

  • 1911

  • Little Nemo (Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton / USA) **3/4 / **** 1.16.06
  • Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora "The Cameraman's Revenge" [english intertitles] (Wladyslaw Starewicz / Russia) **1/4 / **** 12.10.05
  • His Trust (David Wark Griffith / USA) **1/4 / **** 6.20.05

  • 1910

  • The unchanging Sea (David Wark Griffith / USA) **3/4 / **** 6.19.05

  • 1909

  • A Corner in Wheat (David Wark Griffith / USA) **3/4 / **** 6.19.05
  • Those awful Hats (David Wark Griffith / USA) **1/2 / **** 6.19.05
  • The sealed Room (David Wark Griffith / USA) *3/4 / **** 6.19.05

  • 1908

  • 1907

  • 1906

  • The '?' Motorist (Walter R. Booth / UK) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05

  • 1905

  • 1904

  • Buy your own Cherries (Robert W. Paul / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • An Interesting Story (James Williamson / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05

  • 1903

  • Daring Daylight Burglary (Frank S. Mottershaw / UK) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • A Desperate Poaching Affray (Walter Haggard / UK) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • A chess dispute (Robert W. Paul / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • An extraordinary cab accident (Robert W. Paul / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Mary Jane's Mishap, or don't fool with the Paraffin (George Albert Smith / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Sick Kitten (George Albert Smith / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05

  • 1902

  • 1901

  • The Big Swallow (James Williamson / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Stop Thief! (James Williamson / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05
  • Fire! (James Williamson / UK) *3/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • The Countryman and the Cinematograph [fragment] (Robert W. Paul / UK) *3/4 / **** 7.22.05

  • 1900

  • Attack on a China Mission (James Williamson / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Grandma's Reading Glass (George Albert Smith / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Let me dream again (George Albert Smith / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Rough Sea (James Bamforth / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05
  • As seen through a Telescope (George Albert Smith / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05
  • Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence (1900 / UK / James Bamforth) ** / **** 7.22.05

  • 1899

  • The Kiss in the Tunnel (James Bamforth / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • The Kiss in the Tunnel (George Albert Smith / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05

  • 1898

  • The Miller and the Sweep (George Albert Smith / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05
  • Come along do! [fragment] (Robert W. Paul, James Williamson / UK) *3/4 / **** 7.22.05

  • 1897

  • Course de taureaux (Louis Lumière / France) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • The Biter Bit (James Bamforth / UK) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • Niagara, les chutes "Niagara" (Alexandre Promio / France) ** / **** 7.22.05

  • 1896

  • Bataille de boules de neige "Snowball Fight" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • Démolition d'un mur "Demolition of a Wall" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/2 / **** 7.20.05

  • 1895

  • La sortie des usines Lumière "Leaving the Lumiere Factory" (Louis Lumiere / France) **3/4 / **** 7.20.05
  • Barque sortant du port (Louis Lumière / France) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer "Leaving Jerusalem by Railway" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/2 / **** 7.22.05
  • Repas de bébé "Baby's Meal" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/2 / **** 7.20.05ž
  • Partie d'écarte "Card Game" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/4 / **** 7.22.05
  • L'arroseur arrosé "The Sprayer Sprayed" (Louis Lumière / France) **1/4 / **** 7.20.05
  • The Derby (Birt Acres / UK) ** / ****
  • L'arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" (Louis Lumière / France) ** / **** 7.20.05
  • Rough Sea at Dover (Birt Acres, Robert W. Paul / UK) ** / **** 7.22.05
  • Neuville-sur-Saône: Debarquement du congrès de photographes à Lyon "The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon" (Louis Lumière / France) ** / **** 7.20.05
  • Sortie de la pompe (Lyon) (Louis Lumière / France) ** / **** 7.22.05