- Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock
- Touch of Evil Orson Welles
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die Douglas Sirk
- The Magician Ingmar Bergman
- The Tarnished Angels Douglas Sirk
- The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa
- Bitter Victory Nicholas Ray
- Gideon of Scotland Yard John Ford
- Bonjour Tristesse Otto Preminger
- The Lineup Don Siegel
The Ballad of Narayama -- Kinoshita, Du cote de la cote -- Varda,
Rally Round the Flag, Boys! -- McCarey, The Music Room -- Satyajit Ray
Films I Enjoyed
Wind Across the Everglades, Party Girl,
Cowboy, Man of the West,
The Naked and the Dead, Gunman's Walk,
Curse of the Demon, The Last Hurrah,
Gigi, Thunder Road,
The Vikings, God's Little Acre,
The Long, Hot Summer, Horror of Dracula,
Invention for Destruction
Below the Mendoza Line
Terror in a Texas Town, The Gun Runners.
The Left Handed Gun,
Bell, Book and Candle, The Fly,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Damn Yankees,
South Pacific, The Quiet American,
Auntie Mame, I Want to Live,
A Night to Remember,
The Missouri Traveler, Houseboat,
Run Silent, Run Deep. The Buccaneer,
The Brothers Karamazov, The Young Lions,
The Big Country, The Defiant Ones,
The Old Man and the Sea
"Vertigo" or "Touch Of Evil?" There can be only a single #1, and I'd give it to "Touch Of Evil." Sure, sure. Heston in brownface was a potential deal-breaker but the moral imperative the then liberal actor brought to the role was unquestionable. The rest of TOE resonated very powerfully with me. Plus… that unbroken take!
ReplyDeleteI could watch either again and again. Heston's casting doesn't bother me because the film wouldn't have been made without him. As Michel Mourlet put it, he is an axiom of the cinema.
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