Ten Lists of Ten Films For Your Memorial Day Enjoyment

Au Revoir Les Enfants

My Ten Favorite French Films
1. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle
2. La Haine (1995) Kassovitz
3. Le Silence de la mer (1949) Melville
4. La vie de Boheme (1992) Kaurismäki
5. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Godard
6. Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Truffaut
7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Bunuel
8.  La Grande Illusion (1937) Renoir)
9. Port of Shadows (1938) Carne
10. Cold Water (1994) Assayas

My Ten Favorite Films That Feature Robert De Niro
1. Goodfellas (1990)  Scorsese
2. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese
3. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese
4. The Godfather: Part II (1974) Coppola
5. The King of Comedy (1982) Scorsese
6. Mean Streets (1973) Scorsese
7. The Deer Hunter (1978) Cimino
8. Jackie Brown (1997) Tarantino
9. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Russell
10. Heat (1995) Mann

My Ten Favorite Films By Female Directors
1. The Virgin Suicides (1999) S. Coppola
2. The Ascent (1977) Sheptiko
3. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Ramsay
4.  Wanda (1970) Loden
5.  Cleo fFrom 5 to 7 (1962) Varda
6.  Wings (1966) Shepitko
7.  Mustang (2015) Erguven
8.  Europa Europa (1990) Holland
9.  Wendy and Lucy (2008) Reichardt
10. Peppermint Soda (1977) Kurys

Heaven's Gate

My Ten Favorite Westerns
1. Heaven’s Gate (1980) Cimino
2. The Searchers (1956) Ford
3. Stagecoach (1939) Ford
4. The Wild Bunch (1969) Peckinpah
5. Red River (1948) Hawks
6. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Altman
7. My Darling Clementine (1946) Ford
8. Little Big Man (1970) Penn
9. The Big Trail (1930) Walsh
10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Hill


My Ten Favorite Bergman Films
1. Winter Light (1963) 
2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
3. Fanny And Alexander (1982)
4. Persona (1966)
5. Through A Glass Darkly (1961) 
6. Shame (1968) 
7. Silence (1963) 
8. Wild Strawberries (1957)
9. The Virgin Spring (1960) 
10. Cries & Whispers (1972)

The Ten Films I've Watched the Most*
1. It’s a Wonderful Life 1946) Capra
2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Godfrey
3. Manhattan (1979) Allen
4. Annie Hall (1977) Allen
5. The Great Escape (1963) J. Sturges
6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Capra
7. Duck Soup (1933) McCarey
8. Mean Girls (2004) Waters
9. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
10. Goodfellas (1990)  Scorsese
*This is merely a guess, I have no empirical data here.

My Ten Favorite Films Made in the 1920s
1. Sunrise (1927) Murnau
2. The Big Parade (1925) Vidor
3. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) Dreyer
4. The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
5. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Eisenstein
6. A Woman of Paris (1923) Chaplin
7. The Crowd (1928) Vidor
8. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Pabst
9. The Last Laugh (1924) Murnau
10. The Lodger (1927) Hitchcock

A  Clockwork Orange

My Ten Favorite Films Based on Novels I've Enjoyed
1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick
2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford
3. The Big Sleep (1946) Hawks
4. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Milestone
6. The Exorcist, (1973) Friedkin
7. Jaws (1975) Speilberg
8. The Maltese Falcon, (1941) Huston
9. Fight Club (1998) Finchner
10. The Long Goodbye (1973) Altman

Ten Excellent Films With Brilliant Performances By a Female Lead
1. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder -- Gloria Swanson
2. The Lady Eve (1941) Sturges -- Barbara Stanwyck
3. Shame (1968) Bergman -- Liv Ullman
4. Blue Jasmine (2013) Allen -- Cate Blanchett
5. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Cassavetes -- Gena Rowlands
6. Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini -- Giulietta Masina
7. Cabaret (1972) Fosse -- Liza Minelli
8. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni -- Monica Vitti
9. Stromboli (1950) Rossellini -- Ingrid Bergman
10. Winter’s Bone (2010) Granik -- Jennifer Lawrence

Ten Great Films with Cast Members From Casablanca
1. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Huston -- Humphrey Bogart
2. Viaggio in Italia (1954) Rossellini, -- Ingrid Bergman
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Capra -- Claude Rains
4. The Maltese Falcon (1941) Huston - Sydney Greenstreet
5. M (1931) Lang -- Peter Lorre
6. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Godfrey -- S.K.Sakall
7. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford --  John Qualen
8. The Talk of the Town (1942) Stevens -- Leonid Kinksey
9. La Grande Illusion (1937) Renoir -- Marcel Dalio
10. 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini -- Madeleine Lebeau