Ten Lists of Ten Films For Your Independence Day Enjoyment

Robert Altman's Nashville.

Regular readers of this blog (Mary and Thaddeus Hockenlooper of Winnemucca, Nevada) may recall that on Memorial Day I provided ten lists of ten films in ten different categories. It included my ten favorite French films, ten favorite films from the 1920s etc. Much to everyone's confusion I have decided to make this a regular holiday feature. Therefore you can look for the third installment of this series on Labor Day. Meanwhile, please enjoy today's lists -- or not, entirely up to you.

My Ten Favorite Films Directed by Robert Altman
1. Nashville (1975)
2. California Split (1974)
3. McCabe and Mrs.Miller (1971)
4. Gosford Park (2001)
5. The Long Goodbye (1973)
6. MASH (1970)
7. 3 Women (1977)
8. Short Cuts (1993)
9. A Wedding (1978)
10. Brewster McCloud (1970)

My Ten Favorite Films With Cities As Or In Their Title 
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Capra
2. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
3. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
4. Rome, Open City (1945) Rossellini
5. The Shanghai Express (1932) von Sternberg
6. The Philadelphia Story (1940) Cukor
7. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Allen
8. Paris, Texas (1984) Wenders
9. Fargo (1996) Coens
10. Gangs of New York (2002) Scorsese

My Ten Favorite Italian Films
1. La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini
2. Amarcord (1973) Fellini
3. Rome, Open City (1945) Rossellini
4. L’Eclisse (1962) Antonioni 
5. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Petri
6. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni 
7. Umberto D (1952) De Sica
8. The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini
9. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Rossellini
10. The Organizer (1963) Monicelli

The Seventh Seal

My Ten Favorite Films from the 1950s
1. The Seventh Seal (1957) Bergman
2. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder
3. Umberto D (1952) De Sica
4. The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini
5. The Searchers (1956) Ford
6. The Burmese Harp (1956) Ichikawa
7. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan
8. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock
9. Rashomon (1950) Kurosawa
10. The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick


My Ten Favorite Bette Davis Films
1. The Letter (1940) Wyler
2. Jezebel (1938) Wyler
3. All About Eve (1950) Mankiewicz
4. Petrified Forest (1936) Mayo
5. Now Voyager(1942) Rapper
6. Little Foxes (1941) Wyler
7. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) Curtiz
8. The Man Who Come to Dinner (1942) Keighley
9. Front Page Woman (1935) Curtiz
10. Watch on the Rhine (1943) Shumlin

Ten Favorite Films With An Important Scene or Scenes on a Train
1. Europa (1991) von Trier
2. The 39 Steps (1935) Hitchcock
3. The Iron Horse (1924 Ford
4. The Last Detail (1973) Ashby
5. The General (1926) Keaton
6. The Train (1964) Frankenheimer
7. The Wild Bunch (1969) Peckinpah
8.  Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Hitchcock
9. Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Wellman
10. Some Like it Hot (1959) Wilder

Ten Favorite Films that Won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
1. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
2. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder
3. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan
4. Chinatown (1974) Polanski
5. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet
6. Network (1976) Lumet
7. Annie Hall (1977) Allen
8. Pulp Fiction (1994) Tarantino
9. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
10. Birdman (2014) Inarritu

Harold and Maude

Ten Favorite Films Filmed in the SF Bay Area
1. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock
2. Harold and Maude (1971) Ashby
3. The Conversation (1974) Coppala
4. Play it Again, Sam (1972) Ross
5. Blue Jasmine (2013) Allen
6. Bullitt (1968) Yates
7. Zodiac (2007) Fincher
8. What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Bogdanovich
9. Blindspotting (2018) Estrada
10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) Talbot


Ten Great Films that Featured Actors Who Starred in a Sit Com
1. The Godfather (1972 Coppola Abe Vigoda -- Barney Miller
2. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray Jim Backus -- Gilligan's Island
3. The Wild Bunch (1969) Peckinpah Ernest Borgnine -- McHale's Navy
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Allen Alan Alda -- M*A*S*H
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Leonardo Di Caprio -- Growing Pains
6. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Capra Donna Reed -- The Donna Reed Show
7. The Big Lebowski(1998) Coens  John Goodman -- Roseanne
8. Pulp Fiction (1994) Tarantino John Travolta -- Welcome Back, Kotter
9. The Conversation (1974) Coppala Cindy Williams -- Laverne & Shirley
10. Blue Jasmine (2013) Allen Alec Baldwin -- 30 Rock

Ten Great Films With a Key Scene or Scenes in the Snow
1. Winter Light (1963) Bergman
2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Godfrey
3. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Capra
4. The Shining (1980) Kubrick
5. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Altman
6. The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
7. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
8. Reds (1981) Beatty
9. Groundhog Day (1993) Ramis
10. The Ascent (1977) Shepitko