Ten Lists of Ten Films For Your Labor Day Enjoyment

From Viridiana 

Regular readers of this blog (Cleopatra McPherson of Kittery, Maine and Lance Buttercup of Grass Valley, California) may recall that on Independence Day and Memorial Day I provided ten lists of ten films in various categories. Much to everyone's chagrin I have decided to make this a regular holiday feature. Therefore you can look for the fourth installment of this series on Indigenous People's Day. Meanwhile, please enjoy today's lists -- or not, entirely up to you.

My Ten Favorite Films Directed by Luis Buñuel
1. Viridiana (1961)
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972)
3. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
4. Simon of the Desert (1965)
5. Exterminating Angel (1962)
6. The Young One (1960)
7. Death in the Garden (1956)
8. The Milky Way (1969)
9. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
10. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

My Ten Favorite Films of the 1980s
1. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle
2. Heaven’s Gate (1980) Cimino
3. Fanny and Alexander (1982) Bergman
4. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Allen
6. Down By Law (1986) Jarmusch 
7. Radio Days (1987) Allen
8. Do The Right Thing (1989) Lee
9. Local Hero (1983) Forsyth
10. Shadows in Paradise (1986) Kaurismäki


My Ten Favorite Films Starring Cary Grant
1. His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks
2. Holiday (1938) Cukor
3. The Talk of the Town (1942) Stevens
4. Notorious (1946) Hitchcock
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940) Cukor
6. Bringing Up Baby (1938) Hawks
7. The Awful Truth (1937) McCarey
8. Mr. Lucky (1943) Potter
9. North by Northwest (1959) Hitchcock
10. Suspicion (1941) Hitchcock

From The Philadelphia Story

My Ten Favorite Films That Have Won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Hall
3. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
4. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Huston
5. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Lean
6. The Godfather (1972) Coppola
7. The Godfather Part 2 (1974) Coppola
8. All the President’s Men (1976) Pakula
9. Schindler’s List (1993) Spielberg
10. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens

My Ten Favorite Films With Only a Person’s Name in the Title
1. Tess (1979) Polanski
2. Andrei Rublev (1966) Tarkovsky 
3. Annie Hall (1977) Allen
4. Ariel (1988) Kaurismäki
5. Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick
6. Hamlet (1948) Olivier
7. Spartacus (1960) Kubrick
8. Macbeth (1971) Polanski
9. Jackie Brown (1997) Tarantino
10. Wanda (1970 Loden

My Ten Favorite Films Set during WWII
1. Au revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle
2. Rome, Open City (1945) Rossellini
3. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Tarantino
5. The Burmese Harp (1956) Ichikawa
6. Le Silence de la mer (1949) Melville
7. The Great Escape (1963) J, Sturges
8.  Come and See (1985) Klimov
9.  Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Lean
10. The Ascent (1977) Shepitko


Ten Great Films with Great Opening Scenes
1. Manhattan (1979) Allen
2. Apocalypse Now (1979) Coppola
3. Goodfellas (1990) Scorsese 
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick
5. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder
6. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford
7. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray
8. The Searchers (1956) Ford
9. The Mirror (1975) Tarkovsky
10. The Letter (1940) Wyler

The Big Parade

My Ten Favorite Movies That Aren’t in My Top 100
1. The Big Parade (1925) Vidor
2. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) P. Sturges
3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Kazan
4. The Aviator (2004) Scorsese
5. Meet John Doe (1941) Capra
6. A Separation (2011) Farhadi
7. The Maltese Falcon (1941) Huston
8. Come and See (1985) Klimov
9. Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa
10. Mean Girls (2004) Waters





Ten Great Movies Set in Ten Different States
1. Manhattan (1979) Allen -- New York
2. Chinatown (1974) Polanski -- California
3. Heaven’s Gate (1980) Cimino -- Wyoming
4. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens -- Texas
5. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan -- New Jersey
6. Down By Law (1986) Jarmusch -- Louisiana
7. Nashville (1975) Altman -- Tennessee
8. Groundhog Day (1993) Ramis -- Pennsylvania
9. Mean Girls (2004) Waters -- Illinois
10. The Verdict (1982) Lumet -- Massachusetts


My Ten Favorite Films Featuring a Newspaper Reporter
1. His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks
2. Five Star Final (1931) LeRoy
3. The Parallax View (1974) Pakula
4. Foreign Correspondent (1940) Hitchcock
5. All the President’s Men (1976) Pakula
6. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) Weir
7. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick
8. Zodiac (2007) Fincher
9. Meet John Doe (1940) Capra
10. Platinum Blonde (1931) Capra