Ten Lists of Ten Films For Your Veteran's Day Enjoyment

Dead Man

Regular readers of this blog (Judas Longshanks of  Cut Bank, Montana) may recall that last  Memorial Day  I provided ten lists of ten films in various categories. Much to everyone's chagrin this has become regular holiday feature. Subsequent installments appeared on this site on Independence Day, Labor Day and Indigenous Peoples Day. A sixth installment will be posted on Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, please enjoy my Veteran's Day list -- or not, entirely up to you.

My Favorite Films With the Word Man in the Title

1. Dead Man (1995) Jarmusch

2. The Third Man (1949) Reed

3. My Man Godfrey (1936) La Cava

4. Odd Man Out (1947) Reed

5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Huston

6. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) Coens

7. The Man Without a Past (2002) Kaurismäki

8. A Serious Man (2009) Coens

9. Marathon Man (1976) Schlesinger 

10. The Thin Man (1934) Van Dyke 

My Ten Favorite Films Directed by The Coen Brothers

1. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

2. No Country For Old Men (2007) 

3. The Big Lebowski (1998)

4. A Serious Man (2009)

5. O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) 

6. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

7. Fargo (1996) 

8. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

9. True Grit (2010)

10. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Jean Harlow Films

1. Red Dust (1932) Fleming

2. Bombshell (1933) Fleming

3. Libeled Lady (1936) Conway

4. Platinum Blonde (1931) Capra

5. The Public Enemy (1931) Wellman

6. Hell’s Angels (1930) Hughes

7. Dinner at Eight (1933) Cukor

8. Reckless (1935) Fleming

9. Red-Headed Woman (1932) Conway

10. China Seas (1935) Garnett

Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach

My Favorite Films Featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Winner

1.  Stagecoach (1939) Ford -- Thomas Mitchell 

2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) J. Huston -- Walter Huston 

3. The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich -- Ben Johnson

4. Cabaret (1972) Fosse -- Joel Grey

5. Godfather Part 2 (1974) Coppola -- Robert DeNiro

6. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Allen -- Michael Caine

7. Goodfellas (1990) Scorsese -- Joe Pesci

8.  No Country for Old Men (2007) Coens -- Javier Barden

9. Inglorious Basterds (2009) Tarantino -- Christoph Waltz 

10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino -- Brad Pitt

My Ten Favorite Pre-Code Films

1. Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Wellman

2. Heroes for Sale (1933) Wellman

3. The Public Enemy (1931) Wellman

4. The Thin Man (1934) Van Dyke

5. Blonde Crazy (1931) Del Ruth

6. Baby Face (1933) Green

7. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) LeRoy

8. Red Dust (1932) Fleming

9. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Milestone

10. Trouble in Paradise (1932) Lubitsch

Ten Films I’ve Loved Since Before I Turned Twenty

1. The Great Escape (1963) J. Sturges

2. A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Lester

3. The Strawberry Statement (1970) Hagman

4. If… (1968) Anderson

5. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick

6. 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968) Kubrick

7. Bananas (1971) Allen

8. Bonnie & Clyde (1967) Penn

9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Hill

10. Harold and Maude (1971) Ashby

My Ten Favorite LGBTQ Positive Films

1. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant

2. Carol (2015) Haynes

3. Call Me By Your Name (2017) Guadagnino

4. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)  Ficarra, Requa

5. Milk (2008) Van Sant

6. Philadelphia (1993) Demme

7. Brokeback Mountain (2005) A. Lee

8. Tangerine (2015) Baker

9. A Single Man (2009) Ford

10. Moonlight (2016) Jenkins

The Stalker

My Favorite Russian Films

1.  Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky

2. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Eisenstein

3. Andrei Rublev (1966) Tarkovsky 

4. Come and See (1985) Klimov

5. Letters Never Sent (1960) Kalatozov

6. The Ascent (1977) Shepitko

7. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Kalatozov

8. The Mirror (1975) Tarkovsky

9. War and Peace (1966) Bondarchuk

10. Wings (1966) Shepitko

My Favorite Films Set in High Schools

1. Mean Girls (2004) Waters

2. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray

3. Rushmore (1998) W. Anderson

4.The Virgin Suicides (1999) S. Coppola

5. Superbad (2007) Mottola

6. Pleasantville (1998) Ross

7. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Hess

8. Elephant (2003) Van Sant

9. Election (1999) Payne

10. Ferris Buller’s Day Off (1986) Hughes

Ten Great Films Set in Ten Different European Cities

1. Cabaret (1972) Fosse - Berlin, Germany 

2. Rome, Open City (1945) Rossellini - Rome, Italy

3. The Third Man (1949) Reed - Vienna, Austria

4. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen — Paris, France

5. Match Point (2005) Allen —London, UK

6. The  Match Factory Girl (1990) Kaurismäki — Helsinki, Finland

7. Le Havre (2011) Kaurismäki — Le Havre, France

8. The Commitments (1991) Parker — Dublin, Ireland

9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1998) Kaufman — Prague, Czechia

10. Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Visconti — Milan, Italy