Ten Lists of Ten For Your Thanksgiving Enjoyment

Winter Light

Regular readers of this blog (Amadeus Picklepuss of Fitchburg, Massachusetts) 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 have appeared on this site on Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples Day and most recently on Veteran's Day. A seventh installment will be posted on Boxing Day (we are closed on Christmas Day).  Meanwhile, please enjoy my Thanksgiving Day list -- or not, entirely up to you.

My Ten Favorite Films From the 1960s

1. Winter Light (1963) Bergman
2. La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini
3. L’Eclisse(1962) Antonioni
4. Andrei Rublev (1966) Tarkovsky
5. Through A Glass Darkly (1961) Bergman
6. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni
7. Shame (1968) Bergman
8. If… (1968) Anderson
9. Persona (1966) Bergman
10. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Godard

My Ten Favorite Movies Starring Jimmy Stewart

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Capra
2. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Capra
3. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock
4. The Philadelphia Story (1940) Cukor
5. Rear Window (1954) Hitchcock
6. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Lubitsch
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Ford
8. Destry Rides Again (1939) Marshall
9. The Naked Spur (1953) Mann
10. The Mortal Storm (1940) Borzage

My Ten Favorite Films Directed By Woody Allen

1. Manhattan (1979)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. Match Point (2005)
4. Midnight in Paris (2011)
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
6. Radio Days (1987)
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
8. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
9. Zelig (1983)
10. Bananas (1971)

My Ten Favorite Christmas Movies

1. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Capra

2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Godfrey

3. Home Alone (1990) Columbus

4  Elf (2003) Favreau

5. Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943) Sturges

6. Rare Exports (2010) Helander

7. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Seaton

8. A Christmas Carol (1951) Hurst

9. The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Koster

10.The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Lubitsch

My Ten Favorite Films that Won the Oscar for Best Editing

1. From Here to Eternity (1953) Zinneman
2. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Lean
3. Bullitt (1968) Yates
4. Cabaret (1972) Fosse
5. Jaws (1975) Spielberg
6. The Deer Hunter (1978) Cimino
7. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Spielberg
9. JFK (1991) Stone
10. The Aviator (2004) Scorsese

My Ten Favorite Movies With a Color in the Title

1. Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Allen
2. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) Ford
3. Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) Kechiche
4. White Heat (1949) Walsh
5. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick
6. The Scarlett Empress (1934) von Sternberg
7. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni
8. The Pink Panther (1963) Edwards
9. Jackie Brown (1997) Tarantino
10. BlackkKlansman (2018) S. Lee

Ten More Films I Wish I Could Squeeze Into My Top 100

1. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant
2. 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini
3. Nashville (1975) Altman
4. Do The Right Thing (1989) S. Lee
5. Viridiana (1961) Bunuel
6. The Wild Bunch (1969) Peckinpah
7. Animal House (1978) Landis
8. Personal Shopper (2016) Assayas
9. The Verdict (1982) Lumet
10. Silence (1963) Bergman

L'Avventura

Ten Movies I Love that I Didn’t Like the First Time I Saw Them

1. L’Eclisse(1962) Antonion

2. Cries and Whispers (1972) Bergman

3. Nashville (1975) Altman

4. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese

5. Chimes at Midnight (1965) Welles

6. Interiors (1978) Allen

7. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray

8. Jules and Jim (1962) Truffaut

9. The Exterminating Angel (1962) Bunuel

10. Days of Heaven (1978) Malick

My Ten Favorite German Films

1. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) Herzog
2. The Last Laugh (1924) Murnau
3. Das Boot (1981) Peterson
4. M (1931) Lang
5. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Fassbinder
6. Downfall (2004) Hirshbiegel
7. Wings of Desire (1987) Wenders
8. Run Lola Run (1998) Tykwer
9. Westfront 1918 (1930) Pabst
10. Phoenix (2014) Petzold

Ten Excellent Films with Scenes From Other Excellent Films in Them

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Penn -- Gold Diggers of 1933(1933) LeRoy
2. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) -- Duck Soup (1933) McCarey
3. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Godard -- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Dreyer
4. The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich — Red River (1948) Hawks
5. Home Alone (1990) Columbus -- It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Capra
6. Play it Again Sam (1972) Ross — Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
7. The Aviator (2004) Scorsese — Hell’s Angels (1930) Hughes
8. Gods & Monsters(1998) Condon -- Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Whale
9. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle — The Immigrant (1917) Chaplin
10. ET....(1982) Spielberg -- The Quiet Man (1952) Ford