They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
I've attempted to select 50 films that reside well - and truly - beyond the Canon. These films are definitely deserving of a little more love, or at least some respect.
- Armored Car Robbery (1950) .. Richard Fleischer
- L'Assassin Habite… au 21 (1942) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Le Beau Serge (1958) .. Claude Chabrol
- The Big Knife (1955) .. Robert Aldrich
- Blanche Fury (1948) .. Marc Allégret
- Blowing Wild (1953) .. Hugo Fregonese
- The Burglar (1957) .. Paul Wendkos
- The Children Are Watching Us (1944) .. Vittorio De Sica
- Dark at Noon (1993) .. Raoul Ruiz
- Daybreak Express (1953) .. D.A. Pennebaker
- Desistfilm (1954) .. Stan Brakhage
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) .. Felix E. Feist
- Emak-Bakia (1926) .. Man Ray
- Employees' Entrance (1933) .. Roy Del Ruth
- The Face of Another (1966) .. Teshigahara Hiroshi
- Face of Fire (1959) .. Albert Band
- Fiend Without a Face (1958) .. Arthur Crabtree
- Film No.3: Interwoven (1946) .. Harry Smith
- Great Day in the Morning (1956) .. Jacques Tourneur
- H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) .. King Vidor
- Harriet Craig (1950) .. Vincent Sherman
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) .. Douglas Sirk
- Hell Drivers (1957) .. Cy Endfield
- His Kind of Woman (1951) .. John Farrow
- Hollow Triumph (1948) .. Steve Sekely
- The Horse (1973) .. Charles Burnett
- Juvenile Passion (1956) .. Nakahira Kô
- A Lawless Street (1955) .. Joseph H. Lewis
- Love Eternal (1943) .. Jean Delannoy
- The Mating Season (1951) .. Mitchell Leisen
- Railroaded! (1947) .. Anthony Mann
- Ramrod (1947) .. André De Toth
- The Red House (1947) .. Delmer Daves
- The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) .. Anthony Pelissier
- Rope of Sand (1949) .. William Dieterle
- Run for Cover (1955) .. Nicholas Ray
- The Sadist (1963) .. James Landis
- Shadows in Paradise (1986) .. Aki Kaurismäki
- The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) .. Henry Hathaway
- The Sleeping Tiger (1954) .. Joseph Losey
- Specter of the Rose (1946) .. Ben Hecht
- Strange Illusion (1945) .. Edgar G. Ulmer
- Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) .. Boris Ingster
- 3 Bad Men (1926) .. John Ford
- Thunder Bay (1953) .. Anthony Mann
- Underworld Beauty (1958) .. Suzuki Seijun
- The Walls of Jericho (1948) .. John M. Stahl
- Warlock (1959) .. Edward Dmytryk
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler
- Young Man with a Horn (1950) .. Michael Curtiz
1 comment:
Hi Bill,
I think that The Bad News Bears (1976) by Michael Ritchie needs to be on this list. Any film that is listed in the top ten films of all time according to both Quentin Tarantino and Ethan Coen deserves some positive attention.
Thanks,
J. Brown
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