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I have this one in my queue. I’ve loved every Ayako Wakao film I’ve seen so far. Great recommendation.

Good Job, Ronin: In no order: 1. Paint Your Wagon 2. Lil Abner--after the Al Capp comic strip from Dogpatch, 1959 3. West Side Story 4. Wizard of Oz 5.Forty Second Street 6. La La Land 7. Mary Poppins 8. An American In Paris 9. On the Town 10. Singin' in the Rain 11. Holiday Inn 12. Once 13. The Sound of Music 14. Grease 15. The Nightmare Before Christmas 16. Koyaanisqatsi--Phillip Glass score 17. Meet Me in St. Louis 18. Beauty & The Beast (animated) 19. A Hard Day's Night 20. Frozen

There are several here that I haven't seen. I love Dr. Caligari, The Phantom Carriage and The Passion of Joan of Arc. I want very much to see The Hands of Orlac and The Man Who Laughs. I haven't seen a lot of Keaton, but I've enjoyed everything that I have seen. Lloyd, I'm less familiar with. Louise Brooks is an eternal screen goddess, and I've always found Pandora's Box very impressive, and it's certainly an important film historically. But I have to say that when I saw it recently in a film class, I liked it less than previously. Blasphemy, yes, I know. Maybe I was just in the wrong mood, or maybe I'm too familiar with it. But I will watch it again!

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T used to play on TV sometimes when I was a kid, and I always loved it. It was so fantastic to look at, and there was nothing else like it. A few years ago, I picked up the DVD with great anticipation, and it was so boring and dreary, I just couldn't believe it. What happened to me in all those years? Did I get old??? (Spoiler alert: Yes.) I've seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show so many times now, including in theaters with illegal substances being passed around as a sort of communal thing. Watching it at home, without all the noise, it's still freaky and enjoyable.

Hi Ronin - Musicals is probably my least favourite genre but here we go: 1. The Wizard of Oz 2. The Blues Brothers 3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4. This Is Spinal Tap 5. Nashville 6. All That Jazz 7. La La Land 8. Let’s Get Lost 9. The Young Girls of Rochefort 10. Cabaret 11. Phantom of the Paradise 12. Walk the Line 13. Straight, No Chaser 14. Hedwig and The Angry Inch 15. A Star Is Born 16. Black Orpheus 17. The Commitments 18. Coal Miner's Daughter 19. Hair 20. Tommy 21. The Harder They Come 22. 'Round Midnight 23. Bird 24. The Rose 25. Rocky Horror Picture Show

I entered this video with trepidation as I knew it would not be likely to feature anything joyful involving Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire or lines of chorus girls on oversized Busby Berkeley sets but, whilst I wouldn’t call it a musical I was glad to hear you mention 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, great movie. And I love Almost Famous extended cut. I still need to see the extended cut of Legend of 1900, I only have the theatrical cut.

Does Once Upon a Time in the West count? Inside Bo Burnham is a good recent musical, sort of. That guy is a genius! Scott Pilgrim, Nightmare Before Christmas, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Wizard Of Oz, The Music Room …I love you all 🎵😀

Quite a varied and unusual list, with many titles unknown to me, and even among many of those known, even fewer actually seen and heard by me. I appreciated how well represented non-Anglophone productions were here, as non-English language musicals tend to be neglected in Anglophone markets, though they are major favorites in their countries of origin and beyond (think of Bollywood movies, widely beloved not only in India, but across Asia and Africa as well). Alas, the only of my selections that is not English language is 'Golden Eighties', which despite its English title is a Francophone Belgian production; 'Gigi', while French in setting and featuring some French performers, was an American production filmed in English. I'm partial to musicals, and some of the films for which I am most sentimental are examples of this genre. Here is my list of twenty-five personal favorites, cited as much as possible in chronological order: --'Footlight Parade' (1933), directed by Lloyd Bacon --'Follow the Fleet' (1936), directed by Mark Sandrich --'The Wizard of Oz' (1939), directed by Victor Fleming --'Meet Me in St. Louis' (1944), directed by Vincente Minnelli --'The Harvey Girls' (1945), directed by George Sidney --'Singin' in the Rain' (1951), directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen --'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953), directed by Howard Hawks --'Calamity Jane' (1953), directed by David Butler --'One Froggy Evening' (1955), directed by Charles M. Jones --'What's Opera, Doc?' (1957), directed by Chuck Jones --'Gigi' (1958), directed by Vincente Minnelli --'My Fair Lady' (1964), directed by George Cukor --'Yellow Submarine' (1968), directed by George Dunning --'The Boy Friend' (1971), directed by Ken Russell --'Cabaret' (1972), directed by Bob Fosse --'Godspell' (1973), directed by David Greene --'Phantom of the Paradise' (1974), directed by Brian De Palma --'Tommy' (1975), directed by Ken Russell --'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (1975), directed by Jim Sharman --'Bugsy Malone' (1976), directed by Alan Parker --'Popeye' (1980), directed by Robert Altman --'Pennies from Heaven' (1981), directed by Herbert Ross --'Golden Eighties' (1986), directed by Chantal Akerman --'Without You I'm Nothing' (1990), directed by John Boskovich --'Topsy-Turvy' (1999), directed by Mike Leigh

My favourite musical is Oliver best songs best characters, the set pieces are flawless, Oliver reed is so terrifying as bill Sykes 👌🏻🎼🎥

Great video good Sir! Had my eye on Goyokin for ages, but not managed to find a decent copy yet, you've convinced me to jump into the shady internet archive version I have and definitely adding the Wolves to my watch list too, Been a Nakodai fan for ages, but Noburo Ando is a recent new discovery for me thanks to Radiance films excellent release of By A Man's Fan Shall You Know him and more recently Sympathy for The Underdog. We really must get together sometime for a wee video chatter about Japanese movies, Ulysses 31 and everything in between!

Just ordered, based on this review. 👍. I’d never even heard of this one. It blows my mind that such highly regarded films can have gone completely under the radar here in the UK. Thanks Ronin.

Sounds really interesting (and riveting). Thanks for this obscure recommendation.

A fantastic list! I definitely need to re-watch both Hot Shots. I always particularly enjoy that classic bit where Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen go past each other and say 'I loved you in Wall Street!' I've not seen Happiness, but I know it's a beloved film and people have been clamoring for a Criterion of it for years, so hopefully I'll finally get the chance to watch it now and see what all the fuss is about. Going through Hal Hartley's films recently has reignited my taste for dark comedies! I thoroughly enjoy The Nice Guys too as Crowe and Gosling are a fantastic duo. I'd still definitely like to see a sequel, though I can understand the hesitation! I've never seen Gregory's Girl, but clearly it's one that I need to seek out, and of course To be or Not to be which has been on my list since your 40s video. I remember enjoying Bringing up Baby a lot, but I feel like I can't recall that much of it so that one is due for a re-watch too! Thinking about some of my favourites and it's actually much tougher to come up with a list, as like you say, it's down to what 'you' consider a comedy in some instances, but I think a few of mine would be My Man Godfrey, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Wayne's World, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, The Life Aquatic (if that counts!), Napoleon Dynamite, Tremors (if that counts too!), The Other Guys and Galaxy Quest.

I'd say Spinal Tap and The Big Lebowski too. Also these, in no order: 1. Kingpin 2. Animal House 3. What About Bob? 4. City Slickers 5. Meatballs 6. Dumb & Dumber 7. Grumpy Old Men 8. The Nutty Professor--Jerry Lewis original (a lot of his films are pretty fun) 9. Idiocracy 10. National Lampoon Vacation 11. Trains, Planes, & Automobiles 12. Me, Myself, & Irene 13. No Time For Sergeants 14. Marx Brothers 15. Bob Hope & Crosby 'road pictures' 16. Peewee's Big Adventure 17. The Thin Man 18. Young Frankenstein 19. Goodbye Girl--most Neil Simon films 20. Laurel & Hardy shorts and films 21. About A Boy 22. Four Weddings and a Funeral 23. Roxanne 24. Moonstruck 25. Arthur 26. Uncle Buck 27. Home Alone

Nice list. I kind of guessed number one before starting the video.

I remember the night i first watched this as a kid on tv. It was memorable because straight afterwards the news reports came on british tv about Elvis Presley's hospitalisation & death. It blew me away. The acting, the look & the story. It was one of my favourite films as a youth. Many years later i found myselr being directed by Swansea actor & Shakespearean director Terry Palmer in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Terry and i became great pals, for many years, until his recent passing. Terry had played one of the working class soldiers in the film & had worked with Losey on several of his films including 'Accident', 'The Servant', and 'Boom!' Terry's job was to rehearse the actors for the shot while Losey concentrated on the technical side, composition etc. Terry was very close friends with Edward Fox & his family. He directed Edward Fox & Hywel Bennet in a production of 'Hamlet' around 1963. He said King & Country was filmed in around two weeks on a set in one studio. They had all rehearsed for it as a play, many of the younger actors & Losey having come from the Royal Court Theatre. Terry also said that a lot of the sound, particularly of the voices of the soldiers, were later redubbed by him, being an exccellent actor he imitated the voices of the other actors, many of them his friends, and it was done so well that the audience doesn't notice. I once told Terry that my favourite period of Bristish film is from the late 50s to the mid to late 60s. I asked hom why they were so good. "The Royal Court Theatre" he said. All the new wave of actors writers & directors were coming from there and they really had something to say. I asked him then what happened - what brought the decline of British film? "Money", he said. Many, like Jo, began the 60s as socialists and ended up on the champagne and the easy life. They became decadent and lazy. Terry was also in another of my favourite films from my youth, 'The Mindbenders', also with Dirk Bogarde. Again it has a minuscule budget, was filmed very quickly, but it is excellently acted, directed and filmed, with a great story. Terry had the highest regard for Dirk Bogarde and said he was very kind and supportive to him as a young actor embarking upon his first film roles. Dirk Bogarde fluffed his own lines repeatedly on purpose during Terry's last scene on his last day of filming so that Terry got paid for another day's filming when they reshot the scene the following day.

Happy to see a continuation of the twenty-five favorites approach, though, as you indicate, genre can be a tricky lens through which to categorize a given film. I have seen and enjoyed several of your comedy choices, with the Czech film cited being utterly new to me. For my own selections, I sought to limit myself to films whose dominant flavor is comedic, trying to avoid tonally ambiguous works or what we widely today call a 'dramedy'. I also sought to avoid movies that are primarily musicals, delightful as so many are, as the musical is generally recognized as a genre unto itself. And lastly, I deliberately omitted any comedy-concert films, opting for narrative fictions. All my choices are listed as much as possible in chronological order: --'The Freshman' (1925), directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor --'Exit Smiling' (1926), directed by Sam Taylor --'The Circus' (1928), directed by Charles Chaplin --Jewel Robbery' (1932), directed by William Dieterle --'Trouble in Paradise' (1932), directed by Ernst Lubitsch --'Duck Soup' (1933), directed by Leo McCarey --'The Philadelphia Story' (1940), directed by George Cukor --'The Palm Beach Story' (1942), directed by Preston Sturges --'On Approval' (1944), directed by Clive Brook --'The Great Piggy Bank Robbery' (1946), directed by Robert Clampett --'Monkey Business' (1952), directed by Howard Hawks --'Mon oncle' (1958), directed by Jacques Tati --'The Ladies Man' (1961), directed by Jerry Lewis --'M*A*S*H' (1969), directed by Robert Altman --'A New Leaf' (1971), directed by Elaine May --'Young Frankenstein' (1974), directed by Mel Brooks --'Love and Death' (1975), directed by Woody Allen --'The Ritz' (1976), directed by Richard Lester --'Annie Hall' (1977), directed by Woody Allen --'Airplane!' (1980), directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker --'Gregory's Girl' (1980), directed by Bill Forsyth --'En rachâchant' (1982), directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet --'A Christmas Story' (1983), directed by Bob Clark --'Young Einstein' (1988), directed by Yahoo Serious --'Shaun of the Dead' (2004), directed by Edgar Wright

Sidney Lumet had a long and illustrious career and worked with many great actors but even he was suprised and taken a back by Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead!

Cost of the hardware has been the main factor in not going 4k UHD! Thanks for the heads up about studios tampering with certain films and changing spoken lines!

Nice list. It's very difficult to do these genre lists. I might try to do a response video, but my video would be 25 films that I find the funniest whether they are actual comedies or not as I want to include films like Blue Velvet and The Shining.

Respectable choices. Gregory’s Girl always puts a smile on my face

25. Fletch Lives 24. Things Are Tough All Over 23. Brewster Millions 22. Groundhog Day 21. Down Under 20. Stripes 19. The Nice Guys 18. Caddyshack 17. Big Lebowski 16. Revenge Of the Nerds 15. Beverly Hills Cop 14. Jojo Rabbit 13. In Bruges 12. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 11. Fletch 10. Spaceballs 9. Four Lions 8. Election 7. Orgazmo 6. Office Space 5. Monty Python's Holy Grail 4. Team America 3. South Park Bigger Longer Uncut 2. Life Of Brian 1.Clerks

Hi Ronin - nice list here are mine 1. City Lights 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Le Père Noel est une ordure 4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5. The Princess Bride 6. The Big Lebowski 7. The General 8. It Happened One Night 9. To Be or Not to Be 10. Groundhog Day 11. Les Valseuses 12. Withnail & I 13. Shaun of the Dead 14. Office Space 15. Bringing Up Baby 16. Sullivan's Travels 17. Local Hero 18. Duck Soup 19. To Be or Not to Be 20. Charade 21. Young Frankenstein 22. Airplane! 23. Life of Brian 24. The Blues Brothers 25. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Nice video, thanks Gregory 😁. Coincidentally I rewatched Happiness this morning - so much hilarious stuff in there (amidst the darkness). From your recent films I thought there might be some Buster Keaton or Marx Brothers or The Apartment maybe. It is so difficult to classify films. How about Evil Dead 2, Brazil? What sort of animal would you come back as?

Ronin : Never seen it and I don't really want to 😂 ( Mel Brooks) Happiness 👍 Love And Death 👍 The Knack Hot Shots Part Deu 👍 Nothing About Robert King of Comedy 👍 The Clown Who Laughed 😮 ( This year after 40 year ban! Jerry Lewis's Auschwitz comedy 😂) Africa Screams ( Abotto And Costello) Amityville Horror 2 Days 1 Night in Paris ( Julie Delphy) Withnal And I 👍 How I Won The War 👍 ( Nice to see it in high position) The Beloved No Way To Treat A Lady! The Big Lebowski Come Play With Me (One of the worst films ever made - legend Jack Douglas 70s chronic comedian) Annie Detective ( Godard) features a terrible McGuffin and cock jokes in this black as black madness from the master! Modesty Blaise ( Dirk hysterical) Twisted Nerve ( Haley Mills!) The Servant The Birthday Party ( Pinter / Robert Shaw) Hysterical black comedy The Homecoming Pinter / Ian Holm Natalie Marchant) Frenzy ( Hitchcock) A Severed Head ( Muriel Spark adapted swinging London) London Fields ( Adapted from the Martin Amis - but never seen it.) (Threw the novel 17 floors down a rubbish chute) Hot Fuzz Secret Ceremony Eh.. That was quite a list by your self. Was only thinking about it recently about the greatest serious French Romantic drama - raised a lot of questions - no answers??? Working on it. Also perfect casts ( Legend of Hell House) and strange ones Asia Argento in that one about the death of Cobain. The oddities. Sub genre moody. Those who always say Taxi Driver as No1. Nah! Gets, on my tits.! It's nice to see a bit of movement in a list.

I always thought Nakadai was naturally monochrome. Strange to see him in colour. He actually looks human 😀. There’s maybe a series here on colour Samurai movies.? Twilight Samurai would be one to possibly include.

Ronin, I apologize for not having watched this review until now, but it somehow escaped my notice for two years. What a great response to the film! I saw it in the theaters upon its release and absolutely loved it. I bought the dvd when Criterion released it, and have been waiting for a BluRay since then. I know of no military junta that made life better for any country, in history. The failure to release a newer version is probably political; Costa Gavras's father was a Communist Party member in Greece, resulting in the young man being refused admission to college and forbidden to travel to the US. If you've never seen his first film, from 1965, Sleeping Car Murders, I strongly endorse your doing so. I saw it, in the theaters (I was in college), but that movie has never appeared, in English (the language spoken in the theatrical version I saw), in any home video version. I suspect that his father's history, and the director's politics have resulted in his virtual anonymity. So your review made my day. Thanks!

Gosha is a name completely new to me--always a pleasure to learn about filmmakers and films previously outside my ken. The one film from this list I've seen is 'Samurai Rebellion' (luckily via a repertory screening in 35-millimeter), an excellent exercise from the masterful Kobayashi, not quite as resonant as the same director's 1962 drama 'Seppuku', but still a substantial achievement all its own.

A great director. These Imprint sets are very expensive, the editions you already have look just fine enough to me. I checked and was actually surprised I have 26 of his films in my collection, but I don’t have and haven’t seen The Group so that’s one I’d be interested in. I have Serpico on dvd and it includes a commentary from Lumet, three featurettes , photo gallery and trailer

The Offence was banned in America. Lumet had a nose for expliotation like a lot of the 70s good ones the sensationalism was part of the era's glitz ect. Ian Bannon's laugh one of the sickest ever. No wonder the Romans built a wall 😂 Yeah Connery could actually act as was noted by his JB fans. Candice Bergen an actress who became associated with being a sex victim bit like Linda Blair but it was all seen as lurid titillating glam just a laugh something the boys didn't really give a damn about. The Group is alluring because who wouldn't with that cast list! Stieger hysterical it crosses into black comedy because of his wooden method act. Can't take it seriously as a war thing. Lumet does tick that Ronin box - people trapped though! Serpico Dog Day Afternoon fails. Lumet had his crud ones. Hippy cops only sounds like a good idea. I guess it's one of the old boy's box sets the old school sass. The old men's. 😊. No he never made your battle series - think he would have done quite well. But his ending like most in tinsel world wasn't good. The way it ends is important - quite a few turkeys.

Hi Ronin - this set represents a major shift in samurai cinema away from feudal glorification and romanticism toward a grittier, more realistic, morally complex portrayal of violence and warrior ethics. Well done!

Hi Ronin- I love Lumet's book "Making Movies", a master class in filmmaking and problem-solving techniques.

Another very strong list from you, with many I've caught, but many others still eluding my ken. The thirteen that I've seen are: 'Der Golem' (entrancing and pictorially impressive), 'The General' (an enduring Keaton masterpiece), 'A Page of Madness' (an extraordinary film for any era), 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' (very charming if perhaps overlong), 'Pandora's Box' (Brooks' performance is revelatory), 'Metropolis' (indeed a seminal classic), 'Häxan' (a true cinematic curiosity), 'Steamboat Bill, Jr.' (amazing climax), 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' (brilliant performances meeting commanding formal rigor), 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' (art for art's sake), 'Nosferatu' (still possibly the greatest vampire film), 'Un Chien andalou' (contains the most excruciating shot in cinema history), and 'The Phantom Carriage' (exemplary of Sweden's cinematic golden age). At least seven of these are also among my personal favorites. Approaching this exercise, I regard "the 1920s" as shorthand for the third decade of the twentieth century, which commenced on January 1, 1921 and concluded on December 31, 1930. Cinematically, this period remains pivotal for witnessing the transition from silent production to sound, with the unfortunate consequence of seeing the medium, which had reached heights of visual refinement and ingenuity, become almost overnight stagey and static by comparison, taking probably at least ten years to accommodate the new ingredient of sound to a truly visually fluid aesthetic, though it's hard to think of many Thirties pictures that are as formally dynamic and inventive as the masterpieces from the preceding decade. I sought to limit my choices to those works whose productions fell securely within that timeframe, if not necessarily their releases. All selections cited in rough chronological order: 1922: 'Nosferatu', directed by F. W. Murnau 'Salomé, directed by Charles Bryant 1924: 'Aelita', directed by Yakov Protazanov 'The Thief of Bagdad', directed by Raoul Walsh 1925: 'Bronenosets Potemkin', directed by Sergei Eisenstein 'Du skal ære din hustru', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer 'The Freshman', directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 'Visages d’enfants', directed by Jacques Feyder 1926: 'Anémic cinéma', directed by Marcel Duchamp 'Exit Smiling', directed by Sam Taylor 'The General', directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 'Kurutta ippeji', directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa 'Mat', directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin 1927: 'Metropolis', directed by Fritz Lang 1928: 'The Circus', directed by Charles Chaplin 'The Crowd', directed by King Vidor 'La passion de Jeanne d’Arc', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer 'The Wind', directed by Victor Seastrom 1929: 'Die Büchse der Pandora', directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst 'Chelovek s kinoapparatom', directed by Dziga Vertov 1930: 'L'âge d'or', directed by Luis Buñuel 'Her Man', directed by Tay Garnett 1931: 'City Lights', directed by Charles Chaplin 'Tabu', directed by F. W. Murnau 1932: 'Le sang d'un poète', directed by Jean Cocteau I've enjoyed this survey of more than a century of favorite films, and regret that this particular series is now at a close. For what it is worth, here are my ten favorite films from before 1921 (again listed as much as possible in chronological order): 1902: 'Le voyage dans la lune', directed by Georges Méliès 1908: 'El hotel eléctrico', directed by Segundo de Chomón 1909: 'A Corner in Wheat', directed by David Wark Griffith 1915: 'Hypocrites', directed by Lois Weber 1915- 1916: 'Les vampires', directed by Louis Feuillade 1916: 'Intolerance', directed by David Wark Griffith 'One A.M.', directed by Charles Chaplin 1917: 'Easy Street', directed by Charles Chaplin 1920: 'Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari', directed by Robert Wiene 1920: 'Der Golem', directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese

Eureka MoC- 'Films from the 1920s you say? Allow me to provide you with everything you'll need!' Thank goodness for the great work they've done for early cinema! Well another really fantastic list to polish off your excellent series. There's still a lot of milestone films from the 20s that I've yet to watch like Die Niebelungen and Napoleon which the BFI did a screening of a couple months ago, and I wish I'd gone, and I've had Faust sat on my shelf for far too long waiting to be watched, but clearly I need to push that to the top of my list. Neil was talking about Wings recently in a video, and that's another that I need to get round to soon. Great to see so many Buster Keaton's films on your list. I think Steamboat Bill Jr I think is my favourite that I've seen, but I need to pick up Eureka's other releases to explore more of his films. Definitely agree about The General, in so many of his films the stunts look unbelievably dangerous, but maybe the General takes the cake. Incredible actor, director and stuntman all rolled into one. Phantom Carriage sounds amazing hearing you talk about it. I've heard of it before just by being part of the Criterion collection, but had no knowledge of what it's about. One that I'll try to track down for sure. I think for my list I'd include a good few that you've included on yours like Metropolis which I just saw a few months ago and it blew my mind, as well as Nosferatu and of course Steamboat Bill Jr. I'd also have The Great White Silence which remains my favourite silent film, and just one of my favourite overall films as it's astonishing to watch, also The Epic of Everest, The Thief of Bagdad. I'd be tempted to put Spione in as well, but it was a tad overly long I thought.

Hi Ronin - In the battle of ex-porn stars in mainstream films, I prefer Marilyn Chambers in Rabid, Traci does a fair job in this one but obviously Wynorski is no Cronenberg.

Hi Ronin: great job on this series. My list is as follows: 1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 2. The Passion of Joan of Arc 3. The General 4. The Gold Rush 5. Sherlock Jr. 6. Metropolis 7. Safety Last! 8. Nosferatu 9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 10. The Phantom Carriage 11. Man with a Movie Camera 12. Steamboat Bill, Jr. 13. Battleship Potemkin 14. The Last Laugh 15. Pandora's Box 16. Häxan 17. Napoléon 18. Un Chien Andalou 19. Greed 20. The Phantom of the Opera 21. The Navigator 22. The Unknown 23. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler 24. One Week 25. The Thief of Bagdad

Fine choices. Like you say, I definitely remember Harold Lloyd on TV (Hooray for Harold Lloyd with that really irritating voiceover) more than Keaton. For me, Speedy might be my favourite of his but that’s also because I have a thing for New York and Coney Island. Some revelations for me over the last year or so include A Cottage on Dartmoor, Ménilmontant, The Great White Silence and Wings. I also love Man with a movie camera, Nanook of the North, The White Stadium and The Kid

I might need to take a good, close look at this movie 😁 I saw John Water's Cry Baby at the cinema (at the ABC in Brighton - don't look for it, it's not there anymore) and thought Lords was great. It's a shame she wasn't in more good movies. She seems like a smart and sexy cookie.

It’s been a great series over these last few months. Thanks Ronin. …over 200 brilliant recommendations! I’ve already discovered new favourites here and now I think Eureka is about to get more business! I look forward to your next series. 🙏

Nice list. It was great fun to follow this video series. I've seen 77 films that came out in the 1920s, so I've somehow seen more films from the 20s than from the 30s. These 5 are on my favourites list: By the Law (1926) The Gold Rush (1925) The Kid (1921) Napoleon (1927) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Other 20s films that I like a lot: Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The Crowd (1928) Die Nibelungen (1924) Faust (1926) The General (1926) Greed (1924) The Last Laugh (1924) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Master of the House (1925) Metropolis (1927) Nosferatu (1922) October (1927) A Page of Madness (1926) The Phantom Carriage (1921) Sherlock, JR. (1924) Sunrise (1927) Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Hello, Ronin. Well, you've given me four films to add to my next Indicator order, and if I didn't agree with everything you said about the label, I'd buy food and pay my rent, instead. But I'm with you on your assessment of their (and Kino Lorber's) service to the public in resurrecting some really entertaining, near-forgotten, movies. From Indicator, I have purchased the best copies of a few favorite films of mine: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987); "The Wrong Box" (1966); and "Missing" (1982). Their Box collections of Mae West and Marlene Dietrich films are first class; and I treasure the quality of the video work as well as the multitude of extras that appear in all five of their Columbia Noir boxes. More importantly (and to your point), I've been introduced to movies that I had never seen (many that I had never even heard of), but now really enjoy, all through Indicator. Those include: "Cash on Demand" (1961), "Charley Bubbles" (1988), "Garment Jungle" (1957), "Light Sleeper" (1992), "Mad Dog Morgan" (1976), "Moments" (1974), "Pastor Hall" (1940), "Winter Kills" (1979) and "Young Winston" (1972). Thanks again for taking the time and making the effort to perform your broadcasts. Your words are brightening the days of people (me, for instance) thousands of miles away, on a planet gone mad. You're appreciated.

I had no idea you were such a Carole Lombard fan!! I've seen all of the films on your list except for: The Whole Town's Talking, Grande Illusion and The Spy in Black. Not sure if I've seen Duck Soup, but I probably have at some point. And I don't think I've seen all of the Sherlock Holmes movies. My 1930s list will be top heavy with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and the Universal monsters. And possibly Ginger & Fred.

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This will be a tough list to put together, because I have so many favorites from the 1940s. I love The Wolf Man, Dorian Gray, Ox-Bow Incident, The Big Sleep, The War Trilogy, Drunken Angel, Out of the Past, Dead of Night, etc.., etc........

So many good choices here, and quite a few that I've seen. Some of them will be on my list, IF I ever get it finished!! Yes, Johnny Guitar is ridiculous, but such a good watch. Touch of Evil gets better with each viewing. I love Ikiru, Orpheus, Sweet Smell of Success, Ace in the Hole, Wild Strawberries, On Dangerous Ground, Elevator To the Gallows, etc., etc. Great list!!

Hi, Ronin. That was a nice run through of the four films, all ones I’d be happy to try and get at next sale. I have The Whole Truth on dvd but would be interested in the special features. Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Sanders is indeed fun in it. It’s pretty good that Indicator have released Town on Trial and now this but the other John Guillermin film of this era that I’d love them to get their hands on is Thunderstorm, which is terrific….Talking of both Otto Heller and Jack Clayton on the other movies, I watched The Queen of Spades last night which they were both involved with. I believe you’ve seen this. Wow, it was atmospheric and fun. All the best

Thanks for the honest review. I just watched it, and I agree that it's interesting, though perhaps too dark for a rewatch. In fact, it will be too dark for some viewers to watch even once. The film was impressively made; however, my main issue is that despite all the stress it imposes on the viewer, it ultimately feels rather unreal and somewhat pointless. Spoilers warning: Do not read ahead if you haven't watched the film. There was no real improvement in his personality-just more creepy behavior and obsession. I hated that she accepted chocolate from her mother's murderer at the end, and sort of hugged him, seemingly all just because he had caused her brain damage. He didn't really improve; his punches could have easily killed the male nurses, meaning he didn't deserve his own satisfaction at the end. It all felt more hollow than it realized.

Great list, my friend. I've seen (and own) all but "Spy in Black," which I'll procure when I get my next allowance. In the interest of brevity, I won’t mention ones already named by other commenters, such as King Kong, Lost Horizon, Make Way for Tomorrow, Adventures of Robin Hood, Rules of the Game, Lady Vanishes, Night at the Opera, 39 Steps, Freaks, Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Bride of Frankenstein, Dodsworth, Wizard of Oz, The Women, Thin Man, or Gunga Din, I was considering naming all of those, but don’t want to step on the feet (or dvd players) of other readers, so I’m only adding the following as favorites that I dearly love, from that long ago time (I wasn’t born until the 1940’s): All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Front Page, the (1931) Fury (1936) Gold Diggers of 1933 I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Informer, the (1935) It’s a Gift (1934) Little Women (1933) Lost Horizon (1937) Love Me Tonight (1932) Petrified Forest (1936) Show Boat (1936) San Francisco (1936) Swing Time (1936) Top Hat (1935) Topper (1937) I hope all is going well with you. 2024 is a great year to lose oneself in movies from any age. The less reality, the better.

Hi Ronin-Good list, here are a few of mine: 1. City Lights 2. M 3. It Happened One Night 4. Modern Times 5. Grand Illusion 6. The Rules of the Game 7. Bringing Up Baby 8. Duck Soup 9. The Lady Vanishes 10. My Man Godfrey 11. Stagecoach 12. A Night at the Opera 13. The 39 Steps 14. Frankenstein 15. The Adventures of Robin Hood 16. The Invisible Man 17. Freaks 18. Holiday 19. Ninotchka 20. L'atalante 21. Dracula 22. The Public Enemy 23. Vampyr 24. King Kong 25. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Another brilliant list and plenty that are new to me! I've not seen any of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, but they are definitely something I need to dive into as I've been loving the old ITV series again quite recently, and it's stoked my desire for more Sherlock. I've really enjoyed the few films I've seen with Carole Lombard, but I clearly haven't scratched the surface yet! She is definitely an actor I need to become more familiar with after hearing you talk about several of her films. I did have my eye on one of the Kino collections with her, so maybe I'll pull the trigger on one to explore. Also I can't believe I hadn't heard of The Spy in Black. I've grabbed a copy of that straight away! Glad to see Broken Lullaby on your list as I picked it up in Indicators most recent sale. I watched Frantz from Francois Ozon earlier this year and loved it, and it was Chris Mohan that told me it was a remake of Broken Lullaby, so really looking forward to watching it. And nice to see My Man Godfrey on your list too as it's one of my favourites and introduced me to William Powell. It's a film I even shared with my family and glad to say they all really enjoyed it too! A few from my list would include like yourself, definitely M, My Man Godfrey and The Grand Illusion which I found really affecting, and also I think Stagecoach which to be fair I just watched recently, but absolutely loved, as well as Cleopatra which was an amazing spectacle, Tabu and The 39 Steps.