50 BEST “FILMS” OF ALL TIME   with the first 25 titles in order of preference, beginning with the greatest movie ever made, and the second 25 in chronological order by year, but alphabetical order for any year where there is more than one title, here is my list—and one that tolerates no such trash […]

ONE HUNDRED GREATEST FILMS LIST. 9/09 Below is a list of what, on a given day, I consider to be the 100 greatest films of all time through the year 2008. Each film is given an entry of about 300 words. The first twenty-five films are given in rough order of preference. The remaining titles […]

1953 (cont’d) 51. VOYAGE IN ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy). Ingrid Bergman gave her most probing, penetrating performance in husband Roberto Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia. The film surveys a faltering marriage. Rossellini described its subject matter as “a couple’s relationship under the influence of a third person: the exterior world.”       Alex and Katherine Joyce, a British […]