Screen cap from 1996′s ‘Beautiful Thing,’ a British gay love story
Capture from 1934 Jean Vigo masterpiece ‘L’Atalante’
by Sam Juliano
I have been getting many e mails about the latest venture at WitD, and I must say I am exceedingly delighted with the passionate response from site regulars and readers. I put together my own list of ‘suggestions’ and Allan Fish followed suit with a fabulous proposal of titles that voters may want to consider. Though I intend to sent the titles to the e mail chain, I wanted to post them at WitD early so that those itching to begin the process with have some formidable titles to consider. Naturally, as is the case with past pollings, everyone will be free to vote for titles that are not on the list proposals. Remember that this scroll of titles is only to held assist everyone’s memory. I am sure many votes will be cast for films not mentioned, and that is indeed the way it should be. In any event here are some proposals:
Way Down East 1920, D.W.Griffith
The Wedding March 1928, Erich Von Stroheim
City Girl 1929, F.W.Murnau
Flesh and the Devil 1926, Clarence Brown
Lonesome 1928, Pal Fejos
Waterloo Bridge 1931, James Whale
Liebelei 1932, Max Ophuls
L’Atalante 1934, Jean Vigo
Zoo in Budapest 1933, Rowland V.Lee
Peter Ibbetson 1935, Henry Hathaway
Mayerling 1936, Anatole Litvak
Gone With the Wind 1939, Victor Fleming
Love Affair 1939, Leo McCarey
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939, Kenji Mizoguchi
The Shop Around the Corner 1940, Ernst Lubitsch
Brief Encounter 1945, David Lean
Les Enfants du Paradis 1945, Marcel Carné
Le Diable au Corps 1947, Claude Autant-Lara
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948, Max Ophuls
Portrait of Jennie 1948, William Dieterle
Until We Meet Again 1950, Tadashi Imai
One Summer of Happiness 1951, Arne Mattson
Casque d’Or 1952, Jacques Becker
Magnificent Obsession 1954, Douglas Sirk
Senso 1954, Luchino Visconti
All That Heaven Allows 1955, Douglas Sirk
Smiles of a Summer Night 1955, Ingmar Bergman
Les Amants 1958, Jeanne Moreau
The Girl With a Suitcase 1961, Valerio Zurlini
Akitsu Springs 1962, Yoshishige Yoshida
Jules et Jim 1962, François Truffaut
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 1964, Jacques Demy
Elvira Madigan 1967, Bo Widerberg
A Swedish Love Story 1970, Roy Andersson
Cyrano de Bergerac 1990, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cyrano de Bergerac 1950, Jose Ferrar in lead
In the Mood for Love 2000, Wong Kar-Wai
Vendredi Soir 2002, Claire Denis
Atonement 2007, Joe Wright
Sunrise, 1928, Murnau
Iris
Driving Miss Daisy
Fried Green Tomatoes
Man in the Moon (Mulligan)
Sense and Sensibility
Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet
Same Time Next Year
84 Charing Cross Road
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
City Lights
West Side Story
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
A Little Romance
Cinema Paradiso, 1988, G. Tornatore
King Kong, 1933
Brokeback Mountain, 2005, Ang Lee
The Gold Rush, 1925, Charles Chaplin
Brief Encounter, 1945, David Lean
Letter from an Unknown Woman
A Matter of Life and Death
The Lady Eve
In the Mood for Love
Beautiful Thing
Happy Together
An Affair to Remember
Roman Holiday
The Way We Were
Annie Hall
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Out of Africa
Wuthering Heights, 1939, William Wyler
Vertigo
Singin in the Rain
The African Queen
The Shop Around the Corner
My Fair Lady
Swing Time
Dark Victory
Gigi
Titanic
Bringing Up Baby
Sunrise
The Apartment
Harold and Maude
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Reds
Jezebel
The English Patient
Morocco
Porgy and Bess
Body Heat
Lady and the Tramp
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
The Sound of Music
The King and I
Two for the Road
His Girl Friday
Edward Scissorhands
Say Anything
History is Made at Night (Borzage)
Summetime
Punch-Drunk Love
Ninotchka
Voyage in Italy (Rossellini)
Love Affair
Love Story
Certified Copy
Wild at Heart
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Bonnie and Clyde
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Coming Home
Hunchback of Notre Dame
It’s A Wonderful Life
Ghost
Doctor Zhivago
Anna Karenina
Funny Girl
Random Harvest
An American in Paris
Splendor in the Grass
Sabrina
A Streetcar Named Desire
Manhattan
Sense and Sensibility
Way Down East
The Awful truth
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Double Indemnity
Marty
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
To Have and Have Not
Notorious
Dirty Dancing
Les Miserables, all versions
Phantom of the Opera (musical, silent and talkie versions)
Maurice
Say Anything
Blue is the Warmest Color
Show Me Love
The Goodbye Girl
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jeremy
A Farewell to Arms
Grease
Pillow Talk
Moonstruck
Camille
The Notebook
Pretty Woman
When Harry Met Sally
The Princess Bride
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Gregory’s Girl
The Philadelphia Story
An Officer and a Gentleman
Punch-Drunk Love
Now, Voyager
Solaris
The Fountain
Lost in Translation
Une Partie de Campagne
I Know Where I’m Going
Before Midnight films
The Quiet Man
On Golden Pond
It Happened One Night
A Place in the Sun
Roxanne
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Bringing Up Baby
Sleepless in Seattle
To Catch a Thief
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Fly
Shrek
Little Shop of Horrors
