Dan Sallitt
Dan Sallitt
Critic, MUBI
US
Voted in the critics poll
US
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| Angel | 1937 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Daisy Kenyon | 1947 | Otto Preminger |
| Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson |
| General, The | 1926 | Buster Keaton |
| Maman et la putain, La | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
| Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Rio Bravo | 1958 | Howard Hawks |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | Leo McCarey |
| Searchers, The | 1956 | John Ford |
Comments
As I get older, my ten-best list looks a bit like a cubist self-portrait, with the temporal layers of my personality thrown together helter-skelter. According to tradition, Morocco would be my favorite and Rio Bravo would follow, but after that, relative valuation becomes difficult. The most painful omission is Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s.