Annette Melville

Director, National Film Preservation Foundation

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Dr. Strangelove	1963	Stanley Kubrick
General, The	1926	Buster Keaton
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The	1966	Sergio Leone
Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis
Happiness	1965	Agnès Varda
In The Mood For Love	2000	Wong Kar Wai
Lady Eve, The	1941	Preston Sturges
Misérables, Les	1912	Albert Capellani
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The	1947	John Huston
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

The outlier is Les Misérables, which I saw over two afternoons at the Pacific Film Archive, with Edith Kramer interpreting the intertitles. The screening was an unforgettable experience and hooked me on silent film. Why is this film not more widely available?