Recipient of a special New York Film Critics Circle award for visionary programming, Bruce Goldstein is the Repertory Program Director of New York’s Film Forum, for which he has created more than 350 film festivals and spearheaded the rereleases of more than one thousand classic films, all in new 35 mm prints. In 1997, he founded Rialto Pictures, a distribution company specializing in classic rereleases. Because few have done more for classic film than Goldstein, we asked him to pick his ten favorite non-Rialto Criterion titles.
“All these films have one thing in common: they're audience pleasers. Rules forbid me from including Rialto titles on this list; otherwise, Rififi, Nights of Cabiria, Quai des Orfèvres, Pépé le Moko, Masculin féminin, Billy Liar, and others might have made the cut.” In no particular order:
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