Patton Oswalt is a stand-up comic, the instigator of the Comedians of Comedy tour, and voice star of Pixar’s Ratatouille. He wrote an appreciation of Allen Baron’s film Blast of Silence in Sean Phillips’s comic book Criminal (Phillips did the artwork for the Criterion edition).
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Hard Boiled
John Woo
1992
126 min
2
George Washington
David Gordon Green
2000
90 min
3
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1973
123 min
4
The Baron of Arizona
Samuel Fuller
1950
97 min
5
Blast of Silence
UnavailableAllen Baron
1961
77 min
6
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1943
163 min
7
Gimme Shelter
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin
1970
92 min
8
The Honeymoon Killers
Leonard Kastle
1969
108 min
9
Slacker
Richard Linklater
1991
97 min
10
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice
1973
98 min