Tim Forbes is chairman of Forbes Digital and a former independent producer and screenwriter. He writes: “At the Brown Film Society in the early 1970s, we ran about twenty different movies a week, showing everything then available, from the lowliest genre pics to art-house classics to current Hollywood releases. It was a glorious education. And so much fun. But when I think about the scratched, spliced, faded, and otherwise abused 16 mm prints of yore projected with bad sound on poor screens and the easy access we now enjoy to such superior versions of these films, it is about the only time I am happy to be forty years older. Thank you, Criterion! With so many great movies and true favorites to choose from, I decided to highlight a few that are recent additions to the collection or that, for one reason or another, do not populate many other Top 10 lists. Of course, this means forgoing such profound pleasures as 8½, The Battle of Algiers, Contempt, The Earrings of Madame de . . ., Kiss Me Deadly, The Lady Eve, Late Spring, The Rules of the Game, Trouble in Paradise, and Young Mr. Lincoln, among others. Viewers are well advised not to miss any of these . . . or any of the following either.”
Biography via Criterion.
