Explains Whit Stillman, writer and director of The Last Days of Disco: “In trying to come up with a ten best list from the Criterion Collection I thought first of Trouble in Paradise and decided to go online to find the rest. But after only seven pages of Criterion’s online list I already had more than enough for ten ‘bests’—so apologies to Trouble and the films that come after it in the catalog. Those below are not in any order of preference.”
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
1959
99 min
2
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
1938
96 min
3
The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell
1972
103 min
4
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
1957
96 min
5
The Lady Eve
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1941
97 min
6
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Mario Monicelli
1958
106 min
7
My Man Godfrey
UnavailableGregory La Cava
1936
95 min
8
Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
1959
100 min
9
Notorious
UnavailableAlfred Hitchcock
1946
103 min
10
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné
1945
190 min