The Year in Film: 1935

My Top 10:

Victor McLaglen in his Oscar winning role in The Informer (1935)

1. The Informer
2. Bride of Frankenstein
3. The 39 Steps
4. Les Miserables
5. Mutiny on the Bounty
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. Captain Blood
8. Top Hat
9. A Night at the Opera
10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

The Year in Film: 1934

My Top 10:

William Powell, Myrna Loy and Asta in The Thin Man (1934)

1. The Thin Man
2. The Gay Divorcee
3. It Happened One Night
4. Death Takes a Holiday
5. Mauvaise Graine
6. Story of Floating Weeds
7. The Scarlet Empress
8. Of Human Bondage
9. Twentieth Century
10. Madame Bovary

 

The Year in Film: 1932 – 1933

My Top 10:

Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's brilliant M

1. M
2. King Kong
3. Duck Soup
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
5. The Invisible Man
6. The Blood of a Poet
7. The Mummy
8. Little Women
9. Dinner at Eight
10. The Private Life of Henry VIII

 

The Year in Film: 1931 – 1932

My Top 10:

Paul Muni as Tony, the crazed gangster and Ann Dvorak as his sister in Scarface

1. Scarface
2. Vampyr
3. Frankenstein
4. A Nous la Liberte
5. Horse Feathers
6. Freaks
7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. Wooden Crosses
9. What Price Hollywood
10. Grand Hotel

 

The Year in Film: 1930 – 1931

My Top 10:

1. City Lights
   

   Charlie Chaplin in the final, touching scene in City Lights

2. Dracula
3. The Three Penny Opera
4. Le Million
5. Earth
6. The Public Enemy
7. Waterloo Bridge
8. The Front Page
9. Little Caesar
10. Woman in the Moon

 

The Year in Film: 1929 – 1930

My Top 10:

The final poignant moment in All Quiet on the Western Front

1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. City Girl
3. Arsenal
4. Hell’s Angels
5. The General Line
6. Under the Roofs of Paris
7. The Great Gabbo
8. Anna Christie
9. Blackmail
10. Diary of a Lost Girl

 

The Year in Film: 1928 – 1929

My Top 10:

the menacing shadow in Nosferatu (1922, US release - 1929)

1. Nosferatu
2. October
3. Steamboat Bill Jr.
4. Napoleon
5. The Fall of the House of Usher
6. The Wind
7. The Wedding March
8. Pandora’s Box
9. Street Angel
10. Spite Marriage

 

The Year in Film: 1927 – 1928

My Top 10:

Fritz Lang's 1926 visionary film: Metropolis

1. Metropolis
2. Sunrise
3. The Last Command
4. The Circus
5. The Cat and the Canary
6. Seventh Heaven
7. The Man Who Laughs
8. Laugh Clown Laugh
9. The Lodger
10. The Cameraman

 

The Year in Film: 1912 – 1926

My Top 10:

1. The Battleship Potemkin
   

   The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

2. Greed
3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
4. The Birth of a Nation
5. The Gold Rush
6. The Phantom of the Opera
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8. Foolish Wives
9. The Last Laugh
10. The General

 

Halloween 2009

Thomas had a costume parade at school on Friday, and on Saturday he and I met Erik after work to trick-or-treat a little bit in Brookline. I think it was a bit too busy and overwhelming for Thomas, but he held up pretty well. The pumpkin pictures are from the previous weekend. Sorry about the family pictures-I’m having trouble turning them.