Allen Ginsberg's Favorite Movies

[x359594]

Allen Ginsberg's neighborhood video shop, Kim's Video, asked him for his top 10 list of movies, and this is the list he gave them:


Orpheus (Orphée), Jean Cocteau, 1950
Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un poet), Jean Cocteau, 1930
Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis), Marcel Carné,1945
The Flower Thief, Ron Rice, 1960
Pepe Le Moko, Julien Duvivier, 1930
The Battleship Potempkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin), Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1968
Heaven and Earth Magic, Harry Smith, 1962
Port of Shadows, Marcel Carné, 1938
The Grand Illusion (La Grande illusion), Jean Renoir, 1937

[GallowsBird]

Some good choices!

[coda]

thanks for the list... this type of topic is totally fascinating.. did he happen to leave a favorite book list behind? (or would it have been too hard for him to be impartial to his friends.)