Dan Sallitt

Dan Sallitt is the former film critic of the L.A. Reader, and the director of the feature films Honeymoon (1998) and All the Ships at Sea (2004). He blogs at Thanks for the Use of the Hall

Films are listed in ascending chronological order. The selection is somewhat whimsical, but it's about 90% out of love and only 10% to represent different directors or decades.

• Seven Chances (1925) .. Buster Keaton
• The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
• Morocco (1930) .. Josef von Sternberg
• An American Tragedy (1931) .. Josef von Sternberg
• La Chienne (1931) .. Jean Renoir
• Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) .. Leo McCarey
• History Is Made at Night (1937) .. Frank Borzage
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) .. Leo McCarey
• Angel (1937) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939) .. Howard Hawks
• His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• To Have and Have Not (1944) .. Howard Hawks
• Notorious (1946) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Daisy Kenyon (1947) .. Otto Preminger
• Fort Apache (1948) .. John Ford
• Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu
• The Reckless Moment (1949) .. Max Ophüls
• Diary of a Country Priest (1950) .. Robert Bresson
• Ordet (1955) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Floating Clouds (1955) .. Mikio Naruse
• The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
• Men in War (1957) .. Anthony Mann
• Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Rio Bravo (1959) .. Howard Hawks
• The Birds (1963) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• L'Enfance Nue (1968) .. Maurice Pialat
• My Night with Maud (1969) .. Eric Rohmer
• La Rupture (1970) .. Claude Chabrol
• Claire's Knee (1970) .. Eric Rohmer
• Raphael, or The Debauched One (1971) .. Michel Deville
• Anne and Muriel (1971) .. Francois Truffaut
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache
• Alice in the Cities (1974) .. Wim Wenders
• Lancelot of the Lake (1974) .. Robert Bresson
• Shampoo (1975) .. Hal Ashby
• The Passion According to Berenice (1976) .. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
• Remember My Name (1978) .. Alan Rudolph
• The Tree of Knowledge (1981) .. Nils Malmros
• Housekeeping (1987) .. Bill Forsyth
• Trust (1990) .. Hal Hartley
• Surviving Desire (1991) .. Hal Hartley
• Naked (1993) .. Mike Leigh
• Parfait Amour! (1996) .. Catherine Breillat
• The River (1997) .. Tsai Ming-Liang
• Esther Kahn (2000) .. Arnaud Desplechin
• The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005) .. Cristi Puiu
• Michael Clayton (2007) .. Tony Gilroy