My Alphabet Meme

Readers of the excellent film blog, She Blogged by Night were challenged to create a list of their favorite films, one for each letter of the alphabet.

You know how much I love lists, so here's mine. Obviously, this approach means leaving out a few of my favorites, while including others that might not normally make a "top ten" list, but all of these are some of my very favorite films:

A
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, dir. Lewis Milestone)

B
Breathless (1960, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

C
Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)

D
Detour (1945, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)

E
8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)

F
400 Blows (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)

G
Gunga Din (1939, dir. George Stevens)

H
Henry V (1944, dir. Laurence Oliver)

I
I Confess (1953, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

J
Justine (1969, dir. George Cukor)

K
The Kennel Murder Case (1933, dir. Michael Curtiz)

L
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, dir. Alain Resnais)

M
M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang)

N
Naked City (1948, dir. Jules Dassin)

O
Open City (1945, dir. Roberto Rossellini)

P
Paths of Glory (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Q
Queen Christina (1933, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)

R
Ran (1985, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

S
Singin' in the Rain (1952, dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)

T
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

U
Ulysses (1967, dir. Joseph Strick)

V
Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

W
Wavelength (1967, dir. Michael Snow)

X
Dr. X (1932, dir. Michael Curtiz)

Y
Young and Innocent (1937, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Z
Z (1969, dir. C. Costa-Gavras)