Continuing fromyesterday's listing of "Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten films". We begin today with the very earliest that he cites, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 Броненосец«Потемкин» Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)
The Franco-centric nature of Allen's choices we've remarked upon already - two Jean Cocteaus and two Marcel Carnés. This is the second one of Carné's, his classic 1938 film noir, Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows)
et aussi français - Jean Renoir's 1937 La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)
To conclude with two more closer-to-home. The first, Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's "Pull My Daisy". We've spotlighted that Beat classic several times before- likehere.
Here it is again:
and we've also spotlighted many times the extraordinary Harry Smith - (here, here, here, here, here andhere, for example).
Here's Allen's final choice, his utterly remarkable Heaven and Earth Magic