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Alt Film Guide's "Best Films of …" lists, which we'll begin updating and reposting — a few years at a time — this July 4 weekend, consist of highly personal and highly eclectic suggestions of films you might want to either check out or avoid like the plague, depending on how you feel about our choices. [Scroll down for the (as-yet incomplete, non-updated) Best Films [...]

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane FILM Cheers for Miss Bishop d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron Citizen Kane d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles The Devil and Miss Jones d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna Dumbo d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others The Great Lie d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee Here Comes Mr. Jordan [...]

Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]

The Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir FILM Gone with the Wind d: Victor Fleming; scr: Sidney Howard Le Jour se lève / Daybreak d: Marcel Carné; scr: Jacques Viot, Jacques Prévert Midnight d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett Mr. Smith Goes to Washington d: Frank Capra; scr: Sidney Buchman Ninotchka d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch The [...]