David Ansen S Life At The Movies
I started by retroactively listing all the movies I’d seen since 1950, my memory aided by annual hardback anthologies called Screen World, which were compiled by my favorite uncle, Daniel Blum. These were my sacred texts. The first entry is “Cinderella” (Very Good). At the top of the page, displayed like pennants of college football teams, were my favorite movies of all (12 years’) time: “Giant,” “Stalag 17,” “High Noon,” “Picnic,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “Carmen Jones....