Tom Schnabel’s Top10
Music director at Los Angeles’s KCRW radio station, Tom Schnabel started the daily program Morning Becomes Eclectic in the 1980s, first bringing world music to U.S. radio with such artists as Buena Vista Social Club, Ravi Shankar, and Caetano Veloso. Schnabel is also currently the program adviser for the Hollywood Bowl and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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1
Ernst Lubitsch
Trouble in Paradise
Witty, wonderful, wacky Lubitsch at his best. His daughter worked at KCRW!
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2
Federico Fellini
La strada
I always cry at the end, then go out for pasta and cheap red wine.
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3
Marcel Carné
Children of Paradise
You can hear J.-L. Barrault cry “Garance!” from the other side of the world.
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4
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
So funny I disrupted a screening with my laughter.
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5
Luis Buñuel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The only thing better than this great movie is Buñuel’s autobiography, My Last Sigh.
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6
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear
The suspense is mesmerizing, even paralyzing.
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7
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman in the Dunes
It’s as much an impressionist painting as it is a film.
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8
Kon Ichikawa
Tokyo Olympiad
This great film was made back when Olympic athletes were regular folk.
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9
Preston Sturges
Unfaithfully Yours
You’ll never watch a conductor the same way after seeing this great Preston Sturges film.
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10
Roger Vadim
And God Created Woman
I saw this movie as an adolescent in the late fifties, at the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades, and it made me feel strange things I’d never felt before . . . I also thought that Brigitte Bardot was the number-one sex kitten on earth.
