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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Ernst Lubitsch
Trouble in Paradise
Witty, wonderful, wacky Lubitsch at his best. His daughter worked at KCRW!
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Marcel Carné
Children of Paradise
You can hear J.-L. Barrault cry “Garance!” from the other side of the world.
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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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Preston Sturges
Unfaithfully Yours
You’ll never watch a conductor the same way after seeing this great Preston Sturges film.
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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.
