SOME OF TRAISTER'S FAVORITE FILMS
In merely
alphabetical order, these include:
- After Hours
- Big
Night
- Bringing Up Baby
- Casablanca
- Dr.
Strangelove
- Eating Raoul
- A Fish Called Wanda (and
Clockwise)
- Greetings
- Harry and
Tonto
- Ma nuit chez Maud
- Hiroshima, mon amour
- La
Dolce Vita (and La Strada)
- Little Shop of
Horrors
- Manhattan
- Once Upon a Time in
America
- Prince of the City (a better Serpico)
- The
Producers
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Secrets and
Lies
- The Seventh Seal
- Smoke (and its overly-maligned
near neighbor, Blue in the Face)
- When Harry Met
Sally
- Working Girl
Among the few more or less recent films Traister has enjoyed
are:
- Judy Berlin
- The Limey
- South
Park
- Titus
- Wonder Boys
In a special category all by themselves are some of his favorite documentaries
by one of his favorite directors, ,
- Oscar-winner (for Short Documentaries) for Close Harmony --
which also won an Emmy and a Christopher (and is distributed by Filmakers Library)
- Voices of
Sarafina
- Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
- The Charcoal
People/Os Carvoeiros
- and producer of The Beauty Academy of
Kabul.
Click here for Traister's film resources,
which includes a list of films related to various
eighteenth-century studies.
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send Traister e-mail concerning this page at
traister@pobox.upenn.edu
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