Daniel Joslyn

BEN-HUR (1959)

The biggest hit of its day has a supreme technical achievement slung over a story that feels to me like middling Bible fanfic.

A surprisingly funny take on World War II from the point of view of Polish actors, that came out only 3 months after Pearl Harbor.

James Dean’s most famous role, in the movie that kind of invented being a teenager.

A movie about a couple on the run after a crime spree. Seen that one before? Not like this.

A classic of all-encompassing paranoia, with some of the best practical effects you’ll ever see.

A meditation on… things, by the godmother of Avant Garde filmmaking.

My favorite romantic comedy of all time, it uses new tricks in every scene to get inside the neurotic heads of its characters.

Akira Kurosawa invented many of the tropes of the modern action movie in this great Japanese epic.

Scorsese’s “masterpiece” about a boxer whose life falls apart because of his toxic masculinity.

What should be the 100th movie inducted into Movie Valhalla? You decide!