Interesting list, roujin. I love that you have Hartley on there.
Is it that you haven't seen Ball of Fire, Hatari!, The Thing from Another World, Twentieth Century, Air Force, I Can't Sleep, and Chocolat or you didn't like them/vibe with them? No Fear, No Die is very good but access is an issue.
Just haven't seen them. That's another reason as to why Ford/Hawks are so high. I still have so many potentially awesome films from them left to see.
Oh, I'm quite excited to see your future reviews of
Ball of Fire,
Twentieth Century,
Hatari!, and
Air Force in particular. Babs is so awesome in
Fire. I'm glad I revisited it a few weeks ago for the performances list because while watching it I was overcome by a remembrance of how happy I felt one winter break when I did a Hawks retrospective. Pretty sure another Hawks retro will be be going down before the deadline for the directors list. I'm not sure if
Twentieth Century has been talked about a little on the boards; it's a little like
His Girl Friday in terms of speedy dialogue delivery.
Air Force and
Hatari! were two films I wasn't expecting to dig as much as I do. I remember you being quite taken by Garfield in
Body and Soul, and I think he's great and, if I'm not misremembering, less mannered by today's acting standards in
Air Force.
Have you read Robin Wood's Hawks monograph? How about Fujiwara's Jerry Lewis?