In Allied-occupied Berlin, a German boy and former Hitler Youth struggles to provide for his family in the war-torn city. Probably Ford’s most morally complex film. This black-and-white Western starring Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne tells the story-almost entirely through flashback-of a young lawyer traveling to a frontier town terrorized by an outlaw. The president attempts to contact the Soviet prime minister and prevent a nuclear catastrophe after a fleet of bombers is accidentally sent to destroy Moscow. Two French women-an aspiring singer and a young mother-leading parallel lives in the 1970s reunite as they search for meaning against the backdrop of the women’s liberation movement. Summaries 100-11 written by Julian Epp, 10-1 by J. Discuss away-and cast your own votes at our readers’ poll here. On the following pages, see what they came up with, as well as Hoberman’s overview essay, and some movies that we at TNR thought deserved a mention. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists. Hoberman changed it from “best” to “most significant” and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.) We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren’t sure what then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine’s great passion and come up with a list of history’s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures.
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