Month: March 2018

My Favorite George Cukor Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

2.   Bhowani Junction (1956)

3.   Adam’s Rib (1949)

4.   A Star Is Born (1954)

5.   Les Girls (1957)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Double Life (1947)

2.   Edward, My Son (1949)

3.   The Actress (1953)

4.   The Marrying Kind (1952)

5.   Pat and Mike (1952)

6.   Holiday (1938)

7.   The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8.   Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(Television)

9.   The Women (1939)

10. Travels with My Aunt (1972)

11. It Should Happen to You (1954)

12. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

13. Born Yesterday (1950)

14. Gaslight (1944)

15. A Woman’s Face (1941)

16. Camille (1936)

17. Little Women (1933)

18. Dinner at Eight (1933)

19. David Copperfield (1935)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Dead Ringers (1988)

5.   The Fly (1986)

6.   The Brood (1979)

7.   Naked Lunch (1991)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   Spider (2002)

10. Rabid (1977)

11. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

12. Scanners (1981)

13. Maps to the Stars (2014)

14. eXistenZ (1999)

15. Cosmopolis (2012)

16. The Dead Zone (1983)

17. A Dangerous Method (2011)

18. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
18a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

19. M. Butterfly (1993)

20. Fast Company (1979)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Conformist (1970)

2.   Besieged (1998)

3.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

4.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

5.   1900 (1976)

6.   Luna (1979)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Before the Revolution (1964)

2.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

My Favorite Sergio Corbucci Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Great Silence (1968)
(a.k.a The Big Silence)

2.   Django (1966)

3.   Companeros (1970)

4.   The Mercenary (1968)

5.   The Hellbenders (1967)

6.   Sonny and Jed (1972)
(I watched it online)

7.   The Specialists (1969)

My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

2.   The Conversation (1974)

3a. The Godfather (1972)
3b. The Godfather Part II (1974)

4.   Rumble Fish (1983)

5.   The Rain People (1969)

6.   The Cotton Club (1984)

7.   One from the Heart (1982)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Godfather Part III (1990)

My Favorite Larry Cohen Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   God Told Me To (1976)

2.   Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

3.   It’s Alive (1974)

4.   The Stuff (1985)

5.   The Ambulance (1990)

6.   Masters of Horror (2006)
6a. Episode: “Pick Me Up”
(Cable/Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Bone (1972)

2.   Black Caesar (1973)

3.   The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

4.   It Lives Again (1978)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Orpheus (1950)

2.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   Beauty and the Beast (1946)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   The Testament of Orpheus (1960)

My Favorite Robert Bresson Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   L’Argent (1983)

2.   Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

3.   A Man Escaped (1956)

4.   Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

5.   Pickpocket (1959)

6.   Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

7.   Mouchette (1967)

8.   Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

9.   The Devil Probably (1977)

10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

11. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

12. A Gentle Woman (1969)

13. Angels of Sin (1943)