Monthly Archives: March 2018

My Favorite Michael Curtiz Films

29 Thursday Mar 2018

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1.   The Sea Hawk (1940)

2.   The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

3.   Captain Blood (1935)

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1.   The Breaking Point (1950)

2.   Mildred Pierce (1945)

3.   Casablanca (1942)

4.   The Sea Wolf (1941)

5.   Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

6.   Dodge City (1939)

7.   The Comancheros (1961)

My Favorite George Cukor Films

29 Thursday Mar 2018

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1.   Bhowani Junction (1956)

2.   Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

3.   A Star Is Born (1954)
(not the 1937,1876 or 2018 version)

4.   Adam’s Rib (1949)

5.   The Marrying Kind (1952)

6.   Les Girls (1957)

7.   The Actress (1953)

8.   A Double Life (1947)

9.   The Women (1939)
(not the 2008 version)

10. Camille (1936)

11. Gaslight (1944)
(I also love the 1940 version)

12. Holiday (1938)

13. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

14. Pat and Mike (1952)

15. It Should Happen to You (1954)

16. Born Yesterday (1950)
(not the 1993 remake)

17. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

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1.   Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(TV Film)

2.   Little Women (1933)
(not the 1949 or 1994 versions)

3.   Dinner at Eight (1933)

4.   David Copperfield (1935)

5.   What Price Hollywood? (1932)

6.   My Fair Lady (1964)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

28 Wednesday Mar 2018

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

2.   Videodrome (1983)

3.   A History of Violence (2005)

4.   Dead Ringers (1988)

5.   Spider (2002)

6.   The Fly (1986)

7.   Naked Lunch (1991)

8.   The Brood (1979)

9.   Eastern Promises (2007)

10. Maps to the Stars (2014)

11. Cosmopolis (2012)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Rabid (1977)

17. Shivers (1975)
(aka They Came from Within)

18. Scanners (1981)

19. Fast Company (1979)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

27 Tuesday Mar 2018

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1.   1900 (1976)

2.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

3.   The Conformist (1970)

4.   La Luna (1979)

5.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

6.   Before the Revolution (1964)

7.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

8.   Partner (1968)

9.   Besieged (1999)

10. Stealing Beauty (1996)

11. The Dreamers (2003)

12. The Sheltering Sky (1990)

13. The Last Emperor (1987)

14. Little Buddha (1993)

15. Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “Agony”)

2.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Histoire d’eaux”)

My Favorite Alex Cox Films

26 Monday Mar 2018

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1.   Walker (1987)

2.   Highway Patrolman (1991)

3.   Repo Man (1984)

4.   Sid & Nancy (1986)

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1.   Searchers 2.0 (2007)

2.   Revengers Tragedy (2002)

3.   Three Businessmen (1998)

4.   Death and the Compass (1992)

5.   Straight to Hell (1987)

My Favorite Costa-Gavras Films

26 Monday Mar 2018

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1.   Z (1969)

2.   State of Siege (1972)

3.   The Confession (1970)

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1.   Missing (1982)

My Favorite Sergio Corbucci Films

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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1.   The Great Silence (1968)
(aka The Big Silence)

2.   Django (1966)

3.   The Mercenary (1968)

4.   Companeros (1970)

5.   The Hellbenders (1967)

6.   Navajo Joe (1966)

7.   Minnesota Clay (1965)

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1.   Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)

2.   Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
(billed as Stanley Corbett) 

My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films

24 Saturday Mar 2018

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1.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

2.   The Conversation (1974)

3.   The Godfather Part II (1974)

4.   The Godfather (1972)

5.   Rumble Fish (1983)

6.   The Rain People (1969)

7.   The Cotton Club (1984)

8.   One from the Heart (1982)

9.   The Godfather Part III (1990)

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1.   Tetro (2009)

2.   Youth Without Youth (2007)

3.   Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

4.   Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

5.   The Outsiders (1983)

My Favorite Larry Cohen Films

24 Saturday Mar 2018

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1.   God Told Me To (1976)

2.   Q (1982)

3.   It’s Alive (1974)

4.   The Stuff (1985)

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

6.   Black Caesar (1973)

7.   Bone (1972)

8.   The Ambulance (1990)

9.   Special Effects (1984)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Pick Me Up (2006)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

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1.   Full Moon High (1981)

 

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

23 Friday Mar 2018

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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.   A Serious Man (2009)

8.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

9.   The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

10. True Grit (2010)

11. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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

13. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

14. Burn After Reading (2008)

15. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

16. Blood Simple (1984)