My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Biography, Chinese Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Family, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Hong Kong Cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Romance, Taiwanese Cinema, Taiwanese Filmmakers, Top 314, War

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Cafe Lumiere, Daughter of the Nile, Flight of the Red Balloon, Flowers of Shanghai, Good Men Good Women, Goodbye South Goodbye, Millenium Mambo, The Assassin, The Puppetmaster 1993, Three Times

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1. The Assassin (2015)

2. Three Times (2005)

3. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

4. Cafe Lumière (2003)

5. The Puppermaster (1993)
(no relation to the 1989 horror film)

6. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

7. Good Men, Good Women (1995)

8. Millenium Mambo (2001)

9. Daughter of the Nile (1987)

10. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

My Favorite Kon Ichikawa Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, Anthology Films, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Kon Ichikawa, Lists, Music, Romance, Sport, Top 314, War

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47 Ronin 1994, An Actor's Revenge, Being Two Isn't Easy, Dora-heita, Fires on the Plain, Odd Obsession, The Burmese Harp 1956, The Makioka Sisters, Tokyo Olympiad (Documentary), Visions of Eight (The Fastest) (Documentary) (Anthology Film)

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

1. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
(Documentary)

2. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)

3. Fires on the Plain (1959)

4. The Burmese Harp (1956)

5. The Makioka Sisters (1983)

6. Odd Obsession (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7. Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

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

1. Visions of Eight (1973)
(Segment: “The Fastest”)
(Documentary)

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

1. Dora-heita (2001)

2. 47 Ronin (1994)

My Favorite Tobe Hooper Films

28 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Anthology Films, Cable/Television, Cinema, Comedy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Thriller, Tobe Hooper, Top 314

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Body Bags (Eye) (Anthology Film) (Short Cinema), Poltergeist, Salem's Lot (TV Miniseries), Tales from the Crypt (Dead Wait) (Cable Series), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

2. Salem’s Lot (1979)
(TV miniseries)

3. Poltergeist (1982)

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

1. Body Bags (1993)
(Segment: “Eye”)
(Cable Film)

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

1. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1991: “Dead Wait”)

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

27 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Romance, Silent Cinema, Sport, Television, Thriller, Top 314, War

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

1. The Birds (1963)

2. Vertigo (1958)

3. Psycho (1960)

4. Notorious (1946)

5. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

6. Marnie (1964)

7. The Wrong Man (1956)

8. The Trouble with Harry (1955)

9. Rear Window (1954)

10. Strangers on a Train (1951)

11. North by Northwest (1959)

12. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

13. The 39 Steps (1935)

14. Frenzy (1972)

15. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

16. Rope (1948)

17. Rebecca (1940)

18. Sabotage (1936)

19. Blackmail (1929)

20. The Lodger (1927)

21. Family Plot (1976)

22. I Confess (1953)

23. Topaz (1969)

24. Under Capricorn (1949)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Lifeboat (1944)

27. Dial M for Murder (1954)

28. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

29. Stage Fright (1950)

30. Young and Innocent (1937)

31. Secret Agent (1936)

32. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

33. Murder! (1930)

34. The Ring (1927)

35. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Suspicion (1941)

38. The Paradine Case (1947)

39. Saboteur (1942)

40. Torn Curtain (1966)

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

1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962)
(Episodes from Season 1: “Revenge”, “Breakdown” and “The Case of Mr. Pelham”)
(Episodes from Season 2: “Wet Saturday”, “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret” and “One More Mile to Go”)
(Episodes from Season 3: “The Perfect Crime”, “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “Dip in the Pool”)
(Episodes from Season 4: “Poison” and “Banquo’s Chair”)
(Episodes from Season 5: “Arthur” and “The Crystal Trench”)
(Episodes from Season 6: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat” and “The Horseplayer”)
(Episodes from Season 7: “Bang! You’re Dead”)

2. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965)
(Episode from Season 1: “I Saw the Whole Thing”)

My Favorite Walter Hill Films

27 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cable/Television, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Miniseries, Romance, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, Walter Hill, Western

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48 Hrs., Broken Trail (Cable Miniseries), Deadwood (Pilot) (Cable Series), Geronimo: An American Legend, Hard Times, Southern Comfort, Tales from the Crypt (Cutting Cards) (Cable Series), Tales from the Crypt (Deadline) (Cable Series), Tales from the Crypt (The Man Who Was Death) (Cable Series), The Driver, The Long Riders, The Warriors, Trespass 1992, Wild Bill

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

1. Southern Comfort (1981)

2. The Warriors (1979)

3. The Driver (1978)

4. Hard Times (1975)

5. The Long Riders (1980)

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

1. Deadwood (2004)
(Pilot Episode)

2. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1990: “Cutting Cards”)

3. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1989: “The Man Who Was Death”)

4. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1991: “Deadline”)

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

1. Wild Bill (1995)

2. 48 Hrs. (1982)

3. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

4. Trespass (1992)
(no relation to the 2011 film)

5. Broken Trail (2006)
(Cable Miniseries)
(Cable/Television)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Australian Cinema, Biography, British Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, German Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Horror, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Sport, Top 314, War, Werner Herzog

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Aguirre the Wrath of God, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, Ballad of the Little Soldier (Documentary), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary), Cobra Verde, Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary), Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana (Documentary), Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man (Documentary), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Documentary), Heart of Glass, Herdsmen of the Sun (Documentary), How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Documentary), Into the Abyss (Documentary), Invisible, La Soufriere (Documentary Short), Land of Silence and Darkness (Documentary), Lessons of Darkness (Documentary), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Documentary), Lo & Behold Reveries of the Connected World (Documentary), My Best Fiend (Documentary), Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979, Precautions Against Fanatics (Short Cinema), Rescue Dawn, Signs of Life, Stroszek, Ten Minutes Older (Ten Thousand Years Older) (Short Cinema), The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Documentary), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Flying Doctors of East Africa (Documentary), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Stein (Documentary), The White Diamond (Documentary), The Wild Blue Yonder (Documentary), Wheel of Time (Documentary), Where the Green Ants Dream, Woyzeck

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1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2. Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3. Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6. Stroszek (1977)

7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8. Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9. The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1. La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2. Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3. Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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

1. The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Lists, Monte Hellman, Romance, Spanish Cinema, Swiss Cinema, Thriller, Top 314, Western

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China 9 Liberty 37, Cockfighter, Iguana, Ride in the Whirlwind, Road to Nowhere, The Shooting, Two-Lane Blacktop

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

1. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2. The Shooting (1966)

3. Cockfighter (1974)

4. Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

5. Iguana (1988)

6. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

7. Road to Nowhere (2010)

My Favorite Howard Hawks Films

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Anthology Films, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, History, Howard Hawks, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Short Cinema, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, War, Western

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A Song Is Born, Air Force, Ball of Fire, Barbary Coast, Bringing Up Baby, Ceiling Zero, Come and Get It, El Dorado, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hatari!, His Girl Friday, I Was a Male War Bride, Land of the Pharaohs, Man's Favorite Sport?, Monkey Business 1952, O. Henry's Full House (Ransom of Red Chief) (Anthology Film) (Short Cinema), Only Angels Have Wings, Red Line 7000, Red River, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Scarface 1932, Sergeant York, The Big Sky, The Big Sleep 1946, The Criminal Code, The Crowd Roars, The Dawn Patrol, The Road to Glory 1936, Tiger Shark, To Have and Have Not, Today We Live, Twentieth Century

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1. Rio Bravo (1959)

2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

3. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

4. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

5. Hatari! (1962)

6. To Have and Have Not (1944)

7. Scarface (1932)

8. Twentieth Century (1934)

9. The Big Sky (1952)

10. The Big Sleep (1946)

11. Red River (1948)

12. His Girl Friday (1940)

13. El Dorado (1966)

14. Ball of Fire (1941)

15. Red Line 7000 (1965)

16. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

17. Sergeant York (1941)

18. Monkey Business (1952)
(no relation to the Marx brothers comedy)

19. Ceiling Zero (1936)

20. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

21. The Criminal Code (1931)

22. Rio Lobo (1970)

23. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

24. The Dawn Patrol (1930)

25. The Crowd Roars (1932)

26. Tiger Shark (1932)

27. Barbary Coast (1935)

28. Come and Get It (1936)
(co-director Willam Wyler does not count it among his own films)

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

1. O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
(Segment: “Ransom of Red Chief”)

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

1. A Song Is Born (1948)

2. Air Force (1943)

3. Today We Live (1933)

4. The Road to Glory (1936)

My Favorite Michael Haneke Films

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, Arabic Cinema, Austrian Cinema, Austrian Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Horror, Italian Cinema, Lists, Michael Haneke, Mystery, Romance, Romanian Cinema, Swiss Cinema, Thriller, Top 314

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Amour, Benny's Video, Cache, Code Unknown, Funny Games 1997, Funny Games 2007, The Piano Teacher, The Seventh Continent, The White Ribbon, Time of the Wolf

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

1. Amour (2012)

2. Cache (2005)

3. Funny Games (1997)

4. The White Ribbon (2009)

5. Code Unknown (2000)

6. The Piano Teacher (2001)

7. Funny Games (2007)
(American remake)

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

1. Benny’s Video (1992)

2. The Seventh Continent (1989)

3. Time of the Wolf (2003)

My Favorite Alan Clarke Films

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Alan Clarke, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Short Cinema, Television, Top 314

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Elephant 1989 (Short Film), Made in Britain (TV Film), Rita Sue and Bob Too, Scum 1977 (TV Film), Scum 1982, The Firm 1989 (TV Film)

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

1. The Firm (1989)
(TV Film)
(No relation to the 1993 Tom Cruise film)

2. Made in Britain (1982)
(TV Film)

3. Scum (1979)

4. Scum (1977)
(TV Film)

5. Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1. Elephant (1989)

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My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

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My Favorite Tobe Hooper Films

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

My Favorite Walter Hill Films

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films

My Favorite Howard Hawks Films

My Favorite Michael Haneke Films

My Favorite Alan Clarke Films