Monthly Archives: June 2018

My Favorite Sam Raimi Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Evil Dead II (1987)

2.   The Evil Dead (1981)

3.   Spider-Man 2 (2004)

4.   Drag Me to Hell (2009)

5.   A Simple Plan (1998)

6.   Army of Darkness (1992)

7.   Darkman (1990)

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

1.   Ash vs Evil Dead (2015-2018)
(Episode from Season 1: “El Jefe”)

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

1.   Crimewave (1985)

2.   Spider-Man (2002)

3.   The Quick and the Dead (1995)

4.   Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

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My Favorite Stephen and Timothy Quay Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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

1.   Street of Crocodiles (1986)
(Animated Short)

2.   The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
(Animated Short)

3.   Are We Still Married? (1992)
(Animated Short)

4.   Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (1993)
(Animated Short)

5.   De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
(Animated Short)

6.   Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (1993)
(Animated Short)

7.   Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
(Animated Short)

8.   Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
(Animated Short)

9.   Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

10. The Comb (1991)
(Animated Short)

11. Maska (2010)
(Animated Short)

12. Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
(Documentary Short)

13. In Absentia (2000)
(Animated Short)

14. The Phantom Museum (2003)
(Animated Short)

15. Unmistaken Hands (2013)
(Animated Short)

16. The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Institute Benjamenta (1995)

2.   The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (2005)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films

26 Tuesday Jun 2018

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1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

3.   Angel Face (1952)

4.   Such Good Friends (1971)

5.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

6.   The Human Factor (1979)

7.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

8.   Laura (1944)

9.   Skidoo (1968)

10. Advise and Consent (1962)

11. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

12. Carmen Jones (1954)

13. In Harm’s Way (1965)

14. The Cardinal (1963)

15. Exodus (1960)

16. Saint Joan (1957)

17. Hurry Sundown (1967)

18. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)

19. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

20. Fallen Angel (1945)

21. Whirlpool (1949)

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

1.   The Moon Is Blue (1953)

2.   River of No Return (1954)

3.   Forever Amber (1947)

 

P.S. I have not seen The 13th Letter (1951) and Porgy and Bess (1959) yet.

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

25 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2.   The Red Shoes (1948)

3.   Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

4.   Black Narcissus (1947)

5.   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

6.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

8.   Gone to Earth (1950)
(I watched it on youtube)

9.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)

11. The Small Back Room (1949)

12. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

13. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

14. Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
(TV Documentary)

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

1.   An Airman’s Letter to His Mother (1941)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

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1.   The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

2.   One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

3.   49th Parallel (1941)

4.   Contraband (1940)

5.   The Spy in Black (1939)

My Favorite Ted Post Films

25 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   The Baby (1973)

2.   Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

3.   Magnum Force (1973)

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

1.   The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
(Episodes from Season 1: “A World of Difference”)
(Episodes from Season 5: “Probe 7, Over and Out”, “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” and “The Fear”)

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1.   Hang ‘Em High (1968)

My Favorite Gillo Pontecorvo Films

25 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   The Battle of Algiers (1966)

2.   Burn! (1969)

3.   Kapo (1960)

4.   The Wide Blue Road (1957)

My Favorite Roman Polanski Films

24 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   Chinatown (1974)

2.   Repulsion (1965)

3.   The Ghost Writer (2010)

4.   Bitter Moon (1992)

5.   Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

6.   The Tenant (1976)

7.   Knife in the Water (1962)

8.   Cul-de-sac (1966)

9.   Macbeth (1971)

10. The Pianist (2002)

11. Tess (1979)

12. Venus in Fur (2013)

13. Death and the Maiden (1994)

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

1.   Frantic (1988)

2.   Carnage (2011)

3.   The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

My Favorite Arthur Penn Films

21 Thursday Jun 2018

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1.   Night Moves (1975)
(no relation to the 2013 film)

2.   Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

3.   The Missouri Breaks (1976)

4.   Little Big Man (1970)

5.   Alice’s Restaurant (1969)

6.   The Chase (1966)
(no relation to the 1994 film)

7.   Mickey One (1965)

8.   The Left Handed Gun (1958)

9.   Four Friends (1981)

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

1.   The Miracle Worker (1962)

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

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

My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

2.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

3.   Cross of Iron (1977)

4.   Ride the High Country (1962)

5.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

6.   Junior Bonner (1972)

7.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

8.   Straw Dogs (1971)

9.   Major Dundee (1965)

10. The Getaway (1972)

11. The Deadly Companions (1961)

12. The Killer Elite (1975)

13. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

14. Convoy (1978)

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

1.   Noon Wine (1966)
(Episode of ABC Stage 67)

2.   The Rifleman (1958-1963)
(Episodes from Season 1: “The Marshall”, “The Boarding House” and “The Money Gun”)
(Episode from Season 2: “The Baby Sitter”)

3.   The Westerner (1960)
(1959 Pilot-“Trouble at Tres Cruzes”)
(Episodes from Season 1: “Jeff”, “Brown”, “The Courting of Libby”, “Hand on the Gun” and “The Painting”)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre (1956-1961)
(Episode from Season 3: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”)
(Episodes from Season 4: “Lonesome Road and “Miss Jenny”)

5.   Route 66 (1960-1964)
(Episode from Season 2: “Mon Petit Chou”)

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 

2.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

3.   Teorema (1968)

4.   Mamma Roma (1962)

5.   Oedipus Rex (1967)

6.   Arabian Nights (1974)

7.   Medea (1969)

8.   The Decameron (1971)

9.   Pigsty (1969)

10. The Canterbury Tales (1972)

11. Accattone (1961)

12. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

13. Love Meetings (1964)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Ro.Go.Pa.G (1963)
(Segment: “La ricotta”)
(Anthology Film)

2.   Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   The Witches (1967)
(Segment: “The Earth Seen From The Moon”)
(Anthology Film)