Monthly Archives: June 2018

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.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

4.   Ride the High Country (1962)

5.   Cross of Iron (1977)

6.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

7.   Junior Bonner (1972)

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”)

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My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Anthology Films, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Horror, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Romance, Short Cinema, Top 304, War

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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)

My Favorite Park Chan-wook Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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1.   Oldboy (2003)

2.   The Handmaiden (2016)

3.   Joint Security Area (2000)

4.   Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

5.   Lady Vengeance (2005)

6.   Thirst (2009)

7.   I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006)

8.   Stoker (2013)

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

1.   Three… Extremes (2004)
(Segment: “Cut”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Jafar Panahi Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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1.   The Circle (2000)

2.   The White Balloon (1995)

3.   This Is Not a Film (2011)
(Documentary)

4.   The Mirror (1997)

5.   Crimson Gold (2003)

6.   Taxi (2015)
(a.k.a. Taxi Tehran)

7.   Offside (2006)

My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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1.   Pandora’s Box (1929)

2.   Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

3.   Kameradschaft (1931)

4.   Westfront 1918 (1930)

5.   The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)

6.   The Threepenny Opera (1931)

7.   The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
(co-directed with Arnold Fanck)

8.   Secrets of a Soul (1926)

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1.   Don Quixote (1933)

2.   L’Atlantide (1932)

My Favorite Nick Park Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animated Short)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animated Short)

3.   Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animated Short)

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animated Short)

5.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animated Short)

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animated Film)

2.   Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animated Film)

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

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films

18 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

4.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

5.   Early Summer (1951)

6.   Tokyo Twilight (1957)

7.   Late Autumn (1960)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Floating Weeds (1959)

10. Equinox Flower (1958)

11. The Only Son (1936)

12. Good Morning (1959)

13. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. Early Spring (1956)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

18. Dragnet Girl (1933)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

My Favorite Francois Ozon Films

18 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   Under the Sand (2000)

2.   See the Sea (1997)

3.   Frantz (2016)

4.   Swimming Pool (2003)

5.   In the House (2012)

6.   Time to Leave (2005)

7.   Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)

8.   Young & Beautiful (2013)

9.   5×2 (2004)

10. Sitcom (1998)

11. The New Girlfriend (2014)

12. Criminal Lovers (1999)

13. Potiche (2010)

14. The Refuge (2009)

15. 8 Women (2002)

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

1.   A Summer Dress (1996)

2.   Little Death (1995)

3.   Bed Scenes (1998)

4.   Truth or Dare (1994)
(not the 1991 Madonna documentary)

5.   X2000 (1998)

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

1.   Ricky (2009)

2.   Angel (2007)

My Favorite Nagisa Oshima Films

18 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

2.   Gohatto (1999)
(a.k.a. Taboo)

3.   Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

4.   Death by Hanging (1968)

5.   The Sun’s Burial (1960)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

6.   Violence at Noon (1966)

7.   Empire of Passion (1978)

8.   Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

9.   Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
(I saw it on and old VHS Tape)

10. Japanesse Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

11. Sing a Song of Sex (1967)

12. Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

13. Max Mon Amour (1968)

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films

17 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Le Plaisir (1952)

5.   Lola Montes (1955)

6.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

7.   Caught (1949)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   Everybody’s Woman (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)