Author: John Charet

My Favorite Nagisa Oshima Films

by John Charet

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

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

by John Charet

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1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   Lola Montes (1955)

4.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

5.   La Ronde (1950)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Le Plaisir (1952)

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)

My Favorite Christopher Nolan Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Memento (2000)

2.   Dunkirk (2017)

3.   The Dark Knight (2008)

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

1.   The Prestige (2006)

2.   Inception (2010)

3.   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films

by John Charet

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1.   Safety Last! (1923)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   The Freshman (1925)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
(no relation to the 1990 film)

3.   Girl Shy (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

4.   Grandma’s Boy (1922)
(no relation to the 2006 film)

5.   Hot Water (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

6.   Dr. Jack (1922)

7.   A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

8.   Why Worry? (1923)

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

1.   Never Weaken (1921)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   Number, Please? (1920)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

3.   Among Those Present (1921)

4.   Now or Never (1921)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

My Favorite Mikio Naruse Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

2.   When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

3.   Every-Night Dreams (1933)

4.   Apart From You (1933)

5.   Street Without End (1934)

6.   No Blood Relation (1932)

7.   Flunky, Work Hard (1931)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

3.   The Last Laugh (1924)

4.   Nosferatu (1922)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   City Girl (1930)

7.   Tartuffe (1925)

8.   Phantom (1922)

9.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)

10. The Haunted Castle (1921)

My Favorite Cristian Mungiu Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Beyond the Hills (2012)

2.   4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

3.   Graduation (2016)

4.   Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
(co-directed with Hanna Hofer, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru and Razvan Marculescu)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Errol Morris Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Thin Blue Line (1988)

2.   Gates of Heaven (1978)

3.   The Fog of War (2003)

4.   Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

5.   Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

6.   The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)

7.   Vernon, Florida (1981)

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

1.   Tabloid (2010)

2.   Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

3.   The Unknown Known (2013)

4.   A Brief History of Time (1991)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

2.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

3.   Ugetsu (1953)

4.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

5.   Street of Shame (1956)

6.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

7.   Women of the Night (1948)

8.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

9.   The 47 Ronin (1941)