My Favorite Fritz Lang Films

19 Saturday May 2018

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956, Clash by Night, Destiny, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Fritz Lang's Indian Epic: The Indian Tomb, Fritz Lang's Indian Epic: The Tiger Of Eschnapur, Fury 1936, Hangmen Also Die!, House by the River, Human Desire, Liliom, M, Man Hunt, Metropolis, Ministry of Fear, Moonfleet, Rancho Notorious, Scarlet Street, Secret Beyond the Door, Spies, The Big Heat, The Blue Gardenia, The Spiders Parts I and II, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The Woman in the Window, While the City Sleeps, Woman in the Moon, You and Me, You Only Live Once

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1. M (1931)

2. Spies (1928)

3. Liliom (1934)

4. Scarlet Street (1945)

5. While the City Sleeps (1956)

6. Fury (1936)

7. The Woman in the Window (1944)

8. The Big Heat (1953)

9. You Only Live Once (1937)

10. Rancho Notorious (1952)

11. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

12. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

13. Die Nibelungen (1924)

14. Metropolis (1927)

15. Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

16. Moonfleet (1955)

17. Destiny (1921)

18. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

19. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

20. Human Desire (1954)

21. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

22. You and Me (1938)

23. Woman in the Moon (1929)

24. The Spiders Parts I and II (1919/1920)

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

1. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

2. Clash by Night (1952)

3. House by the River (1950)

4. Ministry of Fear (1944)

5. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

6. Man Hunt (1941)

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films

09 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Buster Keaton, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Family, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Pre-1920's Cinema, Romance, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Sport, Top 314, Western

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Allez Oop (Short Film), Blue Blazes (Short Film), College, Convict 13 (Short Film), Cops (Short Film), Day Dreams (Short Film), Go West, Grand Slam Opera (Short Film), Hard Luck (Short Film), My Wife's Relations (Short Film), Neighbors (Short Film), One Run Elmer (Short Film), One Week (Short Film), Our Hospitality, Seven Chances, Sherlock. Jr, Steamboat Bill Jr., Tars and Stripes (Short Film), The Balloonatic (Short Film), The Blacksmith (Short Film), The Boat (Short Film), The Cameraman, The Electric House (Short Film), The Frozen North (Short Film), The General 1926, The Goat (Short Film), The Gold Ghost (Short Film), The Haunted House (Short Film), The High Sign (Short Film), The Love Nest (Short Film), The Navigator, The Paleface 1922 (Short Film), The Playhouse (Short Film), The Rough House (Short Film), The Scarecrow (Short Film), Three Ages

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

1. The General (1926)
(co-directed with Clyde Bruckman)

2. Sherlock Jr. (1924)

3. The Navigator (1924)
(co-directed with Donald Crisp)

4. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
(co-directed with Charles Reisner)

5. The Cameraman (1928)
(co-directed with Edward Sedgwick)

6. Our Hospitality (1923)
(co-directed with John G. Blystone)

7. Seven Chances (1925)

8. Go West (1925)

9. Three Ages (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1917-1923)

1. One Week (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

2. The Scarecrow (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

3. The Goat (1921)
(co-directed with Malcolm St. Clair)

4. Cops (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

5. The Playhouse (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

6. The High Sign (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

7. Neighbors (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

8. The Electric House (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

9. The Boat (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

10. Hard Luck (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

11. Convict 13 (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

12. The Love Nest (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

13. The Blacksmith (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

14. The Paleface (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)
(no relation to the Bob Hope movie)

15. The Haunted House (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

16. Day Dreams (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

17. The Balloonatic (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

18. My Wife’s Relations (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

19. The Frozen North (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

20. The Rough House (1917)
(co-directed with Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1934-1937) (Educational Pictures)

1. Grand Slam Opera (1936)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

2. Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

3. One Run Elmer (1935)
(allegedly, Charles Lamont co-directed)

4. Allez Oop (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

5. The Gold Ghost (1934)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

6. Blue Blazes (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

7. Mixed Magic (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

8. Tars and Stripes (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

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

1. College (1927)
(co-directed with James W. Horne)

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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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 D.W. Griffith Films

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, D.W. Griffith, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Pre-1920's Cinema, Romance, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Thriller, Top 313, War, Western

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

1. Intolerance (1916)

2. Broken Blossoms (1919)

3. True Heart Susie (1919)

4. Way Down East (1920)

5. Orphans of the Storm (1921)

6. Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)

7. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

8. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)

9. The Greatest Question (1919)

10. The White Rose (1923)

11. The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

12. America (1924)

13. Home, Sweet Home (1914)

14. Judith of Bethulia (1914)

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

1. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

2. The Last Drop of Water (1911)

3. The Lonedale Operator (1911)

4. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

5. The Red Man’s View (1909)

6. Ramona (1910)

7. An Unseen Enemy (1912)

8. The Girl and Her Trust (1912)

9. The Massacre (1912)

10. The Mothering Heart (1913)

11. The New York Hat (1912)

12. In the Border States (1910)

13. The Country Doctor (1909)

14. For His Son (1912)

15. Enoch Arden: Parts I and II (1911)

16. The Sunbeam (1912)

17. The Unchanging Sea (1910)

18. The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)

19. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)

20. The Miser’s Heart (1911)

21. A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)

22. The House of Darkness (1913)

23. The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)

24. What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)

25. Those Awful Hats (1909)

26. The Girls and Daddy (1909)

27. The Song of the Shirt (1908)

28. The Sealed Room (1909)

29. The Lonely Villa (1909)

30. The Female of the Species (1912)

31. The Painted Lady (1912)

32. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

33. A Flash of Light (1910)

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

1. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

2. One Exciting Night (1922)

3. The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shall Not Kill’ (1914)

4. The Love Flower (1920)

5. Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

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

1. The Golden Louis (1909)

2. The Taming of the Shrew (1908)

3. The Lesser Evil (1912)

4. The Rocky Road (1910)

5. Resurrection (1909)

6. The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)

7. Money Mad (1908)

8. The Transformation of Mike (1912)

9. The Fugitive (1910)

10. Faithful (1910)

11. Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience (1909)

12. The Hessian Renegades (1909)

13. Her First Biscuits (1909)

14. A Drunkard’s Reformation (1909)

15. The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

16. Friends (1912)

17. The Battle (1911)

18. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)

19. Fools of Fate (1909)

20. The Curtain Pole (1909)

21. Swords and Hearts (1911)

22. An Arcadian Maid (1910)

23. What the Daisy Said (1910)

24. As It Is in Life (1910)

25. At the Altar (1909)

26. Romance of a Jewess (1908)

27. Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)

28. The Cord of Life (1909)

29. His Trust/His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

30. Balked at the Altar (1908)

31. Getting Even (1909)

32. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

33. Father Gets in the Game (1908)

My Favorite Abel Gance Films

19 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, Abel Gance, Biography, Cinema, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Lists, Pre-1920's Cinema, Silent Cinema, Top 313, War

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J'accuse!, La Roue, Napoleon 1927

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1. Napoleon (1927)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2. La Roue (1923)

3. J’accuse (1919)

My Favorite John Ford Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Film Directors, Greatest, History, John Ford, Lists, Mexican Cinema, Pre-1920's Cinema, Romance, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Television, Top 314, War, Western

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3 Bad Men, 3 Godfathers, 7 Women, Bucking Broadway, Cheyenne Autumn, Doctor Bull, Donovan's Reef, Drums Along the Mohawk, Fort Apache, Four Sons, Gideon's Day (a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard), Hangman's House, How Green Was My Valley, How the West Was Won (The Civil War), Judge Priest, Mary of Scotland, Mogambo, My Darling Clementine, Pilgrimage, Rio Grande, Sergeant Rutledge, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach, Steamboat Round the Bend, Straight Shooting, The Fugitive 1947, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hurricane 1937, The Informer, The Iron Horse, The Last Hurrah, The Long Gray Line, The Long Voyage Home, The Lost Patrol, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, The Sun Shines Bright, The Whole Town's Talking, The Wings of Eagles, The World Moves On, They Were Expendable, Tobacco Road, Two Rode Together, Up the River, Wagon Master, Wagon Train (The Colter Craven Story) (TV Series), Young Mr. Lincoln

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1. Wagon Master (1950)

2. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

3. Fort Apache (1948)

4. 7 Women (1966)

5. Stagecoach (1939)

6. The Fugitive (1947)
(no relation to the 1993 film)

7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

8. The Quiet Man (1952)

9. My Darling Clementine (1946)

10. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

11. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

12. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

13. Judge Priest (1934)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. Pilgrimage (1933)

16. 3 Bad Men (1926)

17. Gideon’s Day (1958)
(a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard)

18. Hangman’s House (1928)

19. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

20. Four Sons (1928)

21. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

22. They Were Expendable (1945)

23. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

24. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

25. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

26. The Iron Horse (1924)

27. Tobacco Road (1941)

28. The Long Gray Line (1955)

29. The Informer (1935)

30. Two Rode Together (1961)

31. 3 Godfathers (1948)

32. Rio Grande (1950)

33. The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

34. Doctor Bull (1933)

35. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

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

1. How the West Was Won (1962)
(Segment: “The Civil War”)

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

1. Wagon Train (1957-1965)
(Episode from Season 4: “The Colter Craven Story”)

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

1. Donovan’s Reef (1963)

2. Mogambo (1953)

3. The Last Hurrah (1958)

4. The Hurricane (1937)

5. Mary of Scotland (1936)

6. The Lost Patrol (1934)

7. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

8. The World Moves On (1934)

9. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

10. Up the River (1930)

11. Bucking Broadway (1917)

12. Straight Shooting (1917)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Family, Film Directors, German Cinema, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Lists, Silent Cinema, Top 313

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Elephant Boy, Louisiana Story, Man of Aran (Documentary), Moana 1926 (Documentary), Nanook of the North (Documentary), The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (Documentary)

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

1. Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

2. Louisiana Story (1948)

3. Moana (1926)
(Documentary)
(no relation to the 2016 Disney film)

4. Man of Aran (1934)
(Documentary)

5. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Documentary)

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

1. Elephant Boy (1937)
(co-directed with Zoltan Korda)

My Favorite Sergei Eisenstein Films

11 Wednesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, Biography, Cinema, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Lists, Russian Cinema, Russian Filmmakers, Sergei Eisenstein, Silent Cinema, Soviet Cinema, Soviet Filmmakers, Top 314, War

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Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin, Bezhin Meadow (Short Cinema), Glumov's Diary (Short Cinema), Ivan the Terrible Part I, Ivan the Terrible Part II, October: Ten Days that Shook the World, Que Viva Mexico!, Romance sentimentale (Short Cinema), Strike, The General Line

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1. Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944/1945)

2. Alexander Nevsky (1938)

3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

4. October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)
(co-directed with Grigori Alekandrov)

5. Strike (1925)

6. Que Viva Mexico! (1932/1979)

7. The General Line (1929)
(co-directed with Grigori Alekandrov)

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

1. Bezhin Meadow (1937)

2. Glumov’s Diary (1923)
(I watched it on youtube)

3. Romance sentimentale (1930)

My Favorite Allan Dwan Films

09 Monday Apr 2018

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A Modern Musketeer, Driftwood, Heidi 1937, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Robin Hood 1922, Sands of Iwo Jima, Silver Lode, Slightly Scarlet, The Iron Mask 1929, Zaza

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

1. Silver Lode (1954)

2. Slightly Scarlet (1956)

3. Driftwood (1947)

4. Robin Hood (1922)

5. Zaza (1923)

6. The Iron Mask (1929)

7. A Modern Musketeer (1917)

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

1. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

2. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

3. Heidi (1937)

My Favorite Carl Theodor Dreyer Films

08 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, Biography, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Cinema, Comedy, Danish Cinema, Danish Filmmakers, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Romance, Silent Cinema, Swedish Cinema, Top 314

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Day of Wrath, Gertrud, Leaves from Satan's Book, Master of the House, Michael 1924, Ordet, The Parson's Widow, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr

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1. Gertrud (1964)

2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

3. Day of Wrath (1943)

4. Vampyr (1932)

5. Ordet (1955)

6. Michael (1924)

7. Master of the House (1925)

8. The Parson’s Widow (1920)

9. Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921)

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