Category Archives: 1940’s Cinema

My Favorite Jacques Tati Films

13 Monday Aug 2018

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1.   Playtime (1967)

2.   Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

3.   Mon Oncle (1958)

4.   Jour de Fete (1949)

5.   Trafic (1971)

6.   Parade (1974)
(French/Swedish TV Film)

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1.   Forza Bastia (1978/2002)
(finished by Sophie Tatischeff)
(Documentary)

2.   School for Postmen (1947)

3.   Gai dimanche (1935)
(co-directed with Jacques Berr)

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My Favorite John M. Stahl Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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1.   Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

2.   Imitation of Life (1934)

3.   The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

4.   Magnificent Obsession (1935)

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

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1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

8.   The Great McGinty (1940)

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1.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

2.   The Great Moment (1944)

My Favorite George Stevens Films

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

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1.   Swing Time (1936)

2.   Alice Adams (1935)

3.   Gunga Din (1939)

4.   Annie Oakley (1935)

5.   Woman of the Year (1942)

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1.   Shane (1953)

2.   Giant (1956)

3.   A Place in the Sun (1951)

4.   I Remember Mama (1948)

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films

03 Friday Aug 2018

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1.   Written on the Wind (1956)

2.   Imitation of Life (1959)

3.   There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

4.   A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6.   The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7.   Magnificent Obsession (1954)

8.   All I Desire (1953)

9.   Interlude (1957)

10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

11. Thunder on the Hill (1951)

12. Lured (1947)

13. A Scandal in Paris (1946)

14. Shockproof (1949)

15. Captain Lightfoot (1955)

16. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

My Favorite Don Siegel Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

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1.   The Beguiled (1971)

2.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

3.   Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

4.   Charley Varrick (1973)

5.   Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

6.   The Lineup (1958)

7.   The Shootist (1976)

8.   Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

9.   Dirty Harry (1971)

10. Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

11. Madigan (1968)

12. The Killers (1964)

13. Private Hell 36 (1954)

14. Baby Face Nelson (1957)
(I saw it on youtube)

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1.   Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

2.   The Big Steal (1949)

3.   Flaming Star (1960)

4.   The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)

5.   Edge of Eternity (1959)

6.   The Gun Runners (1958)

My Favorite Robert Rossen Films

23 Monday Jul 2018

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1.   Lilith (1964)

2.   The Hustler (1961)

3.   All the King’s Men (1949)

4.   Body and Soul (1947)

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1.   Johnny O’Clock (1947)

My Favorite Roberto Rossellini Films

23 Monday Jul 2018

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1.   Viva l’Italia! (1961)

2.   Journey to Italy (1954)
(a.k.a. Voyage to Italy)

3.   Germany, Year Zero (1948)

4.   The Taking of Power by Louis VIV (1966)
(French TV Film)

5.   Stromboli (1950)

6.   The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

7.   Paisan (1946)

8.   Rome, Open City (1945)

9.   General Della Rovere (1959)

10. Europe ’51 (1952)
(a.k.a. Europa ’51)

11. Escape by Night (1960)

12. The Age of the Medici (1973)
(Italian TV Miniseries)

13. Blaise Pascal (1972)
(French and Italian TV Film)

14. Cartesius (1974)
(French and Italian TV Film)

15. Where Is Freedom? (1954)

16. The Messiah (1975)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

17. Vanina Vanini (1961)

18. Joan of Arc At the Stake (1954)

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

My Favorite Mark Robson Films

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

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1.   The Seventh Victim (1943)

2.   Isle of the Dead (1945)

3.   Bedlam (1946)

4.   The Ghost Ship (1943)

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1.   Phffft (1954)

2.   The Harder They Fall (1956)

3.   Von Ryan’s Express (1965)

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films

16 Monday Jul 2018

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1.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

2.   The Golden Coach (1952)

3.   The Woman on the Beach (1947)

4.   French Cancan (1954)

5.   Grand Illusion (1937)

6.   Picnic on the Grass (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   La Bête Humaine (1938)

9.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

10. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

11. Toni (1935)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

12. A Day in the Country (1936)
(Short Film)

13. The River (1951)

14. The Southerner (1945)

15. Elena and Her Men (1956)

16. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1969)
(French/German/Italian TV Film)

17. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

18. La Marseillaise (1938)

19. The Lower Depths (1936)

20. The Little Match Girl (1928)
(Short Film)

21. Nana (1926)

22. The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)

23. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959)
(French TV Film)

24. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

25. On purge bebe (1931)

26. Charleston Parade (1927)
(Short Film)

27. Madame Bovary (1934)

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1.   This Land Is Mine (1943)

2.   Swamp Water (1941)