My Favorite George Stevens Films (New)

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

1.   A Place in the Sun (1951)

2.   Shane (1953)

3.   Giant (1956)

4.   Alice Adams (1935)

5.   Annie Oakley (1935)

6.   I Remember Mama (1948)

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

1.   The Talk of the Town (1942)

2.   Vivacious Lady (1938)

3.   A Damsel in Distress (1937)

4.   Woman of the Year (1942)

5.   The More the Merrier (1943)

6.   Swing Time (1936)

7.   Gunga Din (1939)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films (New)

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

1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Anger Face (1953)

3.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

4.   Laura (1944)

5.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

6.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

7.   Such Good Friends (1971)

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

1.   Fallen Angel (1945)

2.   The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

3.   Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

4.   Advise and Consent (1962)

5.   The 13th Letter (1951)

6.   The Cardinal (1963)

7.   Whirlpool (1949)

 

My Favorite Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films (New)

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

1.   All About Eve (1950)

2.   Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

3.   Julius Caesar (1953)

4.   No Way Out (1950)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

5.   The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

6.   People Will Talk (1951)

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

1.   A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

2.   House of Strangers (1949)

3.   The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

4.   Guys and Dolls (1955)

5.   Sleuth (1972)
(Not the 2007 version)

My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films (New)

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

1.   Gun Crazy (1949)

2.   Cry of the Hunted (1953)

3.   The Halliday Brand (1957)

4.   The Big Combo (1955)

5.   Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

6.   So Dark the Night (1946)

7.   My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

8.   The Undercover Man (1949)
(I saw it a long time ago on TCM)

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

1.   A Lady Without Passport (1950)

2.   Retreat, Hell! (1952)

3.   A Lawless Street (1955)

4.   Desperate Search (1952)

5.   7th Cavalry (1956)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Elia Kazan Films (New)

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

1.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

2.   Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

3.   Pinky (1949)

4.   On the Waterfront (1954)

5.   Splendor in the Grass (1961)

6.   The Last Tycoon (1976)

7.   A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

8.   East of Eden (1955)

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

1.   Wild River (1960)

2.   Baby Doll (1956)

3.   Boomerang (1947)
(No relation to the 1992 Eddie Murphy comedy of the same name)

4.   A Face in the Crowd (1957)

5.   Panic in the Streets (1950)

6.   Viva Zapata! (1952)

My Favorite Jules Dassin Films (New)

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

1.   Brute Force (1947)

2.   Uptight (1968)

3.   Rififi (1955)

4.   Thieves Highway (1949)

5.   Night and the City (1950) (Not the 1992 version)

6.   The Naked City (1948)

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

1.   Topkapi (1964)

2.   Never on Sunday (1960)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau (New)

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

1.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Not the 1991 animated version)

3.   Orpheus (1950)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   Testament of Orpheus (1960)

6.   The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
(co-directed with Hans Richter)

(I watched it on youtube)

8.   La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
(Short Film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   Regeneration (1915)

3.   High Sierra (1941)

4.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)

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

1.   The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

2.   They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Dark Command (1940)

5.   They Drive By Night (1940)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   The Big Trail (1930)

8.   What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)

9.   The Bowery (1933)

10. Manpower (1941)

11. Colorado Territory (1949)

12. The Man I Love (1947)

13. Pursued (1947)

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

My Favorite Luchino Visconti Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

2.   Bellissima (1951)

3.   Senso (1954)

4.   Conversation Piece (1974)

5.   The Innocent (1976)

6.   White Nights (1957)

7.   La Terra Trema (1948)

8.   Death in Venice (1971)

9.   Ludwig (1972)

10. The Damned (1969)

11. The Leopard (1963)

12. Ossessione (1943)

13. Sandra of a Thousand Delights (1965)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

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

1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Job”)

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

1.   The Stranger (1967)
(No relation to the 1946 film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Black Cat (1934)

2.   Detour (1945)

3.   Bluebeard (1944)

4.   Ruthless (1948)

5.   The Man from Planet X (1951)

6.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

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

1.   Strange Illusion (1945)

2.   Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

3.   The Strange Woman (1946)

Note: I first saw The Naked Dawn on television a decade ago on some TV station.