1950’s Cinema

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Grand Illusion (1937)

2.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

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

4.   The River (1951)

5.   The Southerner (1945)

6.   The Golden Coach (1952)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

9.   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

10. La Bete Humaine (1938)

11. Toni (1935)

12. French Cancan (1954)

13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)

14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)

15. The Lower Depths (1936)

16. Elena and Her Men (1956)

17. La Marseillaise (1938)

18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)

My Favorite Satyajit Ray Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.  The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
      Pather Panchali (1955)
      Aparajito (1956)
      The World of Apu (1959)

2.   Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

3.   Charulata (1964)

4.   The Big City (1963)

5.   The Music Room (1958)

6.   Devi (1960)

7.   The Home and the World (1984)

8.   The Middleman (1976)

9.   Distant Thunder (1973)

10. Company Limited (1971)

11. The Elephant God (1979)

12. The Adversary (1970)

13. The Stranger (1991)

14. The Golden Fortress (1974)

15. The Chess Players (1977)

16. Nayak: The Hero (1966)

17. Teen Kanya (1961)

18. The Holy Man (1965)

19. The Coward (1965)

20. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)

21. An Enemy of the People (1990)

Note: Some of these I saw on DVD and the ones that were not available on DVD, I watched on youtube If they were available.

 

 

 

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

4.   A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

5.   Floating Weeds (1959)

6.   Early Summer (1951)

7.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Good Morning (1959)

10. Early Spring (1956)

11. Late Autumn (1960)

12. Tokyo Twilight (1957)

13. Equinox Flower (1958)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. The Only Son (1936)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Dragnet Girl (1933)

18. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

 

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   The Reckless Moment (1949)
(I watched it on TCM a few years back)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

5.   Le Plaisir (1952)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Lola Montes (1955)

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

9.   La Signora di Tutti (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a while back)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Ugetsu (1953)

2.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

3.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

4.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

5.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

6.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

7.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

8.   The Downfall of Osen (1935)

9.   Street of Shame (1956)

10. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

13. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

4.   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Le Samourai (1967)

2.   Army of Shadows (1969)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

5.   Le Doulos (1962)

6.   The Silence of the Sea (1949)

7.   Bob le flambeur (1956)

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

1.   Un flic (1972)

2.   Second Breath (1966)

3.   Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

My Favorite Leo McCarey Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Duck Soup (1933)

3.   The Awful Truth (1937)

4.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Good Sam (1948)

7.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

8.   Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

9.   Going My Way (1944)

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

1.   My Son John (1952)

2.   The Milky Way (1936)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953)

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   He Walked by Night (1948) (co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

4.   Bend of the River (1952)

5.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Man of the West (1958)

8.   The Furies (1950)

9.   Devil’s Doorway (1950)

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

1.   T-Men (1947)

2.   Raw Deal (1948) (No relation to the 1986 film)

3.   The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4.   El Cid (1961)

5.   Side Street (1950)

6.   Railroaded! (1947)

7.   The Tin Star (1957)

8.   Border Incident (1949)