1950’s Cinema

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   The Gold Rush (1925)

3.   Modern Times (1936)

4.   The Kid (1921)

5.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

6.   The Circus (1928)

7.   Limelight (1952)

8.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

9.   The Great Dictator (1940)

10. The Pilgrim (1923)  
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

11. A King in New York (1957)

12. Shoulder Arms (1918)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

13. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

14. A Dog’s Life (1918)
(Live-Action Short)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Box Sets)

1.   Charlie Chaplin: The First National Collection (1918-1923)/(2000)

2.   Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies (1916-1917)/(2014)

3.   Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies (1914-1917)/(2015)

4.   Chaplin At Keystone (1914)/(2010)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   La Ceremonie (1995)

2.   The Bridesmaid (2004) (No relation to the 2011 comedy of the same name)

3.   Le Boucher (1970)

4.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

5.   Le Beau Serge (1958)

6.   Les Cousins (1959)

7.   This Man Must Die (1969)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   La Femme infidele (1969)

10. Bellamy (2009)

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

1.   L’Enfer (1994)

2.   Merci pour le chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

5.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

6.   Story of Women (1988)

7.   Madame Bovary (1991)

8.   The Flower of Evil (2002)

9.   The Swindle (1997)

10. Violette Noziere (1978)

11. Betty (1992)

My Favorite John Cassavetes Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

2.   Shadows (1959)

3.   Love Streams (1984)

4.   Faces (1968)

5.   The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

6.   Husbands (1970)

7.   Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

8.   Opening Night (1977)

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

1.   Gloria (1980)

2.   Too Late Blues (1961)

3.   A Child Is Waiting (1963)