My Favorite Mikio Naruse Films

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

1.   Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

2.   When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

3.   Every-Night Dreams (1933)

4.   Apart From You (1933)

5.   Street Without End (1934)

6.   No Blood Relation (1932)

7.   Flunky, Work Hard (1931)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films

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

1.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

2.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

3.   Ugetsu (1953)

4.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

5.   Street of Shame (1956)

6.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

7.   Women of the Night (1948)

8.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

9.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films

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

1.   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 

2.   Lust for Life (1956)

3.   Home from the Hill (1960)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   The Band Wagon (1953)

6.   The Cobweb (1955)

7.   Madame Bovary (1949)

8.   The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

9.   The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. An American in Paris (1951)

12. Gigi (1958)

13. The Pirate (1948)

14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

17. Designing Woman (1957)

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

19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)

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

21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

22. The Clock (1945)

23. The Sandpiper (1965)

24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

25. A Matter of Time (1976)

26. Bells are Ringing (1960)

27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

28. Brigadoon (1954)

29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

30. Kismet (1955)

31. Undercurrent (1946)

32. I Dood It (1943)

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

1.   Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)

2.   The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)

4.   Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films

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

1.   Le Samouraï (1967)

2.   Bob le Flambeur (1956)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Army of Shadows (1969)

5.   Le Doulos (1963)

6.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

7.   Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

8.   Le Silence de la Mer (1949)

9.   Un Flic (1972)

10. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

My Favorite Leo McCarey Films

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

1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Good Sam (1948)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)

4.   My Son John (1952)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

7.   Duck Soup (1933)

8.   The Awful Truth (1937)

9.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

10. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
(with assistance from James Anderson)

11. Going My Way (1944)

My Favorite Yasuzo Masumura Films

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

1.   Red Angel (1966)

2.   Giants and Toys (1958)

3.   Blind Beast (1969)

4.   Black Test Car (1962)

5.   Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

6.   Manji (1964)

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

1.   Afraid to Die (1960)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953) 

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

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

5.   Man of the West (1958)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Bend of the River (1952)

8.   Men in War (1957)

9.   The Furies (1950)

10. Devil’s Doorway (1950)

11. Raw Deal (1948)

12. T-Men (1947)

13. Border Incident (1949)

14. El Cid (1961)

15. God’s Little Acre (1958)

16. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

17. Side Street (1950)

18. Desperate (1947)

19. Railroaded! (1947)

20. Reign of Terror (1949)
(a.k.a. The Black Book)

21. The Tall Target (1951)

22. The Tin Star (1957)

23. The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

24. The Last Frontier (1955)

25. Serenade (1956)

26. Thunder Bay (1953)

27. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

28. Strategic Air Command (1955)

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

1.   A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

2.   Cimarron (1960)

My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films

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

1.   Gun Crazy (1950)

2.   Terror in a Texas Town (1958) 

3.   The Halliday Brand (1957)

4.   The Big Combo (1955)

5.   So Dark the Night (1946)

6.   My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 1 (1958-1959)
1a. The Safe Guard (1958)
1b. Duel of Honor (1958)
1c. The Deadly Wait (1959)
1d. The Pet (1959)
1e. The Trade (1959)
1f. Boomerang (1959)
1g. Shivaree (1959)
(Television)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 2 (1959-1960)
1a. Heller (1960)
1b. The Visitor (1960)
1c. The Fourflusher (1960)
1d. Letter of the Law (1959)
1e. Panic (1959)
1f. The Deserter (1960)
1g. Shotgun Man (1960)
1h. The Patsy (1959)
1i. The Hangman (1960)
1j. Surveyors (1959)
1k. Hero (1960)
1l. The Spoiler (1960)
1m. Eddie’s Daughter (1959)
1n. Day of the Hunter (1960)
(Television)

My Favorite Richard Lester Films

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

1.   Petulia (1968)

2.   Help! (1965)

3.   A Hard Day’s Out (1964)

4.   The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

5.   The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)

6.   How I Won the War (1967)

7a. The Three Musketeers (1973)
7b. The Four Musketeers (1974)

8.   Juggernaut (1974)

9.   Robin and Marian (1976)

10. Superman II (1980)
(Richard Donner’s 2006 Cut is also great)

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

1.   The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)

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

1.   Royal Flash (1975)

2.   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)