1960’s Cinema

My Favorite Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Querelle (1982)

2.   Fox and His Friends (1975)

3.   Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

4.   In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)

5.   Veronika Voss (1982)

6.   The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)

7.   Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
(Mini-Series)

8.   Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

9.   I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
(TV Film)

10. Whity (1971)

11. Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

12. The American Soldier (1970)

13. Gods of the Plague (1970)

14. World on a Wire (1973)
(TV Film)

15. Katzelmacher (1969)

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

1.   The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

2.   The Third Generation (1979)

3.   Lola (1981)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Pier Paolo Pasolini Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Mamma Roma (1962)

2.   The Canterbury Tales (1972)

3.   Accattone (1961)

4.   A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) (1974)

5.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

6.   The Decameron (1971)

7.   Teorema (1968)

8.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

9.   The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

10. Medea (1969)

11. Pigsty (1969)

12. Oedipus Rex (1967)

13. The Anger (1963) (co-directed with Giovannino Guareschi)
(Documentary)

14. Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)

15. Love Meetings (1964) (Documentary)

16. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970) (Documentary)

My Favorite Jerry Lewis Directed Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Nutty Professor (1963)
(not the 1996 version)

2.   The Ladies Man (1961)
(No relation to the 2000 film)

3.   The Bellboy (1960)

4.   The Patsy (1964)

5.   The Errand Boy (1961)

6.   The Family Jewels (1965)

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

1.   Cracking Up (1983)

2.   Hardly Working (1980)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Arthur Penn Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Alice’s Restaurant (1969)

2.   Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

3.   Night Moves (1975)

4.   Mickey One (1965)

5.   Four Friends (1981)

6.   The Left Handed Gun (1958)

7.   The Missouri Breaks (1976)

8.   Little Big Man (1970)

9.   Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)

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

1.   Target (1985)

My Favorite Elia Kazan Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (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)

by John Charet

* * * * (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)