My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

2.   The Shining (1980)

3.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

4.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.   Paths of Glory (1957)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

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

1.   Spartacus (1960)

2.   Killer’s Kiss (1955)

3.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

3.   Woyzeck (1979)

4.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

5.   Rescue Dawn (2006)

6.   The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

7.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

8.   Stroszek (1977)

9.   Heart of Glass (1976)

10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

11. Signs of Life (1968)

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

1.   The White Diamond (2004)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)

3.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)

4.   Fata Morgana (1972)

5.   Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

6.   My Best Fiend (1999)

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

1.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

2.   Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   Cockfighter (1974)

3.   The Shooting (1966)

4.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

5.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

6.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

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

1.   Iguana (1988)

Note: If you want to know how I saw the 102 minute version of China 9. Liberty 37 (1978), the answer is TCM’s showing of it back during September 7th, which aired after midnight. Hopefully, with TCM’s showing of it in that format, a DVD company will release it in that form and not the chopped 78 minute version, which pales in comparison.

My Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Goodbye to Language (2014)

2.   Nouvelle Vague (1990)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Made in U.S.A. (1966)

4.   Masulin Feminin (1966)

5.   Weekend (1967)

6.   Film Socialisme (2010)

7.   Every Man for Himself (1980)

8.   In Praise of Love (2001)

9.   Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

10. JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

11. La Chinoise (1967)

12. Notre musique (2004)

13. Detective (1985)

14. The Carabiniers (1963)

15. King Lear (1987)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

16. The Little Soldier (1960)

17. Hail Mary (1985)

18. A Married Woman (1964)

19. Passion (1982)

20. Pierrot le fou (1965)

21. First Name: Carmen (1983)

22. Vivre sa vie (1962)

23. Number Two (1975)

24. Contempt (1963)

25. Here and Elsewhere (1974)
(Documentary)

26. Alphaville (1965)

27. Tout Va Bien (1972)

28. Breathless (1960)

29. Joy of Learning (1969)

30. Band of Outsiders (1964)

31. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

32. A Woman Is A Woman (1961)

33. Oh Woe Is Me (1993)

34. For Ever Mozart (1996)

35. Keep Your Right Up (1987)

My Favorite Federico Fellini Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   La Dolce Vita (1960)

2.   Nights of Cabiria (1957)

3.   Fellini Satyricon (1969)

4.   La Strada (1954)

5.   8 1/2 (1963)

6.   I Vitelloni (1953)

7.   Amarcord (1973)

8.   Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

9.   The White Sheik (1952)

10. Roma (1972)

11. Variety Lights (1950)
(co-directed with Alberto Lattuada)

12. The Clowns (1970)
(Docufiction)

13. Il bidone (1955)

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

1.   Spirits of the Dead (1968)
(Segment: “Toby Dammit”)

2.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”)

3.   Love in the City (1953)
(Segment: “Marriage Agency”)

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

1.   Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)
(Episode of “NBC Experiment in Television”)

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

1.   And the Ship Sails On (1983)

2.   Intervista (1987)

3.   Ginger and Fred (1986)

My Favorite Stanley Donen Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

2.   Staircase (1969)

3.   It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

4.   Two for the Road (1967)

5.   On the Town (1949) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

6.   Charade (1963)

7.   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

8.   Bedazzled (1967) (Not the 2000 version)

9.   The Pajama Game (1957) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

10. Indiscreet (1958)

11. Damn Yankees (1958) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

12. Funny Face (1957)

13. Royal Wedding (1951)

14. The Grass is Greener (1960)

15. Give a Girl a Break (1953)

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

1.   Arabesque (1966)

2.   Deep in My Heart (1954)

My Favorite Vittorio de Sica Films (New)

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

1.   Bicycle Thieves (1948)

2.   Umberto D. (1952)

3.   Shoeshine (1946)

4.   Miracle in Milan (1951)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

5.   The Children Are Watching Us (1944)

6.   Two Women (1961)

7.   Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

8.   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

9.   Marriage Italian-Style (1964)

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

1. Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “La riffa”)

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (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)

* * * * (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)

* * * * (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)