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 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 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 Chris Marker Films

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

1.   Sans Soleil (1983)
(Documentary)

2.   La Jetee (1962)
(Live-Action Short)

3.   Level Five (1997)
(Documentary)

4.   The Last Bolshevik (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
(Documentary)

6.   A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
(Documentary)

7.   Le Joli Mai (1963)
(Documentary)

8.   A.K. (1985)
(Documentary)

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 Dusan Makavejev Films

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

1.   Sweet Movie (1974)

2.   W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)

3.   Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)

4.   Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

5.   Man is Not a Bird (1965)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

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

1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   Land and Freedom (1995)

3.   Kes (1969)

4.   Raining Stones (1993)

5.   Looking for Eric (2009)

6.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

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

1.   Cathy Come Home (1966)

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

1.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

2.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

3.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

4.   Riff-Raff (1991)

My Favorite Jerry Lewis Films

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

1.   The Ladies Man (1961)

2.   The Nutty Professor (1963)

3.   The Bellboy (1960)

4.   The Patsy (1964)

5.   The Errand Boy (1961)

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

1.   Cracking Up (1983)

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