1970’s Cinema

My Favorite Chantal Akerman Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

2.   Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)

3.   Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978)

4.   Toute une nuit (1982)

5.   Golden Eighties (1986)
(a.k.a. Window Shopping)

6.   Night and Day (1991)

7.   The Captive (2000)

8.   Almayer’s Folly (2011)

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

1.   Hotel Monterey (1973)
(Documentary)

2.   News from Home (1977)
(Documentary)

3.   The Eighties (1983)
(Documentary)

4.   On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983)
(Documentary)

5.   From the East (1993)
(Documentary)

6.   South (1999)
(Documentary)

7.   From the Other Side (2002)
(Documentary)

8.   Down There (2006)
(Documentary)

9.   No Home Movie (2015)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Blow Up My Town (1968)

2.   La Chambre (1972)

3.   Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984)

My Favorite Sidney Lumet Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

2.   Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

3.   The Fugitive Kind (1960)

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

1.   12 Angry Men (1957)

2.   Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

3.   The Verdict (1982)

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 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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   All About Eve (1950)

2.   Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

3.   Julius Caesar (1953)

4.   No Way Out (1950)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

5.   The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

6.   People Will Talk (1951)

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

1.   A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

2.   House of Strangers (1949)

3.   The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

4.   Guys and Dolls (1955)

5.   Sleuth (1972)
(Not the 2007 version)

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)