1970’s Cinema

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

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

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

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

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Le Samourai (1967)

2.   Army of Shadows (1969)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

5.   Le Doulos (1962)

6.   The Silence of the Sea (1949)

7.   Bob le flambeur (1956)

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

1.   Un flic (1972)

2.   Second Breath (1966)

3.   Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Terrence Malick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The New World (2005)

2.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

3.   Days of Heaven (1978)

4.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

My Favorite Chris Marker Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   La Jetee (1962) (Short)

2.   Sans Soleil (1983) (Documentary)

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

4.   Grin Without a Cat (1977) (Documentary)

5.   A.K. (1985) (Documentary)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Seven Samurai (1954)

2.   Ran (1985)

3.   Madadayo (1993)

4.   Throne of Blood (1957)

5.   Ikiru (1952)

6.   Rashomon (1950)

7.   High and Low (1963)

8.   Kagemusha (1980)

9.   Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Abbas Kiarostami Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2.   Close-Up (1990) (Part Documentary)

3.   Life, and Nothing More… (1992) (Part Documentary)

4.   Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987)

5.   Taste of Cherry (1997)

6.   Ten (2002)

7.   Through the Olive Trees (1994)

8.   The Traveler (1974)

9.   Certified Copy (2010)

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

1.   10 on Ten (2004) (Documentary)

2.   Homework (1989) (Documentary)

3.   ABC Africa (2001) (Documentary)

4.   Like Someone in Love (2012)

5.   Shirin (2008)

6.   Five (2003) (Documentary)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

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)