1970’s Cinema

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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 George Miller Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(Anthology Film)

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

1.   Mad Max (1979)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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

by John Charet

* * * * (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

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Terrence Malick Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Tree of Life (2011)

2.   The New World (2005)

3.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

4.   Days of Heaven (1978)

5.   A Hidden Life (2019)

6.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

3.   Song to Song (2017)

My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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 David Lynch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
1a. Episode 1: Part 1
1b. Episode 2: Part 2
1c. Episode 3: Part 3
1d. Episode 4: Part 4
1e. Episode 5: Part 5
1f. Episode 6: Part 6
1g. Episode 7: Part 7
1h. Episode 8: Part 8
1i. Episode 9: Part 9
1j. Episode 10: Part 10
1k. Episode 11: Part 11
1l. Episode 12: Part 12
1m. Episode 13: Part 13
1n. Episode 14: Part 14
1o. Episode 15: Part 15
1p. Episode 16: Part 16
1q. Episode 17: Part 17
1r. Episode 18: Part 18
(Cable/Television)

2.   Inland Empire (2006)

3.   Mulholland Drive (2001)

4.   Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

5.   Blue Velvet (1986)

6.   Eraserhead (1977)

7.   Twin Peaks: Season 1 (1990)
7a. Episode 1: Pilot (a.k.a. Northwest Passage)
7b. Episode 2: Traces to Nowhere
(Dwayne Dunham directed only)
7c. Episode 3: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
7d. Episode 4: Rest in Pain
(Tina Rathborne directed only)
7e. Episode 5: The One-Armed Man
(Tim Hunter directed only)
7f. Episode 6: Cooper’s Dreams
(Lesli Linka Glatter directed only)
7g. Episode 7: Realization Time
(Caleb Deschanel directed only)
7h. Episode 8: The Last Evening
(Mark Frost directed only)
(Television)

8.   The Straight Story (1999)

9.   Twin Peaks: Season 2 (1990-1991)
9a. Episode 1
9b. Episode 2
9c. Episode 3 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9d. Episode 4 – Todd Holland directed only
9e. Episode 5 – Graeme Clifford directed only
9f. Episode 6 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9g. Episode 7
9h. Episode 8 – Caleb Deschanel directed only
9i. Episode 9 – Tim Hunter directed only
9j. Episode 10 – Tina Rathborne directed only
9k. Episode 11 – Duwayne Dunham directed only
9l. Episode 12 – Caleb Deschanel directed only
9m. Episode 13 – Todd Holland directed only
9n. Episode 14 – Uli Edel directed only
9o. Episode 15 – Diane Keaton directed only
9p. Episode 16 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9q. Episode 17 – James Foley directed only
9r. Episode 18 – Duwayne Dunham directed only
9s. Episode 19 – Jonathan Sanger directed only
9t. Episode 20 – Stephen Gyllenhaal directed only
9u. Episode 21 – Tim Hunter directed only
9v. Episode 22
(Television)

10. Lost Highway (1997)

11. The Elephant Man (1980)

12. Wild at Heart (1990)