1990’s Cinema

My Favorite Pedro Almodovar Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Pain and Glory (2019)

2.   Talk to Her (2002)

3.   All About My Mother (1999)

4.   Law of Desire (1987)

5.   The Skin I Live In (2011)

6.   Bad Education (2004)
(no relation to the 2019 film)

7.   Live Flesh (1997)

8.   Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)

9.   Matador (1986)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

10. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

11. Volver (2006)

12. Broken Embraces (2009)

13. Julieta (2016)

14. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

15. Dark Habits (1983)

16. Labyrinth of Passion (1982)

17. Kika (1993)

18. The Flower of My Secret (1995)

19. High Heels (1991)

20. I’m So Excited! (2013)

21. Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) 

My Favorite Woody Allen Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Manhattan (1979)

2.   Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

3.   Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

4.   Annie Hall (1977)

5.   Husbands and Wives (1992)

6.   Radio Days (1987)

7.   Love and Death (1975)

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

1.   Midnight in Paris (2011)

2.   Match Point (2005)

3.   Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

4.   Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

5.   Sleeper (1973)

6.   The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)   

7.   Zelig (1983)

8.   Stardust Memories (1980)

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 John Woo Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Hard Boiled (1992)

2.   Bullet in the Head (1990)

3.   The Killer (1989)

4.   A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

5.   A Better Tomorrow (1986)

6.   Face/Off (1997)

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

1.   Red Cliff (2008)

2.   Hard Target (1993)

My Favorite P.J. Hogan Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Peter Pan (2003) (This is not the Disney version)

2.   Unconditional Love (2002)

3.   Mental (2012)

4.   Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

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

1.   Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

2.   My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

My Favorite Wim Wenders Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Kings of the Road (1976)

2.   Room 666 (1982) (Documentary)

3.   Alice in the Cities (1974)

4.   Don’t Come Knocking (2005)

5.   Paris, Texas (1984)

6.   Land of Plenty (2004)

7.   Wrong Move (1975)

8.   The End of Violence (1997)

9.   Beyond the Clouds (1995) (co-directed with Michelangelo Antonioni)

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

1.   Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

My Favorite Jan Troell Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Hamsun (1996)

2.   Everlasting Moments (2008)

3.   Zandy’s Bride (1974)

4.   The New Land (1972)

5.   The Emigrants (1971)

6.   Flight of the Eagle (1982)

 

My Favorite Andre Techine Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Wild Reeds (1994)

2.   The Bronte Sisters (1979)

3.   The Witnesses (2007)

4.   Unforgivable (2012)

5.   Thieves (1996)

6.   My Favorite Season (1993)

7.   I Don’t Kiss (1991)

8.   Strayed (2003)

9.   The Girl on the Train (2009)

10. Alice and Martin (1998)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

11. Rendez-vous (1985)

12. Barocco (1976)

13. In the Name of my Daughter (2014)

14. Hotel America (1981)

15. Changing Times (2004)

16. The Scene of the Crime (1986)

My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Three Kings (1999)

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

1.   American Hustle (2013)

2.   Joy (2015)

3.   The Fighter (2010)

4.   Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

5.   Flirting with Disaster (1996)

6.   I Heart Huckabees (2004)

7.   Spanking the Monkey (1994)
(Yes that is the actual title of the film)