1990’s Cinema

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

3.   Wild Grass (2009)

4.   Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

5.   Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Life of Riley (2014)

8.   You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

9.   Providence (1977) (Saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

11. The War is Over (1966)

12. Night and Fog (1955) (Documentary Short)

13. Stavisky (1974)

14. Same Old Song (1997)

15. Not on the Lips (2003)

16. Melo (1986)

17. Love Unto Death (1984)

18. Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)

My Favorite Satyajit Ray Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.  The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
      Pather Panchali (1955)
      Aparajito (1956)
      The World of Apu (1959)

2.   Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

3.   Charulata (1964)

4.   The Big City (1963)

5.   The Music Room (1958)

6.   Devi (1960)

7.   The Home and the World (1984)

8.   The Middleman (1976)

9.   Distant Thunder (1973)

10. Company Limited (1971)

11. The Elephant God (1979)

12. The Adversary (1970)

13. The Stranger (1991)

14. The Golden Fortress (1974)

15. The Chess Players (1977)

16. Nayak: The Hero (1966)

17. Teen Kanya (1961)

18. The Holy Man (1965)

19. The Coward (1965)

20. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)

21. An Enemy of the People (1990)

Note: Some of these I saw on DVD and the ones that were not available on DVD, I watched on youtube If they were available.

 

 

 

My Favorite Jafar Panahi Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Circle (2000)

2.   Crimson Gold (2003)

3.   The White Balloon (1995)

4.   Taxi (2015) (Part Documentary) (No relation to the TV Series)

5.   This Is Not a Film (2011) (Documentary) (Co-directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)

6.   Offside (2006)

7.   The Mirror (1997)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

2.   My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

3.   Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4.   Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5.   Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

6.   Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

7.   Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

8.   The Wind Rises (2013) (Anime)

9.   Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) (Anime)

10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Anime)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) (Anime)

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 Mohsen Makhmalbaf Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   A Moment of Innocence (1996)

2.   Gabbeh (1996)

3.   The Silence (1998)

4.   The Cyclist (1989)

5.   Kandahar (2001)

6.   Boycott (1985)

7.   Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)

8.   Marriage of the Blessed (1989)

9.   The Actor (1993)

10. Sex & Philosophy (2005)

Note: If their is a Mohsen Makhmalbaf you do not see on there that is because I have not seen them yet and speaking of which, I would love to see The Gardner and his more recent film The President get a Blu-ray/DVD release.

My Favorite Guy Maddin Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007) (Part Documentary)

2.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

3.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

4.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

5.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

6.   Archangel (1990)

7.   Careful (1992)

8.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

9.   Keyhole (2011)

10. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

Note: I plan on seeing Maddin’s The Forbidden Room when it opens here in Illinois. I am hoping it will come before the end of 2015. 🙂

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)