My Favorite Guy Maddin Films

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007)
(Mockumentary)

2.   The Forbidden Room (2015)

3.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

4.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

5.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

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

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

1.   Careful (1992)

2.   Archangel (1990)

3.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

4.   Keyhole (2011)

My Favorite David Lynch Films

* * * * (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)

My Favorite Richard Linklater Films

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

1.   Boyhood (2014)

2a. Before Sunrise (1995)
2b. Before Sunset (2004)
2c. Before Midnight (2013)

3.   Bernie (2011)

4.   Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

5.   Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)

6.   Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.   Slacker (1991)

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

1.   Me and Orson Welles (2009)

2.   A Scanner Darkly (2006)
(Animated Film)

3.   School of Rock (2003)

4.   Tape (2001)

5.   The Newton Boys (1998)

6.   SubUrbia (1996)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

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

1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   Land and Freedom (1995)

3.   Kes (1969)

4.   Raining Stones (1993)

5.   Looking for Eric (2009)

6.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

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

1.   Cathy Come Home (1966)

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

1.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

2.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

3.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

4.   Riff-Raff (1991)

My Favorite Mike Leigh Films

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

1.   Life Is Sweet (1990)

2.   Mr. Turner (2014)

3.   High Hopes (1988)

4.   Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

5.   Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

6.   Grown-Ups (1980)
(Television)

7.   Meantime (1983)
(Television)

8.   Secrets & Lies (1996)

9.   Topsy-Turvy (1999)

10. Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

11. Naked (1993)

12. Vera Drake (2004)

13. Another Year (2010)

14. All or Nothing (2002)

15. Career Girls (1997)

16. Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

17. Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

18. Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

19. Bleak Moments (1971)

20. Four Days in July (1984)
(Television)

21. Peterloo (2018)

22. Who’s Who (1979)
(Television)

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

1.   The Short and Curlies (1987)

My Favorite Kiyoshi Kurosawa Films

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

1.   Pulse (2001)

2.   Cure (1997)

3.   Creepy (2016)

4.   Tokyo Sonata (2008)

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

1.   Penance (2012)
(Japanese TV Miniseries)

2.   Seance (2000)
(Japanese TV Film)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films

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

1.   Ran (1985)

2.   High and Low (1963)

3.   Seven Samurai (1954)

4.   Ikiru (1952)

5.   Red Beard (1965)

6.   Throne of Blood (1957)

7.   Rashomon (1950)

8.   Yojimbo (1961)

9.   The Hidden Fortress (1958)

10. Stray Dog (1949)

11. Madadayo (1993)

12. Kagemusha (1980)

13. Drunken Angel (1948)

14. Sanjuro (1962)

15. Dersu Uzala (1975)

16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Does’ka-den (1970)

19. The Idiot (1951)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Scandal (1950)

22. The Quiet Duel (1949)

23. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

24. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

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

26. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

27. Sanshiro SUgata Part II (1945)

28. The Most Beautiful (1944)

29. Rhapsody in August (1991)

30. Dreams (1990)
(a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films

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

1.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

2.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

4.   The Shining (1980)

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   Paths of Glory (1957)

8.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

9.   Lolita (1962)

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

11. Spartacus (1960)

12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)

13. Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Hirokazu Koreeda Films

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

1.   After the Storm (2016)

2.   Still Walking (2008)

3.   After Life (1998)

4.   Like Father, Like Son (2013)
(no relation to the 1987 Dudle Moore film)

5.   Nobody Knows (2004)

6.   Maborosi (1995)

7.   Our Little Sister (2015)

8.   I Wish (2011)