2010-Present Cinema

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)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   Cockfighter (1974)

3.   The Shooting (1966)

4.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

5.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

6.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

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

1.   Iguana (1988)

Note: If you want to know how I saw the 102 minute version of China 9. Liberty 37 (1978), the answer is TCM’s showing of it back during September 7th, which aired after midnight. Hopefully, with TCM’s showing of it in that format, a DVD company will release it in that form and not the chopped 78 minute version, which pales in comparison.

My Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Goodbye to Language (2014)

2.   Nouvelle Vague (1990)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Made in U.S.A. (1966)

4.   Masulin Feminin (1966)

5.   Weekend (1967)

6.   Film Socialisme (2010)

7.   Every Man for Himself (1980)

8.   In Praise of Love (2001)

9.   Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

10. JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

11. La Chinoise (1967)

12. Notre musique (2004)

13. Detective (1985)

14. The Carabiniers (1963)

15. King Lear (1987)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

16. The Little Soldier (1960)

17. Hail Mary (1985)

18. A Married Woman (1964)

19. Passion (1982)

20. Pierrot le fou (1965)

21. First Name: Carmen (1983)

22. Vivre sa vie (1962)

23. Number Two (1975)

24. Contempt (1963)

25. Here and Elsewhere (1974)
(Documentary)

26. Alphaville (1965)

27. Tout Va Bien (1972)

28. Breathless (1960)

29. Joy of Learning (1969)

30. Band of Outsiders (1964)

31. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

32. A Woman Is A Woman (1961)

33. Oh Woe Is Me (1993)

34. For Ever Mozart (1996)

35. Keep Your Right Up (1987)

My Favorite Terence Davies Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Long Day Closes (1992)

2.   Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   A Quiet Passion (2016)

4.   Sunset Song (2015)

5.   Of Time and the City (2008)
(Documentary)

5.   The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
(No relation to the 1999 shark film)

7.   The House of Mirth (2000)

8.   The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)

9.   The Neon Bible (1995)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   La Ceremonie (1995)

2.   The Bridesmaid (2004) (No relation to the 2011 comedy of the same name)

3.   Le Boucher (1970)

4.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

5.   Le Beau Serge (1958)

6.   Les Cousins (1959)

7.   This Man Must Die (1969)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   La Femme infidele (1969)

10. Bellamy (2009)

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

1.   L’Enfer (1994)

2.   Merci pour le chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

5.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

6.   Story of Women (1988)

7.   Madame Bovary (1991)

8.   The Flower of Evil (2002)

9.   The Swindle (1997)

10. Violette Noziere (1978)

11. Betty (1992)