* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Memento (2000)
2. Dunkirk (2017)
3. The Dark Knight (2008)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Prestige (2006)
2. Inception (2010)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
2010-Present Cinema
My Favorite Cristian Mungiu Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Beyond the Hills (2012)
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
3. Graduation (2016)
4. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
(co-directed with Hanna Hofer, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru and Razvan Marculescu)
(Anthology Film)
My Favorite Errol Morris Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)
1. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
2. Gates of Heaven (1978)
3. The Fog of War (2003)
4. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
5. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
6. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)
7. Vernon, Florida (1981)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)
1. Tabloid (2010)
2. Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
3. The Unknown Known (2013)
4. A Brief History of Time (1991)
My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anime)
1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
3. The Wind Rises (2013)
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
5. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
6. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
7. Porco Rosso (1992)
8. Castle in the Sky (1986)
9. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
10. Ponyo (2008)
11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
My Favorite George Miller Films
* * * * (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 Terrence Malick Films
* * * * (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 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)
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