2010-Present Cinema

My Favorite Mike Leigh Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Hirokazu Koreeda Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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)

My Favorite Kim Jee-woon Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A Bittersweet Life (2005)

2.   The Age of Shadows (2016)

3.   A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

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

1.   The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)

2.   I Saw the Devil (2010)

3.   The Last Stand (2013)

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

1.   Three (2002)
(Segment: “Memories”)

My Favorite Abbas Kiarostami Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2.   Taste of Cherry (1997)

3.   Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4.   Close-Up (1990)

5.   Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

6.   Certified Copy (2010)

7.   Ten (2002)

8.   Like Someone in Love (2012)

9.   Shirin (2008)

10. The Traveler (1974)

11. ABC Africa (2001)
(Documentary)

12. Tickets (2005)
(co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Lumiere and Company (1995)
(Segment: “Dinner for One”)

 

My Favorite Jia Zhangke Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Platform (2000)

2.   A Touch of Sin (2013)

3.   The World (2004)

4.   24 City (2008)

5.   Unknown Pleasures (2002)

6.   Still Life (2006)

7.   Mountains May Depart (2015)

My Favorite Jim Jarmusch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Dead Man (1995)

2.   Paterson (2016)

3.   Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

4.   Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

5.   Down by Law (1986)

6.   The Limits of Control (2009)

7.   Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
(Anthology)

8.   Broken Flowers (2005)

9.   Mystery Train (1989)
(Anthology)

10. Night on Earth (1991)
(Anthology)

11. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

12. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

13. Permanent Vacation (1980)

14. Gimme Danger (2016)
(Documentary)

15. Year of the Horse (1997)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

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

1.   Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
1a. Segment: Int. Trailer Night (2002)
(Anthology)

My Favorite Steve James Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Hoop Dreams (1994)

2.   The New Americans (2004)
(co-directed with Gordon Quinn and Gita Saedi)
(Television)

3.   The Interrupters (2011)

4.   Life Itself (2014)

5.   Stevie (2003)

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

1.   Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016) 

2.   Head Games (2012)

3.   At the Death House Door (2008)

4.   Reel Paradise (2005)

My Favorite Peter Jackson Films

by John Charet

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

1.   They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
(Documentary)

2.   Heavenly Creatures (1994)

3.   Forgotten Silver (1995)
(co-directed with Costa Botes)
(Mockumentary)

4.   Dead Alive (1992)
(a.k.a. Braindead)

5.   Bad Taste (1987)

6.   Meet the Feebles (1989)

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

1.   The Frighteners (1996)

2a. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2b. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
2c. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

3.   King Kong (2005)

My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Assassin (2015)

2.   Three Times (2005)

3.   Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

4.   Cafe Lumière (2003)

5.   The Puppermaster (1993)
(no relation to the 1989 horror film)

6.   Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

7.   Good Men, Good Women (1995)

8.   Millenium Mambo (2001)

9.   Daughter of the Nile (1987)

10. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)