Category Archives: Adventure

My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

2.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

3.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

4.   Ride the High Country (1962)

5.   Cross of Iron (1977)

6.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

7.   Junior Bonner (1972)

8.   Straw Dogs (1971)

9.   Major Dundee (1965)

10. The Getaway (1972)

11. The Deadly Companions (1961)

12. The Killer Elite (1975)

13. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

14. Convoy (1978)

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

1.   Noon Wine (1966)
(Episode of ABC Stage 67)

2.   The Rifleman (1958-1963)
(Episodes from Season 1: “The Marshall”, “The Boarding House” and “The Money Gun”)
(Episode from Season 2: “The Baby Sitter”)

3.   The Westerner (1960)
(1959 Pilot-“Trouble at Tres Cruzes”)
(Episodes from Season 1: “Jeff”, “Brown”, “The Courting of Libby”, “Hand on the Gun” and “The Painting”)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre (1956-1961)
(Episode from Season 3: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”)
(Episodes from Season 4: “Lonesome Road and “Miss Jenny”)

5.   Route 66 (1960-1964)
(Episode from Season 2: “Mon Petit Chou”)

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My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, Adventure, Austrian Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, G.W. Pabst, German Cinema, German Filmmakers, Lists, Musical, Romance, Silent Cinema, Top 304, War

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1.   Pandora’s Box (1929)

2.   Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

3.   Kameradschaft (1931)

4.   Westfront 1918 (1930)

5.   The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)

6.   The Threepenny Opera (1931)

7.   The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
(co-directed with Arnold Fanck)

8.   Secrets of a Soul (1926)

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1.   Don Quixote (1933)

2.   L’Atlantide (1932)

My Favorite Nick Park Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Animation, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Mystery, Nick Park, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Sport, Top 304

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animated Short)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animated Short)

3.   Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animated Short)

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animated Short)

5.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animated Film)

2.   Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animated Film)

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

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films

17 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Le Plaisir (1952)

5.   Lola Montes (1955)

6.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

7.   Caught (1949)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   Everybody’s Woman (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)

My Favorite Christopher Nolan Films

15 Friday Jun 2018

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1.   Memento (2000)

2.   Dunkirk (2017)

3.   The Dark Knight (2008)

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1.   The Prestige (2006)

2.   Following (1998)

3.   Inception (2010)

4.   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films

15 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1920's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Family, Film Directors, Fred C. Newmeyer, Greatest, Lists, Romance, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Sport, Thriller, Top 305

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1.   Safety Last! (1923)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   The Freshman (1925)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
(no relation to the 1990 film)

3.   Girl Shy (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

4.   Grandma’s Boy (1922)
(no relation to the 2006 film)

5.   Hot Water (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

6.   Dr. Jack (1922)

7.   A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

8.   Why Worry? (1923)

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

1.   Never Weaken (1921)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   Number, Please? (1920)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

3.   Among Those Present (1921)

4.   Now or Never (1921)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

3.   The Last Laugh (1924)

4.   Nosferatu (1922)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   City Girl (1930)

7.   Tartuffe (1925)

8.   Phantom (1922)

9.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)

10. The Haunted Castle (1921)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Hayao Miyazaki, History, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Science Fiction, Top 310

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* * * * (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 Vincente Minnelli Films

09 Saturday Jun 2018

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1.   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 

2.   Lust for Life (1956)

3.   Home from the Hill (1960)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   The Band Wagon (1953)

6.   The Cobweb (1955)

7.   Madame Bovary (1949)

8.   The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

9.   The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. An American in Paris (1951)

12. Gigi (1958)

13. The Pirate (1948)

14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

17. Designing Woman (1957)

18. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)

20. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

22. The Clock (1945)

23. The Sandpiper (1965)

24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

25. A Matter of Time (1976)

26. Bells are Ringing (1960)

27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

28. Brigadoon (1954)

29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

30. Kismet (1955)

31. Undercurrent (1946)

32. I Dood It (1943)

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

1.   Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)

2.   The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)

4.   Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)

My Favorite George Miller Films

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

4.   Mad Max (1979)

5.   Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
(co-directed with George Ogilvie)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(Anthology Film)

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1.   Happy Feet (2006)
(Animated Film)

2.   The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

3.   Happy Feet Two (2011)
(Animated Film)