My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)

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

1.   Three Kings (1999)

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

1.   American Hustle (2013)

2.   Joy (2015)

3.   The Fighter (2010)

4.   Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

5.   Flirting with Disaster (1996)

6.   I Heart Huckabees (2004)

7.   Spanking the Monkey (1994)
(Yes that is the actual title of the film)

My Favorite Satyajit Ray Films (New)

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

1.  The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
      Pather Panchali (1955)
      Aparajito (1956)
      The World of Apu (1959)

2.   Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

3.   Charulata (1964)

4.   The Big City (1963)

5.   The Music Room (1958)

6.   Devi (1960)

7.   The Home and the World (1984)

8.   The Middleman (1976)

9.   Distant Thunder (1973)

10. Company Limited (1971)

11. The Elephant God (1979)

12. The Adversary (1970)

13. The Stranger (1991)

14. The Golden Fortress (1974)

15. The Chess Players (1977)

16. Nayak: The Hero (1966)

17. Teen Kanya (1961)

18. The Holy Man (1965)

19. The Coward (1965)

20. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)

21. An Enemy of the People (1990)

Note: Some of these I saw on DVD and the ones that were not available on DVD, I watched on youtube If they were available.

 

 

 

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   The Reckless Moment (1949)
(I watched it on TCM a few years back)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

5.   Le Plaisir (1952)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Lola Montes (1955)

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

9.   La Signora di Tutti (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a while back)

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films (New)

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

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

2.   The Freshman (1925) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

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

4.   Grandma’s Boy (1922)

5.   Why Worry? (1923) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

6.   Hot Water (1924) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

7.   Dr. Jack (1922)

8.   A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Nosferatu (1922)

3.   Tabu (1931)

4.   The Last Laugh (1924)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   Phantom (1922)

7.   City Girl (1930)

8.   Tartuffe (1925)

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

1.   The Burning Soil (1922)

2.   The Haunted Castle (1921)

3.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

2.   My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

3.   Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4.   Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5.   Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

6.   Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

7.   Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

8.   The Wind Rises (2013) (Anime)

9.   Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) (Anime)

10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Anime)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) (Anime)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

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

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

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

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953)

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   He Walked by Night (1948) (co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

4.   Bend of the River (1952)

5.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Man of the West (1958)

8.   The Furies (1950)

9.   Devil’s Doorway (1950)

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

1.   T-Men (1947)

2.   Raw Deal (1948) (No relation to the 1986 film)

3.   The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4.   El Cid (1961)

5.   Side Street (1950)

6.   Railroaded! (1947)

7.   The Tin Star (1957)

8.   Border Incident (1949)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)