My Favorite Tony Richardson Films

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1.   The Border (1982)

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1.   The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

2.   The Loved One (1965)

3.   Tom Jones (1963)

4.   The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

5.   A Taste of Honey (1961)

My Favorite Nicholas Ray Films

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1.   Bigger Than Life (1956)

2.   Johnny Guitar (1954)

3.   Bitter Victory (1957)

4.   They Live by Night (1949)

5.   In a Lonely Place (1950)

6.   The Lusty Men (1952)

7.   Party Girl (1958)

8.   Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

9.   The Savage Innocents (1960)

10. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

11. We Can’t Go Home Again (1976)

12. On Dangerous Ground (1952)

13. Hot Blood (1956)

14. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

15. Born to Be Bad (1950)

16. Run for Cover (1955)

17. Lightning Over Water (1980)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Sam Raimi Films

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1.   Evil Dead II (1987)

2.   The Evil Dead (1981)

3.   Spider-Man 2 (2004)

4.   Drag Me to Hell (2009)

5.   Army of Darkness (1992)

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

1.   Ash vs Evil Dead – Season 1 (2015)
1a. Episode: “El Jefe”
(Cable/Television)

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1.   Darkman (1990)

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

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1.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2.   The Red Shoes (1948)

3.   Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

4.   Black Narcissus (1947)

5.   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

6.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

8.   Gone to Earth (1950)
(I watched it on youtube)

9.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)

11. The Small Back Room (1949)

12. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

13. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

14. Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
(TV Documentary)

My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

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1.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

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

3.   Ride the High Country (1962)

4.   Cross of Iron (1977)

5.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

6.   Junior Bonner (1972)

7.   ABC Stage 67 (1966)
7a. Episode: “Noon Wine”
(Television)

8.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

9.   Straw Dogs (1971)

10. Major Dundee (1965)

11. The Getaway (1972)

12. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

13. The Killer Elite (1975)

14. Convoy (1978)

15. Route 66 (1961)
15a. Episode: “Mon Petit Chou”
(Television)

16. The Deadly Companions (1961)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 1 (1958-1959)
1a. Episode: “The Marshall” (1958)
1b. Episode: “The Boarding House” (1959)
1c. Episode: “The Money Gun” (1959)
(Television)

2.   The Rifleman – Season 2 (1960)
(Episode: “The Baby Sitter”
(Television)

3.   The Westerner – Season 1 (1960)
3a. Episode: “Jeff”
3b. Episode: “Brown”
3c. Episode: “The Courting of Libby”
3d. Episode: “Hand on the Gun”
3e. Episode: “The Painting”
(Television)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 3 (1959)
4a. Episode: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”
(Television)

5.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 4 (1959-1960)
5a. Episode: “Lonesome Road” (1959)
5b. Episode: “Miss Jenny” (1960)
(Television)

My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films

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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

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animation)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animation)

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

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animation)

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

1.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animation)

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

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

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1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animation) 

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films

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

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   Lola Montes (1955)

4.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

5.   La Ronde (1950)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Le Plaisir (1952)

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

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1.   Memento (2000)

2.   Dunkirk (2017)

3.   The Dark Knight (2008)

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1.   The Prestige (2006)

2.   Inception (2010)

3.   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films

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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)