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My Favorite George Cukor Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

2.   Bhowani Junction (1956)

3.   Adam’s Rib (1949)

4.   A Star Is Born (1954)

5.   Les Girls (1957)

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

1.   A Double Life (1947)

2.   Edward, My Son (1949)

3.   The Actress (1953)

4.   The Marrying Kind (1952)

5.   Pat and Mike (1952)

6.   Holiday (1938)

7.   The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8.   Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(Television)

9.   The Women (1939)

10. Travels with My Aunt (1972)

11. It Should Happen to You (1954)

12. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

13. Born Yesterday (1950)

14. Gaslight (1944)

15. A Woman’s Face (1941)

16. Camille (1936)

17. Little Women (1933)

18. Dinner at Eight (1933)

19. David Copperfield (1935)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Wages of Fear (1953)

2.   Diabolique (1955)

3.   Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

4.   Le Corbeau (1943)

5.   The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)      

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films

by John Charet

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

1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

3.   The Gold Rush (1925)

4.   Limelight (1952)

5.   Modern Times (1936)

6.   The Great Dictator (1940)

7.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

8.   The Kid (1921)

9.   The Circus (1928)

10. A King in New York (1957)

11. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Keystone Shorts)

1.   His Prehistoric Past (1914)

2.   The New Janitor (1914)

3.   Dough and Dynamite (1914)

4.   His Trysting Place (1914)

5.   Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)

6.   His Musical Career (1914)

7.   Getting Acquainted (1914)

8.   The Property Man (1914)

9.   Laughing Gas (1914)

10. Mabel’s Married Life (1914)

11. A Busy Day (1914)

12. The Rounders (1914)

13. Those Love Pangs (1914)

14. Caught in the Rain (1914)

15. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)

16. His New Profession (1914)

17. The Masquerader (1914)

18. Recreation (1914) 

19. The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Essanay Shorts)

1.   The Bank (1915)

2.   Work (1915)

3.   The Tramp (1915)

4.   In the Park (1915)

5.   His New Job (1915)

6.   A Jitney Elopement (1915)

7.   Shanghaied (1915)

8.   Burlesque on ‘Carmen’ (1915)

9.   Police (1916)

10. A Night in the Show (1915)

11. A Woman (1915)

12. By the Sea (1915)

13. The Champion (1915)

14. A Night Out (1915)

15. Triple Trouble (1918)
(co-directed with Leo White)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Mutual Shorts)

1.   The Immigrant (1917)

2.   Behind the Screen (1916)

3.   The Pawnshop (1916)

4.   The Floorwalker (1916)

5.   The Fireman (1916)

6.   One A.M. (1916)

7.   The Rink (1916)

8.   The Count (1916)

9.   The Vagabond (1916)

10. The Adventurer (1917)

11. The Cure (1917)

12. Easy Street (1917) 

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (First National Shorts)

1.   The Pilgrim (1923)

2.   Shoulder Arms (1918)

3.   A Dog’s Life (1918)

4.   The Bond (1918)

5.   Payday (1922)

6.   The Idle Class (1921)

7.   Sunnyside (1919)

8.   A Day’s Pleasure (1919)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Compilation Films)

1.   The Chaplin Revue (1959)

My Favorite John Carpenter Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Thing (1982)

2.   Halloween (1978)

3.   They Live (1988)

4.   Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

5.   Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

6.   Escape from New York (1981)

7.   In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

8.   The Fog (1980)

9.   Prince of Darkness (1987)

10. Masters of Horror – Season 1 (2005)
10a. Episode 8: Cigarette Burns (2005)
(Cable/Television)

11. Starman (1984)

12. Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
(Television)

13. Vampires (1998)

14. Body Bags (1993)
14a. Segment: The Gas Station (1993)
14b. Segment: Hair (1993)
(Anthology)
(Cable/Television)

15. Dark Star (1974)

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

1.   Escape from L.A. (1996)

My Favorite Luis Bunuel Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Exterminating Angel (1962)

2.   Viridiana (1961)

3.   L’Age d’Or (1930)

4.   El (1953)
(aka This Strange Passion)

5.   Los Olvidados (1950)

6.   Simon of the Desert (1965)

7.   Un Chien Andalou (1929)
(Short Film)

8.   Nazarin (1959)

9.   Death in the Garden (1956)

10. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1954)

11. Land Without Bread (1933)
(Documentary Short)

12. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

13. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

14. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

15. Belle de Jour (1967)

16. Tristana (1970)

17. The Young One (1960)

18. Robinson Crusoe (1954)

19. The Milky Way (1969)

20. Susana (1951)

21. El Bruto (1953)

22. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

My Favorite Frank Borzage Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   No Greater Glory (1934)  

2.   Man’s Castle (1933)

3.   China Doll (1958)

4.   Moonrise (1948)

5.   Seventh Heaven (1927)

6.   Little Man, What Now? (1934)

7.   Street Angel (1928)

8.   Bad Girl (1931)

9.   Lucky Star (1929)

10. I’ve Always Loved You (1946)

11. Three Comrades (1938)

12. History Is Made at Night (1937)

13. A Farewell to Arms (1931)

14. Desire (1936)

15. After Tomorrow (1932)

16. The Mortal Storm (1940)

17. Liliom (1930)

18. Lazybones (1925)

19. The River (1929)

20. Humoresque (1920)

21. Young America (1932)

22. Song o’ My Heart (1930)

23. They Had to See Paris (1929)

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

1.   Mannequin (1937)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

2.   That’s My Man (1947)

3.   Stranded (1935)

4.   Big City (1937)

5.   Strange Cargo (1940)

6.   Green Light (1937)

7.   Disputed Passage (1939)

8.   Living on Velvet (1935)

9.   The Shining Hour (1938)

10. Flirtation Walk (1934)

11. The Spanish Main (1945)

12. Shipmates Forever (1935) 

My Favorite Brad Bird Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Iron Giant (1999)
(Animated Film)

2.   Ratatouille (2007)
(Animated Film)

3.   The Incredibles (2004)
(Animated Film)

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

1.   Amazing Stories (1985-1987)
Episode: Family Dog (1987)
(Animated Segment)

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

1.   Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

My Favorite Mario Bava Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966)

2.   Blood and Black Lace (1964)

3.   Lisa and the Devil (1973)

4.   A Bay of Blood (1971)
(a.k.a Twitch of the Death Nerve)

5.   Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

6.   Planet of the Vampires (1965)

7.   Danger: Diabolik (1968)

8.   Black Sabbath (1963)
(Anthology Film)

9.   Black Sunday (1960)

10. The Whip and the Body (1963)

11. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

12. Erik the Conqueror (1961)

13. Rabid Dogs (1974)
(a.k.a Kidnapped)

14. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)