American Cinema

My Favorite Jan Svankmajer Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
(Live Action/Animation)

2.   Little Otik (2000)
(a.k.a. Greedy Guts)
(Live Action/Animation)

3.   Faust (1994)
(Live Action/Animation)

4.   Alice (1988)
(Live Action/Animation)

5.   Lunacy (2005)
(Live Action/Animation)

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

1.   Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

2.   Food (1992)

3.   Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)

4.   The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)

5.   Down to the Cellar (1983)

6.   The Flat (1968)

7.   The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)

8.   Manly Games (1988)

9.   The Garden (1968)

10. Punch and Judy (1966)

11. Jabberwocky (1971)

12. Meat Love (1988)

13. The Ossuary (1970)

14. Don Juan (1970)

15. A Game with Stones (1965)

16. The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)

17. Picnic with Weissmann (1968)

18. The Last Trick (1964)

19. Castle of Otranto (1977)

20. A Quiet Week in the House (1969)

21. Flora (1989)

22. Historia Naturae (1967)

23. Et Cetera (1966)

24. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor (1965) 

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

8.   The Great McGinty (1940)

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

1.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

2.   The Great Moment (1944)

My Favorite Steven Spielberg Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2.   1941 (1979)

3.   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4.   Jaws (1975)

5.   E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)

6.   Duel (1971)
(Television)

7.   The Sugarland Express (1974)

8.   Columbo – Season 1 (1971-1972)
8a. Episode 1: Murder by the Book (1971)
(Television)

9.   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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

1.   Catch Me If You Can (2002)

2.   Minority Report (2002)

3.   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

4.   Jurassic Park (1993)

My Favorite Steven Soderbergh Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Limey (1999)

2.   Solaris (2002)

3.   Contagion (2011)

4.   King of the Hill (1993)
(no relation to the cartoon series)

5.   Out of Sight (1998)

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

1.   Logan Lucky (2017)

2.   Sex, Lies & Videotape (1989)

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Written on the Wind (1956)

2.   Imitation of Life (1959)

3.   There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

4.   A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6.   The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7.   Magnificent Obsession (1954)

8.   All I Desire (1953)

9.   Interlude (1957)

10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

11. Thunder on the Hill (1951)

12. Lured (1947)

13. A Scandal in Paris (1946)

14. Shockproof (1949)

15. Captain Lightfoot (1955)

16. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

My Favorite Don Siegel Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Charley Varrick (1973)

2.   Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

3.   The Beguiled (1971)

4.   The Lineup (1958)

5.   Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

6.   The Shootist (1976)

7.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

8.   Dirty Harry (1971)

9.   Madigan (1968)

10. Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

11. The Killers (1964)

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

1.   Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

2.   Private Hell 36 (1954)

3.   Flaming Star (1960)

4.   The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)