American Filmmakers

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   Regeneration (1915)

3.   High Sierra (1941)

4.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)

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

1.   The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

2.   They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Dark Command (1940)

5.   They Drive By Night (1940)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   The Big Trail (1930)

8.   What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)

9.   The Bowery (1933)

10. Manpower (1941)

11. Colorado Territory (1949)

12. The Man I Love (1947)

13. Pursued (1947)

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

My Favorite Erich von Stroheim Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Greed (1924)
(I saw it the 239-minute version on an old VHS tape)

2.   Foolish Wives (1922)

3.   The Wedding March (1928)

4.   Blind Husbands (1919)

5.   The Merry Widow (1925)

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

1.   Queen Kelly (1929)

My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Black Cat (1934)

2.   Detour (1945)

3.   Bluebeard (1944)

4.   Ruthless (1948)

5.   The Man from Planet X (1951)

6.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

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

1.   Strange Illusion (1945)

2.   Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

3.   The Strange Woman (1946)

Note: I first saw The Naked Dawn on television a decade ago on some TV station.

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films (Revised and Updated)

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.   The Great McGinty (1940)

8.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

9.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

10. The Great Moment (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

11. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

 

My Favorite Zack Snyder Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Sucker Punch (2011)

2.   Watchmen (2009)

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

1.   Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

2.   Man of Steel (2013)

3.   Justice League (2017)

4.   Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
(Animated Film)

5.   300 (2006)
(he did not direct the equally very good sequel)

6.   Dawn of the Dead (2004)

My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Grand Illusion (1937)

2.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

3.   A Day in the Country (1936) (Short Film)

4.   The River (1951)

5.   The Southerner (1945)

6.   The Golden Coach (1952)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

9.   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

10. La Bete Humaine (1938)

11. Toni (1935)

12. French Cancan (1954)

13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)

14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)

15. The Lower Depths (1936)

16. Elena and Her Men (1956)

17. La Marseillaise (1938)

18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)