American Filmmakers

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

3.   The Wildcat (1921)

4.   Monte Carlo (1930)

5.   Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

6.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

7.   The Love Parade (1929)

8.   Ninotchka (1939)

9.   So This is Paris (1926)

10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

11. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

12. One Hour with You (1932) (Co-directed with George Cukor)

13. The Merry Widow (1934)

14. The Marriage Circle (1924)

15. Design for Living (1933)

16. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

17. Eternal Love (1929)

18. Madame DuBarry (1919)

19. Angel (1937)

20. The Oyster Princess (1919)

21. Cluny Brown (1946)

22. Anna Boleyn (1920)

23. Sumurun (1920)

24. The Doll (1919)

25. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

26. Carmen (1918)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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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 Leo McCarey Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Duck Soup (1933)

3.   The Awful Truth (1937)

4.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Good Sam (1948)

7.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

8.   Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

9.   Going My Way (1944)

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

1.   My Son John (1952)

2.   The Milky Way (1936)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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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 Terrence Malick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The New World (2005)

2.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

3.   Days of Heaven (1978)

4.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

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

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

2.   The Shining (1980)

3.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

4.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.   Paths of Glory (1957)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

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

1.   Spartacus (1960)

2.   Killer’s Kiss (1955)

3.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   Cockfighter (1974)

3.   The Shooting (1966)

4.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

5.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

6.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

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

1.   Iguana (1988)

Note: If you want to know how I saw the 102 minute version of China 9. Liberty 37 (1978), the answer is TCM’s showing of it back during September 7th, which aired after midnight. Hopefully, with TCM’s showing of it in that format, a DVD company will release it in that form and not the chopped 78 minute version, which pales in comparison.