Category Archives: Australian Cinema

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

25 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   The Red Shoes (1948)

2.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

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

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

5.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

6.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

7.   Black Narcissus (1947)

8.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

9.   The Small Back Room (1949)

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

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

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

2.   One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

3.   49th Parallel (1941)

4.   Contraband (1940)

5.   The Spy in Black (1939)

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My Favorite George Miller Films

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

4.   Mad Max (1979)

5.   Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
(co-directed with George Ogilvie)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(Anthology Film)

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1.   Happy Feet (2006)
(Animated Film)

2.   The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

3.   Happy Feet Two (2011)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films

03 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   Sweet Movie (1974)

2.   W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)

3.   Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)

4.   Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

5.   Man is Not a Bird (1965)

6.   A Hole in the Soul (1993)
(TV Documentary)

7.   Montenegro (1981)

8.   Manifesto (1988)
(a.k.a. A Night of Love)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

9.   Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)

10. Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

My Favorite Spike Jonze Films

04 Friday May 2018

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1.   Her (2013)

2.   Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

3.   Being John Malkovich (1999)

4.   Adaptation (2002)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Jeunet Films

04 Friday May 2018

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1.   Amelie (2001) 

2.   The City of Lost Children (1995)

3.   Delicatessen (1991)
(co-directed with Marc Caro)

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1.   A Very Long Engagement (2004)

2.   The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2015)

3.   Micmacs (2009)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6.   Stroszek (1977)

7.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9.   The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

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1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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1.   The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Stuart Gordon Films

22 Sunday Apr 2018

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1.   Re-Animator (1985)

2.   Stuck (2007)

3.   From Beyond (1986)

4.   King of the Ants (2002)

5.   Castle Freak (1995)

6.   The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

7.   Dagon (2001)

8.   Dolls (1987)

9.   The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

10. Edmond (2005)

11. Fortress (1992)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

2.   The Black Cat (2007)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

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1.   Robot Jox (1990)

2.   Space Truckers (1996)

My Favorite Jane Campion Films

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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1.   Top of the Lake (2013)
(Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7)
(Episodes 2, 4, 5 and 6 were co-directed with Garth Davis)
(Cable Series)

2.   The Piano (1993)

3.   Sweetie (1989)

4.   An Angel at My Table (1990)

5.   Two Friends (1986)
(TV Film)

6.   Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017)
(Episodes 1 and 5)
(Cable Series)

7.   Bright Star (2009)

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1.   Passionless Moments (1983)

2.   Peel: An Exercise in Discipline (1982)

3.   A Girl’s Own Story (1984)

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1.   In the Cut (2003)

2.   Holy Smoke! (1999)

3.   The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

My Favorite P.J. Hogan Films (New)

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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1.   Peter Pan (2003) (This is not the Disney version)

2.   Unconditional Love (2002)

3.   Mental (2012)

4.   Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

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1.   Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

2.   My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

My Favorite Zack Snyder Films (New)

15 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, Australian Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Top 100, Zack Snyder

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1.   Sucker Punch (2011)

2.   Watchmen (2009)

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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)