My Favorite Guy Maddin Films

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007)
(Mockumentary)

2.   The Forbidden Room (2015)

3.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

4.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

5.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

6.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

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

1.   Careful (1992)

2.   Archangel (1990)

3.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

4.   Keyhole (2011)

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

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

1.   Vertigo (1958)

2.   Marnie (1964)

3.   Family Plot (1976)

4.   Under Capricorn (1949)

5.   The Birds (1963)

6.   The Wrong Man (1956)

7.   The Trouble with Harry (1955)

8.   Psycho (1960)

9.   Rear Window (1954)

10. Frenzy (1972)

11. I Confess (1953)

12. Strangers on a Train (1951)

13. Rope (1948)

14. Notorious (1946)

15. North by Northwest (1959)

16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

17. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

18. Sabotage (1936)
(I watched it online)

19. The 39 Steps (1935)

20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

21. Stage Fright (1950)

22. Lifeboat (1944)

23. Rebecca (1940)

24. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Dial M for Murder (1954)

27. Suspicion (1941)

28. Young and Innocent (1937)
(I watched it online)

29. Rich and Strange (1931)
(I watched it online)

30. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

31. Murder! (1930)

32. Blackmail (1929)

33. The Ring (1927)

34. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

35. Topaz (1969)

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Torn Curtain (1966)

38. Saboteur (1942)

39. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – Season 1 (1962)
39a. Episode: “I Saw the Whole Thing”
(Television)

40. The Paradine Case (1947)

41. Secret Agent (1936)
(I watched it online)

42. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

43. Number 17 (1932)
(I watched it online)

44. The Manxman (1929)
(I watched it online)

45. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
(I watched it online)

46. Downhill (1927)

47. Champagne (1928)
(I watched it online)

48. Easy Virtue (1928)
(I 
watched it online)

49. Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
(I watched it online)

50. Jamaica Inn (1939)
(I watched it online)

51. The Skin Game (1931)
(I watched it online)

52. Mary (1931)

53. The Pleasure Garden (1925)
(I watched it online)

54. Juno and the Paycock (1930)
(I watched it online)

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

1.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 1 (1955)
1a. Episode: “Revenge”
1b. Episode: “Breakdown”
1c. Episode: “The Case of Mr. Pelham”
(Television)

2.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 2 (1956/1956/1957)
2a. Episode: “Wet Saturday”
2b. Episode: “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret”
2c. Episode: “One More Mile to Go”
(Television)

3.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 3 (1957/1958/1958)
3a. Episode: “The Perfect Crime”
3b. Episode: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
3c. Episode: “Dip in the Pool”
(Television)

4.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 4 (1958/1959)
4a. Episode: “Poison”
4b. Episode: “Banquo’s Chair”
(Television)

5.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 5 (1959)
5a. Episode: “Arthur”
5b. Episode: “The Crystal Trench”
(Television)

6.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 6 (1960/1961)
6a. Episode: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
6b. Episode: “The Horseplayer”
(Television)

7.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 7 (1961)
7a. Episode: “Bang! You’re Dead”
(Television)

My Favorite Walter Hill Films

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

1.   The Warriors (1979)

2.   Deadwood – Season 1 (2004)
2a. Episode 1: Pilot (2004)
(Cable/Television)

3.   Southern Comfort (1981)

4.   The Driver (1978)

5.   Hard Times (1975)

6.   The Long Riders (1980)

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

1.   Tales from the Crypt – Season 2 (1990)
1a. Episode 2: Cutting Cards (1990)
(Cable/Television)

2.   Tales from the Crypt – Season 1 (1989)
2a. Episode 1: The Man Who Was Death (1989)
(Cable/Television)

3.   Tales from the Crypt – Season 3 (1991)
3a. Episode 12: Deadline (1991)
(Cable/Television)

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

1.   Bullet to the Head (2012)

2.   Wild Bill (1995)

3.   48 Hrs. (1982)

4.   Broken Trail (2006)
(Miniseries)
(Cable/Television)

5.   Undisputed (2002)

6.   Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

7.   Trespass (1992)

8.   Streets of Fire (1984)

9.   Extreme Prejudice (1987)

10. Johnny Handsome (1989)

11. Last Man Standing (1996)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

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

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)

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

1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

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

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

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

My Favorite Terry Gilliam Films

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

1.   Brazil (1985) 

2.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

3.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Jones)

4.   12 Monkeys (1995)

5.   Time Bandits (1981)

6.   The Fisher King (1991)

7.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

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

1.   The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
(Played before Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)

2.   Miracle of Flight (1974)
(Animation)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Story Time (1979)
(Animation)

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

1.   The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

2.   The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

My Favorite Atom Egoyan Films

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

1.   The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

2.   Exotica (1994)

3.   Calendar (1989)

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

1.   Family Viewing (1987)

2.   Next of Kin (1984)

3.   The Adjuster (1991)

4.   Speaking Parts (1989)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

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

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Cosmopolis (2012)

5.   Dead Ringers (1988)

6.   Spider (2002)

7.   The Fly (1986)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   The Brood (1979)

10. Naked Lunch (1991)

11. Maps to the Stars (2014)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Scanners (1981)

17. Rabid (1977)

18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

19. Fast Company (1979)

20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Kathryn Bigelow Films

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

1.   Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

2.   The Hurt Locker (2008)

3.   Near Dark (1987)

4.   Detroit (2017)

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

1.   K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

2.   Strange Days (1995)

3.   Point Break (1991)

4.   The Weight of Water (2000)

5.   Blue Steel (1989)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Guy Maddin Films (New)

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007) (Part Documentary)

2.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

3.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

4.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

5.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

6.   Archangel (1990)

7.   Careful (1992)

8.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

9.   Keyhole (2011)

10. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

Note: I plan on seeing Maddin’s The Forbidden Room when it opens here in Illinois. I am hoping it will come before the end of 2015. 🙂