My Favorite Sergei Eisenstein Films (New)

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

1.   Battleship Potemkin (1925)

2.   October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)

3.   Strike (1925)

4.   Alexander Nevsky (1938)

5.   Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)

6.   Ivan the Terrible Part II (1945)

7.   The General Line (1929)
(co-directed with Grigori Alexsandrov)

My Favorite Atom Egoyan Films (New)

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1.   Exotica (1994)

2.   The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

3.   Calendar (1993)

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

1.   The Adjuster (1991)

2.   Felicia’s Journey (1999)

3.   Chloe (2009)

My Favorite Stanley Donen Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

2.   Staircase (1969)

3.   It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

4.   Two for the Road (1967)

5.   On the Town (1949) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

6.   Charade (1963)

7.   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

8.   Bedazzled (1967) (Not the 2000 version)

9.   The Pajama Game (1957) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

10. Indiscreet (1958)

11. Damn Yankees (1958) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

12. Funny Face (1957)

13. Royal Wedding (1951)

14. The Grass is Greener (1960)

15. Give a Girl a Break (1953)

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

1.   Arabesque (1966)

2.   Deep in My Heart (1954)

My Favorite Vittorio de Sica Films (New)

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

1.   Bicycle Thieves (1948)

2.   Umberto D. (1952)

3.   Shoeshine (1946)

4.   Miracle in Milan (1951)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

5.   The Children Are Watching Us (1944)

6.   Two Women (1961)

7.   Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

8.   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

9.   Marriage Italian-Style (1964)

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

1. Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “La riffa”)

My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films (New)

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1.   Quai des Orfevres (1947)

2.   The Wages of Fear (1953)

3.   Les Diaboliques (1955)

4.   Le Corbeau (1943)

5.   The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   La Ceremonie (1995)

2.   The Bridesmaid (2004) (No relation to the 2011 comedy of the same name)

3.   Le Boucher (1970)

4.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

5.   Le Beau Serge (1958)

6.   Les Cousins (1959)

7.   This Man Must Die (1969)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   La Femme infidele (1969)

10. Bellamy (2009)

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

1.   L’Enfer (1994)

2.   Merci pour le chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

5.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

6.   Story of Women (1988)

7.   Madame Bovary (1991)

8.   The Flower of Evil (2002)

9.   The Swindle (1997)

10. Violette Noziere (1978)

11. Betty (1992)

My Favorite John Cassavetes Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

2.   Shadows (1959)

3.   Love Streams (1984)

4.   Faces (1968)

5.   The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

6.   Husbands (1970)

7.   Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

8.   Opening Night (1977)

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

1.   Gloria (1980)

2.   Too Late Blues (1961)

3.   A Child Is Waiting (1963)