My Favorite Ari Aster Films (2024 Edition)

I watched all of his short films online.

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

  1. Beau Is Afraid (2023)
  2. Midsommar (2019)
  3. Hereditary (2018)
  4. The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011)
    (Short)
  5. Munchausen (2013)
    (Short)
  6. C’est La Vie (2016)
    (Short)
  7. Basically (2014)
    (Short)
  8. The Turtle’s Head (2014)
    (Short)
  9. Beau (2011)
    (Short)
  10. Herman’s Cure-All Tonic (2008)
    (Short)
  11. TDF Really Works (2011)
    (Short)

My Favorite Olivier Assayas Films (2024 Edition)

Some of these titles I watched online. For the record, there may be a title or two missing because I have not seen it yet. I also can’t find them online.

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  1. Irma Vep (2022)
    (Miniseries)
    (Cable/Television)
  2. Irma Vep (1996)
  3. Carlos (2010)
    (Miniseries)
    (French/German Television)
  4. Summer Hours (2008)
  5. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
  6. Personal Shopper (2016)
  7. Clean (2004)
  8. Demonlover (2002)
  9. Sentimental Destinies (2000)
  10. Late August, Early September (1998)
  11. Non-Fiction (2018)
  12. Something in the Air (2012)
  13. Cold Water (1994)
  14. Boarding Gate (2007)
  15. Cinema, de notre temps (1996)
    Episode: HHH, portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien

    (Documentary)
    (French Television)
  16. Paris, I Love You (2006)
    Segment: Quartier des Enfants Rouges
  17. Paris Awakens (1991)
  18. Disorder (1986)
  19. Winter’s Child (1989)
  20. Wasp Network (2019)
  21. Noise (2006)
    (Documentary)
  22. Winston tong en studio (1984)
    (Documentary)
    (Short)
  23. Rectangle – Deux chansons de Janco (1980)
    (Short)
  24. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
    Segment: Recrudescence

My Favorite Dorothy Arzner Films (2024 Edition)

Some of these films I saw online and one of them on an old VHS tape.

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  1. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
  2. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
  3. Working Girls (1931)
  4. The Bride Wore Red (1937)
  5. Craig’s Wife (1936)
  6. First Comes Courage (1943)
  7. Honor Among Lovers (1931)
  8. Anybody’s Woman (1930)
  9. Get Your Man (1927)
  10. Christopher Strong (1933)
  11. The Wild Party (1929)
  12. Sarah and Son (1930)
  13. Nana (1934)
    (co-directed with George Fitzmaurice)

My Favorite Darren Aronofsky Films (2024 Edition)

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  1. Mother! (2017)
  2. Black Swan (2010)
  3. The Fountain (2006)
  4. The Wrestler (2008)
  5. Noah (2014)
  6. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  7. Pi (1998)
  8. The Whale (2022)

My Favorite Gilbert Adler Films (2024 Edition)

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

  1. Tales from the Crypt – Season 4 (1992)
    Episode: What’s Cookin’
    (Cable/Television)
  2. Tales from the Crypt – Season 5 (1993)
    Episode: Death of Some Salesmen
    (Cable/Television)
  3. Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood (1996)
  4. Perversions of Science – Season 1 (1997)
    Episode: Anatomy Lesson
    (Cable/Television)

My Favorite Jack Arnold Films (2024 Edition)

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

  1. High School Confidential (1958)
  2. No Name on the Bullet (1959)
  3. Man in the Shadow (1957)
  4. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
  5. Tarantula! (1955)
  6. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  7. It Came from Outer Space (1953)

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

  1. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
  2. Boss (1975)
  3. Black Eye (1974)

My Favorite Andrea Arnold Films (2024 Edition)

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

  1. Fish Tank (2009)
  2. American Honey (2016)
  3. Cow (2021)
    (Documentary)
  4. Wuthering Heights (2011)
  5. Red Road (2006)
  6. Wasp (2003)
    (Short)
  7. Dog (2001)
    (Short)
  8. Milk (1998)
    (Short)
  9. Big Little Lies – Season 2 (2019)
    Episode: What Have They Done?
    Episode: Tell-Tale Hearts
    Episode: The End of the World
    Episode: She Knows
    Episode: Kill Me
    Episode: The Bad Mother
    Episode: I Want to Know
    (Cable/Television)
  10. Transparent – Season 3 (2016)
    Episode: If I Were a Bell
    (Streaming/Television)
  11. Transparent – Season 2 (2015)
    Episode: Oscillate
    Episode: Grey Green Brown & Copper
    (Streaming/Television)
  12. Transparent – Season 4 (2017)
    Episode: Desert Eagle
    (Streaming/Television)
  13. I Love Dick – Season 1 (2017)
    Episode: Scenes from a Marriage
    Episode: Ilinx
    Episode: The Barter Economy
    Episode: Cowboys and Nomads
    (Streaming/Television)

My Favorite Dario Argento Films (2024 Edition)

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  1. Suspiria (1977)
  2. Inferno (1980)
  3. Tenebre (1982)
  4. Opera (1987)
  5. Deep Red (1975)
  6. Phenomena (1985)
  7. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
  8. Masters of Horror – Season 2 (2006)
    Episode: Pelts
    (Cable/Television)
  9. Masters of Horror – Season 1 (2005)
    Episode: Jenifer
    (Cable/Television)
  10. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
    Segment:
    The Black Cat

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

  1. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
  2. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
  3. The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971)
  4. Dark Glasses (2022)
  5. The Mother of Tears (2007)
  6. Sleepless (2001)
  7. Trauma (1993)

My Favorite Gregg Araki Films (2024 Edition)

Some of these films I have seen on old vhs tapes and online. I can’t seem to find and watch The Long Weekend (O’ Despair) anywhere.

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  1. Nowhere (1997)
  2. The Doom Generation (1995)
  3. Totally F***ed Up (1993)
  4. The Living End (1992)
  5. Now Apocalypse (2019)
    (Cable/Television)
    (No relation to Apocalypse Now)
  6. This Is How the World Ends (2000)
    (Cable/Television)
  7. Mysterious Skin (2004)
  8. Smiley Face (2007)
  9. Splendor (1999)
  10. Kaboom (2010)
  11. White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
  12. American Crime – Season 2 (2016)
    Season Two: Episode Three
    (Television)
  13. 13 Reasons Why – Season 1 (2017)
    Episode: Tape 4, Side A
    Episode: Tape 4, Side B
    (Streaming/Television)
  14. Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
    Episode: Lionel
    (Streaming/Television)
  15. Greenleaf – Season 1 (2016)
    Episode: Men Like Trees Walking
    (Cable/Television)
  16. Red Oaks – Season 2 (2016)
    Episode: Lost and Found
    Episode: The Wedding
    (Streaming/Television)
  17. American Gigolo – Season 1 (2022)
    Episode: Nothing Is Real But the Girl
    (Cable/Television)
  18. Heathers – Season 1 (2018)
    Episode: Hot Probs
    Episode: Do I Look Like Mother Teresa?
    (Cable/Television)
  19. Riverdale – Season 2 (2018)
    Episode: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler
    (Television)
  20. 13 Reasons Why – Season 2 (2018)
    Episode: The First Polaroid
    Episode: Two Girls Kissing
    (Streaming/Television)
  21. Here Now (2015)
    (Short)
  22. Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)

John Charet’s Favorite Films (1-100) (2023 Edition)

-Introduction-

Last year around this time on my blog, I posted a list of my top 10 favorite films of all-time in response to Sight & Sound magazine’s 10-year annual poll of the greatest films ever made according to the votes of participating critics and filmmakers. Readers can view my list again by clicking here. This year, I wanted to expand it to 100 for those who are interested. Also, my answer is yes to anybody wondering If the number of my favorite films of all-time possibly exceeds that of a zillion. As one can see below, I have decided to start with number 100 and going down from there (i.e. 99, 98 and so forth). Before I go any further, I will not tolerate any insults or negativity towards numbers 1, 8, 18, 24, 25 and 99 on here. So I am politely asking all of you to not bash them. Now, without further ado, here are my top 100 favorite films of all-time. Enjoy 🙂

-My Top 100 Favorite Films of All-Time (#100-01)-

100.) Hatari! (1962) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
99.) Mulholland Drive (2001) (Dir: David Lynch)
98.) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) (Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
97.) A Woman Under the Influence (1974) (Dir: John Cassavetes)

96.) Germany Year Zero (1948) (Dir: Roberto Rossellini)
95.) L’Argent (1983) (Dir: Robert Bresson)
94.) The General (1926) (Dir: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)

93.) Some Came Running (1958) (Dir: Vincente Minnelli)
92.) Napoleon (1927) (Dir: Abel Gance)
91.) The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) (Dir: Max Ophuls)

90.) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (Dir: Orson Welles)
89.) Anatahan (1953) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
88.) I Was Born, But… (1932) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)

87.) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) (Dir: Jacques Rivette)
86.) Platform (2000) (Dir: Jia Zhangke)
85.) Johnny Guitar (1954) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)

84.) Barry Lyndon (1975) (Dir: Stanley Kubrick)
83.) Happy Hour (2015) (Dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
82.) Lonesome (1928) (Dir: Paul Fejos)
81.) Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) (Dir: Leo McCarey)
80.) The Great Dictator (1940) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
79.) F for Fake (1973) (Dir: Orson Welles)

78.) Arsenal (1929) (Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko)
77.) The Crowd (1928) (Dir: King Vidor)

76.) Trouble in Paradise (1932) (Dir: Ernst Lubitsch)
75.) The Night of the Hunter (1955) (Dir: Charles Laughton)
74.) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) (Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
73.) Boyhood (2014) (Dir: Richard Linklater)
72.) Persona (1966) (Dir: Ingmar Bergman)
71.) The Decalogue (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
(Polish Television)
(Miniseries)
71a. A Short Film About Killing (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
71b. A Short Film About Love (1988) (Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
70.) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
69.) Certified Copy (2010) (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
68.) The Scarlet Empress (1934) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
67.) Late Spring (1949) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
66.) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) (Dir: John M. Stahl)

65.) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) (Dir: Albert Lewin)
64.) La Region Centrale (1971) (Dir: Michael Snow)

63.) Dead Man (1995) (Dir: Jim Jarmusch)
62.) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) (Dir: Robert Bresson)
61.) Out 1 (1971) (Dir: Jacques Rivette)
60.) Modern Times (1936) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
59.) Day of Wrath (1943) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
58.) To Sleep with Anger (1990) (Dir: Charles Burnett)
57.) The Irishman (2019) (Dir: Martin Scorsese)
56.) Duck Amuck (1953) (Dir: Charles M. Jones)
(Animation)
(Short)
55.) Viridiana (1961) (Dir: Luis Bunuel)
54.) Wanda (1970) (Dir: Barbara Loden)
53.) Vagabond (1985) (Dir: Agnes Varda)
52.) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) (Dir: Dziga Vertov)
51.) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) (Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
50.) Nashville (1975) (Dir: Robert Altman)
49.) Brief Encounter (1945) (Dir: David Lean)
48.) Track of the Cat (1954) (Dir: William A. Wellman)
47.) Daughters of the Dust (1991) (Dir: Julie Dash)
46.) The Docks of New York (1928) (Dir: Josef von Sternberg)
45.) Ivan (1932) (Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko)
44.) Spring in a Small Town (1948) (Dir: Fei Mu)
43.) L’Eclisse (1962) (Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
42.) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) (Dir: Edward Yang)
41.) Holy Motors (2012) (Dir: Leos Carax)
40.) Scarface (1932) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
39.) When It Rains (1995) (Dir: Charles Burnett)
(Short)
38.) Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) (Dir: Raul Ruiz)
37.) The Naked Spur (1953) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
36.) The Red Shoes (1948) (Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
35.) Tokyo Story (1953) (Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
34.) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (Dir: Alain Resnais)
33.) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Dir: Chantal Akerman)
32.) Intolerance (1916) (Dir: D.W. Griffith)
31.) Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944/1958) (Dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
30.) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
29.) Foolish Wives (1922) (Dir: Erich von Stroheim)

28.) M (1931) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
27.) Ordet (1955) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
26.) Les Vampires (1915-16) (Dir: Louis Feuillade)
(Serial)
25.) Marnie (1964) (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
24.) Inland Empire (2006) (Dir: David Lynch)
23.) Goodbye to Language (2014) (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
22.) Love Streams (1984) (Dir: John Cassavetes)
21.) The World (2004) (Dir: Jia Zhangke)
20.) The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
19.) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (Dir: Steven Spielberg)
18.) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
17.) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (Dir: William Wyler)
16.) Love Me Tonight (1932) (Dir: Rouben Mamoulian)
15.) Gertrud (1964) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
14.) Sunrise (1927) (Dir: F.W. Murnau)
13.) The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) (Dir: Jacques Demy)
12.) Tih Minh (1918) (Dir: Louis Feuillade)
(Serial)
11.) Playtime (1967) (Dir: Jacques Tati)
10.) Satantango (1994) (Dir: Bela Tarr)
09.) Three Times (2005) (Dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien)
08.) Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) (Dir: David Lynch)
(Cable/Television)
07.) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (Dir: Orson Welles)
06.) Spione (1928) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
05.) Histoire(s) du Cinema (1988-1998) (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
04.) City Lights (1931) (Dir: Charlie Chaplin)
03.) Journey to Italy (1954) (Dir: Roberto Rossellini)
02.) Greed (1924) (Dir: Erich von Stroheim)
01.) Vertigo (1958) (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

Before I conclude this blog entry, I have one question to ask my dear readers below:

What are your top 100 favorite films of all-time? Please note that If this is too hard to answer, I will happily excuse you all from answering the question 🙂