Comedy

My Favorite Ari Aster Films (2024 Edition)

by John Charet

I watched all of his short films online.

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  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)

by John Charet

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)

by John Charet

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 Gilbert Adler Films (2024 Edition)

by John Charet

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  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)

by John Charet

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  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)

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

My Favorite Andrea Arnold Films (2024 Edition)

by John Charet

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  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 Gregg Araki Films (2024 Edition)

by John Charet

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)

My Favorite Roy Andersson Films (2023 Edition)

by John Charet

Although Giliap can be watched on youtube, one could only watch the version with no English subtitles so I will have to wait to watch that one. Same with the commercials he directed. I watched all of his other stuff on home video or online.

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  1. You, the Living (2007)
  2. About Endlessness (2019)
  3. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
  4. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
  5. A Swedish Love Story (1970)

My Favorite Wes Anderson Films (2023 Edition)

by John Charet

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  1. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
  2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  3. Rushmore (1998)
  4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
    (Animation)
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
  6. Isle of Dogs (2018)
    (Animation)
  7. The French Dispatch (2021)
  8. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
    8b. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
    (Short    )
  9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
  10. Bottle Rocket (1996)
    10b. Bottle Rocket (1994)
    (Short)
  11. Tip-Top: Aline (2021)
    (Music Video)
  12. Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion (2016)
    (Short)
  13. Castello Cavalcanti (2013)
    (Short)
  14. Moonrise Kingdom: Animated Book Short (2012)
    (Short)
  15. Cousin Ben Troop Screening with Jason Schwartzman (2012)
    (Short)
  16. American Express: My Life. My Card. (2006)
    (Commercial)
  17. Prada: Candy (2013)
    (co-directed with Roman Coppola)
    (Short)
  18. Stella Artois Le Apartomatic Commercial (2010)
    (Commercial)
  19. Softbank Commercial (2008)
    (Commercial)

My Favorite Paul Thomas Anderson Films (2023 Edition)

by John Charet

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  1. Inherent Vice (2014)
  2. Phantom Thread (2017)
  3. Licorice Pizza (2021)
  4. The Master (2012)
  5. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  6. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

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  1. Hard Eight (1996)