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. 🙂

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Seven Samurai (1954)

2.   Ran (1985)

3.   Madadayo (1993)

4.   Throne of Blood (1957)

5.   Ikiru (1952)

6.   Rashomon (1950)

7.   High and Low (1963)

8.   Kagemusha (1980)

9.   Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

2.   The Shining (1980)

3.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

4.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.   Paths of Glory (1957)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

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

1.   Spartacus (1960)

2.   Killer’s Kiss (1955)

3.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films (New)

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1.   The Decalogue (1989) (Mini-Series)

2.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

3.   Three Colors Trilogy (1993-1994)
Blue (1993)
White (1994)
Red (1994)

4.   The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

5.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Sherlock Jr. (1924)

2.   The General (1926)
(co-directed with Clyde Bruckman)

3.   Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
(co-directed with Charles Reisner)

4.   The Navigator (1924)
(co-directed with Donald Crisp)

5.   Our Hospitality (1923)
(co-directed with John G. Blystone)

6.   Seven Chances (1925)

7.   The Cameraman (1928)
(co-directed with Edward Sedgwick)

8.   Go West (1925)

9.   Three Ages (1923) 
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

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

1.   Buster Keaton: Short Films Collection – 1920-1923 (2011)

2.   Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts – 1934-1937 (2011)

My Favorite D.W. Griffith Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Intolerance (1916)

2.   Broken Blossoms (1919)

3.   Way Down East (1920)

4.   True Heart Susie (1919)

5.   Orphans of the Storm (1921)

6.   The Birth of a Nation (1915)

7.   Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)

8.   The Greatest Question (1919)

9.   A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)

10. The White Rose (1923)

11. Home, Sweet Home (1914)

12. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

13. The Love Flower (1920)

14. The Idol Dancer (1920)

15. Judith of Bethulia (1914)

16. The Avenging Conscience (1914)

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

1.   America (1924)

2.   The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

3.   One Exciting Night (1922)

4.   Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

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

1.   The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

2.   Balked at the Altar (1908)

3.   Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)

4.   The Black Viper (1908)

5.   A Calamitous Elopement (1908)

6.   Father Gets in the Game (1908)

7.   Money Mad (1908)

8.   Romance of a Jewess (1908)

9.   The Song of the Shirt (1908)

10. At the Altar (1909)

11. The Cord of Life (1909)

12. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

13. The Country Doctor (1909)

14. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

15. The Curtain Pole (1909)

16. A Drunkard’s Reformation (1909)

17. Getting Even (1909)

18. The Girls and Daddy (1909)

19. The Golden Louis (1909)

20. Her First Biscuits (1909)

21. The Hessian Renegades (1909)

22. The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)

23. The Lonely Villa (1909)

24. Lucky Jim (1909)

25. The Lure of the Gown (1909)

26. Pippa Passes or the Song of Conscience (1909)

27. The Politician’s Love Story (1909)

28. The Renunciation (1909)

29. Resurrection (1909)

30. The Sealed Room (1909)

31. Those Awful Hats (1909)

32. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)

33. The Voice of the Violin (1909)

34. An Arcadian Maid (1910)

35. The Fugitive (1910)

36. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

37. In the Border States (1910)

38. Ramona (1910)

39. The Rocky Road (1910)

40. The Unchanging Sea (1910)

41. What the Daisy Said (1910)

42. The Battle (1911)

43. Enoch Arden Parts I and II (1911)

44. His Trust (1911)

45. His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

46. The Last Drop of Water (1911)

47. The Lonedale Operator (1911)

48. The Miser’s Heart (1911)

49. Swords and Hearts (1911)

50. The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)

51. Friends (1912)

52. The Lesser Evil (1912)

53. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

54. The Narrow Road (1912)

55. The New York Hat (1912)

56. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)

57. The Painted Lady (1912)

58. The Sunbeam (1912)

59. The Transformation of Mike (1912)

60. An Unseen Enemy (1912)

61. Death’s Marathon (1913)

62. The Mothering Heart (1913)

NOTE: I have watched all of these films and shorts on either VHS or DVD.

My Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Goodbye to Language (2014)

2.   Nouvelle Vague (1990)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Made in U.S.A. (1966)

4.   Masulin Feminin (1966)

5.   Weekend (1967)

6.   Film Socialisme (2010)

7.   Every Man for Himself (1980)

8.   In Praise of Love (2001)

9.   Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

10. JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

11. La Chinoise (1967)

12. Notre musique (2004)

13. Detective (1985)

14. The Carabiniers (1963)

15. King Lear (1987)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)

16. The Little Soldier (1960)

17. Hail Mary (1985)

18. A Married Woman (1964)

19. Passion (1982)

20. Pierrot le fou (1965)

21. First Name: Carmen (1983)

22. Vivre sa vie (1962)

23. Number Two (1975)

24. Contempt (1963)

25. Here and Elsewhere (1974)
(Documentary)

26. Alphaville (1965)

27. Tout Va Bien (1972)

28. Breathless (1960)

29. Joy of Learning (1969)

30. Band of Outsiders (1964)

31. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

32. A Woman Is A Woman (1961)

33. Oh Woe Is Me (1993)

34. For Ever Mozart (1996)

35. Keep Your Right Up (1987)

My Favorite Federico Fellini Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   La Dolce Vita (1960)

2.   Nights of Cabiria (1957)

3.   Fellini Satyricon (1969)

4.   La Strada (1954)

5.   8 1/2 (1963)

6.   I Vitelloni (1953)

7.   Amarcord (1973)

8.   Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

9.   The White Sheik (1952)

10. Roma (1972)

11. Variety Lights (1950)
(co-directed with Alberto Lattuada)

12. The Clowns (1970)
(Docufiction)

13. Il bidone (1955)

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

1.   Spirits of the Dead (1968)
(Segment: “Toby Dammit”)

2.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”)

3.   Love in the City (1953)
(Segment: “Marriage Agency”)

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

1.   Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)
(Episode of “NBC Experiment in Television”)

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

1.   And the Ship Sails On (1983)

2.   Intervista (1987)

3.   Ginger and Fred (1986)