My Favorite John Landis Films

19 Saturday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Anthology Films, British Cinema, Cable/Television, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, John Landis, Lists, Music, Music Videos, Musical, Romance, Short Cinema, Thriller, Top 314

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An American Werewolf in London, B.B. King "Into the Night" (Documentary Short), Coming to America, Innocent Blood, Into the Night, Masters of Horror (Deer Woman) (Cable Series), Masters of Horror (Family) (Cable Series), Michael Jackson: Black or White (Music Video), Michael Jackson: Thriller (Music Video), National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Trading Places

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

1. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

2. The Blues Brothers (1980)

3. Innocent Blood (1992)

4. Into the Night (1985)

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

1. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983)
(Music Video)

2. B.B. King “Into the Night” (1985)
(Documentary Short)

3. Michael Jackson: Black or White (1991)
(Music Video)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1. Deer Woman (2005)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

2. Family (2006)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

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

1. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

2. Trading Places (1983)

3. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

4. Coming to America (1988)

My Favorite Abbas Kiarostami Films

11 Friday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Abbas Kiarostami, Adventure, Belgian Cinema, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Danish Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Family, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, Iranian Cinema, Iranian Filmmakers, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Short Cinema, Spanish Cinema, Swiss Cinema, Top 314

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ABC Africa (Documentary), Certified Copy, Close-Up, Life and Nothing More..., Like Someone in Love, Lumiere and Company (Dinner for One) (Anthology Film), Shirin, Taste of Cherry, Ten, The Traveler, The Wind Will Carry Us, Tickets, Where is the Friend's Home?

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

1. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2. Taste of Cherry (1997)

3. Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4. Close-Up (1990)

5. Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

6. Certified Copy (2010)

7. Ten (2002)

8. Like Someone in Love (2012)

9. Shirin (2008)

10. The Traveler (1974)

11. ABC Africa (2001)
(Documentary)

12. Tickets (2005)
(co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1. Lumiere and Company (1995)
(Segment: “Dinner for One”)

My Favorite Gene Kelly Films

11 Friday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, Gene Kelly, Greatest, Lists, Musical, Romance, Top 314

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Hello Dolly!, Invitation to the Dance, It's Always Fair Weather, On the Town, Singin' in the Rain, That's Entertainment Part II (Documentary), The Happy Road, The Tunnel of Love

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

1. That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)
(Documentary)

2. Invitation to the Dance (1956)
(Live-Action/Animation)

3. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

4. It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

5. On the Town (1949)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

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

1. The Happy Road (1957)

2. The Tunnel of Love (1958)

3. Hello, Dolly! (1969)

My Favorite Jim Jarmusch Films

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Concert Films, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, Greek Cinema, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Jim Jarmusch, Lists, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 314, Western

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Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes (Anthology Film), Dead Man, Down by Law, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Gimme Danger (Documentary), Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, The Limits of Control, Year of the Horse (Concert Film)

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

1. Dead Man (1995)

2. Paterson (2016)

3. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

5. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

6. The Limits of Control (2009)

7. Broken Flowers (2005)

8. Down by Law (1986)

9. Mystery Train (1989)

10. Night on Earth (1991)

11. Gimme Danger (2016)
(Documentary)

12. Coffee and Cigarette (2003)
(Anthology Film)

13. Permanent Vacation (1980)

14. Year of the Horse (1997)
(Concert Film)

My Favorite Steve James Films

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Sport, Steve James, Television, Top 314

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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Documentary), At the Death House Door (Documentary), Head Games (Documentary), Hoop Dreams (Documentary), Life Itself (Documentary), Reel Paradise (Documentary), Stevie (Documentary), The Interrupters (Documentary), The New Americans (Documentary) (Television)

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

1. Hoop Dreams (1994)

2. The New Americans (2004)
(co-directed with Gordon Quinn and Gita Saedi)
(Television)

3. The Interrupters (2011)

4. Life Itself (2014)

5. Stevie (2003)

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

1. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)

2. Head Games (2012)

3. At the Death House Door (2008)

4. Reel Paradise (2005)

My Favorite Shoehei Imamura Films

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Shohei Imamura, Short Cinema, Top 314

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11'09"01 September 11 (Japan) (Short Cinema), A Man Vanishes (Documentary), Black Rain 1989 Japan, Dr. Akagi, Eijanaika, Pigs and Battleships, The Ballad of Narayama, The Eel, The Insect Woman, The Pornographers, Unholy Desire (a.k.a. Intentions of Murder), Vengeance is Mine, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

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

1. The Eel (1997)

2. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

3. Vengeance is Mine (1979)

4. A Man Vanishes (1967)
(Documentary)

5. Black Rain (1989)
(no relation to the Michael Douglas movie)

6. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

7. Dr. Akagi (1998)

8. Eijanaika (1981)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

9. The Pornographers (1966)

10. Unholy Desire (1964)
(a.k.a. Intentions of Murder)

11. The Insect Woman (1963)

12. Pigs and Battleships (1961)

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

1. 11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “Japan”)

My Favorite John Huston Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, German Cinema, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, John Huston, Lists, Mexican Cinema, Music, Mystery, Romance, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, War, Western

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A Walk with Love and Death, Beat the Devil, Fat City, Key Largo, Let There Be Light (Documentary), Moby Dick 1956, Moulin Rouge 1952, Prizzi's Honor, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The African Queen, The Asphalt Jungle, The Dead, The Kremlin Letter, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The List of Adrian Messenger, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Would Be King, The Misfits, The Night of the Iguana, The Red Badge of Courage, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Under the Volcano, We Were Strangers, Wise Blood

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

1. The Dead (1987)

2. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

3. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

5. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

6. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

7. Fat City (1972)

8. Under the Volcano (1984)

9. Wise Blood (1979)

10. Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

11. The Kremlin Letter (1970)

12. The Night of the Iguana (1964)

13. The Misfits (1961)

14. Beat the Devil (1953)

15. The African Queen (1951)

16. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

17. We Were Strangers (1949)

18. Let There Be Light (1946)
(Documentary)

19. A Walk with Love and Death (1969)

20. Key Largo (1948)

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

1. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

2. The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

3. Moby Dick (1956)

4. Moulin Rouge (1952)
(not the 2001 version)

My Favorite Kon Ichikawa Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, Anthology Films, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Kon Ichikawa, Lists, Music, Romance, Sport, Top 314, War

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47 Ronin 1994, An Actor's Revenge, Being Two Isn't Easy, Dora-heita, Fires on the Plain, Odd Obsession, The Burmese Harp 1956, The Makioka Sisters, Tokyo Olympiad (Documentary), Visions of Eight (The Fastest) (Documentary) (Anthology Film)

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

1. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
(Documentary)

2. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)

3. Fires on the Plain (1959)

4. The Burmese Harp (1956)

5. The Makioka Sisters (1983)

6. Odd Obsession (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7. Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1. Visions of Eight (1973)
(Segment: “The Fastest”)
(Documentary)

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

1. Dora-heita (2001)

2. 47 Ronin (1994)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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Aguirre the Wrath of God, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, Ballad of the Little Soldier (Documentary), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary), Cobra Verde, Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary), Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana (Documentary), Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man (Documentary), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Documentary), Heart of Glass, Herdsmen of the Sun (Documentary), How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Documentary), Into the Abyss (Documentary), Invisible, La Soufriere (Documentary Short), Land of Silence and Darkness (Documentary), Lessons of Darkness (Documentary), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Documentary), Lo & Behold Reveries of the Connected World (Documentary), My Best Fiend (Documentary), Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979, Precautions Against Fanatics (Short Cinema), Rescue Dawn, Signs of Life, Stroszek, Ten Minutes Older (Ten Thousand Years Older) (Short Cinema), The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Documentary), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Flying Doctors of East Africa (Documentary), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Stein (Documentary), The White Diamond (Documentary), The Wild Blue Yonder (Documentary), Wheel of Time (Documentary), Where the Green Ants Dream, Woyzeck

* * * * (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 Michel Gondry Films

22 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, Belgian Cinema, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Concert Films, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, German Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Korean Cinema, Lists, Michel Gondry, Music, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Top 313, Uncategorized

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Be Kind Rewind, Dave Chapelle's Block Party (Concert Film/Documentary), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (Animated Documentary), Microbe & Gasoline, Mood Indigo, The Science of Sleep, The Thorn in the Heart (Documentary), The We and the I, Tokyo! (Interior Design) (Short Cinema) (Anthology Film)

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

1. The Science of Sleep (2006)

2. Microbe & Gasoline (2015)

3. The We and the I (2012)

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

5. Dave Chapelle’s Block Party (2005)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

6. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
(Animated Documentary)

7. Mood Indigo (2013)

8. The Thorn in the Heart (2009)
(Documentary)

9. Be Kind Rewind (2008)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1. Tokyo! (2008)
(Segment: “Interior Design”)

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