My Favorite Errol Morris Films

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

1.   The Thin Blue Line (1988)

2.   Gates of Heaven (1978)

3.   The Fog of War (2003)

4.   Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

5.   Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

6.   The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)

7.   Vernon, Florida (1981)

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

1.   Tabloid (2010)

2.   Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

3.   The Unknown Known (2013)

4.   A Brief History of Time (1991)

My Favorite Chris Marker Films

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

1.   Sans Soleil (1983)
(Documentary)

2.   La Jetee (1962)
(Live-Action Short)

3.   Level Five (1997)
(Documentary)

4.   The Last Bolshevik (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
(Documentary)

6.   A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
(Documentary)

7.   Le Joli Mai (1963)
(Documentary)

8.   A.K. (1985)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films

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

1.   Sweet Movie (1974)

2.   W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)

3.   Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)

4.   Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

5.   Man is Not a Bird (1965)

My Favorite Abbas Kiarostami Films

* * * * (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

* * * * (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

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

1.   Dead Man (1995)

2.   Paterson (2016)

3.   Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

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

5.   Down by Law (1986)

6.   The Limits of Control (2009)

7.   Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
(Anthology)

8.   Broken Flowers (2005)

9.   Mystery Train (1989)
(Anthology)

10. Night on Earth (1991)
(Anthology)

11. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

12. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

13. Permanent Vacation (1980)

14. Gimme Danger (2016)
(Documentary)

15. Year of the Horse (1997)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

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

1.   Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
1a. Segment: Int. Trailer Night (2002)
(Anthology)

My Favorite Steve James Films

* * * * (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 Peter Jackson Films

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

1.   They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
(Documentary)

2.   Heavenly Creatures (1994)

3.   Forgotten Silver (1995)
(co-directed with Costa Botes)
(Mockumentary)

4.   Dead Alive (1992)
(a.k.a. Braindead)

5.   Bad Taste (1987)

6.   Meet the Feebles (1989)

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

1.   The Frighteners (1996)

2a. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2b. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
2c. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

3.   King Kong (2005)

My Favorite Shoehei Imamura Films

* * * * (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 Kon Ichikawa Films

* * * * (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)