* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Enter the Void (2009)
2. I Stand Alone (1998)
3. Irreversible (2002)
Drama
My Favorite Mikio Naruse Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
2. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
3. Every-Night Dreams (1933)
4. Apart From You (1933)
5. Street Without End (1934)
6. No Blood Relation (1932)
7. Flunky, Work Hard (1931)
My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sunrise (1927)
2. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
3. The Last Laugh (1924)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. Faust (1926)
6. City Girl (1930)
7. Tartuffe (1925)
8. Phantom (1922)
9. The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
10. The Haunted Castle (1921)
My Favorite Cristian Mungiu Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Beyond the Hills (2012)
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
3. Graduation (2016)
4. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
(co-directed with Hanna Hofer, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru and Razvan Marculescu)
(Anthology Film)
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 Kenji Mizoguchi Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
2. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
3. Ugetsu (1953)
4. The Life of Oharu (1952)
5. Street of Shame (1956)
6. Osaka Elegy (1936)
7. Women of the Night (1948)
8. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
9. The 47 Ronin (1941)
My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anime)
1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
3. The Wind Rises (2013)
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
5. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
6. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
7. Porco Rosso (1992)
8. Castle in the Sky (1986)
9. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
10. Ponyo (2008)
11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
2. Lust for Life (1956)
3. Home from the Hill (1960)
4. Some Came Running (1958)
5. The Band Wagon (1953)
6. The Cobweb (1955)
7. Madame Bovary (1949)
8. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
9. The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)
10. Father of the Bride (1950)
11. An American in Paris (1951)
12. Gigi (1958)
13. The Pirate (1948)
14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)
17. Designing Woman (1957)
18. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
20. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
22. The Clock (1945)
23. The Sandpiper (1965)
24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
25. A Matter of Time (1976)
26. Bells are Ringing (1960)
27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
28. Brigadoon (1954)
29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
30. Kismet (1955)
31. Undercurrent (1946)
32. I Dood It (1943)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Segments)
1. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)
2. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)
3. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)
4. Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)
My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Le Samouraï (1967)
2. Bob le Flambeur (1956)
3. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
4. Army of Shadows (1969)
5. Le Doulos (1963)
6. Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
7. Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
8. Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
9. Un Flic (1972)
10. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
My Favorite Georges Melies Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Conquest of the Pole (1912)
2. Tunnelling the English Channel (1907)
3. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
4. The Impossible Voyage (1904)
5. Fairyland: A Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)
6. An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905)
7. Blue Beard (1901)
8. Cinderella (1899)
(not the Disney animated version or the 2015 live-action version)
9. The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)
10. The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)
11. The One-Man Band (1900)
12. The Diabolic Tenant (1909)
13. The Melomaniac (1903)
14. The Bewitched Inn (1897)
15. A Nightmare (1896)
16. The Haunted Castle (1896)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Eclipse (1907)
2. The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)
3. The Living Playing Cards (1905)
4. The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
5. The Enchanted Well (1903)
6. Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)
7. The Man With the Rubber Head (1901)
8. Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)
9. A Fantastical Meal (1900)
10. Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900)
11. Joan of Arc (1900)
12. The Devil in a Convent (1899)
13. The Magician (1898)
14. The Devil’s Castle (1897)
15. The Vanishing Lady (1896)
16. The Famous Box Trick (1898)
17. Baron Munchausen’s Dreams (1911)
18. The Magician’s Cavern (1901)
19. The Christmas Angel (1904)
20. A Terrible Night (1896)
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