Drama

My Favorite Frank Borzage Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   No Greater Glory (1934)  

2.   Man’s Castle (1933)

3.   China Doll (1958)

4.   Moonrise (1948)

5.   Seventh Heaven (1927)

6.   Little Man, What Now? (1934)

7.   Street Angel (1928)

8.   Bad Girl (1931)

9.   Lucky Star (1929)

10. I’ve Always Loved You (1946)

11. Three Comrades (1938)

12. History Is Made at Night (1937)

13. A Farewell to Arms (1931)

14. Desire (1936)

15. After Tomorrow (1932)

16. The Mortal Storm (1940)

17. Liliom (1930)

18. Lazybones (1925)

19. The River (1929)

20. Humoresque (1920)

21. Young America (1932)

22. Song o’ My Heart (1930)

23. They Had to See Paris (1929)

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

1.   Mannequin (1937)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

2.   That’s My Man (1947)

3.   Stranded (1935)

4.   Big City (1937)

5.   Strange Cargo (1940)

6.   Green Light (1937)

7.   Disputed Passage (1939)

8.   Living on Velvet (1935)

9.   The Shining Hour (1938)

10. Flirtation Walk (1934)

11. The Spanish Main (1945)

12. Shipmates Forever (1935) 

My Favorite Peter Bogdanovich Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Saint Jack (1979)

2.   Texasville (1990)

3.   They All Laughed (1981)

4.   Targets (1968)

5.   The Cat’s Meow (2001)

6.   The Last Picture Show (1971)

7.   Paper Moon (1973)

8.   What’s Up Doc? (1972)

9.   Nickelodeon (1976)

10. Daisy Miller (1974)

11. At Long Last Love (1975)

12. The Sopranos – Season 5 (2004)
12a. Episode 6: Sentimental Education (2004)
(Cable/Television)

13. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream (2007)
(Documentary)

14. Directed by John Ford (1971/2006)
(Documentary)

15. The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Budd Boetticher Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Ride Lonesome (1959)

2.   The Tall T (1957)

3.   Seven Men from Now (1956)

4.   Comanche Station (1960)

5.   Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)

6.   A Time for Dying (1969)

7.   The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

8.   The Killer Is Loose (1956)

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

1.   Decision at Sundown (1957)

2.   Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

3.   Westbound (1959)

My Favorite Brad Bird Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Iron Giant (1999)
(Animated Film)

2.   Ratatouille (2007)
(Animated Film)

3.   The Incredibles (2004)
(Animated Film)

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

1.   Amazing Stories (1985-1987)
Episode: Family Dog (1987)
(Animated Segment)

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

1.   Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

My Favorite Kathryn Bigelow Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

2.   The Hurt Locker (2008)

3.   Near Dark (1987)

4.   Detroit (2017)

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

1.   K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

2.   Strange Days (1995)

3.   Point Break (1991)

4.   The Weight of Water (2000)

5.   Blue Steel (1989)

My Favorite Ingmar Bergman Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   Persona (1966)

2.   The Seventh Seal (1957)    

3.   Cries and Whispers (1972)

4.   Wild Strawberries (1957)

5.   The Silence (1963)

6.   Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

7.   Winter Light (1962)

8.   Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

9.   The Virgin Spring (1960)

10. Hour of the Wolf (1968)

11. Shame (1968)

12. The Magic Flute (1975)
(Swedish TV Film)

13. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

14. Autumn Sonata (1978)

15. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
(Swedish TV Mini-Series)

16. Saraband (2003)
(Swedish TV Film)

17. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

18. The Touch (1971)

19. The Passion of Anna (1969)

20. Face to Face (1976)

21. The Magician (1958)

22. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

23. Summer Interlude (1951)

24. Summer with Monika (1953)

25. The Rite (1969)
(Swedish TV Film)

26. After the Rehearsal (1984)
(Swedish TV Film)

My Favorite Michelangelo Antonioni Films

by John Charet

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

1.   L’Eclisse (1962)

2.   Le Amiche (1955)

3.   La Notte (1961)

4.   Zabriskie Point (1970)

5.   L’Avventura (1960)   

6.   The Passenger (1975)

7.   Red Desert (1965)

8.   Blowup (1966)

9.   Il Grido (1957)

10. Identification of a Woman (1982)

11. Beyond the Clouds (1995)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)

12. The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)

13. Story of a Love Affair (1950)

14. I Vinti (1952)

15. The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Kenneth Anger Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Fireworks (1947)

2.   Scorpio Rising (1960)

3.   Eaux d’Artifice (1953)

4.   Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

5.   Rabbit’s Moon (1950)

6.   Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)

7.   Lucifer Rising (1972)

8.   Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)

9.   Puce Moment (1949)