Drama

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

3.   Wild Grass (2009)

4.   Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

5.   Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Life of Riley (2014)

8.   You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

9.   Providence (1977) (Saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

11. The War is Over (1966)

12. Night and Fog (1955) (Documentary Short)

13. Stavisky (1974)

14. Same Old Song (1997)

15. Not on the Lips (2003)

16. Melo (1986)

17. Love Unto Death (1984)

18. Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Grand Illusion (1937)

2.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

3.   A Day in the Country (1936) (Short Film)

4.   The River (1951)

5.   The Southerner (1945)

6.   The Golden Coach (1952)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

9.   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

10. La Bete Humaine (1938)

11. Toni (1935)

12. French Cancan (1954)

13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)

14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)

15. The Lower Depths (1936)

16. Elena and Her Men (1956)

17. La Marseillaise (1938)

18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)

My Favorite Satyajit Ray Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.  The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
      Pather Panchali (1955)
      Aparajito (1956)
      The World of Apu (1959)

2.   Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

3.   Charulata (1964)

4.   The Big City (1963)

5.   The Music Room (1958)

6.   Devi (1960)

7.   The Home and the World (1984)

8.   The Middleman (1976)

9.   Distant Thunder (1973)

10. Company Limited (1971)

11. The Elephant God (1979)

12. The Adversary (1970)

13. The Stranger (1991)

14. The Golden Fortress (1974)

15. The Chess Players (1977)

16. Nayak: The Hero (1966)

17. Teen Kanya (1961)

18. The Holy Man (1965)

19. The Coward (1965)

20. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)

21. An Enemy of the People (1990)

Note: Some of these I saw on DVD and the ones that were not available on DVD, I watched on youtube If they were available.

 

 

 

My Favorite Jafar Panahi Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Circle (2000)

2.   Crimson Gold (2003)

3.   The White Balloon (1995)

4.   Taxi (2015) (Part Documentary) (No relation to the TV Series)

5.   This Is Not a Film (2011) (Documentary) (Co-directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)

6.   Offside (2006)

7.   The Mirror (1997)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

4.   A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

5.   Floating Weeds (1959)

6.   Early Summer (1951)

7.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Good Morning (1959)

10. Early Spring (1956)

11. Late Autumn (1960)

12. Tokyo Twilight (1957)

13. Equinox Flower (1958)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. The Only Son (1936)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Dragnet Girl (1933)

18. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

 

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   The Reckless Moment (1949)
(I watched it on TCM a few years back)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

5.   Le Plaisir (1952)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Lola Montes (1955)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   La Signora di Tutti (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a while back)

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

3.   The Wildcat (1921)

4.   Monte Carlo (1930)

5.   Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

6.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

7.   The Love Parade (1929)

8.   Ninotchka (1939)

9.   So This is Paris (1926)

10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

11. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

12. One Hour with You (1932) (Co-directed with George Cukor)

13. The Merry Widow (1934)

14. The Marriage Circle (1924)

15. Design for Living (1933)

16. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

17. Eternal Love (1929)

18. Madame DuBarry (1919)

19. Angel (1937)

20. The Oyster Princess (1919)

21. Cluny Brown (1946)

22. Anna Boleyn (1920)

23. Sumurun (1920)

24. The Doll (1919)

25. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

26. Carmen (1918)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Nosferatu (1922)

3.   Tabu (1931)

4.   The Last Laugh (1924)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   Phantom (1922)

7.   City Girl (1930)

8.   Tartuffe (1925)

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

1.   The Burning Soil (1922)

2.   The Haunted Castle (1921)

3.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)