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 George Miller Films

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

1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(
Anthology Film)

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

1.   Mad Max (1979)

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 Buster Keaton Films

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

1.   The General (1926)
(co-directed with Clyde Bruckman)

2.   Sherlock Jr. (1924)

3.   The Navigator (1924)
(co-directed with Donald Crisp)

4.   Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
(co-directed with Charles Reisner)

5.   The Cameraman (1928)
(co-directed with Edward Sedgwick)

6.   Our Hospitality (1923)
(co-directed with John G. Blystone)

7.   Seven Chances (1925)

8.   Go West (1925)

9.   Three Ages (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1917-1923)

1.   One Week (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

2.   The Scarecrow (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

3.   The Goat (1921)
(co-directed with Malcolm St. Clair)

4.   Cops (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

5.   The Playhouse (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

6.   The High Sign (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

7.   Neighbors (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

8.   The Electric House (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

9.   The Boat (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

10. Hard Luck (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

11. Convict 13 (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

12. The Love Nest (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

13. The Blacksmith (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

14. The Paleface (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)
(no relation to the Bob Hope movie)

15. The Haunted House (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

16. Day Dreams (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

17. The Balloonatic (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

18. My Wife’s Relations (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

19. The Frozen North (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

20. The Rough House (1917)
(co-directed with Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1934-1937) (Educational Pictures)

1.   Grand Slam Opera (1936)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

2.   Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

3.   One Run Elmer (1935)
(allegedly, Charles Lamont co-directed)

4.   Allez Oop (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

5.   The Gold Ghost (1934)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

6.   Blue Blazes (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

7.   Mixed Magic (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

8.   Tars and Stripes (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

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

1.   College (1927)
(co-directed with James W. Horne)

My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

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

1.   The Assassin (2015)

2.   Three Times (2005)

3.   Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

4.   Cafe Lumière (2003)

5.   The Puppermaster (1993)
(no relation to the 1989 horror film)

6.   Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

7.   Good Men, Good Women (1995)

8.   Millenium Mambo (2001)

9.   Daughter of the Nile (1987)

10. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

 

My Favorite John Ford Films

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

1.   The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

2.   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

3.   Wagon Master (1950)

4.   7 Women (1966)

5.   Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

6.   The Long Gray Line (1955)

7.   Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

8.   Donovan’s Reef (1963)

9.   Two Rode Together (1961)

10. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

11. Gideon’s Day (1958)
(a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard)

12. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
(Anthology)

13. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. The Quiet Man (1952)

16. Fort Apache (1948)

17. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

18. My Darling Clementine (1946)

19. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

20. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

21. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

22. The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

23. Judge Priest (1934)

24. Pilgrimage (1933)

25. Hangman’s House (1928)

26. Four Sons (1928)

27. Upstream (1927)

28. 3 Bad Men (1926)

29. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

30. Doctor Bull (1933)

31. They Were Expendable (1945)

32. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

33. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

34. Stagecoach (1939)

35. Rio Grande (1950)

36. Wagon Train – Season 4 (1960)
36a. Episode: “The Colter Craven Story”
(Television)

37. 3 Godfathers (1948)

38. Mogambo (1953)

39. The Fugitive (1947)
(no relation to the TV series or the 1993 film)

40. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

41. The Hurricane (1937)

42. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

43. The Informer (1935)

44. The Lost Patrol (1934)

45. Flesh (1932)

46. Just Pals (1920)

47. Hell Bent (1918)

48. Bucking Broadway (1917)

49. Straight Shooting (1917)

50. The Iron Horse (1924)

51. Tobacco Road (1941)

52. Air Mail (1932)

53. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

54. The Last Hurrah (1958)

55. Mister Roberts (1955)
(co-directed with Mervyn LeRoy)

56. Mary of Scotland (1936)

57. What Price Glory (1952)

58. Arrowsmith (1931)

59. The World Moves On (1934)

60. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

61. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
(I watched it online)

62. Up the River (1930)

63. Riley the Cop (1928)
(I watched it online)

64. Submarine Patrol (1938)
(I watched it online)

65. Men Without Women (1930)

66. Seas Beneath (1930)

67. The Blue Eagle (1926)
(I watched it online)

68. Born Reckless (1930)

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

1.   How the West Was Won (1962)
1a. Segment: “The Civil War (1861-1865)”
(Anthology)

2.   By Indian Post (1919)
(I watched it online)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

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

1.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

2.   Louisiana Story (1948)

3.   Moana (1926)
(Documentary)
(no relation to the 2016 Disney film)

4.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Documentary)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Elephant Boy (1937)
(co-directed with Zoltan Korda)