Fantasy

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

13. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

4.   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Guy Maddin Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007) (Part Documentary)

2.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

3.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

4.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

5.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

6.   Archangel (1990)

7.   Careful (1992)

8.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

9.   Keyhole (2011)

10. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

Note: I plan on seeing Maddin’s The Forbidden Room when it opens here in Illinois. I am hoping it will come before the end of 2015. 🙂

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

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

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Seven Samurai (1954)

2.   Ran (1985)

3.   Madadayo (1993)

4.   Throne of Blood (1957)

5.   Ikiru (1952)

6.   Rashomon (1950)

7.   High and Low (1963)

8.   Kagemusha (1980)

9.   Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Decalogue (1989) (Mini-Series)

2.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

3.   Three Colors Trilogy (1993-1994)
Blue (1993)
White (1994)
Red (1994)

4.   The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

5.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

My Favorite Federico Fellini Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   La Dolce Vita (1960)

2.   Nights of Cabiria (1957)

3.   Fellini Satyricon (1969)

4.   La Strada (1954)

5.   8 1/2 (1963)

6.   I Vitelloni (1953)

7.   Amarcord (1973)

8.   Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

9.   The White Sheik (1952)

10. Roma (1972)

11. Variety Lights (1950)
(co-directed with Alberto Lattuada)

12. The Clowns (1970)
(Docufiction)

13. Il bidone (1955)

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

1.   Spirits of the Dead (1968)
(Segment: “Toby Dammit”)

2.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”)

3.   Love in the City (1953)
(Segment: “Marriage Agency”)

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

1.   Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)
(Episode of “NBC Experiment in Television”)

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

1.   And the Ship Sails On (1983)

2.   Intervista (1987)

3.   Ginger and Fred (1986)

My Favorite Stanley Donen Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

2.   Staircase (1969)

3.   It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

4.   Two for the Road (1967)

5.   On the Town (1949) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)

6.   Charade (1963)

7.   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

8.   Bedazzled (1967) (Not the 2000 version)

9.   The Pajama Game (1957) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

10. Indiscreet (1958)

11. Damn Yankees (1958) (Co-directed with George Abbott)

12. Funny Face (1957)

13. Royal Wedding (1951)

14. The Grass is Greener (1960)

15. Give a Girl a Break (1953)

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

1.   Arabesque (1966)

2.   Deep in My Heart (1954)