French Cinema

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Cosmopolis (2012)

5.   Dead Ringers (1988)

6.   Spider (2002)

7.   The Fly (1986)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   The Brood (1979)

10. Naked Lunch (1991)

11. Maps to the Stars (2014)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Scanners (1981)

17. Rabid (1977)

18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

19. Fast Company (1979)

20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Conformist (1970)

2.   Besieged (1998)

3.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

4.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

5.   1900 (1976)

6.   Luna (1979)

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

1.   Before the Revolution (1964)

2.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

My Favorite Sergio Corbucci Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Great Silence (1968)
(a.k.a The Big Silence)

2.   Django (1966)

3.   Companeros (1970)

4.   The Mercenary (1968)

5.   The Hellbenders (1967)

6.   Sonny and Jed (1972)
(I watched it online)

7.   The Specialists (1969)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Orpheus (1950)

2.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   Beauty and the Beast (1946)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   The Testament of Orpheus (1960)

My Favorite Robert Bresson Films

by John Charet

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

1.   L’Argent (1983)

2.   Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

3.   A Man Escaped (1956)

4.   Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

5.   Pickpocket (1959)

6.   Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

7.   Mouchette (1967)

8.   Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

9.   The Devil Probably (1977)

10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

11. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

12. A Gentle Woman (1969)

13. Angels of Sin (1943)

My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Wages of Fear (1953)

2.   Diabolique (1955)

3.   Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

4.   Le Corbeau (1943)

5.   The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)      

My Favorite Rene Clair Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A Nous la Liberte (1931)

2.   Le Million (1931)

3.   Under the Roof of Paris (1930)

4.   The Italian Straw Hat (1928)

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

1.   Entr’acte (1924)

2.   The Crazy Ray (1924)

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

1.   I Married a Witch (1942)

2.   And Then There Were None (1945)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Le Ceremonie (1995)

2.   Le Boucher (1970)

3.   The Bridesmaid (2004)

4.   The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

5.   This Man Must Die (1969)

6.   Just Before Nightfall (1971)

7.   The Breach (1970)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

10. Bellamy (2009)

11. L’Enfer (1994)

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

1.   Story of Women (1988)

2.   Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Color of Lies (1999)

5.   Madame Bovary (1991)

6.   Betty (1992)

7.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

8.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

9.   Les Cousins (1959)

10. Le Beau Serge (1958)