French Cinema

My Favorite Chantal Akerman Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

2.   Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)

3.   Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978)

4.   Toute une nuit (1982)

5.   Golden Eighties (1986)
(a.k.a. Window Shopping)

6.   Night and Day (1991)

7.   The Captive (2000)

8.   Almayer’s Folly (2011)

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

1.   Hotel Monterey (1973)
(Documentary)

2.   News from Home (1977)
(Documentary)

3.   The Eighties (1983)
(Documentary)

4.   On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983)
(Documentary)

5.   From the East (1993)
(Documentary)

6.   South (1999)
(Documentary)

7.   From the Other Side (2002)
(Documentary)

8.   Down There (2006)
(Documentary)

9.   No Home Movie (2015)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Blow Up My Town (1968)

2.   La Chambre (1972)

3.   Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984)

My Favorite Michel Gondry Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   The We and the I (2012)

2.   The Science of Sleep (2006)

3.   Microbe & Gasoline (2015)

4.   Human Nature (2001)

5.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Music Videos)

1.   The Work of Director Michel Gondry (2003)

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

1.   Dave Chapelle’s Block Party (2005) (Concert Film/Documentary)

2.   Be Kind Rewind (2008)

My Favorite Jules Dassin Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Brute Force (1947)

2.   Uptight (1968)

3.   Rififi (1955)

4.   Thieves Highway (1949)

5.   Night and the City (1950) (Not the 1992 version)

6.   The Naked City (1948)

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

1.   Topkapi (1964)

2.   Never on Sunday (1960)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Not the 1991 animated version)

3.   Orpheus (1950)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   Testament of Orpheus (1960)

6.   The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
(co-directed with Hans Richter)
(I watched it on youtube)

8.   La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
(Short Film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Wim Wenders Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Kings of the Road (1976)

2.   Room 666 (1982) (Documentary)

3.   Alice in the Cities (1974)

4.   Don’t Come Knocking (2005)

5.   Paris, Texas (1984)

6.   Land of Plenty (2004)

7.   Wrong Move (1975)

8.   The End of Violence (1997)

9.   Beyond the Clouds (1995) (co-directed with Michelangelo Antonioni)

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

1.   Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

My Favorite Luchino Visconti Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

2.   Bellissima (1951)

3.   Senso (1954)

4.   Conversation Piece (1974)

5.   The Innocent (1976)

6.   White Nights (1957)

7.   La Terra Trema (1948)

8.   Death in Venice (1971)

9.   Ludwig (1972)

10. The Damned (1969)

11. The Leopard (1963)

12. Ossessione (1943)

13. Sandra of a Thousand Delights (1965)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

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

1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Job”)

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

1.   The Stranger (1967)
(No relation to the 1946 film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Andre Techine Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Wild Reeds (1994)

2.   The Bronte Sisters (1979)

3.   The Witnesses (2007)

4.   Unforgivable (2012)

5.   Thieves (1996)

6.   My Favorite Season (1993)

7.   I Don’t Kiss (1991)

8.   Strayed (2003)

9.   The Girl on the Train (2009)

10. Alice and Martin (1998)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

11. Rendez-vous (1985)

12. Barocco (1976)

13. In the Name of my Daughter (2014)

14. Hotel America (1981)

15. Changing Times (2004)

16. The Scene of the Crime (1986)

My Favorite Eric Rohmer Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

2.   The Green Ray (1986)

3.   Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)

4.   Pauline at the Beach (1983)

5.   Claire’s Knee (1970)

6.   My Night at Maud’s (1969)

7.   La Collectionneuse (1967)

8.   Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

9.   A Tale of Summer (1996)

10. A Tale of Winter (1992)

11. Romance of Astree and Celadon (2007)

12. Triple Agent (2004)

13. An Autumn Tale (1998)

14. A Tale of Springtime (1990)

15. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)

16. Full Moon in Paris (1984)

17. A Good Marriage (1982)

18. The Aviator’s Wife (1981)

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

1.   The Marquise of O… (1976)

 

 

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)