French Cinema

My Favorite Jim Jarmusch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Dead Man (1995)

2.   Paterson (2016)

3.   Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

4.   Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

5.   Down by Law (1986)

6.   The Limits of Control (2009)

7.   Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
(Anthology)

8.   Broken Flowers (2005)

9.   Mystery Train (1989)
(Anthology)

10. Night on Earth (1991)
(Anthology)

11. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

12. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

13. Permanent Vacation (1980)

14. Gimme Danger (2016)
(Documentary)

15. Year of the Horse (1997)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

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

1.   Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
1a. Segment: Int. Trailer Night (2002)
(Anthology)

My Favorite Shoehei Imamura Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Eel (1997)

2.   The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

3.   Vengeance is Mine (1979)

4.   A Man Vanishes (1967)
(Documentary)

5.   Black Rain (1989)
(no relation to the Michael Douglas movie)

6.   Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

7.   Dr. Akagi (1998)

8.   Eijanaika (1981)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

9.   The Pornographers (1966)

10. Unholy Desire (1964)
(a.k.a. Intentions of Murder)

11. The Insect Woman (1963)

12. Pigs and Battleships (1961)

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

1.   11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “Japan”)

My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Werner Herzog Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6.   Stroszek (1977)

7.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9.   The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

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

1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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

1.   The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Goodbye to Language (2014)

2.   In Praise of Love (2001)

3.   Histoire(s) du cinema (1988/1989/1997/1998)
(Documentary)

4.   Passion (1982)

5.   Number Two (1975)

6.   Weekend (1967)

7.   Film Socialisme (2010)

8.   Here and Elsewhere (1974)

9.   King Lear (1987)

10. La Chinoise (1967)

11. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

12. Made in U.S.A. (1966)

13. Masculin Féminin (1966)

14. A Married Woman (1964)

15. Alphaville (1965)

16. Hail Mary (1985) 

17. Every Man for Himself (1980)

18. Le Gai savoir (1969)

19. Tout va bien (1972)

20. Notre musique (2004)

21. Contempt (1963)

22. Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

23. Breathless (1960)

24. Pierrot le fou (1965)

25. Band of Outsiders (1964)

26. JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994)
(Documentary)

27. Oh Woe Is Me (1993)

28. Les Carabiniers (1963)

29. Le Petit Soldat (1960)

30. Detective (1985)

31. First Name: Carmen (1983)

32. For Ever Mozart (1996)

33. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

34. Keep Your Right Up (1987)

35. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

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

1.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Armide”)

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

1.   Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

2.   A Story of Water (1958)
(co-directed with Francois Truffaut)

3.   All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)

My Favorite Terry Gilliam Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Brazil (1985) 

2.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

3.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Jones)

4.   12 Monkeys (1995)

5.   Time Bandits (1981)

6.   The Fisher King (1991)

7.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

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

1.   The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
(Played before Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)

2.   Miracle of Flight (1974)
(Animation)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Story Time (1979)
(Animation)

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

1.   The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

2.   The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

My Favorite Samuel Fuller Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Shock Corridor (1963)

2.   Park Row (1952)

3.   White Dog (1982)

4.   Pickup on South Street (1953)

5.   The Steel Helmet (1951)

6.   Run of the Arrow (1957)

7.   The Big Red One (1980)

8.   Forty Guns (1957)

9.   Verboten! (1959)

10. The Naked Kiss (1964)

11. China Gate (1957)

12. Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

13. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974)

14. The Crimson Kimono (1959)

15. House of Bamboo (1955)

16. Merrill’s Marauders (1962)

17. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

18. The Baron of Arizona (1950)

19. I Shot Jesse James (1949)

20. Hell and High Water (1954)

21. Street of No Return (1989)

22. Shark! (1969)
(a.k.a. “Caine” or “Maneater”)

23. The Virginian – Season 1 (1962)
23a. Episode: “It Tolls for Thee”
(Television)

24. Chillers (1990)
24a. Episode: “The Day of Reckoning”
(Television)

My Favorite Federico Fellini Films

by John Charet

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

1.   8 1/2 (1963)

2.   La Dolce Vita (1960)

3.   Amarcord (1973)

4.   Nights of Cabiria (1957)

5.   La Strada (1954)

6.   I Vitelloni (1953)

7.   Fellini Satyricon (1969)

8.   Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

9.   Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

10. Roma (1972)

11. Il bidone (1955)

12. The White Sheik (1952)

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

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

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

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

1.   And the Ship Sails On (1983)

2.   The Clowns (1970)
(Documentary)