* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Enter the Void (2009)
2. I Stand Alone (1998)
3. Irreversible (2002)
German Cinema
My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sunrise (1927)
2. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
3. The Last Laugh (1924)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. Faust (1926)
6. City Girl (1930)
7. Tartuffe (1925)
8. Phantom (1922)
9. The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
10. The Haunted Castle (1921)
My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sweet Movie (1974)
2. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)
3. Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)
4. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
5. Man is Not a Bird (1965)
My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
3. One Hour with You (1932)
(with assistance from George Cukor)
4. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
5. The Wild Cat (1921)
6. The Love Parade (1929)
7. Monte Carlo (1930)
8. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
9. Design for Living (1933)
10. The Marriage Circle (1924)
11. Eternal Love (1929)
12. Broken Lullaby (1932)
13. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
14. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
15. The Oyster Princess (1919)
16. Madame DuBarry (1919)
17. The Doll (1919)
18. Anna Boleyn (1920)
19. Sumurun (1920)
20. The Merry Widow (1934)
21. Angel (1937)
22. Cluny Brown (1946)
23. Ninotchka (1939)
24. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
25. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
26. Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938)
27. Carmen (1918)
28. I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)
My Favorite Richard Linklater Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Boyhood (2014)
2a. Before Sunrise (1995)
2b. Before Sunset (2004)
2c. Before Midnight (2013)
3. Bernie (2011)
4. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
5. Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)
6. Dazed and Confused (1993)
7. Slacker (1991)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Me and Orson Welles (2009)
2. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
(Animated Film)
3. School of Rock (2003)
4. Tape (2001)
5. The Newton Boys (1998)
6. SubUrbia (1996)
My Favorite Ken Loach Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. I, Daniel Blake (2016)
2. Land and Freedom (1995)
3. Kes (1969)
4. Raining Stones (1993)
5. Looking for Eric (2009)
6. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Television)
1. Cathy Come Home (1966)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Sweet Sixteen (2002)
2. My Name Is Joe (1998)
3. Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
4. Riff-Raff (1991)
My Favorite Sergio Leone Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
5. Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
(a.k.a. A Fistful of Dynamite)
6. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
My Favorite Mike Leigh Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Life Is Sweet (1990)
2. Mr. Turner (2014)
3. High Hopes (1988)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
5. Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
6. Grown-Ups (1980)
(Television)
7. Meantime (1983)
(Television)
8. Secrets & Lies (1996)
9. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
10. Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
11. Naked (1993)
12. Vera Drake (2004)
13. Another Year (2010)
14. All or Nothing (2002)
15. Career Girls (1997)
16. Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
17. Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
18. Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
19. Bleak Moments (1971)
20. Four Days in July (1984)
(Television)
21. Peterloo (2018)
22. Who’s Who (1979)
(Television)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Short and Curlies (1987)
My Favorite Fritz Lang Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. M (1931)
2. Spies (1928)
3. Scarlet Street (1945)
4. While the City Sleeps (1956)
5. Liliom (1934)
6. Fury (1936)
7. The Woman in the Window (1944)
8. You Only Live Once (1937)
9. Moonfleet (1955)
10. The Big Heat (1953)
11. Rancho Notorious (1952)
12. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
13. Die Nibelungen (1924)
14. Destiny (1921)
15. The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb (1959)
(a.k.a. Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic)
16. Metropolis (1927)
17. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
18. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
19. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
20. You and Me (1937)
21. Clash by Night (1952)
22. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
23. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
24. Human Desire (1954)
25. House by the River (1950)
26. Ministry of Fear (1944)
27. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
28. Man Hunt (1941)
29. Western Union (1941)
30. The Return of Frank James (1940)
31. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
32. Woman in the Moon (1929)
33. The Spiders Parts I and II (1919/1920)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Harikari (1919)
2. American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
My Favorite Jim Jarmusch Films
* * * * (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)
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