My Favorite Roberto Rossellini Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Journey to Italy (1954)

2.   Stromboli (1950)

3.   Paisan (1946)

4.   The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

5.   Germany, Year Zero (1948)

6.   The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) (TV Film)

7.   Rome, Open City (1945)

8.   Europe ’51 (1952)

9.   The Age of the Medici (1973) (TV Mini-Series)

10. General Della Rovere (1959)

11. Blaise Pascal (1972) (TV Film)

12. Cartesius (1974) (TV Film)

 

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   The Reckless Moment (1949)
(I watched it on TCM a few years back)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

5.   Le Plaisir (1952)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Lola Montes (1955)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   La Signora di Tutti (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a while back)

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

3.   The Wildcat (1921)

4.   Monte Carlo (1930)

5.   Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

6.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

7.   The Love Parade (1929)

8.   Ninotchka (1939)

9.   So This is Paris (1926)

10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

11. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

12. One Hour with You (1932) (Co-directed with George Cukor)

13. The Merry Widow (1934)

14. The Marriage Circle (1924)

15. Design for Living (1933)

16. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

17. Eternal Love (1929)

18. Madame DuBarry (1919)

19. Angel (1937)

20. The Oyster Princess (1919)

21. Cluny Brown (1946)

22. Anna Boleyn (1920)

23. Sumurun (1920)

24. The Doll (1919)

25. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

26. Carmen (1918)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Nosferatu (1922)

3.   Tabu (1931)

4.   The Last Laugh (1924)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   Phantom (1922)

7.   City Girl (1930)

8.   Tartuffe (1925)

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

1.   The Burning Soil (1922)

2.   The Haunted Castle (1921)

3.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (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 Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

3.   Woyzeck (1979)

4.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

5.   Rescue Dawn (2006)

6.   The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

7.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

8.   Stroszek (1977)

9.   Heart of Glass (1976)

10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

11. Signs of Life (1968)

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

1.   The White Diamond (2004)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)

3.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)

4.   Fata Morgana (1972)

5.   Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

6.   My Best Fiend (1999)

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

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

2.   Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films (New)

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

1.   Louisiana Story (1948)
(Docufiction)

2.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

3.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Docufiction)

4.   Moana (1926)
(Docufiction)
(No relation to the 2016 Disney film)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Co-directed with Curt Oertel and Robert Lyford)
(Documentary)