My Favorite Jules Dassin Films (New)

* * * * (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 Stephen Chow Films (New)

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

1.   Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

2.   The Mermaid (2016)

3.   CJ7 (2008)

4.   Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)

5.   Shaolin Soccer (2001)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau (New)

* * * * (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)

* * * * (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 Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   Regeneration (1915)

3.   High Sierra (1941)

4.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)

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

1.   The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

2.   They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Dark Command (1940)

5.   They Drive By Night (1940)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   The Big Trail (1930)

8.   What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)

9.   The Bowery (1933)

10. Manpower (1941)

11. Colorado Territory (1949)

12. The Man I Love (1947)

13. Pursued (1947)

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

My Favorite Luchino Visconti Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (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 Erich von Stroheim Films (New)

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

1.   Greed (1924)
(I saw it the 239-minute version on an old VHS tape)

2.   Foolish Wives (1922)

3.   The Wedding March (1928)

4.   Blind Husbands (1919)

5.   The Merry Widow (1925)

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

1.   Queen Kelly (1929)

My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Black Cat (1934)

2.   Detour (1945)

3.   Bluebeard (1944)

4.   Ruthless (1948)

5.   The Man from Planet X (1951)

6.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

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

1.   Strange Illusion (1945)

2.   Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

3.   The Strange Woman (1946)

Note: I first saw The Naked Dawn on television a decade ago on some TV station.

My Favorite Jan Troell Films (New)

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

1.   Hamsun (1996)

2.   Everlasting Moments (2008)

3.   Zandy’s Bride (1974)

4.   The New Land (1972)

5.   The Emigrants (1971)

6.   Flight of the Eagle (1982)