My Favorite Andre Techine Films (New)

* * * * (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 Andrei Tarkovsky Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Stalker (1979)

2.   Solaris (1972)

3.   Andrei Rublev (1966)

4.   Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

5.   The Sacrifice (1986)

6.   Nostalghia (1983)

7.   The Mirror (1975)

8.   The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)

9.   Voyage in Time (1983) (Documentary)

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   The Great McGinty (1940)

8.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

9.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

10. The Great Moment (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

11. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

 

My Favorite Zack Snyder Films (New)

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

1.   Sucker Punch (2011)

2.   Watchmen (2009)

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

1.   Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

2.   Man of Steel (2013)

3.   Justice League (2017)

4.   Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
(Animated Film)

5.   300 (2006)
(he did not direct the equally very good sequel)

6.   Dawn of the Dead (2004)

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Imitation of Life (1959)

2.   The Tarnished Angels (1957)

3.   A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

4.   Written on the Wind (1956)

5.   All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6.   Magnificent Obsession (1954)

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

1.   Interlude (1957)

2.   There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

3.   All I Desire (1953)

5.   Shockproof (1949)

6.   Lured (1947)

My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)

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

1.   Three Kings (1999)

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

1.   American Hustle (2013)

2.   Joy (2015)

3.   The Fighter (2010)

4.   Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

5.   Flirting with Disaster (1996)

6.   I Heart Huckabees (2004)

7.   Spanking the Monkey (1994)
(Yes that is the actual title of the film)

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 Francesco Rosi Films (New)

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

1.   Three Brothers (1981)

2.   Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

3.   Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

4.   Hands over the City (1963)

5.   The Moment of Truth (1965)

6.   The Truce (1997)

7.   Carmen (1984)

8.   Many Wars Ago (1970)

9.   Lucky Luciano (1974)

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

1.   The Palermo Connection (1989)

Note: Some of these I have seen on DVD and ones that are not on Blu-Ray and DVD I have seen on VHS. I have not seen The Mattei Affair but that is because it is not available on either Blu-Ray and DVD or VHS. I have heard great things about it though and since Francesco Rosi died last year, I am hoping that filmmakers or film historians who loved his work will try to get The Mattei Affair available in the USA on either Blu-Ray and DVD or VHS since that one seems to be one of his many highly celebrated films.