Category Archives: History

My Favorite Milos Forman Films

25 Wednesday Mar 2020

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1.   Loves of a Blonde (1965)

2.   Taking Off (1971)

3.   The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

4.   Black Peter (1963)

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1.   Amadeus (1984)

2.   Man on the Moon (1999)

My Favorite Richard Fleischer Films

24 Tuesday Mar 2020

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1.   Mandingo (1975)

2.   The Narrow Margin (1952)

3.   The Boston Strangler (1968)

4.   10 Rillington Place (1971)

5.   The Vikings (1958)

6.   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

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1.   Compulsion (1959)

2.   The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

3.   Violent Saturday (1955)

4.   So This Is New York (1948)

My Favorite Stuart Cooper Films

24 Tuesday Mar 2020

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1.   Overlord (1975)

2.   Little Malcolm (1974)

3.   The Disappearance (1977)

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1.   A Test of Violence (1970)
(Documentary Short)

My Favorite John Woo Films

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

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1.   The Killer (1989)

2.   Bullet in the Head (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3.   Hard Boiled (1992)

4.   A Better Tomorrow (1986)

5.   Face/Off (1997)

6.   Red Cliff (2008)

7.   A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

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1.   Hard Target (1993)

My Favorite Robert Wise Films

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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1.   The Set-Up (1949)

2.   The Haunting (1963)

3.   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

4.   The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

5.   Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

6.   The Body Snatcher (1945)

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1.   Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

3.   Born to Kill (1947)

4.   Executive Suite (1954)

5.   Blood on the Moon (1948)

6.   I Want to Live! (1958)

7.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)

My Favorite James Whale Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

2.   The Old Dark House (1932)

3.   Show Boat (1936)

4.   The Invisible Man (1933)

5.   Frankenstein (1931)

6.   Waterloo Bridge (1931)

7.   The Great Garrick (1937)

My Favorite Lina Wertmuller Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Seven Beauties (1975)

2.   Love & Anarchy (1973)

3.   Swept Away (1974)

4.   The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

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1.   Ciao, Professore! (1992)

2.   All Screwed Up (1974)

3.   Ferdinando and Carolina (1999)

4.   Blood Feud (1978)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   A Night Full of Rain (1978)

My Favorite Orson Welles Films

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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1.   Chimes at Midnight (1965)

2.   F for Fake (1973)

3.   The Trial (1962)

4.   Touch of Evil (1958)

5.   Citizen Kane (1941)

6.   The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

7.   The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

8.   Othello (1951)

9.   Mr. Arkadin (1955)

10. The Immortal Story (1968)

11. The Stranger (1946)

12. Filming Othello (1978)
(Documentary)

13. Macbeth (1948)

14. Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)
(TV Documentary miniseries)

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1.   The Fountain of Youth (1956)
(I watched it on youtube)
(TV Short)

Note: In case any of you readers are interested, Netflix is going to premier Orson Welles last film The Other Side of the Wind (1972-1976) in November (November 2, 2018). The film can best be described as both completed and uncompleted (read here for more info). Here is the link to the trailer in case any of you readers are interested below 🙂

My Favorite Peter Watkins Films

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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1.   La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)

2.   Edward Munch (1974)

3.   The War Game (1965)
(British TV Film)

4.   Punishment Park (1971)

5.   Culloden (1964)
(a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden)
(British TV Film)

6.   Privilege (1967)

7.   The Gladiators (1969)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Regeneration (1915)

5.   Band of Angels (1957)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   Gentleman Jim (1942)

8.   Going Hollywood (1933)
(I watched it on TCM)

9.   High Sierra (1941)

10. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

11. Pursued (1947)

12. Colorado Territory (1949)

13. They Drive by Night (1940)

14. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

15. Me and My Gal (1932)

16. The Big Trail (1930)

17. The Man I Love (1947)

18. Dark Command (1940)

19. Manpower (1941)

20. Big Brown Eyes (1936)

21. Cheyenne (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a few years ago)

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1.   Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

2.   The World in His Arms (1952)

3.   Along the Great Divide (1951)

4.   The Tall Men (1955)

5.   Distant Drums (1951)

6.   Battle Cry (1955)

7.   The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

8.   The Naked and the Dead (1958)

9.   A Distant Trumpet (1964)

10. Saskatchewan (1954)

11. The Lawless Breed (1953)

12. The King and Four Queens (1956)

13. Gun Fury (1953)

14. Blackbeard the Pirate (1953)

15. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)