My Favorite Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films (New)

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

1.   All About Eve (1950)

2.   Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

3.   Julius Caesar (1953)

4.   No Way Out (1950)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

5.   The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

6.   People Will Talk (1951)

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

1.   A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

2.   House of Strangers (1949)

3.   The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

4.   Guys and Dolls (1955)

5.   Sleuth (1972)
(Not the 2007 version)

My Favorite Elia Kazan Films (New)

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

1.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

2.   Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

3.   Pinky (1949)

4.   On the Waterfront (1954)

5.   Splendor in the Grass (1961)

6.   The Last Tycoon (1976)

7.   A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

8.   East of Eden (1955)

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

1.   Wild River (1960)

2.   Baby Doll (1956)

3.   Boomerang (1947)
(No relation to the 1992 Eddie Murphy comedy of the same name)

4.   A Face in the Crowd (1957)

5.   Panic in the Streets (1950)

6.   Viva Zapata! (1952)

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 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)

 

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 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. 

My Favorite Eric Rohmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

2.   The Green Ray (1986)

3.   Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)

4.   Pauline at the Beach (1983)

5.   Claire’s Knee (1970)

6.   My Night at Maud’s (1969)

7.   La Collectionneuse (1967)

8.   Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

9.   A Tale of Summer (1996)

10. A Tale of Winter (1992)

11. Romance of Astree and Celadon (2007)

12. Triple Agent (2004)

13. An Autumn Tale (1998)

14. A Tale of Springtime (1990)

15. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)

16. Full Moon in Paris (1984)

17. A Good Marriage (1982)

18. The Aviator’s Wife (1981)

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

1.   The Marquise of O… (1976)

 

 

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

3.   Wild Grass (2009)

4.   Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

5.   Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Life of Riley (2014)

8.   You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

9.   Providence (1977) (Saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

11. The War is Over (1966)

12. Night and Fog (1955) (Documentary Short)

13. Stavisky (1974)

14. Same Old Song (1997)

15. Not on the Lips (2003)

16. Melo (1986)

17. Love Unto Death (1984)

18. Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Grand Illusion (1937)

2.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

3.   A Day in the Country (1936) (Short Film)

4.   The River (1951)

5.   The Southerner (1945)

6.   The Golden Coach (1952)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

9.   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

10. La Bete Humaine (1938)

11. Toni (1935)

12. French Cancan (1954)

13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)

14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)

15. The Lower Depths (1936)

16. Elena and Her Men (1956)

17. La Marseillaise (1938)

18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)