* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2. Burn! (1969)
3. The Wide Blue Road (1957)
4. Kapo (1960)
History
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 Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)
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1. Ugetsu (1953)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
3. The Life of Oharu (1952)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
5. Osaka Elegy (1936)
6. The 47 Ronin (1941)
7. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
8. The Downfall of Osen (1935)
9. Street of Shame (1956)
10. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)
My Favorite Terrence Malick Films (Revised and Updated)
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1. The New World (2005)
2. The Thin Red Line (1998)
3. Days of Heaven (1978)
4. Badlands (1973)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Knight of Cups (2015)
2. To the Wonder (2012)
My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)
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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 Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)
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1. Seven Samurai (1954)
2. Ran (1985)
3. Madadayo (1993)
4. Throne of Blood (1957)
5. Ikiru (1952)
6. Rashomon (1950)
7. High and Low (1963)
8. Kagemusha (1980)
9. Yojimbo (1961)
10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
11. Sanjuro (1962)
12. Stray Dog (1949)
13. Red Beard (1965)
14. Dersu Uzala (1975)
15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
16. The Idiot (1951)
17. I Live in Fear (1955)
18. Rhapsody in August (1991)
19. Dreams (1990)
20. The Lower Depths (1957)
21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)
22. Scandal (1950)
23. The Quiet Duel (1949)
24. Drunken Angel (1948)
25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
30. The Most Beautiful (1944)
My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)
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1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
2. The Shining (1980)
3. Barry Lyndon (1975)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. The Killing (1956)
6. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
7. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
8. Paths of Glory (1957)
9. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
10. Lolita (1962)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Spartacus (1960)
2. Killer’s Kiss (1955)
3. Fear and Desire (1953)
My Favorite Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)
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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 D.W. Griffith Films (Revised and Updated)
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1. Intolerance (1916)
2. Broken Blossoms (1919)
3. Way Down East (1920)
4. True Heart Susie (1919)
5. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
6. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
7. Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)
8. The Greatest Question (1919)
9. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
10. The White Rose (1923)
11. Home, Sweet Home (1914)
12. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
13. The Love Flower (1920)
14. The Idol Dancer (1920)
15. Judith of Bethulia (1914)
16. The Avenging Conscience (1914)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. America (1924)
2. The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
3. One Exciting Night (1922)
4. Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
2. Balked at the Altar (1908)
3. Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)
4. The Black Viper (1908)
5. A Calamitous Elopement (1908)
6. Father Gets in the Game (1908)
7. Money Mad (1908)
8. Romance of a Jewess (1908)
9. The Song of the Shirt (1908)
10. At the Altar (1909)
11. The Cord of Life (1909)
12. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
13. The Country Doctor (1909)
14. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)
15. The Curtain Pole (1909)
16. A Drunkard’s Reformation (1909)
17. Getting Even (1909)
18. The Girls and Daddy (1909)
19. The Golden Louis (1909)
20. Her First Biscuits (1909)
21. The Hessian Renegades (1909)
22. The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)
23. The Lonely Villa (1909)
24. Lucky Jim (1909)
25. The Lure of the Gown (1909)
26. Pippa Passes or the Song of Conscience (1909)
27. The Politician’s Love Story (1909)
28. The Renunciation (1909)
29. Resurrection (1909)
30. The Sealed Room (1909)
31. Those Awful Hats (1909)
32. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
33. The Voice of the Violin (1909)
34. An Arcadian Maid (1910)
35. The Fugitive (1910)
36. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
37. In the Border States (1910)
38. Ramona (1910)
39. The Rocky Road (1910)
40. The Unchanging Sea (1910)
41. What the Daisy Said (1910)
42. The Battle (1911)
43. Enoch Arden Parts I and II (1911)
44. His Trust (1911)
45. His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
46. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
47. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
48. The Miser’s Heart (1911)
49. Swords and Hearts (1911)
50. The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
51. Friends (1912)
52. The Lesser Evil (1912)
53. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
54. The Narrow Road (1912)
55. The New York Hat (1912)
56. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
57. The Painted Lady (1912)
58. The Sunbeam (1912)
59. The Transformation of Mike (1912)
60. An Unseen Enemy (1912)
61. Death’s Marathon (1913)
62. The Mothering Heart (1913)
NOTE: I have watched all of these films and shorts on either VHS or DVD.
My Favorite Sergei Eisenstein Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
2. October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)
3. Strike (1925)
4. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
5. Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)
6. Ivan the Terrible Part II (1945)
7. The General Line (1929)
(co-directed with Grigori Alexsandrov)
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