My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films

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

1.   Detour (1945)

2.   The Black Cat (1934)
(no relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story)

3.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

4.   Bluebeard (1944)

5.   Ruthless (1948)

6.   Strange Illusion (1945)

7.   Her Sister’s Secret (1946)

8.   The Strange Woman (1946)

9.   Murder Is My Beat (1955)

10. The Man from Planet X (1951)

11. People on Sunday (1930)
(co-directed with Robert Siodmak)

My Favorite Francois Truffaut Films

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

1.   Jules and Jim (1962) 

2.   The 400 Blows (1959)

3.   The Green Room (1978)
(no relation to the 2015 film)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4.   The Woman Next Door (1981)

5.   Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

6.   The Soft Skin (1964)

7.   Stolen Kisses (1968)

8.   The Wild Child (1970)

9.   Small Change (1976)

10. The Story of Adele H. (1975)

11. Two English Girls (1971)

12. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

13. The Last Metro (1980)

14. Day for Night (1973)

15. The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

16. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

17. The Bride Wore Black (1968)

18. Bed and Board (1970)

19. Confidentially Yours (1983)

20. Love on the Run (1979)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Antoine and Colette (1962)

2.   The Mischief Makers (1957)

3.   A Story of Water (1958)
(co-directed with Jean-Luc Godard)

Note: The reason you do not see 1971’s Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me on here is because it has been available to see on Blu-Ray/DVD here in the United States. Therefore, I have never seen it.

My Favorite Jan Troell Films

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

1.   The New Land (1972)

2.   Everlasting Moments (2008)

3.   Hamsun (1996)

4.   The Emigrants (1971)

5.   Here’s Your Life (1966)

6.   Flight of the Eagle (1982)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   Zandy’s Bride (1974)

My Favorite Jacques Tourneur Films

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

1.   Stars in My Crown (1950)

2.   Cat People (1942)

3.   Night of the Demon (1957)

4.   I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

5.   The Leopard Man (1943)

6.   Out of the Past (1947)

7.   Wichita (1955)

8.   Canyon Passage (1946)

9.   The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

10. Great Day in the Morning (1956)

11. Anne of the Indies (1951)

12. Nightfall (1957)

13. Stranger on Horseback (1955)

14. Way of a Gaucho (1952)

15. Appointment in Honduras (1953)

My Favorite Andrei Tarkovsky Films

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

1.   Stalker (1979)

2.   Andrei Rublev (1966)

3.   The Mirror (1975)

4.   Solaris (1972)

5.   The Sacrifice (1986)

6.   Nostalghia (1983)

7.   Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

8.   Voyage in Time (1983)
(Documentary)

9.   The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)

10. There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
(co-directed with Alexsandr Gordon)
(I watched it on youtube)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   The Killers (1956)
(co-directed with Marika Beiku and Alexsandr Gordon)

My Favorite Spike Lee Films

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

1.   Do the Right Thing (1989)

2.   25th Hour (2002)

3.   When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
(Documentary)

4.   4 Little Girls (1997)
(Documentary)

5.   American Utopia (2020)
(Concert Film)

6.   BlacKkKlansman (2018)

7.   Da 5 Bloods (2020)

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

1.   Passing Strange (2009)
(Episode of “Great Performances”)
(Television)

2.   Inside Man (2006)

3.   A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)

4.   Jungle Fever (1991)

5.   Rodney King (2017)
(Performance Film)

6.   He Got Game (1998)

7.   Freak (1998)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films

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

1.   Written on the Wind (1956)

2.   Imitation of Life (1959)

3.   There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

4.   A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6.   The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7.   Magnificent Obsession (1954)

8.   All I Desire (1953)

9.   Interlude (1957)

10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

11. Thunder on the Hill (1951)

12. Lured (1947)

13. A Scandal in Paris (1946)

14. Shockproof (1949)

15. Captain Lightfoot (1955)

16. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

My Favorite John Schlesinger Films

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

1.   An Englishman Abroad (1983)
(TV Film)

2.   A Question of Attribution (1991)
(TV Film)
(Episode of “Screen One”)

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

1.   Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

2.   Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

3.   Separate Tables (1983)
(Cable Film)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4.   The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

5.   Billy Liar (1963)

6.   A Kind of Loving (1962)

7.   Midnight Cowboy (1969)

8.   Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

9.   The Day of the Locust (1975)

10. Darling (1965)

My Favorite Ken Russell Films

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

1.   The Devils (1971)
(I saw it online)

2.   Song of Summer (1968)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)

3.   Altered States (1980)

4.   Women in Love (1969)

5.   Tommy (1975)

6.   Savage Messiah (1972)

7.   The Boy Friend (1971)

8.   Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)
(Television)

9.   The Debussy Film (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

10. Elgar (1962)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

11. Pop Goes the Easel (1962)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

12. Always on Sunday (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

13. Dante’s Inferno (1967)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)

14. Crimes of Passion (1984)

15. The Music Lovers (1971)

16. Mahler (1974)

17. Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

18. Lisztomania (1975)

19. Valentino (1977)

20. Salome’s Last Dance (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

21. The Rainbow (1989)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

22. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

23. Gothic (1986)

24. Whore (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

25. Lady Chatterley (1993)
(Miniseries)
(Television)

26. The Planets (1983)
(Television)

27. The Mystery of Dr. Martinu (1992)
(Television)
(I saw it online) 

28. The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

29. The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

30. Treasure Island (1995)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

31. Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

32. Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song (1997)
(Documentary)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

33. A British Picture (1989)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   A House in Bayswater (1959)
(I saw it online)

2.   Peepshow (1956)
(I saw it online)

3.   Amelia and the Angel (1958)
(I saw it online)

4.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Nessun dorma”)
(Anthology Film)

5.   A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
(I saw it online)