* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Love (1971)
2. Another Way (1982)
3. Cat’s Play (1974)
History
My Favorite Guy Maddin Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. My Winnipeg (2007)
(Mockumentary)
2. The Forbidden Room (2015)
3. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
4. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
5. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
6. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Careful (1992)
2. Archangel (1990)
3. Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
4. Keyhole (2011)
My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films
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1. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
3. One Hour with You (1932)
(with assistance from George Cukor)
4. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
5. The Wild Cat (1921)
6. The Love Parade (1929)
7. Monte Carlo (1930)
8. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
9. Design for Living (1933)
10. The Marriage Circle (1924)
11. Eternal Love (1929)
12. Broken Lullaby (1932)
13. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
14. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
15. The Oyster Princess (1919)
16. Madame DuBarry (1919)
17. The Doll (1919)
18. Anna Boleyn (1920)
19. Sumurun (1920)
20. The Merry Widow (1934)
21. Angel (1937)
22. Cluny Brown (1946)
23. Ninotchka (1939)
24. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
25. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
26. Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938)
27. Carmen (1918)
28. I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)
My Favorite Richard Linklater Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Boyhood (2014)
2a. Before Sunrise (1995)
2b. Before Sunset (2004)
2c. Before Midnight (2013)
3. Bernie (2011)
4. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
5. Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)
6. Dazed and Confused (1993)
7. Slacker (1991)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Me and Orson Welles (2009)
2. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
(Animated Film)
3. School of Rock (2003)
4. Tape (2001)
5. The Newton Boys (1998)
6. SubUrbia (1996)
My Favorite Richard Lester Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Petulia (1968)
2. Help! (1965)
3. A Hard Day’s Out (1964)
4. The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
5. The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
6. How I Won the War (1967)
7a. The Three Musketeers (1973)
7b. The Four Musketeers (1974)
8. Juggernaut (1974)
9. Robin and Marian (1976)
10. Superman II (1980)
(Richard Donner’s 2006 Cut is also great)
* * * * (Out of * * * * ) (Short Cinema)
1. The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Royal Flash (1975)
2. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
My Favorite Mike Leigh Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Life Is Sweet (1990)
2. Mr. Turner (2014)
3. High Hopes (1988)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
5. Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
6. Grown-Ups (1980)
(Television)
7. Meantime (1983)
(Television)
8. Secrets & Lies (1996)
9. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
10. Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
11. Naked (1993)
12. Vera Drake (2004)
13. Another Year (2010)
14. All or Nothing (2002)
15. Career Girls (1997)
16. Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
17. Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
18. Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)
19. Bleak Moments (1971)
20. Four Days in July (1984)
(Television)
21. Peterloo (2018)
22. Who’s Who (1979)
(Television)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Short and Curlies (1987)
My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Ran (1985)
2. High and Low (1963)
3. Seven Samurai (1954)
4. Ikiru (1952)
5. Red Beard (1965)
6. Throne of Blood (1957)
7. Rashomon (1950)
8. Yojimbo (1961)
9. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
10. Stray Dog (1949)
11. Madadayo (1993)
12. Kagemusha (1980)
13. Drunken Angel (1948)
14. Sanjuro (1962)
15. Dersu Uzala (1975)
16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
17. I Live in Fear (1955)
18. Does’ka-den (1970)
19. The Idiot (1951)
20. The Lower Depths (1957)
21. Scandal (1950)
22. The Quiet Duel (1949)
23. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
24. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
25. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
26. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
27. Sanshiro SUgata Part II (1945)
28. The Most Beautiful (1944)
29. Rhapsody in August (1991)
30. Dreams (1990)
(a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)
My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
4. The Shining (1980)
5. The Killing (1956)
6. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
7. Paths of Glory (1957)
8. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
9. Lolita (1962)
10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
11. Spartacus (1960)
12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)
13. Fear and Desire (1953)
My Favorite Masaki Kobayashi Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Human Condition Trilogy (1959/1961)
2. Kwaidan (1964)
3. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Black River (1957)
My Favorite Derek Jarman Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Blue (1993)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
(no relation to Three Colours: Blue)
2. War Requiem (1989)
3. Jubilee (1977)
4. Edward II (1991)
5. The Garden (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
6. The Last of England (1987)
7. Sebastiane (1976)
8. Wittgenstein (1993)
9. Caravaggio (1986)
10. The Tempest (1979)
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