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My Favorite Nicolas Roeg Films

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Anthology, Austrian Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Concert Films, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, German Cinema, Greatest, Horror, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, Lists, Music, Mystery, Nicolas Roeg, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Thriller, Top 304

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Aria (Un ballo in maschera) (Anthology), Bad Timing, Castaway 1986, Don't Look Now, Eureka, Insignificance, Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Witches, Track 29, Walkabout

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

1.   Don’t Look Now (1973)

2.   Performance (1970)
(co-directed with Donald Camell)

3.   The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

4.   Walkabout (1971)

5.   Bad Timing (1980)

6.   Eureka (1983)

7.   Insignificance (1985)

8.   The Witches (1990)   

9.   Track 29 (1988)

10. Castaway (1986)
(no relation to the 2000 film with Tom Hanks)
(I watched it on an old VHS tape)

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

1.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Un ballo in maschera”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

26 Saturday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Belgian Cinema, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, Ken Loach, Lists, Scottish Cinema, Spanish Cinema, Sport, Swiss Cinema, Television, War

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Cathy Come Home, I Daniel Blake, Kes, Ladybird Ladybird, Land and Freedom, Looking for Eric, My Name Is Joe, Raining Stones, Riff-Raff, Sweet Sixteen, The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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

1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   Land and Freedom (1995)

3.   Kes (1969)

4.   Raining Stones (1993)

5.   Looking for Eric (2009)

6.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

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

1.   Cathy Come Home (1966)

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

1.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

2.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

3.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

4.   Riff-Raff (1991)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Australian Cinema, Biography, British Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, German Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Horror, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Sport, Top 314, War, Werner Herzog

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Aguirre the Wrath of God, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, Ballad of the Little Soldier (Documentary), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary), Cobra Verde, Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary), Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana (Documentary), Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man (Documentary), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Documentary), Heart of Glass, Herdsmen of the Sun (Documentary), How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Documentary), Into the Abyss (Documentary), Invisible, La Soufriere (Documentary Short), Land of Silence and Darkness (Documentary), Lessons of Darkness (Documentary), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Documentary), Lo & Behold Reveries of the Connected World (Documentary), My Best Fiend (Documentary), Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979, Precautions Against Fanatics (Short Cinema), Rescue Dawn, Signs of Life, Stroszek, Ten Minutes Older (Ten Thousand Years Older) (Short Cinema), The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Documentary), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Flying Doctors of East Africa (Documentary), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Stein (Documentary), The White Diamond (Documentary), The Wild Blue Yonder (Documentary), Wheel of Time (Documentary), Where the Green Ants Dream, Woyzeck

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

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6.   Stroszek (1977)

7.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9.   The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

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

1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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

1.   The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Family, Film Directors, German Cinema, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Lists, Silent Cinema, Top 313

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Elephant Boy, Louisiana Story, Man of Aran (Documentary), Moana 1926 (Documentary), Nanook of the North (Documentary), The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (Documentary)

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

1.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

2.   Louisiana Story (1948)

3.   Moana (1926)
(Documentary)
(no relation to the 2016 Disney film)

4.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Documentary)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Elephant Boy (1937)
(co-directed with Zoltan Korda)

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