Category Archives: Irish Cinema

My Favorite Nicolas Roeg Films

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

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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)

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

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

26 Saturday May 2018

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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)

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1.   Cathy Come Home (1966)

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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

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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”)

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

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

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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)

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

My Favorite Neil Jordan Films (New)

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

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1.   Byzantium (2012)

2.   The Company of Wolves (1984)

3.   Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

4.   The End of the Affair (1999)

5.   Ondine (2009)

6.   The Butcher Boy (1997)

7.   The Good Thief (2002)

8.   The Miracle (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   The Crying Game (1992)

10. Mona Lisa (1986)

11. Angel (1982)

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1.   In Dreams (1999)

2.   The Brave One (2007)