My Favorite Takashi Miike Films

17 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, British Cinema, Cable/Television, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Short Cinema, Takashi Miike, Thriller, Top 307

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13 Assassins, Audition, Blade of the Immortal, Dead or Alive, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Dead or Alive: Final, Fudoh: The New Generation, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Ichi the Killer, Ley Lines, Masters of Horror (Imprint) (Cable Series), Rainy Dog, Shinjuku Triad Society, Three... Extremes (Box) (Anthology), Visitor Q

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

1. Audition (1999)

2. Ichi the Killer (2001)

3. 13 Assassins (2010)

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

1. Three… Extremes (2004)
(Segment: “Box”)
(Anthology Film)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1. Imprint (2006)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

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

1. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)

2. Visitor Q (2001)

3. Dead or Alive (1999)

4. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

5. Ley Lines (1999)

6. Blade of the Immortal (2017)

7. Rainy Dog (1997)

8. Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)

9. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)

10. Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

My Favorite Zhang Yimou Films

15 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, Chinese Cinema, Chinese Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Hong Kong Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Romance, Taiwanese Cinema, Thriller, Top 307, War, Zhang Yimou

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Coming Home 2014, Curse of the Golden Flower, Happy Times, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Ju Dou, Not One Less, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Shanghai Triad, The Road Home, The Story of Qiu Ju, To Live

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

1. House of Flying Daggers (2004)

2. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

3. Coming Home (2014)
(no relation to the 1978 film)

4. Hero (2002)

5. Ju Dou (1990)
(co-directed with Yang Fengliang)

6. Not One Less (1999)

7. The Road Home (1999)

8. Shanghai Triad (1995)

9. To Live (1994)

10. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

11. Red Sorghum (1988)

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

1. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

2. Happy Times (2000)

3. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

My Favorite Edgar Wright Films

12 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Anthology, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Edgar Wright, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Music, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Television, Top 307

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Baby Driver, Grindhouse (Don't) (Anthology), Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced (TV Series), The World's End

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

1. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

2. Baby Driver (2017)

3. The World’s End (2013)

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

5. Hot Fuzz (2007)

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

1. Grindhouse (2007)
(Fictitious Trailer: “Don’t”)
(Anthology Film)

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

1. Spaced (1999-2001)

My Favorite John Woo Films

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, Chinese Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Filmmakers, Japanese Cinema, John Woo, Korean Cinema, Lists, Science Fiction, Taiwanese Cinema, Thriller, Top 307, War

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A Better Tomorrow 1986, A Better Tomorrow II, Bullet in the Head, Face/Off, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, Red Cliff, The Killer

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

1. The Killer (1989)

2. Bullet in the Head (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3. Hard Boiled (1992)

4. A Better Tomorrow (1986)

5. Face/Off (1997)

6. Red Cliff (2008)

7. A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

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

1. Hard Target (1993)

My Favorite Josef von Sternberg Films

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Austrian Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Josef von Sternberg, Lists, Music, Romance, Silent Cinema, Top 306, War

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An American Tragedy, Anatahan, Blonde Venus, Crime and Punishment, Dishonored, Jet Pilot, Macao, Morocco, Shanghai Express, The Blue Angel, The Devil is a Woman, The Docks of New York, The Last Command, The Salvation Hunters, The Scarlet Empress, The Shanghai Gesture, Underworld

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

1. The Scarlet Empress (1934)

2. The Docks of New York (1928)

3. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

4. Anatahan (1953)

5. Morocco (1930)

6. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

7. Shanghai Express (1932)

8. The Blue Angel (1930)

9. The Last Command (1928)

10. Underworld (1927)

11. The Salvation Hunters (1925)
(I watched it on youtube. Choose the link that gives a running time of 1:25:43)

12. Blonde Venus (1932)

13. Dishonored (1931)

14. An American Tragedy (1931)

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

1. Crime and Punishment (1935)

2. Macao (1952)
(co-directed with Nicholas Ray)

3. Jet Pilot (1957)

My Favorite Shinya Tsukamoto Films

24 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Science Fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, Thriller, Top 306

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A Snake of June, Gemini, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tokyo Fist, Vital

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

1. Tokyo Fist (1995)

2. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

3. A Snake of June (2002)

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

1. Vital (2004)

2. Gemini (1999)

3. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)

My Favorite Seijun Suzuki Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 305, War

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Branded to Kill, Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell Bastards!, Everything Goes Wrong, Fighting Elegy, Gate of Flesh, Kagero-za, Kanto Wanderer, Pistol Opera, Princess Raccoon, Story of a Prostitute, Take Aim at the Police Van, Tattooed Life, Tokyo Drifter, Underworld Beauty, Youth of the Beast, Yumeji, Zigeunerweisen

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

1. Branded to Kill (1967)

2. Youth of the Beast (1963)

3. Gate of Flesh (1964)

4. Story of a Prostitute (1965)

5. Tokyo Drifter (1966)

6. Tattooed Life (1965)

7. Zigeunerweisen (1980)

8. Fighting Elegy (1966)

9. Everything Goes Wrong (1960)

10. Underworld Beauty (1958)

11. Yumeji (1991)

12. Kagero-za (1981)

13. Kanto Wanderer (1963)

14. Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963)

15. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

16. Princess Raccoon (2005)

17. Pistol Opera (2001)

My Favorite Martin Scorsese Films

24 Tuesday Jul 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, American Filmmakers, Anthology, Biography, British Cinema, Cable/Television, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Concert Films, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Martin Scorsese, Mexican Cinema, Miniseries, Music, Music Videos, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Short Cinema, Sport, Taiwanese Cinema, Thriller, Top 304

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A Letter to Elia, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, After Hours, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, Boardwalk Empire (Pilot) (Cable), Boxcar Bertha, Bringing Out the Dead, Cape Fear 1991, Casino, Gangs of New York, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Goodfellas, Hugo, Italianamerican, Kundun, Mean Streets, Michael Jackson: Bad (Music Video), My Voyage to Italy, New York New York, New York Stories (Life Lessons) (Anthology), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Public Speaking, Raging Bull, Robbie Robertson: Somewhere Down the Crazy River (Music Video), Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Pseudo-Documentary), Shine a Light (Concert Film), Shutter Island, Silence, Taxi Driver, The 50 Year Argument, The Age of Innocence, The Aviator, The Big Shave (Short Film), The Blues (Feel Like Going Home), The Color of Money, The Departed, The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Last Waltz (Concert Film), The Wolf of Wall Street, Vinyl (Pilot) (Cable), Who's That Knocking at my Door

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

1. The King of Comedy (1982)

2. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)(Documentary)

3. Taxi Driver (1976)

4. My Voyage to Italy (1999)
(Documentary)

5. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
(Pseudo-Documentary)

6. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
(Documentary)

7. Shutter Island (2010)

8. Silence (2016)

9. Casino (1995)

10. Raging Bull (1980)

11. Goodfellas (1990)

12. Mean Streets (1973)

13. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

14. The Last Waltz (1978)
(Concert Film)

15. Hugo (2011)

16. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on HBO)

17. Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)
(Episode from Season 1: “Boardwalk Empire” – Pilot Episode)
(Cable Series)

18. Public Speaking (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Vinyl (2016)
(Episode from Season 1: Pilot Episode)
(Cable Series)

20. Kundun (1997)

21. The Age of Innocence (1993)

22. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

23. After Hours (1985)

24. New York, New York (1977)

25. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

26. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

27. The Departed (2006)

28. Shine a Light (2008)
(Concert Film)

29. Cape Fear (1991)

30. The 50 Year Argument (2014)
(co-directed with David Tedeschi)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on HBO)

31. A Letter to Elia (2010)
(co-directed with Kent Jones)
(Documentary)

32. Feel Like Going Home (2003)
(Episode of “The Blues”)
(PBS Documentary Series)

33. American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on youtube)

34. Italianamerican (1974)
(Documentary)
(I watched it on an old VHS tape)

35. Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967)

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

1. New York Stories (1989)
(Segment: “Life Lessons”)
(Anthology Film)

2. The Big Shave (1967)
(I watched it on an old VHS tape)

3. Michael Jackson: Bad (1987)
(Music Video)

4. Robbie Robertson: Somewhere Down the Crazy River (1987)
(Music Video)

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

1. The Aviator (2004)

2. Gangs of New York (2002)

3. The Color of Money (1986)

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Alain Resnais, Anthology, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Documentary Shorts, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Swiss Cinema, Top 304, War

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Far from Vietnam (Claude Ridder) (Anthology Documentary), Guernica (Documentary Short), Hiroshima mon amour, Je t'aime je t'aime, Last Year at Marienbad, Le chant du Styrene (Documentary Short), Life is a Bed of Roses, Life of Riley, Love Unto Death, Melo, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Muriel, Night and Fog (Documentary Short), Not on the Lips, Private Fears in Public Places, Providence, Same Old Song, Statues Also Die (Documentary Short), Stavisky, The War is Over, Toute la memoire du monde (Documentary Short), Wild Grass, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

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

1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

3. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

4. Melo (1986)

5. Providence (1977)

6. Muriel (1963)

7. Mon Oncle D’Amerique (1980)

8. Wild Grass (2009)

9. Not on the Lips (2003)

10. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

11. Stavisky… (1974)

12. The War Is Over (1966)

13. Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968)

14. Life of Riley (2014)

15. Same Old Song (1997)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

16. Love Unto Death (1984)

17. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

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

1. Night and Fog (1956)
(Documentary Short)

2. Toute la memoire du monde (1957)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

3. Statues Also Die (1953)
(co-directed with Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

4. Far from Vietnam (1967)
(Segment: “Claude Ridder”)
(Anthology Documentary)

5. Guernica (1950)
(co-directed with Robert Hessens)
(Documentary Short)

6. Le chant du Styrene (1959)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

P.S. I have not added the documentary short Van Gogh (1948) on here because every version in circulation online (based on my knowledge) is not subtitled in English.

My Favorite Stephen and Timothy Quay Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, British Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Music, Polish Cinema, Short Cinema, The Quay Brothers, Top 304, Uncategorized

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Are We Still Married? (Animated Short), De Artificiali Perspectiva (Animated Short), In Absentia (Animated Short), Institute Benjamenta, Maska (Animated Short), Nocturna Artificialia (Short Film), Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (Animated Short), Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (Animated Short), Stille Nacht: Dramolet (Animated Short), Street of Crocodiles (Animated Short), Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (Animated Short), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Animated Short), The Comb (Animated Short), The Phantom Museum (Animated Short), The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (Animated Film), The Unnameable Little Broom (Animated Short), Through the Weeping Glass (Documentary Short), Unmistaken Hands (Animated Short)

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

1. Street of Crocodiles (1986)
(Animated Short)

2. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
(Animated Short)

3. Are We Still Married? (1992)
(Animated Short)

4. Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (1993)
(Animated Short)

5. De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
(Animated Short)

6. Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (1993)
(Animated Short)

7. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
(Animated Short)

8. Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
(Animated Short)

9. Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

10. The Comb (1991)
(Animated Short)

11. Maska (2010)
(Animated Short)

12. Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
(Documentary Short)

13. In Absentia (2000)
(Animated Short)

14. The Phantom Museum (2003)
(Animated Short)

15. Unmistaken Hands (2013)
(Animated Short)

16. The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1. Institute Benjamenta (1995)

2. The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (2005)
(Animated Film)

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