My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films

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

1.   The Assassin (2015)

2.   Three Times (2005)

3.   Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

4.   Cafe Lumière (2003)

5.   The Puppermaster (1993)
(no relation to the 1989 horror film)

6.   Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

7.   Good Men, Good Women (1995)

8.   Millenium Mambo (2001)

9.   Daughter of the Nile (1987)

10. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

 

My Favorite Kon Ichikawa Films

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

1.   Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
(Documentary)

2.   An Actor’s Revenge (1963)

3.   Fires on the Plain (1959)

4.   The Burmese Harp (1956)

5.   The Makioka Sisters (1983)

6.   Odd Obsession (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Visions of Eight (1973)
(Segment: “The Fastest”)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Dora-heita (2001)

2.   47 Ronin (1994)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

* * * * (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 Clint Eastwood Films

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

1.   White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

2.   Bird (1988)

3.   Play Misty for Me (1971)

4.   Gran Torino (2008)

5.   The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

6.   A Perfect World (1993)

7.   Unforgiven (1992)

8.   Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

9.   Million Dollar Baby (2004)

10. Mystic River (2003)

11. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

12. Pale Rider (1985)

13. Honkytonk Man (1982)

14. Bronco Billy (1980)

15. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 

16. High Plains Drifter (1973)

17. The Blues (2003)
Episode: “Piano Blues”
(Documentary)
(Television)

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

1.   The Mule (2018)

2.   American Sniper (2014)

3.   Richard Jewell (2019)

4.   Sully (2016)

5.   Breezy (1973)

6.   Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

7.   The Gauntlet (1977)

8.   Firefox (1982)

9.   Sudden Impact (1983)

10. The Eiger Sanction (1975)

My Favorite Claire Denis Films

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

1.   The Intruder (2004)

2.   Beau Travail (1999)

3.   Bastards (2013)

4.   White Material (2009)

5.   Trouble Every Day (2001)

6.   Friday Night (2002)

7.   35 Shots of Rum (2008)

8.   Nenette and Boni (1996)

9.   I Can’t Sleep (1994)

10. No Fear, No Die (1990)

11. Chocolat (1988)
(No relation to the 2000 film)

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

1.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Vers Nancy”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Jacques Demy Films

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

1.   The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

2.   Model Shop (1969)

3.   A Room in Town (1982)

4.   Lola (1961)

5.   The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

6.   Bay of Angels (1962)

7.   Donkey Skin (1970)

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

1.   The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
(Segment: “Lust”)
(Anthology Film)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

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

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Cosmopolis (2012)

5.   Dead Ringers (1988)

6.   Spider (2002)

7.   The Fly (1986)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   The Brood (1979)

10. Naked Lunch (1991)

11. Maps to the Stars (2014)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Scanners (1981)

17. Rabid (1977)

18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

19. Fast Company (1979)

20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

4.   A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

5.   Floating Weeds (1959)

6.   Early Summer (1951)

7.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Good Morning (1959)

10. Early Spring (1956)

11. Late Autumn (1960)

12. Tokyo Twilight (1957)

13. Equinox Flower (1958)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. The Only Son (1936)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Dragnet Girl (1933)

18. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

 

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Ugetsu (1953)

2.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

3.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

4.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

5.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

6.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

7.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

8.   The Downfall of Osen (1935)

9.   Street of Shame (1956)

10. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

2.   My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

3.   Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4.   Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5.   Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

6.   Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

7.   Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

8.   The Wind Rises (2013) (Anime)

9.   Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) (Anime)

10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Anime)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) (Anime)