Lists

My Favorite Chantal Akerman Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

2.   Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)

3.   Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978)

4.   Toute une nuit (1982)

5.   Golden Eighties (1986)
(a.k.a. Window Shopping)

6.   Night and Day (1991)

7.   The Captive (2000)

8.   Almayer’s Folly (2011)

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

1.   Hotel Monterey (1973)
(Documentary)

2.   News from Home (1977)
(Documentary)

3.   The Eighties (1983)
(Documentary)

4.   On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983)
(Documentary)

5.   From the East (1993)
(Documentary)

6.   South (1999)
(Documentary)

7.   From the Other Side (2002)
(Documentary)

8.   Down There (2006)
(Documentary)

9.   No Home Movie (2015)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Blow Up My Town (1968)

2.   La Chambre (1972)

3.   Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984)

My Favorite Sidney Lumet Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *) 

1.   Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

2.   Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

3.   The Fugitive Kind (1960)

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

1.   12 Angry Men (1957)

2.   Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

3.   The Verdict (1982)

My Favorite Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Querelle (1982)

2.   Fox and His Friends (1975)

3.   Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

4.   In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)

5.   Veronika Voss (1982)

6.   The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)

7.   Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
(Mini-Series)

8.   Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

9.   I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
(TV Film)

10. Whity (1971)

11. Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

12. The American Soldier (1970)

13. Gods of the Plague (1970)

14. World on a Wire (1973)
(TV Film)

15. Katzelmacher (1969)

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

1.   The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

2.   The Third Generation (1979)

3.   Lola (1981)

My Favorite John Woo Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Hard Boiled (1992)

2.   Bullet in the Head (1990)

3.   The Killer (1989)

4.   A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

5.   A Better Tomorrow (1986)

6.   Face/Off (1997)

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

1.   Red Cliff (2008)

2.   Hard Target (1993)

My Favorite Ben Wheatley Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   A Field in England (2013)

2.   Kill List (2011)

3.   High-Rise (2015)

4.   Sightseers (2012)

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

1.   The ABC’s of Death (2012) 
(Segment: “U is for Unearthed”)

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

1.   Down Terrace (2009)