My Favorite Peter Watkins Films

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

1.   La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)

2.   Edward Munch (1974)

3.   The War Game (1965)
(British TV Film)

4.   Punishment Park (1971)

5.   Culloden (1964)
(a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden)
(British TV Film)

6.   Privilege (1967)

7.   The Gladiators (1969)

My Favorite John Waters Films

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

1.   Pink Flamingos (1972)

2.   Female Trouble (1974)

3.   Hairspray (1988)

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

1.   Multiple Maniacs (1970)

2.   Desperate Living (1977)

3.   Polyester (1981)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films

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

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Regeneration (1915)

5.   Band of Angels (1957)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   Gentleman Jim (1942)

8.   Going Hollywood (1933)
(I watched it on TCM)

9.   High Sierra (1941)

10. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

11. Pursued (1947)

12. Colorado Territory (1949)

13. They Drive by Night (1940)

14. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

15. Me and My Gal (1932)

16. The Big Trail (1930)

17. The Man I Love (1947)

18. Dark Command (1940)

19. Manpower (1941)

20. Big Brown Eyes (1936)

21. Cheyenne (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a few years ago)

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

1.   Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

2.   The World in His Arms (1952)

3.   Along the Great Divide (1951)

4.   The Tall Men (1955)

5.   Distant Drums (1951)

6.   Battle Cry (1955)

7.   The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

8.   The Naked and the Dead (1958)

9.   A Distant Trumpet (1964)

10. Saskatchewan (1954)

11. The Lawless Breed (1953)

12. The King and Four Queens (1956)

13. Gun Fury (1953)

14. Blackbeard the Pirate (1953)

15. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

My Favorite Josef von Sternberg Films

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

1.   The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

2.   Anatahan (1953)

3.   The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

4.   Thunderbolt (1929)

5.   The Scarlet Empress (1934)

6.   The Docks of New York (1928)

7.   Morocco (1930)

8.   Shanghai Express (1932)

9.   The Blue Angel (1930)

10. The Last Command (1928)

11. Underworld (1927)

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

13. Blonde Venus (1932)

14. Dishonored (1931)

15. An American Tragedy (1931)

My Favorite Frank Tashlin Films

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

1.   Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

2.   The Alphabet Murders (1965)

3.   The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)

4.   The Man from the Diners’ Club (1963)
(I watched it on TCM years back)

5.   Bachelor Flat (1962)

6.   The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

7.   Artists and Models (1955)

8.   Susan Slept Here (1954)

9.   Son of Paleface (1952)

10. The First Time (1952)

11. Who’s Minding the Store? (1963)

12. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)

13. Hollywood or Bust (1956)

14. It’s Only Money (1962)

15. The Geisha Boy (1958)

16. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

17. Cinderfella (1960)

18. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

19. The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)

20. Caprice (1967)

21. Say One for Me (1959)

My Favorite Spike Lee Films

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

1.   Do the Right Thing (1989)

2.   25th Hour (2002)

3.   When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
(Documentary)

4.   4 Little Girls (1997)
(Documentary)

5.   American Utopia (2020)
(Concert Film)

6.   BlacKkKlansman (2018)

7.   Da 5 Bloods (2020)

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

1.   Passing Strange (2009)
(Episode of “Great Performances”)
(Television)

2.   Inside Man (2006)

3.   A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)

4.   Jungle Fever (1991)

5.   Rodney King (2017)
(Performance Film)

6.   He Got Game (1998)

7.   Freak (1998)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)

My Favorite Jan Svankmajer Films

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

1.   Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
(Live Action/Animation)

2.   Little Otik (2000)
(a.k.a. Greedy Guts)
(Live Action/Animation)

3.   Faust (1994)
(Live Action/Animation)

4.   Alice (1988)
(Live Action/Animation)

5.   Lunacy (2005)
(Live Action/Animation)

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

1.   Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

2.   Food (1992)

3.   Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)

4.   The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)

5.   Down to the Cellar (1983)

6.   The Flat (1968)

7.   The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)

8.   Manly Games (1988)

9.   The Garden (1968)

10. Punch and Judy (1966)

11. Jabberwocky (1971)

12. Meat Love (1988)

13. The Ossuary (1970)

14. Don Juan (1970)

15. A Game with Stones (1965)

16. The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)

17. Picnic with Weissmann (1968)

18. The Last Trick (1964)

19. Castle of Otranto (1977)

20. A Quiet Week in the House (1969)

21. Flora (1989)

22. Historia Naturae (1967)

23. Et Cetera (1966)

24. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor (1965) 

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films

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

1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

8.   The Great McGinty (1940)

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

1.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

2.   The Great Moment (1944)

My Favorite Ken Russell Films

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

1.   The Devils (1971)
(I saw it online)

2.   Song of Summer (1968)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)

3.   Altered States (1980)

4.   Women in Love (1969)

5.   Tommy (1975)

6.   Savage Messiah (1972)

7.   The Boy Friend (1971)

8.   Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)
(Television)

9.   The Debussy Film (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

10. Elgar (1962)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

11. Pop Goes the Easel (1962)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

12. Always on Sunday (1965)
(Episode of “Monitor”)
(Television)

13. Dante’s Inferno (1967)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)

14. Crimes of Passion (1984)

15. The Music Lovers (1971)

16. Mahler (1974)

17. Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)
(Episode of “Omnibus”)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

18. Lisztomania (1975)

19. Valentino (1977)

20. Salome’s Last Dance (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

21. The Rainbow (1989)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

22. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

23. Gothic (1986)

24. Whore (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

25. Lady Chatterley (1993)
(Miniseries)
(Television)

26. The Planets (1983)
(Television)

27. The Mystery of Dr. Martinu (1992)
(Television)
(I saw it online) 

28. The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

29. The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

30. Treasure Island (1995)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

31. Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

32. Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song (1997)
(Documentary)
(Television)
(I saw it online)

33. A British Picture (1989)

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

1.   A House in Bayswater (1959)
(I saw it online)

2.   Peepshow (1956)
(I saw it online)

3.   Amelia and the Angel (1958)
(I saw it online)

4.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Nessun dorma”)
(Anthology Film)

5.   A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
(I saw it online)