My Favorite George Miller Films

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

1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(
Anthology Film)

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

1.   Mad Max (1979)

My Favorite Georges Melies Films

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

1.   The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

2.   Tunnelling the English Channel (1907)

3.   A Trip to the Moon (1902)

4.   The Impossible Voyage (1904)

5.   Fairyland: A Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)

6.   An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905)

7.   Blue Beard (1901)

8.   Cinderella (1899)
(not the Disney animated version or the 2015 live-action version)

9.   The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)

10. The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)

11. The One-Man Band (1900)

12. The Diabolic Tenant (1909)

13. The Melomaniac (1903)

14. The Bewitched Inn (1897)

15. A Nightmare (1896)

16. The Haunted Castle (1896)

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

1.   The Eclipse (1907)

2.   The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)

3.   The Living Playing Cards (1905)

4.   The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

5.   The Enchanted Well (1903)

6.   Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)

7.   The Man With the Rubber Head (1901)

8.   Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)

9.   A Fantastical Meal (1900)

10. Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900)

11. Joan of Arc (1900)

12. The Devil in a Convent (1899)

13. The Magician (1898)

14. The Devil’s Castle (1897)

15. The Vanishing Lady (1896)

16. The Famous Box Trick (1898)

17. Baron Munchausen’s Dreams (1911)

18. The Magician’s Cavern (1901)

19. The Christmas Angel (1904)

20. A Terrible Night (1896)

My Favorite Leo McCarey Films

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

1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Good Sam (1948)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)

4.   My Son John (1952)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

7.   Duck Soup (1933)

8.   The Awful Truth (1937)

9.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

10. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
(with assistance from James Anderson)

11. Going My Way (1944)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953) 

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

4.   He Walked by Night (1948)
(uncredited)
(co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

5.   Man of the West (1958)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Bend of the River (1952)

8.   Men in War (1957)

9.   The Furies (1950)

10. Devil’s Doorway (1950)

11. Raw Deal (1948)

12. T-Men (1947)

13. Border Incident (1949)

14. El Cid (1961)

15. God’s Little Acre (1958)

16. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

17. Side Street (1950)

18. Desperate (1947)

19. Railroaded! (1947)

20. Reign of Terror (1949)
(a.k.a. The Black Book)

21. The Tall Target (1951)

22. The Tin Star (1957)

23. The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

24. The Last Frontier (1955)

25. Serenade (1956)

26. Thunder Bay (1953)

27. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

28. Strategic Air Command (1955)

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

1.   A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

2.   Cimarron (1960)

My Favorite Terrence Malick Films

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

1.   The Tree of Life (2011)

2.   The New World (2005)

3.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

4.   Days of Heaven (1978)

5.   A Hidden Life (2019)

6.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

3.   Song to Song (2017)

My Favorite Richard Lester Films

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

1.   Petulia (1968)

2.   Help! (1965)

3.   A Hard Day’s Out (1964)

4.   The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

5.   The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)

6.   How I Won the War (1967)

7a. The Three Musketeers (1973)
7b. The Four Musketeers (1974)

8.   Juggernaut (1974)

9.   Robin and Marian (1976)

10. Superman II (1980)
(Richard Donner’s 2006 Cut is also great)

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

1.   The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)

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

1.   Royal Flash (1975)

2.   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

My Favorite Mike Leigh Films

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

1.   Life Is Sweet (1990)

2.   Mr. Turner (2014)

3.   High Hopes (1988)

4.   Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

5.   Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

6.   Grown-Ups (1980)
(Television)

7.   Meantime (1983)
(Television)

8.   Secrets & Lies (1996)

9.   Topsy-Turvy (1999)

10. Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

11. Naked (1993)

12. Vera Drake (2004)

13. Another Year (2010)

14. All or Nothing (2002)

15. Career Girls (1997)

16. Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

17. Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

18. Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

19. Bleak Moments (1971)

20. Four Days in July (1984)
(Television)

21. Peterloo (2018)

22. Who’s Who (1979)
(Television)

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

1.   The Short and Curlies (1987)

My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films

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

1.   The Decalogue (1988)
(Polish TV Miniseries)

2.   Three Colors: Red (1994)

3.   Three Colors: Blue (1993)

4.   Three Colors: White (1994)

5.   The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

6.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

7.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

8.   No End (1985)

9.   Camera Buff (1979)

10. The Scar (1976)

11. Blind Chance (1987)

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

1.   The Office (1966)

2.   Tramway (1966)

3.   Concert of Requests (1967)