Category Archives: Musical

My Favorite Robert Wise Films

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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1.   The Set-Up (1949)

2.   The Haunting (1963)

3.   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

4.   The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

5.   Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

6.   The Body Snatcher (1945)

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1.   Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

3.   Born to Kill (1947)

4.   Executive Suite (1954)

5.   Blood on the Moon (1948)

6.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)

7.   West Side Story (1961)
(co-directed with Jerome Robbins)

8.   The Sand Pebbles (1966)

9.   I Want to Live! (1958)

10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 

11. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

12. The Sound of Music (1965)

13. Star! (1968)

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My Favorite James Whale Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

2.   The Old Dark House (1932)

3.   Show Boat (1936)

4.   The Invisible Man (1933)

5.   Frankenstein (1931)

6.   Waterloo Bridge (1931)

7.   The Great Garrick (1937)

My Favorite John Waters Films

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   Pink Flamingos (1972)

2.   Female Trouble (1974)

3.   Hairspray (1988)
(not the 2007 musical version)

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1.   Multiple Maniacs (1970)

2.   Polyester (1981)

3.   Cry-Baby (1990)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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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)

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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 Lars von Trier Films

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

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1.   Dogville (2003)

2.   Dancer in the Dark (2000)

3.   Antichrist (2009)

4.   Melancholia (2011)

5.   Breaking the Waves (1996)

6.   The Kingdom (1994-1997)
(Danish TV miniseries)

7.   The Idiots (1998)

8.   The Five Obstructions (2003)
(Documentary)

9.   Europa (1991)
(no relation to Europa Europa)

10. Manderlay (2005)

11. Medea (1988)
(Danish TV Film)

12. Nymphomaniac (2013)

13. The Element of Crime (1984)

14. The Boss of It All (2006)

15. Epidemic (1987)

My Favorite King Vidor Films

26 Sunday Aug 2018

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1.   The Crowd (1928) 

2.   Our Daily Bread (1934)

3.   The Big Parade (1925)

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1.   Show People (1928)

2.   The Patsy (1928)
(no relation to the 1964 Jerry Lewis film)

3.   Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)

4.   La Boheme (1926)

5.   Street Scene (1931)

6.   Not So Dumb (1930)

7.   Our Daily Bread (1934)

8.   Duel in the Sun (1946)

9.   Hallelujah (1929)

10. Billy the Kid (1930)

11. Bird of Paradise (1932)

12. Stella Dallas (1937)

13. The Champ (1931)

14. The Citadel (1938)

15. H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

16. The Wedding Night (1935)

17. The Texas Rangers (1936)

My Favorite Frank Tashlin Films

13 Monday Aug 2018

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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

12 Sunday Aug 2018

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1.   Do the Right Thing (1989)

2.   BlacKkKlansman (2018)

3.   25th Hour (2002)

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

5.   A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
(Cable Documentary)

6.   When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
(Cable Documentary miniseries)

7.   4 Little Girls (1997)
(Documentary)

8.   If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (2010)
(Cable Documentary miniseries)

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1.   Malcolm X (1992)

2.   The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
(Concert Film)

3.   Inside Man (2006)

4.   He Got Game (1998)

5.   Clockers (1995)

My Favorite Seijun Suzuki Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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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 Henry Selick Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

Posted by in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, British Cinema, Cinema, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Henry Selick, Horror, Lists, Musical, Top 304

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1.   The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2.   Coraline (2009)

3.   James and the Giant Peach (1996)
(Part Live-Action)