Musical

My Favorite Seijun Suzuki Films

by John Charet

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

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 Ken Russell Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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)

My Favorite Jacques Rivette Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

2.   Out 1 (1971)

3.   L’amour fou (1969)

4.   La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

5.   Joan the Maiden (1994)

6.   Duelle (1976)

7.   The Nun (1966)

8.   Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   Gang of Four (1989)

10. Secret Defense (1998)

11. Le Pont du Nord (1981)

12. Noroit (1976)

13. The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

14. Va Savoir (2001)

15. Paris Belongs to Us (1960)

16. Merry-Go-Round (1981)

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

1.   Fool’s Mate (1956)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

2.   Lumiere and Company (1995)
(Segment: “Jacques Rivette/Paris”)

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

1.   The Duchess of Langeais (2007)

2.   Around a Small Mountain (2009)

3.   Wuthering Heights (1985)

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2.   You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

3.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

4.   Melo (1986)

5.   Providence (1977)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Mon Oncle D’Amerique (1980)

8.   Wild Grass (2009)

9.   Not on the Lips (2003)

10. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

11. Stavisky… (1974)

12. The War Is Over (1966)

13. Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968)

14. Life of Riley (2014)

15. Same Old Song (1997)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

16. Love Unto Death (1984)

17. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

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

1.   Night and Fog (1956)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Toute la memoire du monde (1957)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Statues Also Die (1953)
(co-directed with Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

4.   Far from Vietnam (1967)
(Segment: “Claude Ridder”)
(Anthology Documentary)

5.   Guernica (1950)
(co-directed with Robert Hessens)
(Documentary Short)

6.   Le chant du Styrene (1959)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

P.S. I have not added the documentary short Van Gogh (1948) on here because every version in circulation online (based on my knowledge) is not subtitled in English.

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

2.   The Golden Coach (1952)

3.   The Woman on the Beach (1947)

4.   French Cancan (1954)

5.   Grand Illusion (1937)

6.   Picnic on the Grass (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   La Bête Humaine (1938)

9.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

10. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

11. Toni (1935)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

12. A Day in the Country (1936)
(Short Film)

13. The River (1951)

14. The Southerner (1945)

15. Elena and Her Men (1956)

16. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1969)
(French/German/Italian TV Film)

17. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

18. La Marseillaise (1938)

19. The Lower Depths (1936)

20. The Little Match Girl (1928)
(Short Film)

21. Nana (1926)

22. The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)

23. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959)
(French TV Film)

24. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

25. On purge bebe (1931)

26. Charleston Parade (1927)
(Short Film)

27. Madame Bovary (1934)

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

1.   This Land Is Mine (1943)

2.   Swamp Water (1941)

My Favorite Nicholas Ray Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Bigger Than Life (1956)

2.   Johnny Guitar (1954)

3.   Bitter Victory (1957)

4.   They Live by Night (1949)

5.   In a Lonely Place (1950)

6.   The Lusty Men (1952)

7.   Party Girl (1958)

8.   Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

9.   The Savage Innocents (1960)

10. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

11. We Can’t Go Home Again (1976)

12. On Dangerous Ground (1952)

13. Hot Blood (1956)

14. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

15. Born to Be Bad (1950)

16. Run for Cover (1955)

17. Lightning Over Water (1980)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Angel Face (1953)

3.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

4.   Laura (1944)

5.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

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

1.   Fallen Angel (1945)

2.   Such Good Friends (1971)

3.   Whirlpool (1949)

4.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

5.   Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

6.   Porgy and Bess (1959)
(I watched it online)

7.   The 13th Letter (1951)

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2.   The Red Shoes (1948)

3.   Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

4.   Black Narcissus (1947)

5.   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

6.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

8.   Gone to Earth (1950)
(I watched it on youtube)

9.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)

11. The Small Back Room (1949)

12. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

13. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

14. Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
(TV Documentary)