* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Le Million (1931)
2. A Nous la Liberte (1931)
3. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
4. The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
Musical
My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. White Heat (1949)
2. Regeneration (1915)
3. High Sierra (1941)
4. The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
2. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
3. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
4. Dark Command (1940)
5. They Drive By Night (1940)
6. Sadie Thompson (1928)
7. The Big Trail (1930)
8. What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)
9. The Bowery (1933)
10. Manpower (1941)
11. Colorado Territory (1949)
12. The Man I Love (1947)
13. Pursued (1947)
14. Uncertain Glory (1944)
My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
2. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
3. Wild Grass (2009)
4. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
5. Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)
6. Muriel (1963)
7. Life of Riley (2014)
8. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)
9. Providence (1977) (Saw it on an old VHS Tape)
10. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)
11. The War is Over (1966)
12. Night and Fog (1955) (Documentary Short)
13. Stavisky (1974)
14. Same Old Song (1997)
15. Not on the Lips (2003)
16. Melo (1986)
17. Love Unto Death (1984)
18. Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)
My Favorite Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Grand Illusion (1937)
2. The Rules of the Game (1939)
3. A Day in the Country (1936) (Short Film)
4. The River (1951)
5. The Southerner (1945)
6. The Golden Coach (1952)
7. La Chienne (1931)
8. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
9. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
10. La Bete Humaine (1938)
11. Toni (1935)
12. French Cancan (1954)
13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)
14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)
15. The Lower Depths (1936)
16. Elena and Her Men (1956)
17. La Marseillaise (1938)
18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)
19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)
My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Gigi (1958)
2. Home from the Hill (1960)
3. The Band Wagon (1953)
4. Some Came Running (1958)
5. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
6. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
7. Brigadoon (1954)
8. Madame Bovary (1949)
9. An American in Paris (1951)
10. Father of the Bride (1950)
11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
13. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)
16. The Sandpiper (1965)
17. The Cobweb (1955)
18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
19. A Matter of Time (1976)
20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)
22. Lust for Life (1956)
23. The Clock (1945)
24. Kismet (1955)
25. Bells are Ringing (1960)
26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)
27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)
28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)
29. The Pirate (1948)
30. I Dood It (1943)
31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
2. Designing Woman (1957)
3. Undercurrent (1946)
4. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
My Favorite Leo McCarey Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
2. Duck Soup (1933)
3. The Awful Truth (1937)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
5. Love Affair (1939)
6. Good Sam (1948)
7. The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
8. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
9. Going My Way (1944)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. My Son John (1952)
2. The Milky Way (1936)
3. An Affair to Remember (1957)
My Favorite Guy Maddin Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. My Winnipeg (2007) (Part Documentary)
2. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
3. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
4. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
5. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)
6. Archangel (1990)
7. Careful (1992)
8. Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
9. Keyhole (2011)
10. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
Note: I plan on seeing Maddin’s The Forbidden Room when it opens here in Illinois. I am hoping it will come before the end of 2015. 🙂
My Favorite Stanley Donen Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)
2. Staircase (1969)
3. It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)
4. Two for the Road (1967)
5. On the Town (1949) (Co-directed with Gene Kelly)
6. Charade (1963)
7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
8. Bedazzled (1967) (Not the 2000 version)
9. The Pajama Game (1957) (Co-directed with George Abbott)
10. Indiscreet (1958)
11. Damn Yankees (1958) (Co-directed with George Abbott)
12. Funny Face (1957)
13. Royal Wedding (1951)
14. The Grass is Greener (1960)
15. Give a Girl a Break (1953)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Arabesque (1966)
2. Deep in My Heart (1954)
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