Mystery

My Favorite Mario Bava Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966)

2.   Blood and Black Lace (1964)

3.   Lisa and the Devil (1973)

4.   A Bay of Blood (1971)
(a.k.a Twitch of the Death Nerve)

5.   Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

6.   Planet of the Vampires (1965)

7.   Danger: Diabolik (1968)

8.   Black Sabbath (1963)
(Anthology Film)

9.   Black Sunday (1960)

10. The Whip and the Body (1963)

11. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

12. Erik the Conqueror (1961)

13. Rabid Dogs (1974)
(a.k.a Kidnapped)

14. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

My Favorite Dario Argento Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Deep Red (1975)

2.   Tenebrae (1982)

3.   Suspiria (1977)

4.   Opera (1987)

5.   Inferno (1980)

6.   Phenomena (1985)

7.   The Bird with the Crystal Plummage (1970)

8.   Two Evil Eyes (1990)
8a. Segment: “The Black Cat”
(Anthology Film)

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

1.   The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

2.   Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

My Favorite Michelangelo Antonioni Films

by John Charet

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

1.   L’Eclisse (1962)

2.   Le Amiche (1955)

3.   La Notte (1961)

4.   Zabriskie Point (1970)

5.   L’Avventura (1960)   

6.   The Passenger (1975)

7.   Red Desert (1965)

8.   Blowup (1966)

9.   Il Grido (1957)

10. Identification of a Woman (1982)

11. Beyond the Clouds (1995)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)

12. The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)

13. Story of a Love Affair (1950)

14. I Vinti (1952)

15. The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Robert Altman Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Nashville (1975)

2.   McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

3.   Short Cuts (1993)

4.   The Long Goodbye (1973)

5.   Tanner ’88 (1988)
(Miniseries)
(Cable/Television)

6.   3 Women (1977)

7.   Great Performances (1996)
7a. Episode: “Robert Altman’s Jazz ’34”
(Documentary)
(Television)

8.   The Player (1992)

9.   Secret Honor (1984)

10. California Split (1974)

11. Streamers (1983)

12. Gosford Park (2001)

13. Cookie’s Fortune (1999)

14. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

15. Tanner on Tanner (2004)
(Miniseries)
(Cable/Television)

16. The Company (2003)

17. Vincent & Theo (1990)

18. A Wedding (1978)

19. Images (1972)

20. Brewster McCloud (1970)

21. MASH (1970)

22. That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

23. Kansas City (1996)

24. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976)

25. Thieves Like Us (1974)

26. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

27. Gun (1997)
27a. Episode: “All the President’s Women”
(Television)

28. Fool for Love (1985)

29. The Gingerbread Man (1998)

30. The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1988)
(Television)

31. Health (1980)
(I watched it online)

32. A Perfect Couple (1979)

33. Ready to Wear (1994)
(a.k.a. Pret-a-Porter)

34. Dr. T & the Women (2000)

35. O.C. & Stiggs (1985)
(theatrically released in 1987)

36. Beyond Therapy (1987)

37. Popeye (1980)

38. Quintet (1979)

39. Countdown (1968)

40. Basements (1987)
40a. “The Dumb Waiter”
40b. “The Room”
(Cable/Television)
(I watched the former on an old VHS tape and the latter online)

41. Nightmare in Chicago (1964)
(Television)
(I watched it online)

42. The Delinquents (1957)

43. The James Dean Story (1957)
(Co-directed with George W. George)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Les Boreades”)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (TV Episodes)

1.   Combat (1962-1967)
(Episodes from 1962: “Forgotten Front”, “Rear Echelon Commandos”, “Any Second Now”, “Escape to Nowhere”, “Cat and Mouse”, “I Swear by Apollo” and “The Prisoner”)
(Episodes from 1963: “The Volunteer”, “Off Limits” and “Survival”)

2.   The Gallant Men (1962-1963)
(Pilot Episode from 1962: “Battle Zone”)

3.   Route 66 (1960-1964)
(Episode from 1961: “Some of the People, Some of the Time”)   

4.   Peter Gunn (1958-1961)
(Episode from 1961: “The Murder Bond”)

5.   Lawman (1958-1962)
(Episode from 1961: “The Robbery”)

6.   Bonanza (1959-1973)
(Episodes from 1960: “Silent Thunder”)
(Episodes from 1961: “Bank Run”, “The Duke”, “The Rival”, “The Secret”, “The Dream Riders”, “Sam Hill” and “The Many Faces of Gideon Finch”)

7.   Maverick (1957-1962)
(Episode from 1960: “Bolt from the Blue”)

8.   Bronco (1958-1962)
(Episode from 1960: “The Mustangers”)

9.   Sugarfoot (1957-1961)
(Episode from 1959: “Apollo with a Gun”)
(Episode from 1960: “The Highbinder”)

10. M Squad (1957-1960)
(Episode from 1958: “Lover’s Lane Killing”)

11. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965)
(Episode from 1957: “The Young One”)
(Episode from 1958: “Together”)

My Favorite Pedro Almodovar Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Pain and Glory (2019)

2.   Talk to Her (2002)

3.   All About My Mother (1999)

4.   Law of Desire (1987)

5.   The Skin I Live In (2011)

6.   Bad Education (2004)
(no relation to the 2019 film)

7.   Live Flesh (1997)

8.   Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)

9.   Matador (1986)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

10. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

11. Volver (2006)

12. Broken Embraces (2009)

13. Julieta (2016)

14. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

15. Dark Habits (1983)

16. Labyrinth of Passion (1982)

17. Kika (1993)

18. The Flower of My Secret (1995)

19. High Heels (1991)

20. I’m So Excited! (2013)

21. Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) 

My Favorite Robert Aldrich Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

2.   What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

3.   Ulzana’s Raid (1972)

4.   Autumn Leaves (1956)

5.   The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

6.   Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

7.   The Big Knife (1955)

8.   The Killing of Sister George (1968)

9.   Attack (1956)

10. Vera Cruz (1954)

11. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

12. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

13. Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

14. Hustle (1975)

15. The Longest Yard (1974)

16. The Grissom Gang (1971)

17. Emperor of the North Pole (1973)

18. Too Late the Hero (1970)

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

1.   Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

2.   …All the Marbles (1981)
(sometimes known as “The California Dolls”)

 

My Favorite Andre De Toth Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Day of the Outlaw (1959)

2.   Crime Wave (1954)

3.   House of Wax (1953)

4.   Pitfall (1948)

5.   Ramrod (1947)

6.   Dark Waters (1944)

7.   Man in the Saddle (1951)

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

1.   Carson City (1952)

2.   Springfield Rifle (1952)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Anger Face (1953)

3.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

4.   Laura (1944)

5.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

6.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

7.   Such Good Friends (1971)

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

1.   Fallen Angel (1945)

2.   The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

3.   Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

4.   Advise and Consent (1962)

5.   The 13th Letter (1951)

6.   The Cardinal (1963)

7.   Whirlpool (1949)

 

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Mamma Roma (1962)

2.   The Canterbury Tales (1972)

3.   Accattone (1961)

4.   A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) (1974)

5.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

6.   The Decameron (1971)

7.   Teorema (1968)

8.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

9.   The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

10. Medea (1969)

11. Pigsty (1969)

12. Oedipus Rex (1967)

13. The Anger (1963) (co-directed with Giovannino Guareschi)
(Documentary)

14. Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)

15. Love Meetings (1964) (Documentary)

16. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970) (Documentary)