Category Archives: Romance

My Favorite Ching Siu-tung Films

17 Monday Sep 2018

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1.   A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

2.   Swordsman II (1992)
(a.k.a. The Legend of the Swordsman)

3.   Duel to the Death (1983)

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1.   A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)

2.   Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (1989)

3.   A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)

4.   Swordsman III (1993)
(a.k.a. The East Is Red)

My Favorite Zhang Yimou Films

15 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   House of Flying Daggers (2004)

2.   Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

3.   Coming Home (2014)
(no relation to the 1978 film)

4.   Hero (2002)

5.   Ju Dou (1990)
(co-directed with Yang Fengliang)

6.   Not One Less (1999)

7.   The Road Home (1999)

8.   Shanghai Triad (1995)

9.   To Live (1994)

10. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

11. Red Sorghum (1988)

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1.   Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

2.   Happy Times (2000)

3.   Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

My Favorite Edgar Wright Films

12 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Shaun of the Dead (2004)

2.   Baby Driver (2017)

3.   The World’s End (2013)

4.   Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

5.   Hot Fuzz (2007)

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1.   Grindhouse (2007)
(Fictitious Trailer: “Don’t”)
(Anthology Film)

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

1.   Spaced (1999-2001)

My Favorite Wong Kar-wai Films

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

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1.   In the Mood for Love (2000)

2.   Fallen Angels (1995)

3.   Chungking Express (1994)

4.   2046 (2004)

5.   Days of Being Wild (1990)

6.   Ashes of Time (1994)

7.   Happy Together (1997)

8.   The Grandmaster (2013)

9.   My Blueberry Nights (2007)

10. As Tears Go By (1988)

My Favorite Agnes Varda Films

10 Monday Sep 2018

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1.   Faces Places (2017)
(co-directed with JR)
(Documentary)

2.   The Gleaners and I (2000)
(Documentary)

3.   Vagabond (1985)

4.   Daguerreotypes (1976)
(Documentary)

5.   Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

6.   Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   The Beaches of Agnes (2008)
(Documentary)

8.   Happiness (1965)
(no relation to the 1998 film)

9.   Cinevardaphoto (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Far from Vietnam (1967)
(co-directed with Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais)
(Documentary Anthology)

11. Mur murs (1981)
(Documentary)

12. La Pointe Courte (1955)

13. Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)

14. Documenteur (1981)

15. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

16. Kung-Fu Master! (1988)

17. The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
(Documentary) 

18. The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
(Documentary)

19. The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)
(Documentary)

20. One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

21. Lions Love (and… Lies) (1969)

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

1.   Cleo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes (2005)

2.   La cocotte d’azur (1958)
(Documentary Short)

3.   Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (2004)
(Documentary Short)

4.   Ulysse (1983)
(Documentary Short)

5.   Salut les Cubains (1971)
(Documentary Short)

6.   Along the Coast (1958)
(Documentary Short)

7.   Black Panthers (1968)
(Documentary Short)

8.   Uncle Yanco (1967)
(Documentary Short)

9.   The So-called Caryatids (1984)
(Documentary Short)

10. Elsa la rose (1966)
(Documentary Short)

11. 7p., cuis., s. de b., …a saisir (1984)

12. Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1962)

13. Women Reply (1975)
(Documentary Short)

14. You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (1986)

15. Le lion volatil (2003)

16. The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
(Documentary Short)

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.   I Want to Live! (1958)

7.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)

My Favorite Billy Wilder Films

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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1.   Avanti! (1972)

2.   Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

3.   Some Like It Hot (1959)

4.   Ace in the Hole (1951)

5.   Sunset Boulevard (1950)

6.   Double Indemnity (1944)

7.   Fedora (1978)

8.   The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

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1.   Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

2.   The Major and the Minor (1942)

3.   Stalag 17 (1953)

4.   The Fortune Cookie (1966)

5.   One, Two, Three (1961)

6.   The Apartment (1960)

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 Lina Wertmuller Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Seven Beauties (1975)

2.   Love & Anarchy (1973)

3.   Swept Away (1974)

4.   The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

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1.   Ciao, Professore! (1992)

2.   All Screwed Up (1974)

3.   Ferdinando and Carolina (1999)

4.   Blood Feud (1978)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   A Night Full of Rain (1978)

My Favorite Wim Wenders Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Kings of the Road (1976)

2.   Paris, Texas (1984)

3.   Alice in the Cities (1974)

4.   Wings of Desire (1987)

5.   The Wrong Move (1975)

6.   The American Friend (1977)

7.   The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
(a.k.a. The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

8.   Lightning Over Water (1980)
(co-directed with Nicholas Ray)
(Documentary)

9.   Beyond the Clouds (1995)
(co-directed with Michelangelo Antonioni)

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1.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Twelve Miles to Trona”)

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1.   The Salt of the Earth (2014)
(Documentary)

2.   Pina (2011)
(Documentary)

3.   Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
(Documentary)

4.   The Soul of a Man (2003)
(Documentary)
(Episode of PBS’s “The Blues”)
(TV Documentary miniseries)

5.   Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
(Documentary)