Romance

My Favorite Leo McCarey Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Good Sam (1948)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)

4.   My Son John (1952)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

7.   Duck Soup (1933)

8.   The Awful Truth (1937)

9.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

10. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
(with assistance from James Anderson)

11. Going My Way (1944)

My Favorite Yasuzo Masumura Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Red Angel (1966)

2.   Giants and Toys (1958)

3.   Blind Beast (1969)

4.   Black Test Car (1962)

5.   Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

6.   Manji (1964)

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

1.   Afraid to Die (1960)

My Favorite Terrence Malick Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Tree of Life (2011)

2.   The New World (2005)

3.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

4.   Days of Heaven (1978)

5.   A Hidden Life (2019)

6.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

3.   Song to Song (2017)

My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Sweet Movie (1974)

2.   W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)

3.   Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)

4.   Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

5.   Man is Not a Bird (1965)

My Favorite Guy Maddin Films

by John Charet

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007)
(Mockumentary)

2.   The Forbidden Room (2015)

3.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

4.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

5.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

6.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

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

1.   Careful (1992)

2.   Archangel (1990)

3.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

4.   Keyhole (2011)

My Favorite David Lynch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
1a. Episode 1: Part 1
1b. Episode 2: Part 2
1c. Episode 3: Part 3
1d. Episode 4: Part 4
1e. Episode 5: Part 5
1f. Episode 6: Part 6
1g. Episode 7: Part 7
1h. Episode 8: Part 8
1i. Episode 9: Part 9
1j. Episode 10: Part 10
1k. Episode 11: Part 11
1l. Episode 12: Part 12
1m. Episode 13: Part 13
1n. Episode 14: Part 14
1o. Episode 15: Part 15
1p. Episode 16: Part 16
1q. Episode 17: Part 17
1r. Episode 18: Part 18
(Cable/Television)

2.   Inland Empire (2006)

3.   Mulholland Drive (2001)

4.   Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

5.   Blue Velvet (1986)

6.   Eraserhead (1977)

7.   Twin Peaks: Season 1 (1990)
7a. Episode 1: Pilot (a.k.a. Northwest Passage)
7b. Episode 2: Traces to Nowhere
(Dwayne Dunham directed only)
7c. Episode 3: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
7d. Episode 4: Rest in Pain
(Tina Rathborne directed only)
7e. Episode 5: The One-Armed Man
(Tim Hunter directed only)
7f. Episode 6: Cooper’s Dreams
(Lesli Linka Glatter directed only)
7g. Episode 7: Realization Time
(Caleb Deschanel directed only)
7h. Episode 8: The Last Evening
(Mark Frost directed only)
(Television)

8.   The Straight Story (1999)

9.   Twin Peaks: Season 2 (1990-1991)
9a. Episode 1
9b. Episode 2
9c. Episode 3 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9d. Episode 4 – Todd Holland directed only
9e. Episode 5 – Graeme Clifford directed only
9f. Episode 6 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9g. Episode 7
9h. Episode 8 – Caleb Deschanel directed only
9i. Episode 9 – Tim Hunter directed only
9j. Episode 10 – Tina Rathborne directed only
9k. Episode 11 – Duwayne Dunham directed only
9l. Episode 12 – Caleb Deschanel directed only
9m. Episode 13 – Todd Holland directed only
9n. Episode 14 – Uli Edel directed only
9o. Episode 15 – Diane Keaton directed only
9p. Episode 16 – Lesli Linka Glatter directed only
9q. Episode 17 – James Foley directed only
9r. Episode 18 – Duwayne Dunham directed only
9s. Episode 19 – Jonathan Sanger directed only
9t. Episode 20 – Stephen Gyllenhaal directed only
9u. Episode 21 – Tim Hunter directed only
9v. Episode 22
(Television)

10. Lost Highway (1997)

11. The Elephant Man (1980)

12. Wild at Heart (1990)

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

3.   One Hour with You (1932)
(with assistance from George Cukor)

4.   Heaven Can Wait (1943)

5.   The Wild Cat (1921)

6.   The Love Parade (1929)

7.   Monte Carlo (1930)

8.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

9.   Design for Living (1933)

10. The Marriage Circle (1924)

11. Eternal Love (1929)

12. Broken Lullaby (1932)

13. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

14. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

15. The Oyster Princess (1919)

16. Madame DuBarry (1919)

17. The Doll (1919)

18. Anna Boleyn (1920)

19. Sumurun (1920)

20. The Merry Widow (1934)

21. Angel (1937)

22. Cluny Brown (1946)

23. Ninotchka (1939)

24. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

25. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

26. Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938)

27. Carmen (1918)

28. I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)