My Favorite Richard Linklater Films

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

1.   Boyhood (2014)

2a. Before Sunrise (1995)
2b. Before Sunset (2004)
2c. Before Midnight (2013)

3.   Bernie (2011)

4.   Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

5.   Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)

6.   Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.   Slacker (1991)

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

1.   Me and Orson Welles (2009)

2.   A Scanner Darkly (2006)
(Animated Film)

3.   School of Rock (2003)

4.   Tape (2001)

5.   The Newton Boys (1998)

6.   SubUrbia (1996)

My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films

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

1.   Gun Crazy (1950)

2.   Terror in a Texas Town (1958) 

3.   The Halliday Brand (1957)

4.   The Big Combo (1955)

5.   So Dark the Night (1946)

6.   My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 1 (1958-1959)
1a. The Safe Guard (1958)
1b. Duel of Honor (1958)
1c. The Deadly Wait (1959)
1d. The Pet (1959)
1e. The Trade (1959)
1f. Boomerang (1959)
1g. Shivaree (1959)
(Television)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 2 (1959-1960)
1a. Heller (1960)
1b. The Visitor (1960)
1c. The Fourflusher (1960)
1d. Letter of the Law (1959)
1e. Panic (1959)
1f. The Deserter (1960)
1g. Shotgun Man (1960)
1h. The Patsy (1959)
1i. The Hangman (1960)
1j. Surveyors (1959)
1k. Hero (1960)
1l. The Spoiler (1960)
1m. Eddie’s Daughter (1959)
1n. Day of the Hunter (1960)
(Television)

My Favorite Jerry Lewis Films

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

1.   The Ladies Man (1961)

2.   The Nutty Professor (1963)

3.   The Bellboy (1960)

4.   The Patsy (1964)

5.   The Errand Boy (1961)

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

1.   Cracking Up (1983)

2.   Hardly Working (1980)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

My Favorite Richard Lester Films

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

1.   Petulia (1968)

2.   Help! (1965)

3.   A Hard Day’s Out (1964)

4.   The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

5.   The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)

6.   How I Won the War (1967)

7a. The Three Musketeers (1973)
7b. The Four Musketeers (1974)

8.   Juggernaut (1974)

9.   Robin and Marian (1976)

10. Superman II (1980)
(Richard Donner’s 2006 Cut is also great)

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

1.   The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)

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

1.   Royal Flash (1975)

2.   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films

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

1.   M (1931)

2.   Spies (1928)

3.   Scarlet Street (1945)

4.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

5.   Liliom (1934)

6.   Fury (1936)

7.   The Woman in the Window (1944)

8.   You Only Live Once (1937)

9.   Moonfleet (1955)

10. The Big Heat (1953)

11. Rancho Notorious (1952)

12. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

13. Die Nibelungen (1924)

14. Destiny (1921)

15. The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb (1959)
(a.k.a. Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic)

16. Metropolis (1927)

17. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

18. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 

19. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

20. You and Me (1937)

21. Clash by Night (1952)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)

23. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

24. Human Desire (1954)

25. House by the River (1950)

26. Ministry of Fear (1944)

27. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

28. Man Hunt (1941)

29. Western Union (1941)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Cloak and Dagger (1946)

32. Woman in the Moon (1929)

33. The Spiders Parts I and II (1919/1920)

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

1.   Harikari (1919)

2.   American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films

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

1.   Ran (1985)

2.   High and Low (1963)

3.   Seven Samurai (1954)

4.   Ikiru (1952)

5.   Red Beard (1965)

6.   Throne of Blood (1957)

7.   Rashomon (1950)

8.   Yojimbo (1961)

9.   The Hidden Fortress (1958)

10. Stray Dog (1949)

11. Madadayo (1993)

12. Kagemusha (1980)

13. Drunken Angel (1948)

14. Sanjuro (1962)

15. Dersu Uzala (1975)

16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Does’ka-den (1970)

19. The Idiot (1951)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Scandal (1950)

22. The Quiet Duel (1949)

23. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

24. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

25. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

26. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

27. Sanshiro SUgata Part II (1945)

28. The Most Beautiful (1944)

29. Rhapsody in August (1991)

30. Dreams (1990)
(a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films

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

1.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

2.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

4.   The Shining (1980)

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   Paths of Glory (1957)

8.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

9.   Lolita (1962)

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

11. Spartacus (1960)

12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)

13. Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films

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

1.   The Decalogue (1988)
(Polish TV Miniseries)

2.   Three Colors: Red (1994)

3.   Three Colors: Blue (1993)

4.   Three Colors: White (1994)

5.   The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

6.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

7.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

8.   No End (1985)

9.   Camera Buff (1979)

10. The Scar (1976)

11. Blind Chance (1987)

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

1.   The Office (1966)

2.   Tramway (1966)

3.   Concert of Requests (1967) 

My Favorite Gene Kelly Films

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

1.   That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)
(Documentary)

2.   Invitation to the Dance (1956)
(Live-Action/Animation)

3.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

4.   It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

5.   On the Town (1949)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

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

1.   The Happy Road (1957)

2.   The Tunnel of Love (1958)

3.   Hello, Dolly! (1969)