My Favorite Terence Davies Films

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

1.   Of Time and the City (2008)
(Documentary)

2.   The Long Day Closes (1992)

3.   Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

4.   The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)

5.   A Quiet Passion (2016)

6.   Sunset Song (2015)

7.   The House of Mirth (2000)

8.   The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

9.   The Neon Bible (1995)

My Favorite Pierre Etaix Films

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

1.   Yoyo (1965)

2.   Land of Milk and Honey (1971)
(Documentary)

3.   The Suitor (1963)

4.   As Long As You’ve Got Your Health (1966)

5.   Le Grand Amour (1969)

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

1.   Happy Anniversary (1962)

2.   Rupture (1961)
(co-directed with Jean-Claude Carriere)

3.   Feeling Good (1965/1971/2010)

My Favorite Jules Dassin Films

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

1.   The Naked City (1948)

2.   Thieves’ Highway (1949)

3.   Night and the City (1950)

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

1.   Brute Force (1947)

2.   Rififi (1955)

3.   Topkapi (1964)

My Favorite George Cukor Films

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

1.   Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

2.   Bhowani Junction (1956)

3.   Adam’s Rib (1949)

4.   A Star Is Born (1954)

5.   Les Girls (1957)

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

1.   A Double Life (1947)

2.   Edward, My Son (1949)

3.   The Actress (1953)

4.   The Marrying Kind (1952)

5.   Pat and Mike (1952)

6.   Holiday (1938)

7.   The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8.   Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(Television)

9.   The Women (1939)

10. Travels with My Aunt (1972)

11. It Should Happen to You (1954)

12. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

13. Born Yesterday (1950)

14. Gaslight (1944)

15. A Woman’s Face (1941)

16. Camille (1936)

17. Little Women (1933)

18. Dinner at Eight (1933)

19. David Copperfield (1935)

My Favorite David Cronenberg Films

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

1.   Videodrome (1983)

2.   A History of Violence (2005)

3.   Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film) 

4.   Cosmopolis (2012)

5.   Dead Ringers (1988)

6.   Spider (2002)

7.   The Fly (1986)

8.   Eastern Promises (2007)

9.   The Brood (1979)

10. Naked Lunch (1991)

11. Maps to the Stars (2014)

12. A Dangerous Method (2011)

13. eXistenZ (1999)

14. M. Butterfly (1993)

15. The Dead Zone (1983)

16. Scanners (1981)

17. Rabid (1977)

18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)

19. Fast Company (1979)

20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)

21. Crimes of the Future (1970)

22. Stereo (1969)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

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

1.   The Conformist (1970)

2.   Besieged (1998)

3.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

4.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

5.   1900 (1976)

6.   Luna (1979)

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

1.   Before the Revolution (1964)

2.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films

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

1.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

2.   The Conversation (1974)

3a. The Godfather (1972)
3b. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3c. The Godfather Part III (1990)

4.   Rumble Fish (1983)

5.   The Cotton Club (1984)

6.   One from the Heart (1981)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

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

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau Films

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

1.   Orpheus (1950)

2.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   Beauty and the Beast (1946)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   The Testament of Orpheus (1960)