My Favorite Ben Wheatley Films (New)

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

1.   A Field in England (2013)

2.   Kill List (2011)

3.   High-Rise (2015)

4.   Sightseers (2012)

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

1.   The ABC’s of Death (2012) 
(Segment: “U is for Unearthed”)

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

1.   Down Terrace (2009)

My Favorite Andre De Toth Films (New)

* * * * (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 George Stevens Films (New)

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

1.   A Place in the Sun (1951)

2.   Shane (1953)

3.   Giant (1956)

4.   Alice Adams (1935)

5.   Annie Oakley (1935)

6.   I Remember Mama (1948)

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

1.   The Talk of the Town (1942)

2.   Vivacious Lady (1938)

3.   A Damsel in Distress (1937)

4.   Woman of the Year (1942)

5.   The More the Merrier (1943)

6.   Swing Time (1936)

7.   Gunga Din (1939)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films (New)

* * * * (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 G.W. Pabst Films (New)

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

1.   Pandora’s Box (1929)

2.   Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

3.   The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927)

4.   The Threepenny Opera (1931)

5.   Joyless Street (1925)

6.   Westfront 1918 (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

7.   Kameradschaft (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

8.   Secrets of a Soul (1926)

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

1.   The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) (co-directed with Arnold Fanck)

My Favorite Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films (New)

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

1.   All About Eve (1950)

2.   Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

3.   Julius Caesar (1953)

4.   No Way Out (1950)
(No relation to the 1987 film)

5.   The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

6.   People Will Talk (1951)

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

1.   A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

2.   House of Strangers (1949)

3.   The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

4.   Guys and Dolls (1955)

5.   Sleuth (1972)
(Not the 2007 version)

My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films (New)

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

1.   Gun Crazy (1949)

2.   Cry of the Hunted (1953)

3.   The Halliday Brand (1957)

4.   The Big Combo (1955)

5.   Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

6.   So Dark the Night (1946)

7.   My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

8.   The Undercover Man (1949)
(I saw it a long time ago on TCM)

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

1.   A Lady Without Passport (1950)

2.   Retreat, Hell! (1952)

3.   A Lawless Street (1955)

4.   Desperate Search (1952)

5.   7th Cavalry (1956)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Jerry Lewis Directed Films (New)

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

1.   The Nutty Professor (1963)
(not the 1996 version)

2.   The Ladies Man (1961)
(No relation to the 2000 film)

3.   The Bellboy (1960)

4.   The Patsy (1964)

5.   The Errand Boy (1961)

6.   The Family Jewels (1965)

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

1.   Cracking Up (1983)

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

My Favorite Elia Kazan Films (New)

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

1.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

2.   Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

3.   Pinky (1949)

4.   On the Waterfront (1954)

5.   Splendor in the Grass (1961)

6.   The Last Tycoon (1976)

7.   A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

8.   East of Eden (1955)

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

1.   Wild River (1960)

2.   Baby Doll (1956)

3.   Boomerang (1947)
(No relation to the 1992 Eddie Murphy comedy of the same name)

4.   A Face in the Crowd (1957)

5.   Panic in the Streets (1950)

6.   Viva Zapata! (1952)