My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Black Cat (1934)

2.   Detour (1945)

3.   Bluebeard (1944)

4.   Ruthless (1948)

5.   The Man from Planet X (1951)

6.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

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

1.   Strange Illusion (1945)

2.   Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

3.   The Strange Woman (1946)

Note: I first saw The Naked Dawn on television a decade ago on some TV station.

My Favorite Andre Techine Films (New)

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

1.   Wild Reeds (1994)

2.   The Bronte Sisters (1979)

3.   The Witnesses (2007)

4.   Unforgivable (2012)

5.   Thieves (1996)

6.   My Favorite Season (1993)

7.   I Don’t Kiss (1991)

8.   Strayed (2003)

9.   The Girl on the Train (2009)

10. Alice and Martin (1998)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

11. Rendez-vous (1985)

12. Barocco (1976)

13. In the Name of my Daughter (2014)

14. Hotel America (1981)

15. Changing Times (2004)

16. The Scene of the Crime (1986)

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   The Great McGinty (1940)

8.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

9.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

10. The Great Moment (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

11. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

 

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Imitation of Life (1959)

2.   The Tarnished Angels (1957)

3.   A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

4.   Written on the Wind (1956)

5.   All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6.   Magnificent Obsession (1954)

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

1.   Interlude (1957)

2.   There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

3.   All I Desire (1953)

5.   Shockproof (1949)

6.   Lured (1947)

My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)

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

1.   Three Kings (1999)

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

1.   American Hustle (2013)

2.   Joy (2015)

3.   The Fighter (2010)

4.   Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

5.   Flirting with Disaster (1996)

6.   I Heart Huckabees (2004)

7.   Spanking the Monkey (1994)
(Yes that is the actual title of the film)

My Favorite Roberto Rossellini Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Journey to Italy (1954)

2.   Stromboli (1950)

3.   Paisan (1946)

4.   The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

5.   Germany, Year Zero (1948)

6.   The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) (TV Film)

7.   Rome, Open City (1945)

8.   Europe ’51 (1952)

9.   The Age of the Medici (1973) (TV Mini-Series)

10. General Della Rovere (1959)

11. Blaise Pascal (1972) (TV Film)

12. Cartesius (1974) (TV Film)

 

My Favorite Eric Rohmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

2.   The Green Ray (1986)

3.   Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)

4.   Pauline at the Beach (1983)

5.   Claire’s Knee (1970)

6.   My Night at Maud’s (1969)

7.   La Collectionneuse (1967)

8.   Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

9.   A Tale of Summer (1996)

10. A Tale of Winter (1992)

11. Romance of Astree and Celadon (2007)

12. Triple Agent (2004)

13. An Autumn Tale (1998)

14. A Tale of Springtime (1990)

15. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)

16. Full Moon in Paris (1984)

17. A Good Marriage (1982)

18. The Aviator’s Wife (1981)

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

1.   The Marquise of O… (1976)

 

 

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

3.   Wild Grass (2009)

4.   Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

5.   Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Life of Riley (2014)

8.   You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)

9.   Providence (1977) (Saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

11. The War is Over (1966)

12. Night and Fog (1955) (Documentary Short)

13. Stavisky (1974)

14. Same Old Song (1997)

15. Not on the Lips (2003)

16. Melo (1986)

17. Love Unto Death (1984)

18. Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   Grand Illusion (1937)

2.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

3.   A Day in the Country (1936) (Short Film)

4.   The River (1951)

5.   The Southerner (1945)

6.   The Golden Coach (1952)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

9.   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

10. La Bete Humaine (1938)

11. Toni (1935)

12. French Cancan (1954)

13. Picnic on the Grass (1959)

14. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) (TV Film)

15. The Lower Depths (1936)

16. Elena and Her Men (1956)

17. La Marseillaise (1938)

18. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

19. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

20. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) (TV Film)