Romance

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

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

3.   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

4.   Melo (1986)

5.   Providence (1977)

6.   Muriel (1963)

7.   Mon Oncle D’Amerique (1980)

8.   Wild Grass (2009)

9.   Not on the Lips (2003)

10. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

11. Stavisky… (1974)

12. The War Is Over (1966)

13. Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968)

14. Life of Riley (2014)

15. Same Old Song (1997)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

16. Love Unto Death (1984)

17. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

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

1.   Night and Fog (1956)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Toute la memoire du monde (1957)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Statues Also Die (1953)
(co-directed with Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on youtube)

4.   Far from Vietnam (1967)
(Segment: “Claude Ridder”)
(Anthology Documentary)

5.   Guernica (1950)
(co-directed with Robert Hessens)
(Documentary Short)

6.   Le chant du Styrene (1959)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

P.S. I have not added the documentary short Van Gogh (1948) on here because every version in circulation online (based on my knowledge) is not subtitled in English.

My Favorite Jean Renoir Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Rules of the Game (1939)

2.   The Golden Coach (1952)

3.   The Woman on the Beach (1947)

4.   French Cancan (1954)

5.   Grand Illusion (1937)

6.   Picnic on the Grass (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

7.   La Chienne (1931)

8.   La Bête Humaine (1938)

9.   The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

10. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

11. Toni (1935)
(I watched it on Vimeo)

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

13. The River (1951)

14. The Southerner (1945)

15. Elena and Her Men (1956)

16. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1969)
(French/German/Italian TV Film)

17. The Elusive Corporal (1962)

18. La Marseillaise (1938)

19. The Lower Depths (1936)

20. The Little Match Girl (1928)
(Short Film)

21. Nana (1926)

22. The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)

23. The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959)
(French TV Film)

24. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

25. On purge bebe (1931)

26. Charleston Parade (1927)
(Short Film)

27. Madame Bovary (1934)

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

1.   This Land Is Mine (1943)

2.   Swamp Water (1941)

My Favorite Satyajit Ray Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The World of Apu (1959)

2.   Days and Nights in the Forest (1969)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3.   The Big City (1963)

4.   The Music Room (1958)

5.   Aparajito (1956)

6.   Pather Panchali (1955)

7.   Charulata (1964)

8.   The Middleman (1975)

9.   The Hero (1966)

10. The Stranger (1992)

11. Devi (1960)

12. The Home and The World (1984)

13. The Chess Players (1977)

14. An Enemy of the People (1990)

My Favorite Nicholas Ray Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Bigger Than Life (1956)

2.   Johnny Guitar (1954)

3.   Bitter Victory (1957)

4.   They Live by Night (1949)

5.   In a Lonely Place (1950)

6.   The Lusty Men (1952)

7.   Party Girl (1958)

8.   Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

9.   The Savage Innocents (1960)

10. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

11. We Can’t Go Home Again (1976)

12. On Dangerous Ground (1952)

13. Hot Blood (1956)

14. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

15. Born to Be Bad (1950)

16. Run for Cover (1955)

17. Lightning Over Water (1980)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Angel Face (1953)

3.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

4.   Laura (1944)

5.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

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

1.   Fallen Angel (1945)

2.   Such Good Friends (1971)

3.   Whirlpool (1949)

4.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

5.   Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

6.   Porgy and Bess (1959)
(I watched it online)

7.   The 13th Letter (1951)

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2.   The Red Shoes (1948)

3.   Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

4.   Black Narcissus (1947)

5.   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

6.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

8.   Gone to Earth (1950)
(I watched it on youtube)

9.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)

11. The Small Back Room (1949)

12. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

13. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

14. Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
(TV Documentary)

My Favorite Roman Polanski Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Cul-de-sac (1966)

2.   Bitter Moon (1992)

3.   The Tenant (1976)

4.   The Ghost Writer (2010)

5.   Repulsion (1965)

6.   Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

7.   Knife in the Water (1962)

8.   Chinatown (1974)

9.   The Pianist (2002)

10. Macbeth (1971)

11. Tess (1979)

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

1.   Venus in Fur (2013)

2.   The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

3.   Carnage (2011)

4.   What? (1972)

5.   Death and the Maiden (1994)

6.   The Ninth Gate (1999)

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 

2.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

3.   Teorema (1968)

4.   Mamma Roma (1962)

5.   Oedipus Rex (1967)

6.   Arabian Nights (1974)

7.   Medea (1969)

8.   The Decameron (1971)

9.   Pigsty (1969)

10. The Canterbury Tales (1972)

11. Accattone (1961)

12. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

13. Love Meetings (1964)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Ro.Go.Pa.G (1963)
(Segment: “La ricotta”)
(Anthology Film)

2.   Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   The Witches (1967)
(Segment: “The Earth Seen From The Moon”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Park Chan-wook Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Oldboy (2003)

2.   The Handmaiden (2016)

3.   Joint Security Area (2000)

4.   Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

5.   Lady Vengeance (2005)

6.   Thirst (2009)

7.   I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006)

8.   Stoker (2013)

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

1.   Three… Extremes (2004)
(Segment: “Cut”)
(Anthology Film)