My Favorite Guy Maddin Films

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

1.   My Winnipeg (2007)
(Mockumentary)

2.   The Forbidden Room (2015)

3.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

4.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

5.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

6.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

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

1.   Careful (1992)

2.   Archangel (1990)

3.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

4.   Keyhole (2011)

My Favorite Richard Linklater Films

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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 Jerry Lewis Films

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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

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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

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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 Stanley Kubrick Films

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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 Peter Jackson Films

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1.   They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
(Documentary)

2.   Heavenly Creatures (1994)

3.   Forgotten Silver (1995)
(co-directed with Costa Botes)
(Mockumentary)

4.   Dead Alive (1992)
(a.k.a. Braindead)

5.   Bad Taste (1987)

6.   Meet the Feebles (1989)

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1.   The Frighteners (1996)

2a. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2b. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
2c. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

3.   King Kong (2005)

My Favorite Tobe Hooper Films

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

1.   The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

2.   Salem’s Lot (1979)
(TV miniseries)

3.   Poltergeist (1982)

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

1.   Tales from the Crypt (1991)
1a. Episode: “Dead Wait”
(Cable/Television)

2.   Body Bags (1993)
2a. Segment: “Eye”
(Anthology Film)

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

1.   The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

2.   The Funhouse (1981)