Short Cinema

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Safety Last! (1923)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   The Freshman (1925)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
(no relation to the 1990 film)

3.   Girl Shy (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

4.   Grandma’s Boy (1922)
(no relation to the 2006 film)

5.   Hot Water (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

6.   Dr. Jack (1922)

7.   A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

8.   Why Worry? (1923)

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

1.   Never Weaken (1921)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   Number, Please? (1920)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

3.   Among Those Present (1921)

4.   Now or Never (1921)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)

My Favorite George Miller Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(Anthology Film)

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

1.   Mad Max (1979)

My Favorite Georges Melies Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

2.   Tunnelling the English Channel (1907)

3.   A Trip to the Moon (1902)

4.   The Impossible Voyage (1904)

5.   Fairyland: A Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)

6.   An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905)

7.   Blue Beard (1901)

8.   Cinderella (1899)
(not the Disney animated version or the 2015 live-action version)

9.   The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)

10. The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)

11. The One-Man Band (1900)

12. The Diabolic Tenant (1909)

13. The Melomaniac (1903)

14. The Bewitched Inn (1897)

15. A Nightmare (1896)

16. The Haunted Castle (1896)

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

1.   The Eclipse (1907)

2.   The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)

3.   The Living Playing Cards (1905)

4.   The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

5.   The Enchanted Well (1903)

6.   Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)

7.   The Man With the Rubber Head (1901)

8.   Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)

9.   A Fantastical Meal (1900)

10. Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900)

11. Joan of Arc (1900)

12. The Devil in a Convent (1899)

13. The Magician (1898)

14. The Devil’s Castle (1897)

15. The Vanishing Lady (1896)

16. The Famous Box Trick (1898)

17. Baron Munchausen’s Dreams (1911)

18. The Magician’s Cavern (1901)

19. The Christmas Angel (1904)

20. A Terrible Night (1896)

My Favorite Chris Marker Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Sans Soleil (1983)
(Documentary)

2.   La Jetee (1962)
(Live-Action Short)

3.   Level Five (1997)
(Documentary)

4.   The Last Bolshevik (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
(Documentary)

6.   A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
(Documentary)

7.   Le Joli Mai (1963)
(Documentary)

8.   A.K. (1985)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Richard Lester Films

by John Charet

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

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 Mike Leigh Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Life Is Sweet (1990)

2.   Mr. Turner (2014)

3.   High Hopes (1988)

4.   Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

5.   Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

6.   Grown-Ups (1980)
(Television)

7.   Meantime (1983)
(Television)

8.   Secrets & Lies (1996)

9.   Topsy-Turvy (1999)

10. Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

11. Naked (1993)

12. Vera Drake (2004)

13. Another Year (2010)

14. All or Nothing (2002)

15. Career Girls (1997)

16. Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

17. Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

18. Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of “Play for Today”)
(Television)

19. Bleak Moments (1971)

20. Four Days in July (1984)
(Television)

21. Peterloo (2018)

22. Who’s Who (1979)
(Television)

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

1.   The Short and Curlies (1987)

My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Decalogue (1988)
(Polish TV Miniseries)

2.   Three Colors: Red (1994)

3.   Three Colors: Blue (1993)

4.   Three Colors: White (1994)

5.   The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

6.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

7.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

8.   No End (1985)

9.   Camera Buff (1979)

10. The Scar (1976)

11. Blind Chance (1987)

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

1.   The Office (1966)

2.   Tramway (1966)

3.   Concert of Requests (1967) 

My Favorite Abbas Kiarostami Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2.   Taste of Cherry (1997)

3.   Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

4.   Close-Up (1990)

5.   Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

6.   Certified Copy (2010)

7.   Ten (2002)

8.   Like Someone in Love (2012)

9.   Shirin (2008)

10. The Traveler (1974)

11. ABC Africa (2001)
(Documentary)

12. Tickets (2005)
(co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Lumiere and Company (1995)
(Segment: “Dinner for One”)

 

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The General (1926)
(co-directed with Clyde Bruckman)

2.   Sherlock Jr. (1924)

3.   The Navigator (1924)
(co-directed with Donald Crisp)

4.   Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
(co-directed with Charles Reisner)

5.   The Cameraman (1928)
(co-directed with Edward Sedgwick)

6.   Our Hospitality (1923)
(co-directed with John G. Blystone)

7.   Seven Chances (1925)

8.   Go West (1925)

9.   Three Ages (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1917-1923)

1.   One Week (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

2.   The Scarecrow (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

3.   The Goat (1921)
(co-directed with Malcolm St. Clair)

4.   Cops (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

5.   The Playhouse (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

6.   The High Sign (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

7.   Neighbors (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

8.   The Electric House (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

9.   The Boat (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

10. Hard Luck (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

11. Convict 13 (1920)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

12. The Love Nest (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

13. The Blacksmith (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

14. The Paleface (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)
(no relation to the Bob Hope movie)

15. The Haunted House (1921)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

16. Day Dreams (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

17. The Balloonatic (1923)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

18. My Wife’s Relations (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

19. The Frozen North (1922)
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

20. The Rough House (1917)
(co-directed with Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (1934-1937) (Educational Pictures)

1.   Grand Slam Opera (1936)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

2.   Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

3.   One Run Elmer (1935)
(allegedly, Charles Lamont co-directed)

4.   Allez Oop (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

5.   The Gold Ghost (1934)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

6.   Blue Blazes (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

7.   Mixed Magic (1936)
(co-directed with Raymond Kane)

8.   Tars and Stripes (1935)
(co-directed with Charles Lamont)

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

1.   College (1927)
(co-directed with James W. Horne)

My Favorite Jim Jarmusch Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Dead Man (1995)

2.   Paterson (2016)

3.   Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

4.   Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

5.   Down by Law (1986)

6.   The Limits of Control (2009)

7.   Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
(Anthology)

8.   Broken Flowers (2005)

9.   Mystery Train (1989)
(Anthology)

10. Night on Earth (1991)
(Anthology)

11. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

12. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

13. Permanent Vacation (1980)

14. Gimme Danger (2016)
(Documentary)

15. Year of the Horse (1997)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

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

1.   Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
1a. Segment: Int. Trailer Night (2002)
(Anthology)