Short Cinema

My Favorite Shoehei Imamura Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Eel (1997)

2.   The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

3.   Vengeance is Mine (1979)

4.   A Man Vanishes (1967)
(Documentary)

5.   Black Rain (1989)
(no relation to the Michael Douglas movie)

6.   Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

7.   Dr. Akagi (1998)

8.   Eijanaika (1981)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

9.   The Pornographers (1966)

10. Unholy Desire (1964)
(a.k.a. Intentions of Murder)

11. The Insect Woman (1963)

12. Pigs and Battleships (1961)

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

1.   11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “Japan”)

My Favorite Tobe Hooper Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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)

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Vertigo (1958)

2.   Marnie (1964)

3.   Family Plot (1976)

4.   Under Capricorn (1949)

5.   The Birds (1963)

6.   The Wrong Man (1956)

7.   The Trouble with Harry (1955)

8.   Psycho (1960)

9.   Rear Window (1954)

10. Frenzy (1972)

11. I Confess (1953)

12. Strangers on a Train (1951)

13. Rope (1948)

14. Notorious (1946)

15. North by Northwest (1959)

16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

17. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

18. Sabotage (1936)
(I watched it online)

19. The 39 Steps (1935)

20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

21. Stage Fright (1950)

22. Lifeboat (1944)

23. Rebecca (1940)

24. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Dial M for Murder (1954)

27. Suspicion (1941)

28. Young and Innocent (1937)
(I watched it online)

29. Rich and Strange (1931)
(I watched it online)

30. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

31. Murder! (1930)

32. Blackmail (1929)

33. The Ring (1927)

34. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

35. Topaz (1969)

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Torn Curtain (1966)

38. Saboteur (1942)

39. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – Season 1 (1962)
39a. Episode: “I Saw the Whole Thing”
(Television)

40. The Paradine Case (1947)

41. Secret Agent (1936)
(I watched it online)

42. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

43. Number 17 (1932)
(I watched it online)

44. The Manxman (1929)
(I watched it online)

45. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
(I watched it online)

46. Downhill (1927)

47. Champagne (1928)
(I watched it online)

48. Easy Virtue (1928)
(I watched it online)

49. Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
(I watched it online)

50. Jamaica Inn (1939)
(I watched it online)

51. The Skin Game (1931)
(I watched it online)

52. Mary (1931)

53. The Pleasure Garden (1925)
(I watched it online)

54. Juno and the Paycock (1930)
(I watched it online)

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

1.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 1 (1955)
1a. Episode: “Revenge”
1b. Episode: “Breakdown”
1c. Episode: “The Case of Mr. Pelham”
(Television)

2.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 2 (1956/1956/1957)
2a. Episode: “Wet Saturday”
2b. Episode: “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret”
2c. Episode: “One More Mile to Go”
(Television)

3.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 3 (1957/1958/1958)
3a. Episode: “The Perfect Crime”
3b. Episode: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
3c. Episode: “Dip in the Pool”
(Television)

4.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 4 (1958/1959)
4a. Episode: “Poison”
4b. Episode: “Banquo’s Chair”
(Television)

5.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 5 (1959)
5a. Episode: “Arthur”
5b. Episode: “The Crystal Trench”
(Television)

6.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 6 (1960/1961)
6a. Episode: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
6b. Episode: “The Horseplayer”
(Television)

7.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 7 (1961)
7a. Episode: “Bang! You’re Dead”
(Television)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)
(Documentary)

3.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

4.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

6.   Stroszek (1977)

7.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

8.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
(Documentary)

9.   The White Diamond (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
(Documentary)

11. Fata Morgana (1971)
(Documentary)

12. Cobra Verde (1987)

13. Woyzeck (1979)

14. Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans (2009)

15. Rescue Dawn (2006)

16. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
(Documentary)

17. Invisible (2001)

18. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
(Documentary)

19. Into the Abyss (2011)
(Documentary)

20. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
(Documentary)

21. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
(Documentary)

22. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
(Documentary)

23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
(Documentary)

24. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
(Documentary)

25. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

26. Heart of Glass (1976)

27. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

28. Signs of Life (1968)

29. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
(Documentary)

30. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
(Documentary)

31. My Best Fiend (1999)
(Documentary)

32. Wheel of Time (2003)
(Documentary)

33. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
(Documentary)

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

1.   La Soufriere (1977)
(Documentary Short)

2.   Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

3.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Ten Thousand Years Older”)

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

1.   The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Howard Hawks Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Rio Bravo (1959)

2.   El Dorado (1966)

3.   Hatari! (1962)

4.   Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

5.   Monkey Business (1952)
(no relation to the 1931 film)

6.   The Big Sky (1952)

7.   Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

8.   Scarface (1932)

9.   Bringing Up Baby (1938)

10. To Have and Have Not (1944)

11. Red River (1948)

12. His Girl Friday (1940)

13. Twentieth Century (1934)

14. Ball of Fire (1941)

15. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

16. The Big Sleep (1946)

17. Red Line 7000 (1965)

18. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

19. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

20. Come and Get It (1936)
(co-directed with William Wyler)

21. Ceiling Zero (1936)

22. Barbary Coast (1935)

23. The Criminal Code (1931)

24. The Dawn Patrol (1930)

25. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
(I watched it online)

26. Paid to Love (1927)
(I watched it online)

27. Fig Leaves (1926)
(I watched it online)

28. The Thing from Another World (1951)
(he may or may not have co-directed it with Christian Nyby)

29. Air Force (1943)

30. Corvette K-225 (1943)
(he may or may not have co-directed it with Robert Rosson)

31. The Crowd Roars (1932)

32. Tiger Shark (1932)

33. Rio Lobo (1970)

34. A Song Is Born (1948)

35. Sergeant York (1941)

36. Today We Live (1933)

37. The Road to Glory (1936)

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

1.   O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
(Segment: “The Ransom of Red Chief”)

 

My Favorite Alan Clarke Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Firm (1989)
(TV Film)
(No relation to the 1993 Tom Cruise film)

2.   Made in Britain (1982)
(TV Film)

3.   Scum (1979)

4.   Scum (1977)
(TV Film)

5.   Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

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

1.   Elephant (1989)

My Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Goodbye to Language (2014)

2.   In Praise of Love (2001)

3.   Histoire(s) du cinema (1988/1989/1997/1998)
(Documentary)

4.   Passion (1982)

5.   Number Two (1975)

6.   Weekend (1967)

7.   Film Socialisme (2010)

8.   Here and Elsewhere (1974)

9.   King Lear (1987)

10. La Chinoise (1967)

11. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

12. Made in U.S.A. (1966)

13. Masculin Féminin (1966)

14. A Married Woman (1964)

15. Alphaville (1965)

16. Hail Mary (1985) 

17. Every Man for Himself (1980)

18. Le Gai savoir (1969)

19. Tout va bien (1972)

20. Notre musique (2004)

21. Contempt (1963)

22. Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

23. Breathless (1960)

24. Pierrot le fou (1965)

25. Band of Outsiders (1964)

26. JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994)
(Documentary)

27. Oh Woe Is Me (1993)

28. Les Carabiniers (1963)

29. Le Petit Soldat (1960)

30. Detective (1985)

31. First Name: Carmen (1983)

32. For Ever Mozart (1996)

33. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

34. Keep Your Right Up (1987)

35. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

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

1.   Aria (1987)
(Segment: “Armide”)

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

1.   Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

2.   A Story of Water (1958)
(co-directed with Francois Truffaut)

3.   All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)

My Favorite Terry Gilliam Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Brazil (1985) 

2.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

3.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Jones)

4.   12 Monkeys (1995)

5.   Time Bandits (1981)

6.   The Fisher King (1991)

7.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

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

1.   The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
(Played before Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)

2.   Miracle of Flight (1974)
(Animation)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Story Time (1979)
(Animation)

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

1.   The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

2.   The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

My Favorite John Ford Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

2.   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

3.   Wagon Master (1950)

4.   7 Women (1966)

5.   Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

6.   The Long Gray Line (1955)

7.   Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

8.   Donovan’s Reef (1963)

9.   Two Rode Together (1961)

10. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

11. Gideon’s Day (1958)
(a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard)

12. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
(Anthology)

13. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. The Quiet Man (1952)

16. Fort Apache (1948)

17. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

18. My Darling Clementine (1946)

19. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

20. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

21. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

22. The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

23. Judge Priest (1934)

24. Pilgrimage (1933)

25. Hangman’s House (1928)

26. Four Sons (1928)

27. Upstream (1927)

28. 3 Bad Men (1926)

29. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

30. Doctor Bull (1933)

31. They Were Expendable (1945)

32. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

33. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

34. Stagecoach (1939)

35. Rio Grande (1950)

36. Wagon Train – Season 4 (1960)
36a. Episode: “The Colter Craven Story”
(Television)

37. 3 Godfathers (1948)

38. Mogambo (1953)

39. The Fugitive (1947)
(no relation to the TV series or the 1993 film)

40. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

41. The Hurricane (1937)

42. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

43. The Informer (1935)

44. The Lost Patrol (1934)

45. Flesh (1932)

46. Just Pals (1920)

47. Hell Bent (1918)

48. Bucking Broadway (1917)

49. Straight Shooting (1917)

50. The Iron Horse (1924)

51. Tobacco Road (1941)

52. Air Mail (1932)

53. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

54. The Last Hurrah (1958)

55. Mister Roberts (1955)
(co-directed with Mervyn LeRoy)

56. Mary of Scotland (1936)

57. What Price Glory (1952)

58. Arrowsmith (1931)

59. The World Moves On (1934)

60. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

61. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
(I watched it online)

62. Up the River (1930)

63. Riley the Cop (1928)
(I watched it online)

64. Submarine Patrol (1938)
(I watched it online)

65. Men Without Women (1930)

66. Seas Beneath (1930)

67. The Blue Eagle (1926)
(I watched it online)

68. Born Reckless (1930)

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

1.   How the West Was Won (1962)
1a. Segment: “The Civil War (1861-1865)”
(Anthology)

2.   By Indian Post (1919)
(I watched it online)

My Favorite Vittorio De Sica Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Umberto D. (1952)

2.   Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1961)

3.   Bicycle Thieves (1948)

4.   Marriage Italian-Style (1964)

5.   Miracle in Milan (1951)

6.   Two Women (1960)

7.   Shoeshine (1946)

8.   The Children Are Watching Us (1944)

9.   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

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

1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “La riffa”)
(Anthology Film)