My Favorite Jean Cocteau (New)

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1.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Not the 1991 animated version)

3.   Orpheus (1950)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   Testament of Orpheus (1960)

6.   The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
(co-directed with Hans Richter)

(I watched it on youtube)

8.   La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
(Short Film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Revised and Updated)

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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)

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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)

My Favorite Chris Marker Films (New)

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1.   La Jetee (1962) (Short)

2.   Sans Soleil (1983) (Documentary)

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

4.   Grin Without a Cat (1977) (Documentary)

5.   A.K. (1985) (Documentary)

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Sherlock Jr. (1924)

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

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

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

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

6.   Seven Chances (1925)

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

8.   Go West (1925)

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

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

1.   Buster Keaton: Short Films Collection – 1920-1923 (2011)

2.   Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts – 1934-1937 (2011)

My Favorite D.W. Griffith Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Intolerance (1916)

2.   Broken Blossoms (1919)

3.   Way Down East (1920)

4.   True Heart Susie (1919)

5.   Orphans of the Storm (1921)

6.   The Birth of a Nation (1915)

7.   Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)

8.   The Greatest Question (1919)

9.   A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)

10. The White Rose (1923)

11. Home, Sweet Home (1914)

12. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

13. The Love Flower (1920)

14. The Idol Dancer (1920)

15. Judith of Bethulia (1914)

16. The Avenging Conscience (1914)

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1.   America (1924)

2.   The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

3.   One Exciting Night (1922)

4.   Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

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

1.   The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

2.   Balked at the Altar (1908)

3.   Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)

4.   The Black Viper (1908)

5.   A Calamitous Elopement (1908)

6.   Father Gets in the Game (1908)

7.   Money Mad (1908)

8.   Romance of a Jewess (1908)

9.   The Song of the Shirt (1908)

10. At the Altar (1909)

11. The Cord of Life (1909)

12. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

13. The Country Doctor (1909)

14. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

15. The Curtain Pole (1909)

16. A Drunkard’s Reformation (1909)

17. Getting Even (1909)

18. The Girls and Daddy (1909)

19. The Golden Louis (1909)

20. Her First Biscuits (1909)

21. The Hessian Renegades (1909)

22. The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)

23. The Lonely Villa (1909)

24. Lucky Jim (1909)

25. The Lure of the Gown (1909)

26. Pippa Passes or the Song of Conscience (1909)

27. The Politician’s Love Story (1909)

28. The Renunciation (1909)

29. Resurrection (1909)

30. The Sealed Room (1909)

31. Those Awful Hats (1909)

32. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)

33. The Voice of the Violin (1909)

34. An Arcadian Maid (1910)

35. The Fugitive (1910)

36. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

37. In the Border States (1910)

38. Ramona (1910)

39. The Rocky Road (1910)

40. The Unchanging Sea (1910)

41. What the Daisy Said (1910)

42. The Battle (1911)

43. Enoch Arden Parts I and II (1911)

44. His Trust (1911)

45. His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

46. The Last Drop of Water (1911)

47. The Lonedale Operator (1911)

48. The Miser’s Heart (1911)

49. Swords and Hearts (1911)

50. The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)

51. Friends (1912)

52. The Lesser Evil (1912)

53. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

54. The Narrow Road (1912)

55. The New York Hat (1912)

56. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)

57. The Painted Lady (1912)

58. The Sunbeam (1912)

59. The Transformation of Mike (1912)

60. An Unseen Enemy (1912)

61. Death’s Marathon (1913)

62. The Mothering Heart (1913)

NOTE: I have watched all of these films and shorts on either VHS or DVD.

My Favorite Terence Davies Films (New)

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1.   The Long Day Closes (1992)

2.   Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   A Quiet Passion (2016)

4.   Sunset Song (2015)

5.   Of Time and the City (2008)
(Documentary)

5.   The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
(No relation to the 1999 shark film)

7.   The House of Mirth (2000)

8.   The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)

9.   The Neon Bible (1995)

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   The Gold Rush (1925)

3.   Modern Times (1936)

4.   The Kid (1921)

5.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

6.   The Circus (1928)

7.   Limelight (1952)

8.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

9.   The Great Dictator (1940)

10. The Pilgrim (1923)  
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

11. A King in New York (1957)

12. Shoulder Arms (1918)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

13. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

14. A Dog’s Life (1918)
(Live-Action Short)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Box Sets)

1.   Charlie Chaplin: The First National Collection (1918-1923)/(2000)

2.   Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies (1916-1917)/(2014)

3.   Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies (1914-1917)/(2015)

4.   Chaplin At Keystone (1914)/(2010)