Category Archives: Spanish Cinema

My Favorite Sergio Leone Films

22 Tuesday May 2018

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1.   Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

2.   For a Few Dollars More (1965)

3.   Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

4.   A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

5.   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

6.   Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
(a.ka. A Fistful of Dynamite)

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1.   The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

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My Favorite Abbas Kiarostami Films

11 Friday May 2018

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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)

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

 

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Jeunet Films

04 Friday May 2018

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1.   Amelie (2001) 

2.   The City of Lost Children (1995)

3.   Delicatessen (1991)
(co-directed with Marc Caro)

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1.   A Very Long Engagement (2004)

2.   The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2015)

3.   Micmacs (2009)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   The Shooting (1966)

3.   Cockfighter (1974)

4.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

5.   Iguana (1988)

6.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

7.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

My Favorite Stuart Gordon Films

22 Sunday Apr 2018

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1.   Re-Animator (1985)

2.   Stuck (2007)

3.   From Beyond (1986)

4.   King of the Ants (2002)

5.   Castle Freak (1995)

6.   The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

7.   Dagon (2001)

8.   Dolls (1987)

9.   The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

10. Edmond (2005)

11. Fortress (1992)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

2.   The Black Cat (2007)
(Episode of Masters of Horror)
(Cable)

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1.   Robot Jox (1990)

2.   Space Truckers (1996)

My Favorite Brian De Palma Films

07 Saturday Apr 2018

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1.   The Fury (1978)

2.   Femme Fatale (2002)

3.   Blow Out (1981)

4.   Dressed to Kill (1980)

5.   Mission to Mars (2000)

6.   Carrie (1976)

7.   Hi, Mom! (1970)

8.   Casualties of War (1989)

9.   Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

10. Scarface (1983)

11. Sisters (1973)

12. Carlito’s Way (1993)

13. Raising Cain (1992)

14. Snake Eyes (1998)

15. Body Double (1984)

16. The Black Dahlia (2006)

17. The Untouchables (1987)

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1.   Greetings (1968)

2.   Mission: Impossible (1996)

3.   Passion (2012)   

4.   Obsession (1976)

5.   Home Movies (1979)

6.   The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

7.   Redacted (2007)

My Favorite Manoel de Oliveira Films

07 Saturday Apr 2018

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1.   I’m Going Home (2001)

2.   The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

3.   Abraham’s Valley (1993)

4.   A Talking Picture (2003)

5.   Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

6.   Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009)

7.   The Convent (1995)

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1.   Belle Toujours (2006)

2.   Party (1996)

My Favorite Guillermo del Toro Films

04 Wednesday Apr 2018

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1.   Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

2.   The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

3.   Cronos (1993)

4.   The Shape of Water (2017)

5.   Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

6.   Hellboy (2004)

7.   Crimson Peak (2015)

8.   Pacific Rim (2013)

9.   Blade II (2002)

10. Mimic (1997)

My Favorite Alex Cox Films

26 Monday Mar 2018

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1.   Walker (1987)

2.   Highway Patrolman (1991)

3.   Repo Man (1984)

4.   Straight to Hell (1987)

5.   Sid & Nancy (1986)

6.   Searchers 2.0 (2007)

7.   Revengers Tragedy (2002)

8.   Three Businessmen (1998)

9.   Death and the Compass (1992)

10. Repo Chick (2009)

My Favorite Sergio Corbucci Films

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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1.   The Great Silence (1968)
(aka The Big Silence)

2.   Django (1966)

3.   The Mercenary (1968)

4.   Companeros (1970)

5.   The Hellbenders (1967)

6.   Navajo Joe (1966)

7.   Minnesota Clay (1965)

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1.   Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)

2.   Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
(billed as Stanley Corbett)