Category Archives: Sport

My Favorite Martin Ritt Films (New)

17 Thursday Nov 2016

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1.   Sounder (1972)

2.   Conrack (1974)

3.   Norma Rae (1979)

4.   The Molly Maguires (1970)

5.   Edge of the City (1957)

6.   The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

7.   Hombre (1967)

8.   Hud (1963)

9.   The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

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1.   The Great White Hope (1970)

2.   Stanley & Iris (1990)

My Favorite Robert Rossen Films (New)

17 Thursday Nov 2016

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1.   All the King’s Men (1949)

2.   Body and Soul (1947)

3.   Lilith (1964)

4.   The Hustler (1961)

5.   Island in the Sun (1957)

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1.   Johnny O’Clock (1947)   

My Favorite Bobby and Peter Farrelly Films (New)

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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1.   Fever Pitch (2005)

2.   Stuck on You (2003)

3.   Kingpin (1996)

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1.   Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

2.   Dumb & Dumber (1994)

3.   Osmosis Jones (2001) (Live-Action/Animation)
(Live-Action scenes were directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
(Animated scenes were directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon)

My Favorite Jules Dassin Films (New)

25 Sunday Sep 2016

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1.   Brute Force (1947)

2.   Uptight (1968)

3.   Rififi (1955)

4.   Thieves Highway (1949)

5.   Night and the City (1950) (Not the 1992 version)

6.   The Naked City (1948)

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1.   Topkapi (1964)

2.   Never on Sunday (1960)

My Favorite Stephen Chow Films (New)

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, Chinese Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Science Fiction, Sport, Stephen Chow, Top 100

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1.   Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

2.   The Mermaid (2016)

3.   CJ7 (2008)

4.   Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)

5.   Shaolin Soccer (2001)

My Favorite Clarence Brown Films (New)

28 Sunday Aug 2016

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1.   Intruder in the Dust (1949)

2.   Emma (1932)

3.   The Human Comedy (1943)

4.   Sadie McKee (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   A Free Soul (1931)

6.   Romance (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   National Velvet (1944)

8.   Anna Christie (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   The Yearling (1946)

10. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

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1.   The Goose Woman (1925)

2.   Anna Karenina (1935)

3.   The Eagle (1925)

4.   Angels in the Outfield (1951)
(This is not the 1994 version)

5.   Night Flight (1933)

My Favorite Robert Wise Films (New)

16 Thursday Jun 2016

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1.   West Side Story (1961)
(co-directed with Jerome Robbins)

2.   Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

3.   The Set-Up (1949)

4.   Executive Suite (1954)

5.   The Haunting (1963)
(Not the 1999 version)

6.   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
(Not the 2008 version)

7.   The Body Snatcher (1945)

8.   The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

9.   Born to Kill (1947)

10. Blood on the Moon (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

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1.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)

2.   Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3.   I Want to Live! (1958)

4.   Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

5.   The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) 

My Favorite Luchino Visconti Films (Revised and Updated)

03 Friday Jun 2016

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1.   Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

2.   Bellissima (1951)

3.   Senso (1954)

4.   Conversation Piece (1974)

5.   The Innocent (1976)

6.   White Nights (1957)

7.   La Terra Trema (1948)

8.   Death in Venice (1971)

9.   Ludwig (1972)

10. The Damned (1969)

11. The Leopard (1963)

12. Ossessione (1943)

13. Sandra of a Thousand Delights (1965)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

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1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “The Job”)

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1.   The Stranger (1967)
(No relation to the 1946 film)
(I watched it on youtube)

My Favorite Paul Verhoeven Films (New)

26 Thursday May 2016

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1.   Showgirls (1995)

2.   Starship Troopers (1997)

3.   Black Book (2006)

4.   Total Recall (1990)

5.   The Fourth Man (1983)

6.   Robocop (1987)

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1.   Tricked (2012)

2.   Flesh and Blood (1985)

3.   Soldier of Orange (1977)

4.   Turkish Delight (1973)

5.   Spetters (1980)

6.   Hollow Man (2000)