My Favorite Takeshi Kitano Films

13 Sunday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Sport, Takeshi Kitano, Thriller, Top 314

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A Scene at the Sea, Beyond Outrage, Boiling Point 1990, Dolls, Fireworks, Getting Any?, Kids Return, Kikujiro, Outrage, Sonatine, Violent Cop, Zatoichi

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

1. Fireworks (1997)

2. Getting Any? (1995)

3. Kids Return (1996)

4. Kikujiro (1999)

5. Sonatine (1993)

6. A Scene at the Sea (1991)

7. Boiling Point (1990)
(no relation to the 1993 film)

8. Violent Cop (1989)

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

1. Beyond Outrage (2012)

2. Dolls (2002)

3. Outrage (2010)

4. Zatoichi (2003)

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films

09 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Buster Keaton, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Family, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Pre-1920's Cinema, Romance, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Sport, Top 314, Western

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Allez Oop (Short Film), Blue Blazes (Short Film), College, Convict 13 (Short Film), Cops (Short Film), Day Dreams (Short Film), Go West, Grand Slam Opera (Short Film), Hard Luck (Short Film), My Wife's Relations (Short Film), Neighbors (Short Film), One Run Elmer (Short Film), One Week (Short Film), Our Hospitality, Seven Chances, Sherlock. Jr, Steamboat Bill Jr., Tars and Stripes (Short Film), The Balloonatic (Short Film), The Blacksmith (Short Film), The Boat (Short Film), The Cameraman, The Electric House (Short Film), The Frozen North (Short Film), The General 1926, The Goat (Short Film), The Gold Ghost (Short Film), The Haunted House (Short Film), The High Sign (Short Film), The Love Nest (Short Film), The Navigator, The Paleface 1922 (Short Film), The Playhouse (Short Film), The Rough House (Short Film), The Scarecrow (Short Film), Three Ages

* * * * (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 Phil Karlson Films

06 Sunday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Lists, Phil Karlson, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, War, Western

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5 Against the House, 99 River Street, Black Gold, Framed, Gunman's Walk, Hell to Eternity, Kansas City Confidential, Scandal Sheet, The Brothers Rico, The Phenix City Story, The Scarface Mob, Walking Tall 1973

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

1. The Phenix City Story (1955)

2. Gunman’s Walk (1958)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3. Kansas City Confidential (1952)

4. Hell to Eternity (1960)

5. The Brothers Rico (1957)

6. 99 River Street (1953)

7. 5 Against the House (1955)

8. Scandal Sheet (1952)

9. The Scarface Mob (1959/1962)
(Originally a two-part episode for TV’s Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

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

1. Walking Tall (1973)

2. Black Gold (1947)

3. Framed (1975)

My Favorite Steve James Films

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Sport, Steve James, Television, Top 314

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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Documentary), At the Death House Door (Documentary), Head Games (Documentary), Hoop Dreams (Documentary), Life Itself (Documentary), Reel Paradise (Documentary), Stevie (Documentary), The Interrupters (Documentary), The New Americans (Documentary) (Television)

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

1. Hoop Dreams (1994)

2. The New Americans (2004)
(co-directed with Gordon Quinn and Gita Saedi)
(Television)

3. The Interrupters (2011)

4. Life Itself (2014)

5. Stevie (2003)

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

1. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)

2. Head Games (2012)

3. At the Death House Door (2008)

4. Reel Paradise (2005)

My Favorite John Huston Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, German Cinema, Greatest, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, John Huston, Lists, Mexican Cinema, Music, Mystery, Romance, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, War, Western

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A Walk with Love and Death, Beat the Devil, Fat City, Key Largo, Let There Be Light (Documentary), Moby Dick 1956, Moulin Rouge 1952, Prizzi's Honor, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The African Queen, The Asphalt Jungle, The Dead, The Kremlin Letter, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The List of Adrian Messenger, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Would Be King, The Misfits, The Night of the Iguana, The Red Badge of Courage, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Under the Volcano, We Were Strangers, Wise Blood

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

1. The Dead (1987)

2. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

3. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

5. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

6. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

7. Fat City (1972)

8. Under the Volcano (1984)

9. Wise Blood (1979)

10. Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

11. The Kremlin Letter (1970)

12. The Night of the Iguana (1964)

13. The Misfits (1961)

14. Beat the Devil (1953)

15. The African Queen (1951)

16. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

17. We Were Strangers (1949)

18. Let There Be Light (1946)
(Documentary)

19. A Walk with Love and Death (1969)

20. Key Largo (1948)

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

1. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

2. The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

3. Moby Dick (1956)

4. Moulin Rouge (1952)
(not the 2001 version)

My Favorite Kon Ichikawa Films

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, American Cinema, Anthology Films, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Kon Ichikawa, Lists, Music, Romance, Sport, Top 314, War

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47 Ronin 1994, An Actor's Revenge, Being Two Isn't Easy, Dora-heita, Fires on the Plain, Odd Obsession, The Burmese Harp 1956, The Makioka Sisters, Tokyo Olympiad (Documentary), Visions of Eight (The Fastest) (Documentary) (Anthology Film)

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

1. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
(Documentary)

2. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)

3. Fires on the Plain (1959)

4. The Burmese Harp (1956)

5. The Makioka Sisters (1983)

6. Odd Obsession (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7. Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

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

1. Visions of Eight (1973)
(Segment: “The Fastest”)
(Documentary)

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

1. Dora-heita (2001)

2. 47 Ronin (1994)

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

27 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Romance, Silent Cinema, Sport, Television, Thriller, Top 314, War

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

1. The Birds (1963)

2. Vertigo (1958)

3. Psycho (1960)

4. Notorious (1946)

5. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

6. Marnie (1964)

7. The Wrong Man (1956)

8. The Trouble with Harry (1955)

9. Rear Window (1954)

10. Strangers on a Train (1951)

11. North by Northwest (1959)

12. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

13. The 39 Steps (1935)

14. Frenzy (1972)

15. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

16. Rope (1948)

17. Rebecca (1940)

18. Sabotage (1936)

19. Blackmail (1929)

20. The Lodger (1927)

21. Family Plot (1976)

22. I Confess (1953)

23. Topaz (1969)

24. Under Capricorn (1949)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Lifeboat (1944)

27. Dial M for Murder (1954)

28. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

29. Stage Fright (1950)

30. Young and Innocent (1937)

31. Secret Agent (1936)

32. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

33. Murder! (1930)

34. The Ring (1927)

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

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Suspicion (1941)

38. The Paradine Case (1947)

39. Saboteur (1942)

40. Torn Curtain (1966)

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

1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962)
(Episodes from Season 1: “Revenge”, “Breakdown” and “The Case of Mr. Pelham”)
(Episodes from Season 2: “Wet Saturday”, “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret” and “One More Mile to Go”)
(Episodes from Season 3: “The Perfect Crime”, “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “Dip in the Pool”)
(Episodes from Season 4: “Poison” and “Banquo’s Chair”)
(Episodes from Season 5: “Arthur” and “The Crystal Trench”)
(Episodes from Season 6: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat” and “The Horseplayer”)
(Episodes from Season 7: “Bang! You’re Dead”)

2. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965)
(Episode from Season 1: “I Saw the Whole Thing”)

My Favorite Walter Hill Films

27 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cable/Television, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Miniseries, Music, Musical, Romance, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, Walter Hill, Western

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48 Hrs., Broken Trail (Cable Miniseries), Bullet to the Head, Deadwood (Pilot) (Cable Series), Extreme Prejudice, Geronimo: An American Legend, Hard Times, Johnny Handsome, Last Man Standing 1996, Southern Comfort, Streets of Fire, Tales from the Crypt (Cutting Cards) (Cable Series), Tales from the Crypt (Deadline) (Cable Series), Tales from the Crypt (The Man Who Was Death) (Cable Series), The Assignment, The Driver, The Long Riders, The Warriors, Trespass 1992, Undisputed, Wild Bill

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

1. Southern Comfort (1981)

2. The Warriors (1979)

3. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

4. The Driver (1978)

5. Streets of Fire (1984)

6. The Long Riders (1980)

7. Hard Times (1975)

8. Wild Bill (1995)

9. Undisputed (2002)

10. Extreme Prejudice (1987)

11. Trespass (1992)

12. Johnny Handsome (1989)

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

1. Deadwood (2004)
(Pilot Episode)

2. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1990: “Cutting Cards”)

3. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1989: “The Man Who Was Death”)

4. Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from 1991: “Deadline”)

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

1. Bullet to the Head (2012)

2. 48 Hrs. (1982)

3. The Assignment (2016)

4. Last Man Standing (1996)

5. Broken Trail (2006)
(Cable Miniseries)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films

26 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Australian Cinema, Biography, British Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, German Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Horror, Irish Cinema, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Sport, Top 314, War, Werner Herzog

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Aguirre the Wrath of God, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, Ballad of the Little Soldier (Documentary), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary), Cobra Verde, Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary), Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana (Documentary), Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man (Documentary), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Documentary), Heart of Glass, Herdsmen of the Sun (Documentary), How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Documentary), Into the Abyss (Documentary), Invisible, La Soufriere (Documentary Short), Land of Silence and Darkness (Documentary), Lessons of Darkness (Documentary), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Documentary), Lo & Behold Reveries of the Connected World (Documentary), My Best Fiend (Documentary), Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979, Precautions Against Fanatics (Short Cinema), Rescue Dawn, Signs of Life, Stroszek, Ten Minutes Older (Ten Thousand Years Older) (Short Cinema), The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Documentary), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Flying Doctors of East Africa (Documentary), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Stein (Documentary), The White Diamond (Documentary), The Wild Blue Yonder (Documentary), Wheel of Time (Documentary), Where the Green Ants Dream, Woyzeck

* * * * (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

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Anthology Films, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, History, Howard Hawks, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Short Cinema, Sport, Thriller, Top 314, War, Western

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Air Force, Ball of Fire, Barbary Coast, Bringing Up Baby, Ceiling Zero, El Dorado, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hatari!, His Girl Friday, I Was a Male War Bride, Land of the Pharaohs, Man's Favorite Sport?, Monkey Business 1952, O. Henry's Full House (Ransom of Red Chief) (Anthology Film) (Short Cinema), Only Angels Have Wings, Red Line 7000, Red River, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Scarface 1932, Sergeant York, The Big Sky, The Big Sleep 1946, The Criminal Code, To Have and Have Not, Twentieth Century

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

1. Rio Bravo (1959)

2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

3. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

4. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

5. Hatari! (1962)

6. To Have and Have Not (1944)

7. Scarface (1932)

8. Twentieth Century (1934)

9. The Big Sky (1952)

10. The Big Sleep (1946)

11. Red River (1948)

12. His Girl Friday (1940)

13. El Dorado (1966)

14. Ball of Fire (1941)

15. Red Line 7000 (1965)

16. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

17. Sergeant York (1941)

18. Monkey Business (1952)
(no relation to the Marx brothers comedy)

19. Ceiling Zero (1936)

20. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

21. The Criminal Code (1931)

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

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

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

1. Rio Lobo (1970)

2. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

3. Air Force (1943)

4. Barbary Coast (1935)

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