* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Naked City (1948)
2. Thieves’ Highway (1949)
3. Night and the City (1950)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Brute Force (1947)
2. Rififi (1955)
3. Topkapi (1964)
Thriller
My Favorite Joe Dante Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Masters of Horror (2005)
1a. Episode: “Homecoming”
(Cable/Television)
2. The Second Civil War (1997)
(Cable/Television)
3. Matinee (1993)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Eerie, Indiana (1991-1992)
(Episodes from 1991: “Forever Ware”, “The Retainer”, “The Losers” and “Heart on a Chain”)
(Episodes from 1992: “The Hole in the Head Gang”)
(Television)
2. Police Squad! (1982)
(Episodes: “Ring of Fear
(A Dangerous Assignment”
and
“Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don’t Laugh)”)
(Television)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Gremlins (1984)
2. The ‘Burbs (1989)
3. Innerspace (1987)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “It’s a Good Life”)
My Favorite George Cukor Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
2. Bhowani Junction (1956)
3. Adam’s Rib (1949)
4. A Star Is Born (1954)
5. Les Girls (1957)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. A Double Life (1947)
2. Edward, My Son (1949)
3. The Actress (1953)
4. The Marrying Kind (1952)
5. Pat and Mike (1952)
6. Holiday (1938)
7. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
8. Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(Television)
9. The Women (1939)
10. Travels with My Aunt (1972)
11. It Should Happen to You (1954)
12. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
13. Born Yesterday (1950)
14. Gaslight (1944)
15. A Woman’s Face (1941)
16. Camille (1936)
17. Little Women (1933)
18. Dinner at Eight (1933)
19. David Copperfield (1935)
My Favorite David Cronenberg Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Videodrome (1983)
2. A History of Violence (2005)
3. Crash (1996)
(No relation to Paul Haggis 2005 film)
4. Cosmopolis (2012)
5. Dead Ringers (1988)
6. Spider (2002)
7. The Fly (1986)
8. Eastern Promises (2007)
9. The Brood (1979)
10. Naked Lunch (1991)
11. Maps to the Stars (2014)
12. A Dangerous Method (2011)
13. eXistenZ (1999)
14. M. Butterfly (1993)
15. The Dead Zone (1983)
16. Scanners (1981)
17. Rabid (1977)
18. Shivers (1975)
(a.k.a. “They Came from Within”)
19. Fast Company (1979)
20. Friday the 13th: The Series – Season 1 (1988)
20a. Episode: “Faith Healer”
(Television)
21. Crimes of the Future (1970)
22. Stereo (1969)
My Favorite Alex Cox Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Walker (1987)
2. Highway Patrolman (1991)
3. Repo Man (1984)
4. Sid & Nancy (1986)
My Favorite Francis Ford Coppola Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. The Conversation (1974)
3a. The Godfather (1972)
3b. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3c. The Godfather Part III (1990)
4. Rumble Fish (1983)
5. The Cotton Club (1984)
6. One from the Heart (1981)
My Favorite Larry Cohen Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. God Told Me To (1976)
2. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
3. It’s Alive (1974)
4. The Stuff (1985)
5. The Ambulance (1990)
6. Masters of Horror (2006)
6a. Episode: “Pick Me Up”
(Cable/Television)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Bone (1972)
2. Black Caesar (1973)
3. The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
4. It Lives Again (1978)
My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
2. No Country for Old Men (2007)
3. Raising Arizona (1987)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
5. Fargo (1996)
6. Barton Fink (1991)
7. The Big Lebowski (1998)
8. A Serious Man (2009)
9. True Grit (2010)
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)
11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
13. Burn After Reading (2008)
14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
16. Blood Simple (1984)
My Favorite Robert Bresson Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. L’Argent (1983)
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
3. A Man Escaped (1956)
4. Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
5. Pickpocket (1959)
6. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
7. Mouchette (1967)
8. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
9. The Devil Probably (1977)
10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
11. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
12. A Gentle Woman (1969)
13. Angels of Sin (1943)
My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Wages of Fear (1953)
2. Diabolique (1955)
3. Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
4. Le Corbeau (1943)
5. The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)
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