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My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

13. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

4.   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Le Samourai (1967)

2.   Army of Shadows (1969)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

5.   Le Doulos (1962)

6.   The Silence of the Sea (1949)

7.   Bob le flambeur (1956)

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

1.   Un flic (1972)

2.   Second Breath (1966)

3.   Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953)

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   He Walked by Night (1948) (co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

4.   Bend of the River (1952)

5.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Man of the West (1958)

8.   The Furies (1950)

9.   Devil’s Doorway (1950)

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

1.   T-Men (1947)

2.   Raw Deal (1948) (No relation to the 1986 film)

3.   The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4.   El Cid (1961)

5.   Side Street (1950)

6.   Railroaded! (1947)

7.   The Tin Star (1957)

8.   Border Incident (1949)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

by John Charet

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

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

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Seven Samurai (1954)

2.   Ran (1985)

3.   Madadayo (1993)

4.   Throne of Blood (1957)

5.   Ikiru (1952)

6.   Rashomon (1950)

7.   High and Low (1963)

8.   Kagemusha (1980)

9.   Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

2.   The Shining (1980)

3.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

4.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.   Paths of Glory (1957)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

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

1.   Spartacus (1960)

2.   Killer’s Kiss (1955)

3.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

3.   Woyzeck (1979)

4.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

5.   Rescue Dawn (2006)

6.   The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

7.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

8.   Stroszek (1977)

9.   Heart of Glass (1976)

10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

11. Signs of Life (1968)

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

1.   The White Diamond (2004)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)

3.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)

4.   Fata Morgana (1972)

5.   Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

6.   My Best Fiend (1999)

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

1.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

2.   Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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

1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   Cockfighter (1974)

3.   The Shooting (1966)

4.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

5.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

6.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

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

1.   Iguana (1988)

Note: If you want to know how I saw the 102 minute version of China 9. Liberty 37 (1978), the answer is TCM’s showing of it back during September 7th, which aired after midnight. Hopefully, with TCM’s showing of it in that format, a DVD company will release it in that form and not the chopped 78 minute version, which pales in comparison.