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My Favorite Ching Siu-tung Films

17 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, Action, Adventure, Ching Siu-tung, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Filmmakers, Horror, Lists, Romance, Top 307, Uncategorized

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1.   A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

2.   Swordsman II (1992)
(a.k.a. The Legend of the Swordsman)

3.   Duel to the Death (1983)

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1.   A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)

2.   Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (1989)

3.   A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)

4.   Swordsman III (1993)
(a.k.a. The East Is Red)

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My Favorite King Hu Films

17 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Action, Adventure, Chinese Filmmakers, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Filmmakers, Horror, King Hu, Lists, Mystery, Taiwanese Cinema, Taiwanese Filmmakers, Top 307, Uncategorized

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1.   A Touch of Zen (1971)

2.   Dragon Inn (1967)

3.   Come Drink with Me (1966)

4.   The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
(I watched it on youtube)

5.   Legend of the Mountain (1979)

6.   Raining in the Mountain (1979)
(I watched it on youtube)

7.   The Valiant Ones (1975)

Note: King Hu only partially directed The Swordsman (1990).

My Favorite Sam Taylor Films

18 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by in 1920's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Family, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Romance, Sam Taylor, Silent Cinema, Sport, Thriller, Top 305, Uncategorized

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1.   Safety Last! (1923)
(co-directed with Fred C. Newmeyer) 

2.   My Best Girl (1927)

3.   The Freshman (1925)
(co-directed with Fred C. Newmeyer)
(no relation to the 1990 film)

4.   Girl Shy (1924)
(co-directed with Fred C. Newmeyer)

5.   For Heaven’s Sake (1926)

6.   Hot Water (1924)
(co-directed with Fred C. Newmeyer)

7.   Why Worry? (1923)
(co-directed with Fred C. Newmeyer)

My Favorite Bela Tarr Films

13 Monday Aug 2018

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1.   Satantango (1994)

2.   Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

3.   Damnation (1988)

4.   The Turin Horse (2011)

5.   Almanac of Fall (1985)

6.   The Prefab People (1982)

7.   The Outsider (1981)

8.   Family Nest (1977)

9.   The Man from London (2007)

My Favorite Jan Svankmajer Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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1.   Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
(Live Action/Animation)

2.   Little Otik (2000)
(a.k.a. Greedy Guts)
(Live Action/Animation)

3.   Faust (1994)
(Live Action/Animation)

4.   Alice (1988)
(Live Action/Animation)

5.   Lunacy (2005)
(Live Action/Animation)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Animation)

1.   Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

2.   Food (1992)

3.   Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)

4.   The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)

5.   Down to the Cellar (1983)

6.   The Flat (1968)

7.   The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)

8.   Manly Games (1988)

9.   The Garden (1968)

10. Punch and Judy (1966)

11. Jabberwocky (1971)

12. Meat Love (1988)

13. The Ossuary (1970)

14. Don Juan (1970)

15. A Game with Stones (1965)

16. The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)

17. Picnic with Weissmann (1968)

18. The Last Trick (1964)

19. Castle of Otranto (1977)

20. A Quiet Week in the House (1969)

21. Flora (1989)

22. Historia Naturae (1967)

23. Et Cetera (1966)

24. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor (1965) 

My Favorite Stephen and Timothy Quay Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Street of Crocodiles (1986)
(Animated Short)

2.   The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
(Animated Short)

3.   Are We Still Married? (1992)
(Animated Short)

4.   Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (1993)
(Animated Short)

5.   De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
(Animated Short)

6.   Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (1993)
(Animated Short)

7.   Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
(Animated Short)

8.   Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
(Animated Short)

9.   Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

10. The Comb (1991)
(Animated Short)

11. Maska (2010)
(Animated Short)

12. Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
(Documentary Short)

13. In Absentia (2000)
(Animated Short)

14. The Phantom Museum (2003)
(Animated Short)

15. Unmistaken Hands (2013)
(Animated Short)

16. The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Institute Benjamenta (1995)

2.   The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (2005)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Georges Melies Films

07 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by in Adventure, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, Georges Melies, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Music, Pre-1920's Cinema, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Silent Cinema, Top 310, Uncategorized

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1.   The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

2.   Tunnelling the English Channel (1907)

3.   A Trip to the Moon (1902)

4.   The Impossible Voyage (1904)

5.   Fairyland: A Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)

6.   An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905)

7.   Blue Beard (1901)

8.   Cinderella (1899)
(not the Disney animated version or the 2015 live-action version)

9.   The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)

10. The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)

11. The One-Man Band (1900)

12. The Diabolic Tenant (1909)

13. The Melomaniac (1903)

14. The Bewitched Inn (1897)

15. A Nightmare (1896)

16. The Haunted Castle (1896)

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1.   The Eclipse (1907)

2.   The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)

3.   The Living Playing Cards (1905)

4.   The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

5.   The Enchanted Well (1903)

6.   Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)

7.   The Man With the Rubber Head (1901)

8.   Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)

9.   A Fantastical Meal (1900)

10. Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900)

11. Joan of Arc (1900)

12. The Devil in a Convent (1899)

13. The Magician (1898)

14. The Devil’s Castle (1897)

15. The Vanishing Lady (1896)

16. The Famous Box Trick (1898)

17. Baron Munchausen’s Dreams (1911)

18. The Magician’s Cavern (1901)

19. The Christmas Angel (1904)

20. A Terrible Night (1896)

My Favorite Michel Gondry Films

22 Sunday Apr 2018

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1.   The Science of Sleep (2006)

2.   Microbe & Gasoline (2015)

3.   The We and the I (2012)

4.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

5.   Dave Chapelle’s Block Party (2005)
(Concert Film/Documentary)

6.   Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
(Animated Documentary)

7.   Mood Indigo (2013)

8.   The Thorn in the Heart (2009)
(Documentary)

9.   Be Kind Rewind (2008)

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

1.   Tokyo! (2008)
(Segment: “Interior Design”)

My Favorite Allan Dwan Films

09 Monday Apr 2018

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1.   Silver Lode (1954)

2.   Slightly Scarlet (1956)

3.   Driftwood (1947)

4.   Robin Hood (1922)

5.   Zaza (1923)

6.   The Iron Mask (1929)

7.   A Modern Musketeer (1917)

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1.   Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

2.   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

3.   Heidi (1937)