Category Archives: War

My Favorite Zhang Yimou Films

15 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   House of Flying Daggers (2004)

2.   Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

3.   Coming Home (2014)
(no relation to the 1978 film)

4.   Hero (2002)

5.   Ju Dou (1990)
(co-directed with Yang Fengliang)

6.   Not One Less (1999)

7.   The Road Home (1999)

8.   Shanghai Triad (1995)

9.   To Live (1994)

10. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

11. Red Sorghum (1988)

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1.   Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

2.   Happy Times (2000)

3.   Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

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My Favorite John Woo Films

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

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1.   The Killer (1989)

2.   Bullet in the Head (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

3.   Hard Boiled (1992)

4.   A Better Tomorrow (1986)

5.   Face/Off (1997)

6.   Red Cliff (2008)

7.   A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

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1.   Hard Target (1993)

My Favorite Agnes Varda Films

10 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Agnes Varda, American Cinema, Anthology, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, German Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Lists, Music, Romance, Short Cinema, Top 306, War

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1.   Faces Places (2017)
(co-directed with JR)
(Documentary)

2.   The Gleaners and I (2000)
(Documentary)

3.   Vagabond (1985)

4.   Daguerreotypes (1976)
(Documentary)

5.   Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

6.   Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   The Beaches of Agnes (2008)
(Documentary)

8.   Happiness (1965)
(no relation to the 1998 film)

9.   Cinevardaphoto (2004)
(Documentary)

10. Far from Vietnam (1967)
(co-directed with Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais)
(Documentary Anthology)

11. Mur murs (1981)
(Documentary)

12. La Pointe Courte (1955)

13. Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)

14. Documenteur (1981)

15. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

16. Kung-Fu Master! (1988)

17. The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
(Documentary) 

18. The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
(Documentary)

19. The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)
(Documentary)

20. One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

21. Lions Love (and… Lies) (1969)

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1.   Cleo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes (2005)

2.   La cocotte d’azur (1958)
(Documentary Short)

3.   Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (2004)
(Documentary Short)

4.   Ulysse (1983)
(Documentary Short)

5.   Salut les Cubains (1971)
(Documentary Short)

6.   Along the Coast (1958)
(Documentary Short)

7.   Black Panthers (1968)
(Documentary Short)

8.   Uncle Yanco (1967)
(Documentary Short)

9.   The So-called Caryatids (1984)
(Documentary Short)

10. Elsa la rose (1966)
(Documentary Short)

11. 7p., cuis., s. de b., …a saisir (1984)

12. Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1962)

13. Women Reply (1975)
(Documentary Short)

14. You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (1986)

15. Le lion volatil (2003)

16. The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
(Documentary Short)

My Favorite Robert Wise Films

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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1.   The Set-Up (1949)

2.   The Haunting (1963)

3.   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

4.   The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

5.   Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

6.   The Body Snatcher (1945)

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

2.   Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

3.   Born to Kill (1947)

4.   Executive Suite (1954)

5.   Blood on the Moon (1948)

6.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)

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

8.   The Sand Pebbles (1966)

9.   I Want to Live! (1958)

10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 

11. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

12. The Sound of Music (1965)

13. Star! (1968)

My Favorite Billy Wilder Films

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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1.   Avanti! (1972)

2.   Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

3.   Some Like It Hot (1959)

4.   Ace in the Hole (1951)

5.   Sunset Boulevard (1950)

6.   Double Indemnity (1944)

7.   Fedora (1978)

8.   The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

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1.   One, Two, Three (1961)

2.   The Apartment (1960)

3.   The Fortune Cookie (1966)

4.   Stalag 17 (1953)

5.   The Major and the Minor (1942)

6.   The Lost Weekend (1945)

7.   Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

My Favorite James Whale Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

2.   The Old Dark House (1932)

3.   Show Boat (1936)

4.   The Invisible Man (1933)

5.   Frankenstein (1931)

6.   Waterloo Bridge (1931)

7.   The Great Garrick (1937)

My Favorite Lina Wertmuller Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by in 1970's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lina Wertmuller, Romance, Thriller, Top 306, War

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1.   Seven Beauties (1975)

2.   Love & Anarchy (1973)

3.   Swept Away (1974)

4.   The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

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1.   Ciao, Professore! (1992)

2.   All Screwed Up (1974)

3.   Ferdinando and Carolina (1999)

4.   Blood Feud (1978)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   A Night Full of Rain (1978)

My Favorite William A. Wellman Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

2.   The Public Enemy (1931)

3.   A Star Is Born (1937)
(I also love the 1954 version)

4.   Nothing Sacred (1937)

5.   Night Nurse (1931)

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1.   Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

2.   Roxie Hart (1942)

3.   The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

My Favorite Orson Welles Films

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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1.   Chimes at Midnight (1965)

2.   F for Fake (1973)

3.   The Trial (1962)

4.   Touch of Evil (1958)

5.   Citizen Kane (1941)

6.   The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

7.   The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

8.   Othello (1951)

9.   Mr. Arkadin (1955)

10. The Immortal Story (1968)

11. The Stranger (1946)

12. Filming Othello (1978)
(Documentary)

13. Macbeth (1948)

14. Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)
(TV Documentary miniseries)

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1.   The Fountain of Youth (1956)
(I watched it on youtube)
(TV Short)

Note: In case any of you readers are interested, Netflix is going to premier Orson Welles last film The Other Side of the Wind (1972-1976) in November (November 2, 2018). The film can best be described as both completed and uncompleted (read here for more info). Here is the link to the trailer in case any of you readers are interested below 🙂

My Favorite Peter Watkins Films

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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1.   La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)

2.   Edward Munch (1974)

3.   The War Game (1965)
(British TV Film)

4.   Punishment Park (1971)

5.   Culloden (1964)
(a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden)
(British TV Film)

6.   Privilege (1967)

7.   The Gladiators (1969)