Category Archives: War

My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

2.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

3.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

4.   Ride the High Country (1962)

5.   Cross of Iron (1977)

6.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

7.   Junior Bonner (1972)

8.   Straw Dogs (1971)

9.   Major Dundee (1965)

10. The Getaway (1972)

11. The Deadly Companions (1961)

12. The Killer Elite (1975)

13. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

14. Convoy (1978)

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

1.   Noon Wine (1966)
(Episode of ABC Stage 67)

2.   The Rifleman (1958-1963)
(Episodes from Season 1: “The Marshall”, “The Boarding House” and “The Money Gun”)
(Episode from Season 2: “The Baby Sitter”)

3.   The Westerner (1960)
(1959 Pilot-“Trouble at Tres Cruzes”)
(Episodes from Season 1: “Jeff”, “Brown”, “The Courting of Libby”, “Hand on the Gun” and “The Painting”)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre (1956-1961)
(Episode from Season 3: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”)
(Episodes from Season 4: “Lonesome Road and “Miss Jenny”)

5.   Route 66 (1960-1964)
(Episode from Season 2: “Mon Petit Chou”)

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My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Anthology Films, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Horror, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Romance, Short Cinema, Top 304, War

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1.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 

2.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

3.   Teorema (1968)

4.   Mamma Roma (1962)

5.   Oedipus Rex (1967)

6.   Arabian Nights (1974)

7.   Medea (1969)

8.   The Decameron (1971)

9.   Pigsty (1969)

10. The Canterbury Tales (1972)

11. Accattone (1961)

12. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

13. Love Meetings (1964)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Ro.Go.Pa.G (1963)
(Segment: “La ricotta”)
(Anthology Film)

2.   Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   The Witches (1967)
(Segment: “The Earth Seen From The Moon”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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1.   Pandora’s Box (1929)

2.   Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

3.   Kameradschaft (1931)

4.   Westfront 1918 (1930)

5.   The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)

6.   The Threepenny Opera (1931)

7.   The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
(co-directed with Arnold Fanck)

8.   Secrets of a Soul (1926)

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1.   Don Quixote (1933)

2.   L’Atlantide (1932)

My Favorite Nagisa Oshima Films

18 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

2.   Gohatto (1999)
(a.k.a. Taboo)

3.   Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

4.   Death by Hanging (1968)

5.   The Sun’s Burial (1960)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

6.   Violence at Noon (1966)

7.   Empire of Passion (1978)

8.   Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

9.   Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
(I saw it on and old VHS Tape)

10. Japanesse Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

11. Sing a Song of Sex (1967)

12. Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

13. Max Mon Amour (1968)

My Favorite Christopher Nolan Films

15 Friday Jun 2018

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1.   Memento (2000)

2.   Dunkirk (2017)

3.   The Dark Knight (2008)

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1.   The Prestige (2006)

2.   Following (1998)

3.   Inception (2010)

4.   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

My Favorite Errol Morris Films

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

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

1.   The Thin Blue Line (1988)

2.   Gates of Heaven (1978)

3.   The Fog of War (2003)

4.   Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

5.   Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

6.   The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)

7.   Vernon, Florida (1981)

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

1.   Tabloid (2010)

2.   Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

3.   The Unknown Known (2013)

4.   A Brief History of Time (1991)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

2.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

3.   Ugetsu (1953)

4.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

5.   Street of Shame (1956)

6.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

7.   Women of the Night (1948)

8.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

9.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films

09 Saturday Jun 2018

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1.   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 

2.   Lust for Life (1956)

3.   Home from the Hill (1960)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   The Band Wagon (1953)

6.   The Cobweb (1955)

7.   Madame Bovary (1949)

8.   The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

9.   The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. An American in Paris (1951)

12. Gigi (1958)

13. The Pirate (1948)

14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

17. Designing Woman (1957)

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

19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)

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

21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

22. The Clock (1945)

23. The Sandpiper (1965)

24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

25. A Matter of Time (1976)

26. Bells are Ringing (1960)

27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

28. Brigadoon (1954)

29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

30. Kismet (1955)

31. Undercurrent (1946)

32. I Dood It (1943)

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

1.   Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)

2.   The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)

4.   Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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1.   Le Samouraï (1967)

2.   Bob le Flambeur (1956)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Army of Shadows (1969)

5.   Le Doulos (1963)

6.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

7.   Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

8.   Le Silence de la Mer (1949)

9.   Un Flic (1972)

10. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)