My Favorite Frank Tashlin Films

13 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Frank Tashlin, Greatest, Lists, Music, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 305, War, Western

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Artists and Models, Bachelor Flat, Caprice, Cinderfella, Hollywood or Bust, It's Only Money, Rock-a-Bye Baby, Say One for Me, Son of Paleface, Susan Slept Here, The Alphabet Murders, The Disorderly Orderly, The First Time, The Geisha Boy, The Girl Can't Help It, The Glass Bottom Boat, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, The Man from the Diners' Club, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, Who's Minding the Store?, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

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1. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

2. The Alphabet Murders (1965)

3. The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)

4. The Man from the Diners’ Club (1963)
(I watched it on TCM years back)

5. Bachelor Flat (1962)

6. The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

7. Artists and Models (1955)

8. Susan Slept Here (1954)

9. Son of Paleface (1952)

10. The First Time (1952)

11. Who’s Minding the Store? (1963)

12. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)

13. Hollywood or Bust (1956)

14. It’s Only Money (1962)

15. The Geisha Boy (1958)

16. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

17. Cinderfella (1960)

18. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

19. The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)

20. Caprice (1967)

21. Say One for Me (1959)

My Favorite Andrei Tarkovsky Films

12 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Lists, Mystery, Russian Filmmakers, Science Fiction, Short Cinema, Soviet Cinema, Student Cinema, Swedish Cinema, Thriller, Top 305, War

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Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood, Nostalghia, Solaris 1972, Stalker, The Killers 1956, The Mirror 1975, The Sacrifice 1986, The Steamroller and the Violin, There Will Be No Leave Today, Voyage in Time

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1. Stalker (1979)

2. Andrei Rublev (1966)

3. The Mirror (1975)

4. Solaris (1972)

5. Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

6. The Sacrifice (1986)

7. Nostalghia (1983)

8. Voyage in Time (1983)
(Documentary)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Student Films)

1. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)

2. There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
(co-directed with Alexsandr Gordon)
(I watched it on youtube)

3. The Killers (1956)
(co-directed with Marika Beiku and Alexsandr Gordon)
(Short Film)

My Favorite Quentin Tarantino Films

12 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, German Cinema, Greatest, Lists, Mystery, Quentin Tarantino, Thriller, Top 305, War, Western

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Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Hateful Eight

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1. Pulp Fiction (1994)

2. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

3. Django Unchained (2012)

4. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

5. The Hateful Eight (2015)

6. Jackie Brown (1997)

7. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

8. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

My Favorite Seijun Suzuki Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Action, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 305, War

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Branded to Kill, Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell Bastards!, Everything Goes Wrong, Fighting Elegy, Gate of Flesh, Kagero-za, Kanto Wanderer, Pistol Opera, Princess Raccoon, Story of a Prostitute, Take Aim at the Police Van, Tattooed Life, Tokyo Drifter, Underworld Beauty, Youth of the Beast, Yumeji, Zigeunerweisen

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1. Branded to Kill (1967)

2. Youth of the Beast (1963)

3. Gate of Flesh (1964)

4. Story of a Prostitute (1965)

5. Tokyo Drifter (1966)

6. Tattooed Life (1965)

7. Zigeunerweisen (1980)

8. Fighting Elegy (1966)

9. Everything Goes Wrong (1960)

10. Underworld Beauty (1958)

11. Yumeji (1991)

12. Kagero-za (1981)

13. Kanto Wanderer (1963)

14. Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963)

15. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

16. Princess Raccoon (2005)

17. Pistol Opera (2001)

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Lists, Music, Preston Sturges, Romance, Top 304, War

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Christmas in July, Hail the Conquering Hero, Sullivan's Travels, The Great McGinty, The Great Moment, The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Unfaithfully Yours

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1. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2. The Lady Eve (1941)

3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5. Christmas in July (1940)

6. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

8. The Great McGinty (1940)

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1. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

2. The Great Moment (1944)

My Favorite Oliver Stone Films

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, British Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, History, Lists, Mexican Cinema, Music, Mystery, Oliver Stone, Thriller, Top 304, War

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JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Platoon, Salvador, Savages, Talk Radio, The Doors, U Turn

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1. JFK (1991)

2. Salvador (1986)

3. Nixon (1995)

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1. Savages (2012)

2. U-Turn (1997)

3. Natural Born Killers (1994)

4. Talk Radio (1988)

5. The Doors (1991)

6. Platoon (1986)

My Favorite Steven Spielberg Films

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, Biography, Canadian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Lists, Mystery, New Zealand Cinema, Romance, Science Fiction, Steven Spielberg, Television, Thriller, Top 304, War

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1941, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Always, Amistad, Bridge of Spies, Catch Me If You Can, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Duel (TV Film), E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Lincoln, Minority Report, Munich, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ready Player One, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Adventures of Tintin, The BFG, The Color Purple, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Post, The Sugarland Express, The Terminal, War Horse, War of the Worlds 2005

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1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)

3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

5. Jaws (1975)

6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

7. Duel (1971)
(TV Film)

8. 1941 (1979)

9. The Sugarland Express (1974)

10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

11. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

12. Minority Report (2002)

13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

14. Ready Player One (2018)

15. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
(Animated Film)

16. Jurassic Park (1993)

17. War of the Worlds (2005)

18. The Terminal (2004)

19. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

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1. Bridge of Spies (2015)

2. Lincoln (2012)

3. The Post (2017)

4. War Horse (2011)

5. The BFG (2016)

6. Hook (1991)

7. Always (1989)

8. Empire of the Sun (1987)

9. Munich (2005)

10. Schindler’s List (1993)

11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

12. The Color Purple (1985)

13. Amistad (1997)

My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films

03 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Douglas Sirk, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, German Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Lists, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 305, War, Western

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A Scandal in Paris, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, All I Desire, All That Heaven Allows, Captain Lightfoot, Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, Imitation of Life, Interlude, Lured, Magnificent Obsession, Shockproof, Taza Son of Cochise, The Tarnished Angels, There's Always Tomorrow, Thunder on the Hill, Written on the Wind

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1. Written on the Wind (1956)

2. Imitation of Life (1959)

3. There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

4. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

6. The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7. Magnificent Obsession (1954)

8. All I Desire (1953)

9. Interlude (1957)

10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

11. Thunder on the Hill (1951)

12. Lured (1947)

13. A Scandal in Paris (1946)

14. Shockproof (1949)

15. Captain Lightfoot (1955)

16. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

My Favorite Don Siegel Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cinema, Crime, Don Siegel, Drama, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mexican Cinema, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, Top 305, War, Western

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Baby Face Nelson, Charley Varrick, Coogan's Bluff, Dirty Harry, Edge of Eternity, Escape from Alcatraz, Flaming Star, Hell Is for Heroes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, Madigan, Private Hell 36, Riot in Cell Block 11, The Beguiled 1971, The Big Steal, The Duel at Silver Creek, The Gun Runners, The Killers 1964, The Lineup, The Shootist, Two Mules for Sister Sara

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1. The Beguiled (1971)

2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

3. Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

4. Charley Varrick (1973)

5. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

6. The Lineup (1958)

7. The Shootist (1976)

8. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

9. Dirty Harry (1971)

10. Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

11. Madigan (1968)

12. The Killers (1964)

13. Private Hell 36 (1954)

14. Baby Face Nelson (1957)
(I saw it on youtube)

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1. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

2. The Big Steal (1949)

3. Flaming Star (1960)

4. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)

5. Edge of Eternity (1959)

6. The Gun Runners (1958)

My Favorite Ousmane Sembene Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Algerian Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, Lists, Ousmane Sembene, Senegalese Cinema, Senegalese Filmmakers, Top 304, Tunisian Cinema, War

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Black Girl, Camp de Thiaroye, Faat Kine, Mandabi, Moolaade, Xala

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

1. Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

2. Moolaade (2004)

3. Black Girl (1966)

4. Xala (1975)

5. Mandabi (1968)

6. Faat Kine (2000)

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