* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
2. Apocalypto (2006)
3. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
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My Favorite George Stevens Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. A Place in the Sun (1951)
2. Shane (1953)
3. Giant (1956)
4. Alice Adams (1935)
5. Annie Oakley (1935)
6. I Remember Mama (1948)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Talk of the Town (1942)
2. Vivacious Lady (1938)
3. A Damsel in Distress (1937)
4. Woman of the Year (1942)
5. The More the Merrier (1943)
6. Swing Time (1936)
7. Gunga Din (1939)
My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Pandora’s Box (1929)
2. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
3. The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927)
4. The Threepenny Opera (1931)
5. Joyless Street (1925)
6. Westfront 1918 (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
7. Kameradschaft (1930)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
8. Secrets of a Soul (1926)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) (co-directed with Arnold Fanck)
My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Gun Crazy (1949)
2. Cry of the Hunted (1953)
3. The Halliday Brand (1957)
4. The Big Combo (1955)
5. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
6. So Dark the Night (1946)
7. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
8. The Undercover Man (1949)
(I saw it a long time ago on TCM)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
2. Retreat, Hell! (1952)
3. A Lawless Street (1955)
4. Desperate Search (1952)
5. 7th Cavalry (1956)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
My Favorite Edmund Goulding Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Dark Victory (1939)
2. Grand Hotel (1932)
3. Love (1927)
4. Nightmare Alley (1947)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. That Certain Woman (1937)
2. The Great Lie (1941)
3. The Dawn Patrol (1938)
My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. White Heat (1949)
2. Regeneration (1915)
3. High Sierra (1941)
4. The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
2. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
3. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
4. Dark Command (1940)
5. They Drive By Night (1940)
6. Sadie Thompson (1928)
7. The Big Trail (1930)
8. What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)
9. The Bowery (1933)
10. Manpower (1941)
11. Colorado Territory (1949)
12. The Man I Love (1947)
13. Pursued (1947)
14. Uncertain Glory (1944)
My Favorite Preston Sturges Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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. The Great McGinty (1940)
8. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
9. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
10. The Great Moment (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
11. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
My Favorite David O. Russell Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Three Kings (1999)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. American Hustle (2013)
2. Joy (2015)
3. The Fighter (2010)
4. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
5. Flirting with Disaster (1996)
6. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
7. Spanking the Monkey (1994)
(Yes that is the actual title of the film)
My Favorite Roberto Rossellini Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Journey to Italy (1954)
2. Stromboli (1950)
3. Paisan (1946)
4. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
5. Germany, Year Zero (1948)
6. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) (TV Film)
7. Rome, Open City (1945)
8. Europe ’51 (1952)
9. The Age of the Medici (1973) (TV Mini-Series)
10. General Della Rovere (1959)
11. Blaise Pascal (1972) (TV Film)
12. Cartesius (1974) (TV Film)
My Favorite Francesco Rosi Films (New)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Three Brothers (1981)
2. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
3. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
4. Hands over the City (1963)
5. The Moment of Truth (1965)
6. The Truce (1997)
7. Carmen (1984)
8. Many Wars Ago (1970)
9. Lucky Luciano (1974)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Palermo Connection (1989)
Note: Some of these I have seen on DVD and ones that are not on Blu-Ray and DVD I have seen on VHS. I have not seen The Mattei Affair but that is because it is not available on either Blu-Ray and DVD or VHS. I have heard great things about it though and since Francesco Rosi died last year, I am hoping that filmmakers or film historians who loved his work will try to get The Mattei Affair available in the USA on either Blu-Ray and DVD or VHS since that one seems to be one of his many highly celebrated films.
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