* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The New Land (1972)
2. Everlasting Moments (2008)
3. Hamsun (1996)
4. The Emigrants (1971)
5. Here’s Your Life (1966)
6. Flight of the Eagle (1982)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
7. Zandy’s Bride (1974)
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My Favorite Andre De Toth Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
2. Play Dirty (1969)
3. Pitfall (1948)
4. Crime Wave (1954)
5. Ramrod (1947)
6. Man in the Saddle (1951)
7. House of Wax (1953)
8. The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Springfield Rifle (1952)
2. The Bounty Hunter (1954)
3. Riding Shotgun (1954)
4. Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
5. Carson City (1952)
6. The Indian Fighter (1955)
My Favorite Frank Tashlin Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Stalker (1979)
2. Andrei Rublev (1966)
3. The Mirror (1975)
4. Solaris (1972)
5. The Sacrifice (1986)
6. Nostalghia (1983)
7. Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
8. Voyage in Time (1983)
(Documentary)
9. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
10. There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
(co-directed with Alexsandr Gordon)
(I watched it on youtube)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Killers (1956)
(co-directed with Marika Beiku and Alexsandr Gordon)
My Favorite Quentin Tarantino Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
2. Jackie Brown (1997)
3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Season 5 (2004-2005)
4a. Episode 24: Grave Danger (2005)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Django Unchained (2012)
7a. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
7a. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
8. The Hateful Eight (2015)
9. Death Proof (2007)
(released theatrically as part of the 2007 film Grindhouse)
10. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
My Favorite Spike Lee Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Do the Right Thing (1989)
2. 25th Hour (2002)
3. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
(Documentary)
4. 4 Little Girls (1997)
(Documentary)
5. American Utopia (2020)
(Concert Film)
6. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
7. Da 5 Bloods (2020)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Passing Strange (2009)
(Episode of “Great Performances”)
(Television)
2. Inside Man (2006)
3. A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)
4. Jungle Fever (1991)
5. Rodney King (2017)
(Performance Film)
6. He Got Game (1998)
7. Freak (1998)
(Performance Film)
(Cable/Television)
My Favorite Seijun Suzuki Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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
* * * * (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. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
8. The Great McGinty (1940)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
2. The Great Moment (1944)
My Favorite Steven Spielberg Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
2. 1941 (1979)
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
4. Jaws (1975)
5. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)
6. Duel (1971)
(Television)
7. The Sugarland Express (1974)
8. Columbo – Season 1 (1971-1972)
8a. Episode 1: Murder by the Book (1971)
(Television)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
2. Minority Report (2002)
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
4. Jurassic Park (1993)
My Favorite Douglas Sirk Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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)
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