My Favorite Chris Marker Films

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

1.   Sans Soleil (1983)
(Documentary)

2.   La Jetee (1962)
(Live-Action Short)

3.   Level Five (1997)
(Documentary)

4.   The Last Bolshevik (1992)
(Documentary)

5.   One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
(Documentary)

6.   A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
(Documentary)

7.   Le Joli Mai (1963)
(Documentary)

8.   A.K. (1985)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953) 

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

4.   He Walked by Night (1948)
(uncredited)
(co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

5.   Man of the West (1958)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Bend of the River (1952)

8.   Men in War (1957)

9.   The Furies (1950)

10. Devil’s Doorway (1950)

11. Raw Deal (1948)

12. T-Men (1947)

13. Border Incident (1949)

14. El Cid (1961)

15. God’s Little Acre (1958)

16. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

17. Side Street (1950)

18. Desperate (1947)

19. Railroaded! (1947)

20. Reign of Terror (1949)
(a.k.a. The Black Book)

21. The Tall Target (1951)

22. The Tin Star (1957)

23. The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

24. The Last Frontier (1955)

25. Serenade (1956)

26. Thunder Bay (1953)

27. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

28. Strategic Air Command (1955)

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

1.   A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

2.   Cimarron (1960)

My Favorite Terrence Malick Films

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

1.   The Tree of Life (2011)

2.   The New World (2005)

3.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

4.   Days of Heaven (1978)

5.   A Hidden Life (2019)

6.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)

3.   Song to Song (2017)

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films

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

1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

3.   One Hour with You (1932)
(with assistance from George Cukor)

4.   Heaven Can Wait (1943)

5.   The Wild Cat (1921)

6.   The Love Parade (1929)

7.   Monte Carlo (1930)

8.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

9.   Design for Living (1933)

10. The Marriage Circle (1924)

11. Eternal Love (1929)

12. Broken Lullaby (1932)

13. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

14. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

15. The Oyster Princess (1919)

16. Madame DuBarry (1919)

17. The Doll (1919)

18. Anna Boleyn (1920)

19. Sumurun (1920)

20. The Merry Widow (1934)

21. Angel (1937)

22. Cluny Brown (1946)

23. Ninotchka (1939)

24. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

25. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

26. Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938)

27. Carmen (1918)

28. I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

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

1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   Land and Freedom (1995)

3.   Kes (1969)

4.   Raining Stones (1993)

5.   Looking for Eric (2009)

6.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

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

1.   Cathy Come Home (1966)

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

1.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

2.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

3.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

4.   Riff-Raff (1991)

My Favorite Richard Lester Films

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

1.   Petulia (1968)

2.   Help! (1965)

3.   A Hard Day’s Out (1964)

4.   The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

5.   The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)

6.   How I Won the War (1967)

7a. The Three Musketeers (1973)
7b. The Four Musketeers (1974)

8.   Juggernaut (1974)

9.   Robin and Marian (1976)

10. Superman II (1980)
(Richard Donner’s 2006 Cut is also great)

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

1.   The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)

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

1.   Royal Flash (1975)

2.   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films

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

1.   M (1931)

2.   Spies (1928)

3.   Scarlet Street (1945)

4.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

5.   Liliom (1934)

6.   Fury (1936)

7.   The Woman in the Window (1944)

8.   You Only Live Once (1937)

9.   Moonfleet (1955)

10. The Big Heat (1953)

11. Rancho Notorious (1952)

12. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

13. Die Nibelungen (1924)

14. Destiny (1921)

15. The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb (1959)
(a.k.a. Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic)

16. Metropolis (1927)

17. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

18. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 

19. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

20. You and Me (1937)

21. Clash by Night (1952)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)

23. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

24. Human Desire (1954)

25. House by the River (1950)

26. Ministry of Fear (1944)

27. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

28. Man Hunt (1941)

29. Western Union (1941)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Cloak and Dagger (1946)

32. Woman in the Moon (1929)

33. The Spiders Parts I and II (1919/1920)

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

1.   Harikari (1919)

2.   American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films

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

1.   Ran (1985)

2.   High and Low (1963)

3.   Seven Samurai (1954)

4.   Ikiru (1952)

5.   Red Beard (1965)

6.   Throne of Blood (1957)

7.   Rashomon (1950)

8.   Yojimbo (1961)

9.   The Hidden Fortress (1958)

10. Stray Dog (1949)

11. Madadayo (1993)

12. Kagemusha (1980)

13. Drunken Angel (1948)

14. Sanjuro (1962)

15. Dersu Uzala (1975)

16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Does’ka-den (1970)

19. The Idiot (1951)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Scandal (1950)

22. The Quiet Duel (1949)

23. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

24. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

25. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

26. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

27. Sanshiro SUgata Part II (1945)

28. The Most Beautiful (1944)

29. Rhapsody in August (1991)

30. Dreams (1990)
(a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films

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

1.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

2.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

4.   The Shining (1980)

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   Paths of Glory (1957)

8.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

9.   Lolita (1962)

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

11. Spartacus (1960)

12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)

13. Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Masaki Kobayashi Films

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

1.   The Human Condition Trilogy (1959/1961)

2.   Kwaidan (1964)

3.   Samurai Rebellion (1967)

4.   Harakiri (1962)

5.   Black River (1957)