My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

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

1.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

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

3.   Ride the High Country (1962)

4.   Cross of Iron (1977)

5.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

6.   Junior Bonner (1972)

7.   ABC Stage 67 (1966)
7a. Episode: “Noon Wine”
(Television)

8.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

9.   Straw Dogs (1971)

10. Major Dundee (1965)

11. The Getaway (1972)

12. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

13. The Killer Elite (1975)

14. Convoy (1978)

15. Route 66 (1961)
15a. Episode: “Mon Petit Chou”
(Television)

16. The Deadly Companions (1961)

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

1.   The Rifleman – Season 1 (1958-1959)
1a. Episode: “The Marshall” (1958)
1b. Episode: “The Boarding House” (1959)
1c. Episode: “The Money Gun” (1959)
(Television)

2.   The Rifleman – Season 2 (1960)
(Episode: “The Baby Sitter”
(Television)

3.   The Westerner – Season 1 (1960)
3a. Episode: “Jeff”
3b. Episode: “Brown”
3c. Episode: “The Courting of Libby”
3d. Episode: “Hand on the Gun”
3e. Episode: “The Painting”
(Television)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 3 (1959)
4a. Episode: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”
(Television)

5.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 4 (1959-1960)
5a. Episode: “Lonesome Road” (1959)
5b. Episode: “Miss Jenny” (1960)
(Television)

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

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

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 Park Chan-wook Films

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

1.   Oldboy (2003)

2.   The Handmaiden (2016)

3.   Joint Security Area (2000)

4.   Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

5.   Lady Vengeance (2005)

6.   Thirst (2009)

7.   I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006)

8.   Stoker (2013)

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

1.   Three… Extremes (2004)
(Segment: “Cut”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Jafar Panahi Films

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

1.   The Circle (2000)

2.   The White Balloon (1995)

3.   This Is Not a Film (2011)
(Documentary)

4.   The Mirror (1997)

5.   Crimson Gold (2003)

6.   Taxi (2015)
(a.k.a. Taxi Tehran)

7.   Offside (2006)

My Favorite G.W. Pabst Films

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

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)

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

1.   Don Quixote (1933)

2.   L’Atlantide (1932)

My Favorite Nick Park Films

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animation)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animation)

3.   Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animation)

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animation)

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

1.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animation)

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animation)

2.   Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animation)

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

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animation) 

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films

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

1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

4.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

5.   Early Summer (1951)

6.   Tokyo Twilight (1957)

7.   Late Autumn (1960)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Floating Weeds (1959)

10. Equinox Flower (1958)

11. The Only Son (1936)

12. Good Morning (1959)

13. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. Early Spring (1956)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

18. Dragnet Girl (1933)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

My Favorite Nagisa Oshima Films

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

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 Max Ophuls Films

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

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   Lola Montes (1955)

4.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

5.   La Ronde (1950)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Le Plaisir (1952)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   Everybody’s Woman (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)