* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Memento (2000)
2. Dunkirk (2017)
3. The Dark Knight (2008)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Prestige (2006)
2. Inception (2010)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
My Favorite Gaspar Noe Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Enter the Void (2009)
2. I Stand Alone (1998)
3. Irreversible (2002)
My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Safety Last! (1923)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
2. The Freshman (1925)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
(no relation to the 1990 film)
3. Girl Shy (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
4. Grandma’s Boy (1922)
(no relation to the 2006 film)
5. Hot Water (1924)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
6. Dr. Jack (1922)
7. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
8. Why Worry? (1923)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Never Weaken (1921)
(co-directed with Sam Taylor)
2. Number, Please? (1920)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)
3. Among Those Present (1921)
4. Now or Never (1921)
(co-directed with Hal Roach)
My Favorite Mikio Naruse Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)
2. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
3. Every-Night Dreams (1933)
4. Apart From You (1933)
5. Street Without End (1934)
6. No Blood Relation (1932)
7. Flunky, Work Hard (1931)
My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sunrise (1927)
2. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
3. The Last Laugh (1924)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. Faust (1926)
6. City Girl (1930)
7. Tartuffe (1925)
8. Phantom (1922)
9. The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
10. The Haunted Castle (1921)
My Favorite Cristian Mungiu Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Beyond the Hills (2012)
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
3. Graduation (2016)
4. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
(co-directed with Hanna Hofer, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru and Razvan Marculescu)
(Anthology Film)
My Favorite Errol Morris Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)
1. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
2. Gates of Heaven (1978)
3. The Fog of War (2003)
4. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
5. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
6. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)
7. Vernon, Florida (1981)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)
1. Tabloid (2010)
2. Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
3. The Unknown Known (2013)
4. A Brief History of Time (1991)
My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
2. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
3. Ugetsu (1953)
4. The Life of Oharu (1952)
5. Street of Shame (1956)
6. Osaka Elegy (1936)
7. Women of the Night (1948)
8. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
9. The 47 Ronin (1941)
My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anime)
1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
3. The Wind Rises (2013)
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
5. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
6. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
7. Porco Rosso (1992)
8. Castle in the Sky (1986)
9. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
10. Ponyo (2008)
11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
2. Lust for Life (1956)
3. Home from the Hill (1960)
4. Some Came Running (1958)
5. The Band Wagon (1953)
6. The Cobweb (1955)
7. Madame Bovary (1949)
8. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
9. The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)
10. Father of the Bride (1950)
11. An American in Paris (1951)
12. Gigi (1958)
13. The Pirate (1948)
14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)
17. Designing Woman (1957)
18. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
20. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
22. The Clock (1945)
23. The Sandpiper (1965)
24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
25. A Matter of Time (1976)
26. Bells are Ringing (1960)
27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
28. Brigadoon (1954)
29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
30. Kismet (1955)
31. Undercurrent (1946)
32. I Dood It (1943)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Segments)
1. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)
2. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)
3. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)
4. Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)
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