My Favorite Larry Cohen Films

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

1.   God Told Me To (1976)

2.   Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

3.   It’s Alive (1974)

4.   The Stuff (1985)

5.   The Ambulance (1990)

6.   Masters of Horror (2006)
6a. Episode: “Pick Me Up”
(Cable/Television)

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

1.   Bone (1972)

2.   Black Caesar (1973)

3.   The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

4.   It Lives Again (1978)

My Favorite Joel and Ethan Coen Films

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

1.   Miller’s Crossing (1990)

2.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

3.   Raising Arizona (1987)

4.   Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

5.   Fargo (1996)

6.   Barton Fink (1991)

7.   The Big Lebowski (1998)

8.   A Serious Man (2009)

9.   True Grit (2010)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
(Anthology Film)

11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

15. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

16. Blood Simple (1984)

My Favorite Jean Cocteau Films

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

1.   Orpheus (1950)

2.   Les Parents terribles (1948)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

3.   Beauty and the Beast (1946)

4.   The Blood of a Poet (1930)

5.   The Testament of Orpheus (1960)

My Favorite Robert Bresson Films

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

1.   L’Argent (1983)

2.   Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

3.   A Man Escaped (1956)

4.   Lancelot of the Lake (1974)

5.   Pickpocket (1959)

6.   Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

7.   Mouchette (1967)

8.   Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)

9.   The Devil Probably (1977)

10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

11. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

12. A Gentle Woman (1969)

13. Angels of Sin (1943)

My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films

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

1.   The Wages of Fear (1953)

2.   Diabolique (1955)

3.   Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

4.   Le Corbeau (1943)

5.   The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)      

My Favorite Michael Cimino Films

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

1.   Heaven’s Gate (1980) 

2.   The Deer Hunter (1978)

3.   Year of the Dragon (1985)

4.   Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

5.   The Sicilian (1987)

My Favorite Rene Clair Films

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

1.   A Nous la Liberte (1931)

2.   Le Million (1931)

3.   Under the Roof of Paris (1930)

4.   The Italian Straw Hat (1928)

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

1.   Entr’acte (1924)

2.   The Crazy Ray (1924)

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

1.   I Married a Witch (1942)

2.   And Then There Were None (1945)

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films

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

1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

3.   The Gold Rush (1925)

4.   Limelight (1952)

5.   Modern Times (1936)

6.   The Great Dictator (1940)

7.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

8.   The Kid (1921)

9.   The Circus (1928)

10. A King in New York (1957)

11. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Keystone Shorts)

1.   His Prehistoric Past (1914)

2.   The New Janitor (1914)

3.   Dough and Dynamite (1914)

4.   His Trysting Place (1914)

5.   Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)

6.   His Musical Career (1914)

7.   Getting Acquainted (1914)

8.   The Property Man (1914)

9.   Laughing Gas (1914)

10. Mabel’s Married Life (1914)

11. A Busy Day (1914)

12. The Rounders (1914)

13. Those Love Pangs (1914)

14. Caught in the Rain (1914)

15. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)

16. His New Profession (1914)

17. The Masquerader (1914)

18. Recreation (1914) 

19. The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Essanay Shorts)

1.   The Bank (1915)

2.   Work (1915)

3.   The Tramp (1915)

4.   In the Park (1915)

5.   His New Job (1915)

6.   A Jitney Elopement (1915)

7.   Shanghaied (1915)

8.   Burlesque on ‘Carmen’ (1915)

9.   Police (1916)

10. A Night in the Show (1915)

11. A Woman (1915)

12. By the Sea (1915)

13. The Champion (1915)

14. A Night Out (1915)

15. Triple Trouble (1918)
(co-directed with Leo White)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Mutual Shorts)

1.   The Immigrant (1917)

2.   Behind the Screen (1916)

3.   The Pawnshop (1916)

4.   The Floorwalker (1916)

5.   The Fireman (1916)

6.   One A.M. (1916)

7.   The Rink (1916)

8.   The Count (1916)

9.   The Vagabond (1916)

10. The Adventurer (1917)

11. The Cure (1917)

12. Easy Street (1917) 

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (First National Shorts)

1.   The Pilgrim (1923)

2.   Shoulder Arms (1918)

3.   A Dog’s Life (1918)

4.   The Bond (1918)

5.   Payday (1922)

6.   The Idle Class (1921)

7.   Sunnyside (1919)

8.   A Day’s Pleasure (1919)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Compilation Films)

1.   The Chaplin Revue (1959)

My Favorite Claude Chabrol Films

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

1.   Le Ceremonie (1995)

2.   Le Boucher (1970)

3.   The Bridesmaid (2004)

4.   The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

5.   This Man Must Die (1969)

6.   Just Before Nightfall (1971)

7.   The Breach (1970)

8.   Les Biches (1968)

9.   Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

10. Bellamy (2009)

11. L’Enfer (1994)

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

1.   Story of Women (1988)

2.   Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)

3.   Comedy of Power (2006)

4.   The Color of Lies (1999)

5.   Madame Bovary (1991)

6.   Betty (1992)

7.   A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

8.   The Cry of the Owl (1987)

9.   Les Cousins (1959)

10. Le Beau Serge (1958)

My Favorite John Cassavetes Films

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

1.   Love Streams (1984)

2.   A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

3.   Faces (1968)

4.   Shadows (1959)

5.   Husbands (1970)

6.   The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

7.   Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

8.   Opening Night (1977)

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

1.   Gloria (1980)

2.   Too Late Blues (1961)

3.   A Child Is Waiting (1963)