My Favorite Max Ophuls Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   The Reckless Moment (1949)
(I watched it on TCM a few years back)

3.   La Ronde (1950)

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

5.   Le Plaisir (1952)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Lola Montes (1955)

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

9.   La Signora di Tutti (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a while back)

My Favorite Ernst Lubitsch Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Trouble in Paradise (1932)

2.   The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

3.   The Wildcat (1921)

4.   Monte Carlo (1930)

5.   Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

6.   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

7.   The Love Parade (1929)

8.   Ninotchka (1939)

9.   So This is Paris (1926)

10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

11. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

12. One Hour with You (1932) (Co-directed with George Cukor)

13. The Merry Widow (1934)

14. The Marriage Circle (1924)

15. Design for Living (1933)

16. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

17. Eternal Love (1929)

18. Madame DuBarry (1919)

19. Angel (1937)

20. The Oyster Princess (1919)

21. Cluny Brown (1946)

22. Anna Boleyn (1920)

23. Sumurun (1920)

24. The Doll (1919)

25. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

26. Carmen (1918)

My Favorite Fred C. Newmeyer Films (New)

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1.   Safety Last! (1923) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

2.   The Freshman (1925) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

3.   Girl Shy (1924) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

4.   Grandma’s Boy (1922)

5.   Why Worry? (1923) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

6.   Hot Water (1924) (Co-directed with Sam Taylor)

7.   Dr. Jack (1922)

8.   A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Sunrise (1927)

2.   Nosferatu (1922)

3.   Tabu (1931)

4.   The Last Laugh (1924)

5.   Faust (1926)

6.   Phantom (1922)

7.   City Girl (1930)

8.   Tartuffe (1925)

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

1.   The Burning Soil (1922)

2.   The Haunted Castle (1921)

3.   The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Ugetsu (1953)

2.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

3.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

4.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

5.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

6.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

7.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

8.   The Downfall of Osen (1935)

9.   Street of Shame (1956)

10. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

2.   My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

3.   Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4.   Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5.   Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

6.   Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

7.   Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

8.   The Wind Rises (2013) (Anime)

9.   Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) (Anime)

10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Anime)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) (Anime)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Gigi (1958)

2.   Home from the Hill (1960)

3.   The Band Wagon (1953)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   Cabin in the Sky (1943)

6.   Tea and Sympathy (1956)

7.   Brigadoon (1954)

8.   Madame Bovary (1949)

9.   An American in Paris (1951)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

13. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

14. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

16. The Sandpiper (1965)

17. The Cobweb (1955)

18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

19. A Matter of Time (1976)

20. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
(I also love the 1921 silent version)

22. Lust for Life (1956)

23. The Clock (1945)

24. Kismet (1955)

25. Bells are Ringing (1960)

26. The Story of Three Loves (1953) (Segment” “Madamoiselle”)

27. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Judy Garland Segments)

28. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) (The Fred Astaire Dance Numbers)

29. The Pirate (1948)

30. I Dood It (1943)

31. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

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

1.   The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

2.   Designing Woman (1957)

3.   Undercurrent (1946)

4.   The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

My Favorite Jean-Pierre Melville Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Le Samourai (1967)

2.   Army of Shadows (1969)

3.   Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

4.   Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

5.   Le Doulos (1962)

6.   The Silence of the Sea (1949)

7.   Bob le flambeur (1956)

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

1.   Un flic (1972)

2.   Second Breath (1966)

3.   Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

My Favorite Leo McCarey Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

2.   Duck Soup (1933)

3.   The Awful Truth (1937)

4.   Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

5.   Love Affair (1939)

6.   Good Sam (1948)

7.   The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

8.   Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

9.   Going My Way (1944)

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

1.   My Son John (1952)

2.   The Milky Way (1936)

3.   An Affair to Remember (1957)