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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The Naked Spur (1953)

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

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

4.   Bend of the River (1952)

5.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Man of the West (1958)

8.   The Furies (1950)

9.   Devil’s Doorway (1950)

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

1.   T-Men (1947)

2.   Raw Deal (1948) (No relation to the 1986 film)

3.   The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4.   El Cid (1961)

5.   Side Street (1950)

6.   Railroaded! (1947)

7.   The Tin Star (1957)

8.   Border Incident (1949)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

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

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

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

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Terrence Malick Films (Revised and Updated)

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

1.   The New World (2005)

2.   The Thin Red Line (1998)

3.   Days of Heaven (1978)

4.   Badlands (1973)

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

1.   Knight of Cups (2015)

2.   To the Wonder (2012)