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Unwatchables Ranked

83 films

All the films covered on Unwatchables ranked according to my preference, from masterpieces to garbage (and a whoole lot in…

  • Antichrist
  • Freddy Got Fingered
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Kids
  • Ken Park

Unwatchables

83 films

An ongoing list of every Unwatchables episode to date. Click on the episode titles below for links to each podcast…

  • Shock Corridor
  • Pickup on South Street
  • The Steel Helmet
  • Forty Guns
  • White Dog
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Veronika Voss
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  • Safety Last!
  • Speedy
  • The Kid Brother
  • The Freshman
  • Why Worry?

Harold Lloyd, Ranked and Reviewed

5 films

Just a sampling, but all great entry points for the greatest third wheel in silent comedy. We should be lucky…

  • Unforgiven
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Rio Bravo
  • Johnny Guitar
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Top Ten Westerns

10 films

Shoutout to Frank Ritz for getting me thinking about this. I know Leone and Hawks are hogging three spots each,…

  • mother!
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • The Florida Project
  • Brawl in Cell Block 99

Top Ten of 2017 (plus 5)

15 films

2017's boldest, most enthralling film was a punk-rock assault on audiences, the kind I'll likely never again experience in a…

  • Seven Chances
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Sherlock, Jr.
  • City Lights
  • Man with a Movie Camera

Top 15 Silent Films

15 films

A work in progress since I still have a lot to catch up on, but this is where my favorites…

  • The Lady Eve
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • The Palm Beach Story
  • Unfaithfully Yours
  • Christmas in July

Preston Sturges, Ranked and Reviewed

8 films

Additional shoutout to Sturges' terrific scripts for William Wyler's The Good Fairy and especially Mitchell Leisen's Remember the Night. To…

  • Wild River
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • On the Waterfront
  • Baby Doll
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Jaws
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg, Ranked and Reviewed

34 films

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Full-length feautres only. See also: Amblin’ (1969), Poltergeist (1982), and Twilight…

  • Counsellor at Law
  • The Big Country
  • The Heiress
  • Dodsworth
  • The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler, Ranked and Reviewed

11 films

Far from his Wyler's entire filmography, but more than enough to prove he was one of THE great (and criminally…