The World According to Benny: Phil and Sara came to visit

...AND WE WENT TO THE AQUARIUM.

OSBORN KISSED ME!

RUMI THOUGHT PHIL WAS A GOOD PHOTOGRAPHER

Movies I've watched as part of my classic director series...

Georges Melies
A Trip to the Moon
The Impossible Voyage

Edwin S Porter
The Great Train Robbery

Lumiere Brothers
La Mer
Exit from the Lumiere Factory
Baby's Breakfast

D.W Griffiths
The Girl and Her Trust
Birth of a Nation
Broken Blossoms
Intolerance

Buster Keaton
Sherlock Jr.
The General

Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potemkin

Robert Wiene
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Laurel and Hardy (different directors)
Busy Bodies
Sons of the Desert
The Music Box

Charlie Chaplin:
A Dog’s Life
Gold Rush
The Kid
Modern Times
City Lights
Shoulder Arms
The Immigrant
Easy Street
The Cure

Tod Browning
Dracula

F. W Murnau
Nosferatu

Robert J Flaherty
Nanook of the North

Jean Renoir
Rules of the Game

William Dieterie

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Frank Capra:
Platinum Blonde
It Happened One Night
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Arsenic and Old Lace
It's a Wonderful Life
You Can’t Take it With You
State of the Union

Howard Hawkes:
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday
Gentleman Prefer Blondes
To Have or Have Not
The Big Sleep

George Cukor:
Gone with the Wind
The Philadelphia Story
My Fair Lady
Adam’s Rib
The Women
Sylvia Scarlett
Holiday
A Star is Born
Pat and Mike

Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
High and Low
Throne of Blood
Desu Usula

Walter Lang
Desk Set

Joseph H Lewis
Gun Crazy

Edgar Ulmer
Detour

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All about Eve
Julius Caesar
A Letter to Three Wives

Gregory La Cava
My Man Godfrey

Michael Curtis
Casablanca

King Vidor
War and Peace

Billy Wilder:
Some Like it Hot
Seven Year Itch
The Apartment
Double Indemnity

Roberto Rossellini
The Flowers of St. Francis

Henry Koster
The Robe

George Stevens

Shane

Mervyn LeRoy
Quo Vadis

Alfred Hitchcock
The Lady Vanishes
To Catch a Thief
North by North West
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
Notorious
Dial M for Murder
Vertigo
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Stagefright
Rope
The Wrong Man
I Confess

Rebecca

Spellbound
Psycho

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
West Side Story

Harold S Bucquet
Without Love

Francois Truffaut
Jules et Jim
400 Blows

Cecille B DeMille
The Ten Commandments

Elia Kazan

A Streetcar Named Desire

East of Eden
On the Waterfront

Victor Fleming
The Wizard of Oz

Henry Koster
Harvey

Josef von Sternberg
Blonde Venus

John Huston
African Queen
The Misfits

Vincente Minnelli
An American in Paris

Richard Mulligan
To Kill a Mockingbird

Stanley Kramer
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Arthur Penn
Little Big Man

Warren Beatty
Reds

John Sturges
Bad Day at Black Rock

Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal

John Ford
Stagecoach
The Searchers
Young Lincoln
My Darling Clementine
Judge Priest
Who Shot Liberty Valence?
Grapes of Wrath

How Green is My Valley

Orson Welles
A Touch of Evil
Citizen Kane
Lady from Shanghai
The Stranger

Fred Zinnemann
High Noon

Franco Zeffirelli
Jane Eyre
Hamlet
Jesus of Nazareth
Brother Son, Sister Moon
Romeo and Juliet

Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev
The Sacrifice

Hal Ashby
Harold and Maude

Sydney Pollack
Tootsie

Terry Gilliam
Brazil
Lost in La Mancha

George Lucas
Star Wars: A New Hope (episode IV)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)

Peter Weir
Dead Poet's Society
Witness
The Truman Show

Steven Spielberg
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T.
War Horse
Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lincoln

John Sayles
Brother from Another Planet
Lone Star

James Dean Retrospective

Giant, dir. George Stevens

Rebel Without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray

East of Eden, dir. Elia Kazan

Jane Eyre movie series:
Jane Eyre, dir. Robert Stevenson 1944
Jane Eyre, dir. Franco Zeffirelli 1996
Jane Eyre, dir. Cary Fukynaga 2011
Jane Eyre (BBC 2006) dir. Susannah White

Emma series:
Emma (BBC 2009)
Emma (movie dir. Douglas McGrath)

Pride and Prejudice series:
Pride and Prejudice (BBC 1998)
Pride and Prejudice (movie dir. Joe Wright, 2005)

Elizabeth Gaskell series:
North and South (BBC)
Wives and Daughters (BBC)
Cranford (BBC)

Tolstoy series:
The Last Station (Michael Hoffman, 2009)
Anna Karenina (BBC series,
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)
Anna Karenina, (Julien Duvivier, 1945)
War and Peace, (King Vidor, 1956)

Shakespeare movie series:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935 dir. Max Reinhardt)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999, dir. Michael Hoffman)
Hamlet (1990, dir, Franco Zeffirelli)

Hamlet (2009, RSC starring David Tenant)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993, dir Kenneth Branagh)

Much Ado About Nothing (2013, dir. Joss Whedon)
Julius Caesar (1953, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Anthony and Cleopatra (BBC)
Comedy of Errors (BBC)
Macbeth (BBC)
Cymbeline (BBC)
Titus Andronicus (BBC)
Henry V (BBC)
As You Like it (BBC)
As You Like It (1935, dir. Paul Czinner)
Julius Caesar (BBC)
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli)
The Tempest (Taymor, 2012)
The Tempest (BBC)
The Merchant of Venice (BBC)

Richard III (dir. Laurence Olivier)

Henrik Ibsen
Doll's House (BBC)
Enemy of the People (BBC)

Anton Chekhov
The Seagull

Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night

The World According to Benny

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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Phil and Sara came to visit

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