You got that right Abe and as you already know, he was married to the great Agnes Varda 😉🙂

Great ranking Abe 🙂 Is that last one 4 DEVILS? 🙂

1. Gertrud (1964)
2. Ordet (1955)
3. Day of Wrath (1943)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
5. Vampyr (1932)

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What are your top 5 favorite Carl Theodor Dreyer films?

Check out some more of his work Miss Nadal 🙂

Along with Erich von Stroheim's Greed, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise may be the most ambitious silent film ever made 🙂

1. Sunrise (1927)
2. Tabu (1931)
3. Faust (1926)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. The Last Laugh (1924)

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What are your top 5 favorite F.W. Murnau films?

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A very Happy belated 127th Birthday 🎂 to late great Classical Hollywood icon (encompassing both silent and sound eras) Charlie Chaplin, who simultaneously delighted us as The Tramp and shocked us with Henri Verdoux 🙂

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Wonderful film indeed Michael 🙂 Check out some of his other work too 🙂

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All of them are great Miss Nadal 🙂 The Young Girls of Rochefort has truly extraordinary dance choreography 🙂 Plus Gene Kelly and George Chakaris 😉🙂

The two masterworks fit perfectly on a compare and contrast double-bill 🙂 Whereas Umbrellas is all melancholy, The Young Girls of Rochefort is all buoyant 🙂

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
2. Model Shop (1969)
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

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What are your top 3 favorite Jacques Demy films?

You can't go wrong with Jacques Tati Abe 🙂 Great ranking too 🙂

Believe it or not, the entire city of Tativille you see on film was built from scratch 🙂

1. Playtime (1967)
2. Parade (1974)
3. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)

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What are your top 3 favorite Jacques Tati films?

Check out his work 🙂 Truly a phenomenal voice in Taiwanese cinema 🙂

1. Three Times (2005)
2. The Puppetmaster (1993)
3. The Assassin (2015)
4. A City of Sadness (1989)
5. Cafe Lumiere (2003)

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What are your top 5 favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien films?

You got that right Miss Nadal.

My heart just ached for Laura Palmer 😭

So happy to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me on your list 🙂 Truly an emotionally powerful film. My heart just ached for Laura Palmer 😭

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me may be the most emotionally powerful horror film ever made 🙂

I love your list Michael 🙂 You can't go wrong with David Lynch 🙂

Gotcha Philip 🙂

Gotcha Philip 🙂