FILMS WATCHED
MARCH 2008 - JUNE 2008

.....Highest rating. Deserves to be considered a classic.
½ ...Very good. The movie greatly entertains or greatly moves me on a personal level.

.......Good. It is a solid, enjoyable film.

½ ......I like the movie, but can't muster strong feelings for it.

..........I dislike it, but can't muster strong emotions against it.

½ .........Terrible, but not hateful. May have cult appeal.
BOMB ....Lowest rating. The movie is offensive, inept or both.
Titles in bold indicate first time viewing.



3/2 The Light in the Forest (1958, Herschel Daugherty)   ½

3/2 No Regrets for Our Youth (1946, Akira Kurosawa)  

3/3 The Ipcress File (1965, Sidney J. Furie)   ½

3/3 One Wonderful Sunday (1947, Akira Kurosawa)  

3/4 Last of the Dogmen (1995, Tab Murphy)  

3/4 Scandal (1950, Akira Kurosawa)  

3/5 The Savage is Loose (1974, George C. Scott)   ½

3/7 The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)   ½

3/8 I Live in Fear (1955, Akira Kurosawa)  

3/9 Old Boyfriends (1979, Joan Tewkesbury)  

3/9 Deserter (1933, Vsevolod Pudovkin)  

3/10 Promise at Dawn (1970, Jules Dassin)   ½

3/10 Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)   ½

3/11 Passion (1982, Jean-Luc Godard)  

3/12 Prénom Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)  

3/13 Détective (1985, Jean-Luc Godard)  

3/14 Hélas Pour Moi (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)  

3/15 Badge 373 (1973, Howard W. Koch)   ½

3/16 The Last Chase (1981, Martyn Burke)  

3/16 Americathon (1979, Neal Israel)  

3/17 Macho Callahan (1970, Bernard L. Kowalski)  

3/18 Man with the Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)  

3/18 The Cranes are Flying (1957, Mikhail Kalatozov)  

3/19 Pony Express Rider (1976, Robert Totten)  

3/20 300 (2006, Zack Snyder)   ½

3/21 Beautiful Vasilisa (1939, Aleksandr Rou)  

3/22 The Forty-First (1956, Grigori Chukhrai)   ½

3/23 Destiny of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)  

3/25 King Solomon's Mines (1937, Robert Stevenson)   ½

3/25 A Sound of Thunder (2005, Peter Hyams)   ½

3/25 Fallen Angel (1945, Otto Preminger)  

3/26 Black Bandit (1938, George Waggner)   ½

3/26 Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974, Dick Randall)   ½

3/27 Old Khottabych (1956, Gennadi Kazansky)   ½

3/27 Run Silent Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise)  

3/28 Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)  

3/29 The Prodigal (1955, Richard Thorpe)  

3/30 Scarlet Sails (1961, Aleksandr Ptushko)   ½

3/31 The House on Telegraph Hill (1951, Robert Wise)  

4/1 Boomerang! (1947, Elia Kazan)  

4/2 The Return (2003, Andrei Zvyagintsev)  

4/3 Border Wolves (1938, Joseph H. Lewis)   ½

4/3 Witness (1985, Peter Weir)  

4/4 Guilty Trails (1938, George Waggner)   ½

4/5 Two Comrades Were Serving (1968, Yevgeni Karelov)  

4/6 I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)  

4/8 The Cat from Outer Space (1978, Norman Tokar)  

4/9 Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978, Robert Butler)   ½

4/9 The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov)  

4/10 The Jackie Robinson Story (1950, Alfred E. Green)   ½

4/10 Kommissar (1967, Aleksandr Askoldov)  

4/11 The North Avenue Irregulars (1979, Bruce Bilson)   ½

4/11 Father of a Soldier (1964, Rezo Chkheidze)   ½

4/11 Doomsday Machine (1972, Lee Sholem, Harry Hope)   BOMB

4/12 The Last Stand (1938, Joseph H. Lewis)   ½

4/12 House of Strangers (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)  

4/12 The Werewolf of Washington (1973, Milton Moses Ginsberg)   ½

4/13 The Hunter (1980, Buzz Kulik)  

4/18 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938, Mark Donskoy)   ½

4/18 I Mobster (1958, Roger Corman)  

4/20 Kino-Eye (1924, Dziga Vertov)  

4/20 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001, Chris Columbus)   ½

4/21 Three Songs About Lenin (1934, Dziga Vertov)   ½

4/21 Apache (1954, Robert Aldrich)   ½

4/22 Of Freaks and Men (1998, Aleksei Balabanov)  

4/24 I Wake Up Screaming (1941, H. Bruce Humberstone)   ½

4/24 The Hurricane (1937, John Ford)   ½

4/25 Let 'em Have It (1935, Sam Wood)  

4/26 Brother (1997, Aleksei Balabanov)  

4/27 T-Men (1947, Anthony Mann)  

4/28 Pretty Boy Floyd (1960, Herbert J. Leder)  

4/29 High Lonesome (1950, Alan Le May)  

4/30 Killer (1998, Darezhan Omirbayev)  

4/30 Legacy of Blood (1971, Carl Monson)   BOMB

5/1 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979, Vincent McEveety)   ½

5/1 The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)   ½

5/1 tom thumb (1958, George Pal)  

5/2 The Big Country (1958, William Wyler)  

5/3 The Devil's Wedding Night (1973, Luigi Batzella)   ½

5/4 The Second Circle (1990, Aleksandr Sokurov)  

5/6 Blonde Ice (1948, Jack Bernhard)  

5/6 ¡Que viva Mexico! (1979, Sergei Eisenstein)   ½

5/6 Quadrophenia (1979, Franc Roddam)   ½

5/7 Raw Deal (1948, Anthony Mann)  

5/7 Burnt by the Sun (1994, Nikita Mikhalkov)  

5/8 The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980, Charles Jarrott)  

5/8 Witchfinder General (1968, Michael Reeves)   ½

5/10 Open Season (2006, Roger Allers, Jill Culton)   ½

5/10 The Southerner (1945, Jean Renoir)  

5/14 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980, Vladimir Menshov)  

5/15 An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)   ½

5/15 Brigadoon (1954, Vincente Minnelli)   ½

5/16 Night Watch (2004, Timur Bekmambetov)   ½

5/17 Shock (1946, Alfred L. Werker)   ½

5/17 Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973, Hall Bartlett)  

5/18 Moloch (1999, Aleksandr Sokurov)  

5/19 Namu, the Killer Whale (1966, László Benedek)   ½

5/20 Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971, Lucio Fulci)   ½

5/21 Konga (1961, John Lemont)   ½

5/22 My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)   ½

5/23 Death Tunnel (2005, Philip Adrian Booth)   ½

5/24 Schizo (2004, Gulshat Omarova)   ½

5/24 The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma)   ½

5/25 Tales from the Hood (1995, Rusty Cundieff)  

5/30 The Lost World (1960, Irwin Allen)   ½

5/30 Hell in the Pacific (1968, John Boorman)  

5/30 The House on Skull Mountain (1974, Ron Honthaner)  

5/31 Repentance (1984, Tengiz Abuladze)  

6/2 Viy (1967, Georgi Kropachyov)   ½

6/3 Lost Command (1966, Mark Robson)   ½

6/3 Portland Exposé (1957, Harold D. Schuster)  

6/4 Mother and Son (1997, Aleksandr Sokurov)   ½

6/4 Il Conformista (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)  

6/4 They Were So Young (1954, Kurt Neumann)   ½

6/5 Le Couple Témoin (1977, William Klein)   ½

6/5 The Mephisto Waltz (1971, Paul Wendkos)   ½

6/6 Ride in the Whirlwind (1965, Monte Hellman)  

6/6 Calcutta (1969, Louis Malle)  

6/6 The Ice Pirates (1984, Stewart Raffill)  

6/7 The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Norman Jewison)   ½

6/7 Les Croix de Bois (1932, Raymond Bernard)   ½

6/7 Loan Shark (1952, Seymour Friedman)  

6/8 The Food of the Gods (1976, Bert I. Gordon)   ½

6/8 Brick (2005, Rian Johnson)   ½

6/8 A Funny Thing Happened  

      on the Way to the Forum (1966, Richard Lester)  

6/9 Find a Place to Die (1968, Giuliano Carnimeo)  

6/9 Fourteen Hours (1951, Henry Hathaway)  

6/9 Arson, Inc. (1949, William Berke)   ½

6/10 Rio Grande (1950, John Ford)  

6/10 The Neptune Factor (1973, Daniel Petrie)   ½

6/10 Street of Shadows (1953, Richard Vernon)   ½

6/11 Barefoot in the Park (1967, Gene Saks)  

6/11 21 Grams (2003, Alejandro González Iñárritu)   ½

6/11 Go (1999, Doug Liman)   ½

6/12 Les Misérables (1934, Raymond Bernard)   ½

6/13 La Decima Vittima (1965, Elio Petri)  

6/13 Death Hunt (1981, Peter Hunt)   ½

6/13 Shoot to Kill (1947, William Berke)   ½

6/14 Texas Cyclone (1932, D. Ross Lederman)  

6/14 The Sand Pebbles (1966, Robert Wise)  

6/15 Duel at the Supreme Gate (1968, Chau Fung Yuen)  

6/15 I Was Born, But... (1932, Yasujiro Ozu)   ½

6/15 Vicki (1953, Harry Horner)   ½

6/16 The Horsemen (1971, John Frankenheimer)  

6/16 An Affair to Remember (1957, Leo McCarey)   ½

6/20 The Dawns Here are Quiet (1972, Stanislav Rostotsky)   ½

6/22 The Railway Children (1970, Lionel Jeffries)  

6/23 The Lonesome Trail (1955, Richard Bartlett)   ½

6/23 Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966, William Klein)  

6/23 The Burning (1981, Tony Maylam)   ½

6/24 The Silver Star (1955, Richard Bartlett)  

6/24 Tracks (1976, Henry Jaglom)   ½

6/25 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955, Henry King)   ½

6/26 Thunderstruck (2004, Darren Ashton)  

6/28 The Cold Summer of 1953 (1987, Aleksandr Proshkin)  

6/29 Tokyo Chorus (1931, Yasujiro Ozu)   ½

6/30 Iguana (1988, Monte Hellman)   ½

6/30 Oh! What a Lovely War (1969, Richard Attenborough)