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FILMS WATCHED
NOVEMBER 2007 - JANUARY 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.



11/2 Giants & Toys (1958, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/3 Escalofrío (1978, Carlos Puerto)  

11/4 Tomie (1999, Ataru Oikawa)   ½

11/4 Chosen Survivors (1974, Sutton Roley)  

11/5 Almost a Bride (1949, Richard Wallace)  

11/5 The Big Combo (1955, Joseph H. Lewis)   ½

11/5 Evel Knievel (1971, Marvin J. Chomsky)   ½

11/5 C.C. and Company (1970, Seymour Robbie)   ½

11/6 Convict Women (1974, Chris Robinson)   ½

11/6 Dutchman (1967, Anthony Harvey)  

11/6 Afraid to Die (1960, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/6 Code 7 Victim 5! (1964, Robert Lynn)   ½

11/7 Cry of Battle (1963, Irving Lerner)   ½

11/7 The Street with No Name (1948, William Keighley)  

11/7 All Creatures Great and Small (1975, Claude Whatham)   ½

11/8 Red Angel (1966, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/9 Men in War (1957, Anthony Mann)  

11/10 The World's Greatest Athlete (1973, Robert Scheerer)   ½

11/11 The Mad Bomber (1973, Bert I. Gordon)  

11/12 Dr. Cyclops (1940, Ernest B. Schoedsack)  

11/13 Cult of the Cobra (1955, Francis D. Lyon)  

11/13 Manji (1964, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/14 The Land Unknown (1957, Virgil W. Vogel)  

11/14 The Deadly Mantis (1957, Nathan Juran)   ½

11/15 Blind Beast (1969, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/16 The Leech Woman (1960, Edward Dein)   ½

11/16 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979, Ralph Thomas)  

11/17 Black Test Car (1962, Yasuzo Masumura)  

11/17 Penny Gold (1973, Jack Cardiff)  

11/17 The Octagon (1980, Eric Karson)   ½

11/18 Blue Spring (2001, Toshiaki Toyoda)  

11/18 Acapulco Gold (1978, Burt Brinckerhoff)  

11/19 The Beast in the Cellar (1970, James Kelley)   ½

11/20 Island of the Lost (1967, Ricou Browning, John Florea)   BOMB

11/21 Pitfall (1962, Hiroshi Teshigahara)   ½

11/21 Run Simon Run (1970, George McCowan)  

11/22 9 Souls (2003, Toshiaki Toyoda)  

11/23 Tokyo Rampage (1998, Toshiaki Toyoda)  

11/24 The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969, Irving Lerner)  

11/25 Fatal Charm (1977, Stelvio Massi)   ½

11/25 Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)  

11/26 Poor Pretty Eddie (1975, Chris Robinson)   ½

11/26 Two Way Stretch (1960, Robert Day)   ½

11/27 The Burmese Harp (1956, Kon Ichikawa)  

11/27 The Strongest Man in the World (1975, Vincent McEveety)  

11/28 Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)  

11/29 The Face of Another (1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara)   ½

11/30 Fires on the Plain (1959, Kon Ichikawa)  

12/1 I'm All Right Jack (1959, John Boulting)   ½

12/2 Mansion of the Doomed (1976, Michael Pataki)   ½

12/3 The Wilby Conspiracy (1975, Ralph Nelson)   ½

12/4 Adios Amigo (1976, Fred Williamson)   BOMB

12/4 Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)  

12/5 The Island at the Top of the World (1974, Robert Stevenson)  

12/5 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)  

12/5 The Father Kino Story (1977, Ken Kennedy)   ½

12/6 Delinquent Girl Boss:

         Worthless to Confess (1971, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)  

12/6 The House on 92nd Street (1945, Henry Hathaway)   ½

12/7 Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)  

12/8 Zero Hour! (1957, Hall Bartlett)  

12/9 Airplane! (1980, Jerry Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)   ½

12/10 Girl Boss Guerilla (1972, Norifumi Suzuki)   ½

12/11 Caged (1950, John Cromwell)  

12/12 The Stud (1978, Quentin Masters)  

12/12 The Bitch (1979, Gerry O'Hara)  

12/13 Terrifying Girls' High School:

           Lynch Law Classroom (1973, Norifumi Suzuki)   ½

12/13 Moonlighting (1982, Jerzy Skolimowski)  

12/14 Scott of the Antarctic (1948, Charles Frend)   ½

12/15 The Final Terror (1983, Andrew Davis)   ½

12/16 Somewhere in the Night (1946, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)  

12/17 Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973, Atsushi Mihori)   ½

12/18 Early Spring (1956, Yasujiro Ozu)  

12/19 Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Howard Hawks)  

12/20 Brannigan (1975, Douglas Hickox)   ½

12/21 No Deposit No Return (1976, Norman Tokar)   ½

12/21 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958, Nathan Juran)   ½

12/22 Whirlpool (1949, Otto Preminger)  

12/22 Tokyo Twilight (1957, Yasujiro Ozu)  

12/22 Bog (1983, Don Keeslar)   BOMB

12/23 Equinox Flower (1958, Yasujiro Ozu)   ½

12/24 Zero Focus (1961, Yoshitaro Nomura)  

12/25 Santa Claus (1985, Jeannot Szwarc)  

12/26 The Dark Corner (1946, Henry Hathaway)   ½

12/27 The Shaggy D.A. (1976, Robert Stevenson)   ½

12/28 Thunder Road (1958, Arthur Ripley)   ½

12/28 The Giant Behemoth (1959, Eugène Lourié)  

12/29 Skyjacked (1972, John Guillermin)   ½

12/29 The Colossus of Rhodes (1961, Sergio Leone)  

12/29 Queen of Outer Space (1958, Edward Bernds)   ½

12/30 Dogs (1976, Burt Brinckerhoff)  

12/30 Passion (1954, Allan Dwan)   ½

12/30 The Noah (1975, Daniel Bourla)   ½

12/31 No End in Sight (2007, Charles Ferguson)  

1/1 Buccaneer's Girl (1950, Frederick De Cordova)  

1/2 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972, Shunya Ito)   ½

1/3 Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu)  

1/4 Tales from the Crypt (1972, Freddie Francis)  

1/5 Trog (1970, Freddie Francis)  

1/5 Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)   ½

1/6 Today It's Me... Tomorrow You (1968, Tonino Cervi)   ½

1/6 Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)   ½

1/7 The Littlest Outlaw (1955, Roberto Gavaldón)   ½

1/7 Kiss of Death (1947, Henry Hathaway)   ½

1/8 I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (1967, Michael Winner)   ½

1/9 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003, Mike Hodges)   ½

1/10 The End of Summer (1961, Yasujiro Ozu)   ½

1/11 Hot Rods to Hell (1967, John Brahm)  

1/12 Silver Lode (1954, Allan Dwan)  

1/12 The Fast and the Furious (1955, John Ireland, Edward Sampson)  

1/13 Hercules (1958, Pietro Francisci)   ½

1/13 Bloody Territories (1969, Yasuharu Hasebe)   ½

1/13 The Big Wheel (1949, Edward Ludwig)  

1/14 Yankee Buccaneer (1952, Frederick De Cordova)  

1/14 Hot Rod Girl (1956, Leslie H. Martinson)   ½

1/15 October (1928, Sergei Eisenstein)  

1/16 Tennessee's Partner (1955, Allan Dwan)   ½

1/17 Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944, Sergei Eisenstein)   ½

1/18 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1958, Sergei Eisenstein)   ½

1/19 Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950, Otto Preminger)   ½

1/20 Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913, Yevgeni Bauer)   ½

1/20 After Death (1915, Yevgeni Bauer)  

1/20 Count Dracula's Great Love (1972, Javier Aguirre)   ½

1/21 Cattle Queen of Montana (1954, Allan Dwan)   ½

1/21 The Dying Swan (1917, Yevgeni Bauer)   ½

1/21 Alexander the Great (1956, Robert Rossen)   ½

1/22 I'll Be Seeing You (1944, William Dieterle)  

1/22 Earth (1930, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)  

1/22 The Big Cube (1969, Tito Davison)   ½

1/23 The End of St. Petersburg (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin)   ½

1/24 Arsenal (1928, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)  

1/25 Paris- When It Sizzles (1964, Richard Quine)  

1/26 The Sundowners (1950, George Templeton)  

1/27 Aelita (1924, Yakov Protazanov)   ½

1/28 No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)  

1/29 Candleshoe (1977, Norman Tokar)   ½

1/30 Double Crossbones (1951, Charles Barton)   ½

1/31 Storm Over Asia (1928, Vsevolod Pudovkin)