Imposter's Movielog - 2007

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  1. Jan

  2. [01/02] Saratoga Trunk (1945, dir: Sam Wood) - ***
  3. [01/07] The Gay Falcon (1941, dir: Irving Reis) - ***
  4. [01/07] This Island Earth (1954, dir: William Alland) - ***½
  5. [01/09] Forbidden Planet (1956, dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox) - ****½
  6. [01/10] Layer Cake (2004, dir: Matthew Vaughn) - ****½
  7. [01/13] Pursued (1947, dir: Raoul Walsh) - ****
  8. [01/14] Railroaded! (1947, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****
  9. [01/14] Forbidden (1932, dir: Frank Capra) - ***½
  10. [01/15] Witness To Murder (1954, dir: Roy Rowland) - ***½
  11. [01/15] Trooper Hook (1957, dir: Charles Marquis Warren) - ***
  12. [01/20] The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936, dir: Stephen Roberts) - ***½
  13. [01/20] Too Many Husbands (1940, dir: Wesley Ruggles) - ***½
  14. [01/23] The Toast Of New York (1937, dir: Rowland V. Lee) - ***
  15. [01/24] Children Of Men (2006, dir. Alfonso Cuaron) - ****½
  16. [01/24] Meet Boston Blackie (1941, dir: Robert Florey) - ***
  17. [01/26] Volver (2006, dir. Pedro Almodovar) - ****
  18. [01/27] What Price Glory (1952, dir: John Ford) - ***½
  19. [01/27] The Last Hurrah (1958, dir: John Ford) - ***½
  20. [01/28] Bloody Sunday (2002, dir: Paul Greengrass) - ****½
  21. [01/28] Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, dir: Robert Bresson) - ****½
  22. [01/29] Waterloo Bridge (1931, dir: James Whale) - ****
  23. Feb

  24. [02/03] Pandora's Box (1929, dir: G.W. Pabst) - *****
  25. [02/03] The Cave Of Silken Web (1967, dir: Ho Meng-Hua) - ****
  26. [02/05] Public Hero #1 (1935, dir: J. Walter Ruben) - ***½
  27. [02/07] The Westerner (1940, dir: William Wyler) - ****
  28. [02/10] The Tin Star (1957, dir: Anthony Mann) - ***½
  29. [02/10] Cabin In The Sky (1943, dir: Vincente Minnelli) - ****
  30. [02/11] The Big Country (1958, dir: William Wyler) - ****
  31. [02/12] Trafic (1971, dir: Jacques Tati) - ****
  32. [02/13] Yojimbo (1961, dir: Akira Kurosawa) - ****½
  33. [02/14] Sanjuro (1962, dir: Akira Kurosawa) - ****½
  34. [02/17] This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006, dir. Kirby Dick) - ****
  35. [02/18] Lancelot Of The Lake (1974, dir: Robert Bresson) - ****
  36. [02/18] The Double Life Of Veronique (1991, dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski) - ****½
  37. [02/19] The Last King Of Scotland (2006, dir: Kevin Macdonald) - ****
  38. [02/19] Mouchette (1967, dir: Robert Bresson) - ****½
  39. [02/20] Pan's Labyrinth (2006, dir: Guillermo del Toro) - ****
  40. [02/21] Letters From Iwo Jima (2006, dir: Clint Eastwood) - ****½
  41. [02/24] Flags Of Our Fathers (2006, dir: Clint Eastwood) - ****
  42. [02/26] Police Story 2 (1988, dir: Jackie Chan) - ***½
  43. [02/28] The Great Yokai War (2005, dir: Takashi Miike) - ****
  44. Mar

  45. [03/03] Divorce, Italian Style (1962, dir: Pietro Germi) - ****
  46. [03/03] Who's That Knocking At My Door? (1968, dir: Martin Scorsese) - ***½
  47. [03/04] Passage To Marseille (1944, dir: Michael Curtiz) - ***
  48. [03/05] When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960, dir: Mikio Naruse) - ****½
  49. [03/06] Christmas In July (1940, dir: Preston Sturges) - ****½
  50. [03/10] Invitation To The Dance (1957, dir: Gene Kelly) - ***½
  51. [03/10] Bound For Glory (1976, dir: Hal Ashby) - ****½
  52. [03/11] The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****½
  53. [03/11] Woyzeck (1979, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****
  54. [03/13] Open Your Eyes (1997, dir: Alejandro Amenabar) - ***
  55. [03/14] A Man For All Seasons (1966, dir: Fred Zinnemann) - ****½
  56. [03/17] Europa '51 (1952, dir: Roberto Rossellini) - ***
  57. [03/17] Police Story 3: Supercop (1992, dir: Stanley Tong) - ***½
  58. [03/18] Fires On The Plain (1959, dir: Kon Ichikawa) - ****½
  59. [03/19] Children Of Heaven (1997, dir: Majid Majidi) - ****½
  60. [03/20] Heart Of Glass (1976, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****
  61. [03/21] The Kennel Murder Case (1933, dir: Michael Curtiz) - ***½
  62. [03/24] The Miracle Woman (1931, dir: Frank Capra) - ***½
  63. [03/24] The Mad Miss Manton (1938, dir: Leigh Jason) - ***½
  64. [03/25] The Age Of Innocence (1992, dir: Martin Scorsese) - ****
  65. [03/25] Strozsek (1977, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****
  66. [03/27] The Host (2006, dir: Joon-ho Bong) - ***½
  67. [03/31] The Trial Of Joan of Arc (1962, dir: Robert Bresson) - ****
  68. [03/31] The Immortal Story (1968, dir: Orson Welles) - ***
  69. Apr

  70. [04/01] Adventure In Manhattan (1946, dir: Edward Ludvig) - ***
  71. [04/01] The Passenger (1975, dir: Michelangelo Antonioni) - ****½
  72. [04/03] Our Man In Havana (1959, dir: Carol Reed) - ****
  73. [04/04] Nosferatu The Vampire (1979, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****½
  74. [04/06] Grindhouse (2007, dir: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - ****½
  75. [04/07] Quai des Orfevres (1947, dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - ****½
  76. [04/07] Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****½
  77. [04/08] Double Harness (1933, dir: John Cromwell) - ***
  78. [04/09] An Actor's Revenge (1963, dir: Kon Ichikawa) - ****½
  79. [04/10] The Ring (1927, dir: Alfred Hitchcock) - ***½
  80. [04/11] The Manxman (1929, dir: Alfred Hitchcock) - ***½
  81. [04/15] L'Argent (1983, dir: Robert Bresson) - ****
  82. [04/15] Curse Of The Golden Flower (2006, dir: Zhang Yimou) - ****
  83. [04/16] The Heiress (1949, dir: William Wyler) - ****½
  84. [04/17] The High And The Mighty (1954, dir: William A. Wellman) - ***½
  85. [04/21] Let's Go To Prison (2006, dir: Bob Odenkirk) - **½
  86. [04/21] Not One Less (1999, dir: Zhang Yimou) - ****
  87. [04/22] Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973, dir: Sam Peckinpah) - ****
  88. [04/22] The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (1970, dir: Sam Peckinpah) - ****
  89. [04/23] In The Mood For Love (2000, dir: Wong Kar-Wai) - *****
  90. [04/28] Accepted (2006, dir: Steve Pink) - ***
  91. [04/29] Man Bites Dog (1992, dir: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) - ****
  92. May

  93. [05/01] The Tales Of Hoffmann (1951, dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) - ****
  94. [05/02] The Iceman Cometh (1989, dir: Clarence Fok) - ***½
  95. [05/05] The Big Shot (1942, dir: Lewis Seiler) - ***
  96. [05/05] Germany Year Zero (1948, dir: Roberto Rossellini) - ****
  97. [05/06] Bedazzled (1967, dir: Stanley Donen) - ****
  98. [05/07] Le Corbeau (1943, dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - ****½
  99. [05/08] Going Places (1974, dir: Bernard Blier) - ****
  100. [05/12] Goodbye, Columbus (1969, dir: Larry Peerce) - ****
  101. [05/13] Masked Rider The First (2005, dir: Takao Nagaishi) - ***
  102. [05/16] March Of The Wooden Soldiers (1934, dir: Gus Meines, Charles Rogers) - ****½
  103. [05/19] My Name Is Nobody (1973, dir: Tonino Valerii) - ****
  104. [05/20] Green For Danger (1946, dir: Sidney Gilliat} - ****½
  105. [05/23] Major Dundee (1965, dir: Sam Peckinpah) - ****
  106. [05/28] The Third Man (1949, dir: Carol Reed) - *****
  107. [05/30] "G" Men (1935, dir: William Keighley) - ****
  108. June

  109. [06/02] Brother Orchid (1940, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ***½
  110. [06/03] Army Of Shadows (1969, dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) - *****
  111. [06/05] Tunes Of Glory (1960, dir: Ronald Neame) - ****
  112. [06/08] Ocean's Thirteen (2007, dir: Stephen Soderbergh) - ****
  113. [06/09] The Guns Of Navarone (1961, dir: J. Lee Thompson) - ****
  114. [06/10] Rome, Open City (1945, dir: Roberto Rossellini) - ****½
  115. [06/12] The End Of Summer (1961, dir: Yasujiro Ozu) - ****
  116. [06/13] Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill (1946, dir: Roy William Neill) - ***½
  117. [06/16] The Queen (2006, dir: Stephen Frears) - ****
  118. [06/16] Notes On A Scandal (2006, dir: Richard Eyre) - ****½
  119. [06/17] Bullitt (1968, dir: Peter Yates) - ***½
  120. [06/19] Straight Time (1978, dir: Ulu Grosbard) - ****½
  121. [06/24] Samurai Assassin (1965, dir: Kihachi Okamoto) - ****
  122. [06/26] The Impatient Years (1944, dir: Irving Cummings) - ***
  123. [06/30] All About Our House (2001, dir: Koki Mitani) - ***½
  124. July

  125. [07/01] The Good German (2006, dir: Steven Soderbergh) - ****
  126. [07/01] Zero Hour! (1957, dir: Hall Bartlett) - ***½
  127. [07/02] Shadows (1959, dir: John Cassavetes) - ****½
  128. [07/04] These Are The Damned (1963, dir: Joseph Losey) - ***½
  129. [07/07] Hot Rods To Hell (1967, dir: John Brahm, James Curtis Havens) - ***
  130. [07/08] Vengeance Is Mine (1979, dir: Shohei Imamura) - ****½
  131. [07/11] San Quentin (1937, dir: Lloyd Bacon) - ***
  132. [07/14] Dark Command (1940, dir: Raoul Walsh) - ***
  133. [07/15] Ronin (1998, dir: John Frankenheimer) - ***½
  134. [07/16] Night Nurse (1931, dir: William A. Wellman) - ***½
  135. [07/17] Live Free Or Die Hard (2007, dir: Len Wiseman) - ***
  136. [07/18] A Lost Lady (1934, Alfred E. Green) - ***
  137. [07/20] Breakfast For Two (1937, dir: Alfred Santell) - ***
  138. [07/21] They Call Me Trinity (1970, dir: Enzo Barboni) - ****
  139. [07/21] Rainbow Kids (1991, dir: Kihachi Okamoto) - ****
  140. [07/21] These Wilder Years (1956, dir: Roy Rowland) - ***
  141. [07/22] Annie Oakley (1935, dir: George Stevens) - ***½
  142. [07/22] The Left Hand Of God (1955, dir: Edward Dmytryk) - ***½
  143. [07/23] Un Flic (1972, dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) - ***½
  144. [07/24] Pretty Poison (1968, dir: Noel Black) - ****
  145. [07/25] Merrily We Live (1938, dir: Norman Z. McLeod) - ****
  146. [07/28] Twelve O'Clock High (1949, dir: Henry King) - ****½
  147. [07/28] The File On Thelma Jordon (1950, dir: Robert Siodmak) - ***½
  148. [07/29] Trinity Is Still My Name (1971, dir: Enzo Barboni) - ****
  149. [07/30] The Seventh Seal (1957, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - *****
  150. [07/31] If.... (1968, dir: Lindsay Anderson) - ****½
  151. Aug

  152. [08/01] The Simpsons Movie (2007, dir: David Silverman) - ****
  153. [08/05] Air Force (1943, dir: Howard Harks) - ****
  154. [08/06] Cobra Verde (1987, dir: Werner Herzog) - ****
  155. [08/07] Arizona (1940, dir: Wesley Ruggles) - ***½
  156. [08/12] Greed (1924, dir: Erich von Stroheim) - ****½
  157. [08/14] Hanzo The Razor: Sword Of Justice (1972, dir: Kenji Misumi) - ***
  158. [08/15] Hanzo The Razor: The Snare (1973, dir: Yasuzo Masumura) - ***
  159. [08/18] Django (1966, dir: Sergio Corbucci) - ***½
  160. [08/19] This Land Is Mine (1943, dir: Jean Renoir) - ****
  161. [08/20] Decoy (1946, dir: Jack Bernhard) - ***½
  162. [08/25] The Final Countdown (1980, dir: Don Taylor) - ****
  163. [08/26] Act Of Violence (1948, dir: Fred Zinnemann) - ****
  164. [08/28] The Big Steal (1949, dir: Don Siegel) - ***½
  165. [08/29] Friendly Persuasion (1956, dir: William Wyler) - ****
  166. [08/29] Les Enfants Terribles (1950, dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) - ***½
  167. Sept

  168. [09/01] Illegal (1955, dir: Lewis Allen) - ***½
  169. [09/01] Employees' Entrance (1933, dir: Roy Del Bluth) - ***½
  170. [09/02] The Lives Of Others (2006, dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) - *****
  171. [09/02] Manhattan Melodrama (1934, dir: W.S. Van Dyke) - ****
  172. [09/03] Crime Wave (1954, dir: Andre de Toth) - ****
  173. [09/04] Mystery Street (1950, dir: John Sturges) - ****
  174. [09/05] Where Danger Lives (1950, dir: John Farrow) - ***½
  175. [09/09] Side Street (1950, dir: Anthony Mann) - ****
  176. [09/11] Once (2007, dir: John Carney) - ****½
  177. [09/11] The Bourne Identity (2002, dir: Doug Liman) - ****
  178. [09/12] The Bourne Supremacy (2004, dir: Paul Greengrass) - ***½
  179. [09/15] L'Eclisse (1962, dir: Michelangelo Antonioni) - ***½
  180. [09/19] Tension (1950, dir: John Berry) - ****
  181. [09/22] Last Hurrah For Chivalry (1979, dir: John Woo) - ***½
  182. [09/22] Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978, dir: Bertrand Blier) - ****
  183. [09/22] East Of Eden (1955, dir: Elia Kazan) - *****
  184. [09/24] 3:10 To Yuma (1957, dir: Delmer Daves} - ****½
  185. [09/25] Pitfall (1962, dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara) - ****½
  186. [09/29] Les Bonnes Femmes (1960, dir: Claude Chabrol) - ****½
  187. [09/29] Hot Fuzz (2007, dir: Edgar Wright) - ****
  188. Oct

  189. [10/02] They Live By Night (1948, dir: Nicholas Ray) - ****½
  190. [10/03] Black Book (2006, dir: Paul Verhoeven) - ****½
  191. [10/06] Woman In The Window (1944, dir: Fritz Lang) - ****
  192. [10/06] The Threpenny Opera (1931, dir: G.W. Pabst) - ****
  193. [10/13] The Quiet American (1958, dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) - ****
  194. [10/13] Black Sunday (1960, dir: Mario Bava) - ****½
  195. [10/16] Dawn Of The Dead (1978, dir: George Romero) - ****
  196. [10/20] Black Sabbath (1963, dir: Mario Bava) - ****½
  197. [10/20] The Thing (1982, dir: John Carpenter) - ****½
  198. [10/23] Straight On Till Morning (1972, dir: Peter Collinson) - **
  199. [10/27] Fourteen Hours (1951, dir: Henry Hathaway) - ****
  200. [10/27] Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971, dir: Roy Ward Baker) - ***½
  201. [10/28] Murmur Of The Heart (1971, dir: Louis Malle) - ****
  202. [10/29] Mississippi Burning (1988, dir: Alan Parker) - ***½
  203. [10/30] The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970, dir: Dario Argento) - ****
  204. [10/31] Don't Torture A Duckling (1972, dir: Lucio Fulci) - ***
  205. Nov

  206. [11/03] Scars Of Dracula (1970, dir: Roy Ward Baker) - ***
  207. [11/03] Tomorrow Is Forever (1956, dir: Irving Pichel) - ***½
  208. [11/06] Kill, Baby...Kill! (1966, dir: Mario Bava) - ****½
  209. [11/07] Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974, dir: Jacques Rivette) - *****
  210. [11/10] The Case Of The Bloody Iris (1972, dir: Giuliano Carnimeo) - ***
  211. [11/10] The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963, dir: Mario Bava) - ****
  212. [11/16] The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir: Wes Anderson) - ****½
  213. [11/17] What Have You Done To Solange? (1972, dir: Massimo Dallamano) - ***
  214. [11/18] The Great Moment (1944, dir: Preston Sturges) - ***½
  215. [11/21] Bay Of Blood (1971, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  216. [11/23] Breathless (1960, dir: Jean-Luc Godard) - *****
  217. [11/24] The Raid (1954, dir: Hugo Fregonese) - ***½
  218. [11/24] A Thousand Clowns (1965, dir: Fred Coe) - ****½
  219. [11/28] Blood And Black Lace (1964, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  220. [11/30] Control (2007, dir: Anton Corbijn) - ***½
  221. Dec

  222. [12/01] Lisa And The Devil (1973, dir: Mario Bava) - ***½
  223. [12/01] The Whip And The Body (1963, dir: Mario Bava) - ****
  224. [12/02] Battleship Potemkin (1925, dir: Sergei Eisenstein) - *****
  225. [12/05] Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, dir: Sidney Lumet) - ***½
  226. [12/05] Wife Vs. Secretary (1936, dir: Clarence Brown) - ***
  227. [12/06] No Country For Old Men (2007, dir: Joen & Ethan Coen) - ****½
  228. [12/08] The Quiet American (2002, dir: Philip Noyce) - ***½
  229. [12/08] Winter Kills (1979, dir: William Richert) - ***
  230. [12/08] Sawdust And Tinsel (1953, dir: Ingmar Bergman) - ****½
  231. [12/11] This Man Must Die (1969, dir: Claude Chabrol) - ****
  232. [12/12] Lust, Caution (2007, dir: Ang Lee) - ***½
  233. [12/12] The Mouse That Roared (1959, dir: Jack Arnold) - ***½
  234. [12/15] Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, dir: Alain Resnais) - ****
  235. [12/18] Linda Linda Linda (2005, dir: Nobuhiro Yamashita} - ****
  236. [12/20] I Am Legend (2007, dir: Francis Lawrence) - **½
  237. [12/22] Mr. Klein (1976, dir: Joseph Losey) - ****
  238. [12/22] The Milky Way (1969, dir: Luis Bunuel) - ****
  239. [12/27] Charlie Wilson's War (2007, dir: Mike Nichols) - ****½
  240. [12/29] 28 Weeks Later (2007, dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) - ***½
  241. [12/29] The Silent Partner (1978, dir: Daryl Duke) - ****
  242. [12/30] Battle Of Okinawa (1971, dir: Kihachi Okamoto) - ****
Author Comments: 

Blue entries indicate films I've previously seen.