Movie Count

  • Jan-17
  • Feb-13
  • Mar-9
  • Apr-6
  • May-11
  • Jun-4
  • Total-60

December 28th

Doubt*
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Writer: John Patrick Shanley (story & screenplay)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Amy Adams
Rating: 4/5

December 26th

Garden of Evil*
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Fred Freiberger (story), William Tunberg (story), & Frank Fenton (screenplay)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell, & Hugh Marlowe
Rating: 4/5

December 25th

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Eric Roth (screen story & screen play) &
Robin Swicord (screen story)
Starring: Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett
Rating: 4/5

December 24th

If...*
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Writers: David Sherwin (script "Crusaders" & screenplay & John Howlett (script "Crusaders")
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, & Christine Noonan
Rating: 4/5

December 23rd

The Unforgiven*
Director: John Huston
Writers: Alan Le May (novel) & Ben Maddow (screenplay)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, & Lillian Gish
Rating: 4.5/5

December 22nd

Bite the Bullet*
Director: Richard Brooks
Writer: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, & Ben Johnson
Rating: 4/5

December 21st

Director: Billy Wilder
Writers: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, & Samuel A. Taylor (play "Avanti" as Samuel Taylor)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, & Edward Andrews
Rating: 3/5
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, & Ian McShane
Rating: 4/5

December 20th

Bugsy*
Director: Barry Levinson
Writers: Dean Jennings (book) (research source) & James Toback (written by)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, & Joe Mantegna
Oscars: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Dennis Gassner & Nancy Haigh) & Best Costume Design (Albert Wolsky)
Rating: 4/5

December 19th

The Wind and the Lion*
Director: John Milius
Writer: John Milius
Starring: Sean Connery, Brian Keith, Candice Bergen, John Huston, & Geoffrey Lewis
Rating: 3.5/5

December 18th

Before the Devil Knows Your Dead*
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Kelly Masterson (written by)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, & Marisa Tomei
Rating: 4/5

December 13th

La Dolce Vita
Director: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini (story & screenplay), Ennio Flaiano (story & screenplay), Tullio Pinelli (story & screenplay), Brunello Rondi (contributing writer), & Pier Paolo Pasolini (uncredited)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Alain Cuny, & Walter Santesso
Oscar: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Piero Gherardi)
Rating: 4.5/5

December 6th

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas*
Director: Mark Herman
Writers: John Boyne (novel) & Mark Herman (screenplay)
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, David Thewlis, & Vera Farmiga
Rating: 3/5

Top Films of November

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November 29th


Sabata*
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Writers: Renato Izzo (writer) & Gianfranco Parolini (writer)
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, William Berger, & Aldo Canti
Rating: 2.5/5











Adios Sabata*
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Writers: Renato Izzo (screenplay & story) & Gianfranco Parolini (screenplay & story)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, & Gérard Herter
Rating: 2/5

November 28th

Directors: Ron Clements & John Musker
Writers: Ron Clements (screenplay), John Musker (screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay), & Terry Rossio (screenplay)
Starring: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, & Douglas Seale
Oscars: Best Music, Original Score (Alan Menken) & Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music) Tim Rice (lyrics) For the song "A Whole New World"
Rating: 4/5










Sin City
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, & Quentin Tarantino (special guest director)
Writer: Frank Miller (graphic novels)
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Burce Willis, & Elijah Wood
Rating: 5/5

November 27th

Once Upon a Time in the West
Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Dario Argento (story), Bernardo Bertolucci (story), Sergio Leone(screenplay & story), & Sergio Donati (screenplay)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, & Jason Robards
Rating: 4.5/5

November 26th

I'm Not There*
Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Todd Haynes (screenplay & story) & Oren Moverman
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, & Ben Whishaw
Rating: 3.5/5

November 23rd

Goodfellas
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Nicholas Pileggi (book "Wise Guy" & screenplay) &
Martin Scorsese (screenplay)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, & Joe Pesci
Oscar: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Joe Pesci)
Rating: 4.5/5

November 21st

The Spirit of Notre Dame*
Director: Russell Mack
Writers: Walter DeLeon (additional dialogue), Robert Keith (writer), Richard Schayer (writer), & Dale Van Every (writer)
Starring: Lew Ayres, William Bakewell, Andy Devine, Harry Barris, & J. Farrell MacDonald
Rating: 3.5/5
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stephen King (novel) Stanley Kubric & Diane Johnson(screenplay)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Loyd, & Scatman Crothers
Rating: 5/5

November 15th

King Kong*
Directors: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writers: Merian C. Cooper(story & idea uncredited), Edgar Wallace(story & idea uncredited), James Ashmore Creelman (screenplay) (as James Creelman),& Ruth Rose (screenplay)
Starring: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, & Robert Armstrong
Rating: 4/5

November 2nd

Changeling*
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Starring: Angelina Jolie & John Malkovich
Rating: 3/5

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October 31st

Nosferatu*
Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Henrik Galeen (writer) Bram Stoker (novel "Dracula" uncredited)
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, & Alexander Granach
Rating: 4/5

October 25th

The World's Greatest Sinner*
Director: Timothy Carey
Writer: Timothy Carey
Starring: Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland, & James Farley
Rating: 3.5/5

October 24th

28 Weeks Later*
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writers: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne, & Jesús Olmo
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Imogen Poots, & Mackintosh Muggleton
Rating: 4/5
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: Robert Aldrich (screenplay & story), Lukas Heller (screenplay), & Robert Sherman (story)
Starring: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews, Ronald Fraser, & Denholm Elliott
Rating: 4/5

October 17th

Mystery Train*
Director: Jim Jarmusch

Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, & Steve Buscemi
Rating: 4/5











The Last Valley*
Director: James Clavell
Writers: James Clavell (Writer) & J.B. Pick (novel)
Starring: Michael Caine & Omar Sharif
Rating: 3/5

October 12th

The Manchurian Candidate*
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writers: Richard Condon (novel), George Axelrod (screenplay), &
John Frankenheimer (uncredited)

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, & Angela Lansbury









Hard Candy*

Director: David Slade

Writers: Brian Nelson

Starring: Patrick Wilson & Ellen Page

Rating: 3.5/5

October 11th

The American Astronaut*
Director: Cory McAbee
Writers: Cory McAbee
Starring: Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Greg Russell Cook, & Tom Aldredge
Rating: 4/5

October 11th


Sympathy for Lady Vengeance*
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writers: Seo-Gyeong Jeong & Chan-wook Park
Starring: Yeong-ae Lee & Min-sik Choi
Rating: 2.5/5











Dracula
Director: Tod Browning & Karl Freund (uncredited)
Writers: Bram Stoker(novel), Hamilton Deane(play) & John L. Balderston(play), Garrett Fort(play script), Dudley Murphy(additional dialogue) uncredited, Louis Bromfield uncredited, Tod Browning uncredited, Max Cohen titles (uncredited), & Louis Steven suncredited
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, & Edward Van Sloan
Rating: 4/5

Top Eight Films of September

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