Sansho the Bailiff*Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writers: Ogai Moristory ("Sanshô dayû"), Fuji Yahiro (writer), & Yoshikata Yoda(writer)
Starring: Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, & Eitarô Shindô
Rating: 4/5
September 21st
Burn After Reading*Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, & Brad Pitt
Rating: 3/5
September 20th
How Green Was My Valley*Director: John Ford
Writers: Philip Dunne (screenplay) & Richard Llewellyn (novel)
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, & Anna Lee
Oscars: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Donald Crisp), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Richard Day, Nathan Juran, & Thomas Little), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Arthur C. Miller), Best Director (John Ford), & Best Picture (1942)
Rating: 4/5
The Fall*Director: Tarsem Singh
Writers: Dan Gilroy(screenplay), & Nico Soultanakis (screenplay), Tarsem Singh (screenplay), & Valeri Petrov (1981 screenplay Yo Ho Ho) (as Valery Petrov)
Starring: Catinca Untaru & Lee Pace
Rating: 4/5
September 19th
Undertow*Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: Lingard Jervey (story), Joe Conway (screenplay), & David Gordon Green (screenplay)
Starring: Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan, & Jamie Bell
Rating: 4/5
Comments: There seems to be many parallels between this film and Night of the Hunter that Green must have been influenced by it.
September 12th
Panic in Year Zero*Director: Ray Milland
Writers: Ward Moore (stories Lot and Lot's Daughter, uncredited), John Morton, & Jay Simms
Starring: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, & Frankie Avalon
Rating: 4/5
September 7th
La StradaDirector: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini (story and screenplay), Tullio Pinelli (story, screenplay, & dialogue), & Ennio Flaiano (screenplay as Ennio Flajano)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, & Giulietta Masina
Oscar: Best Foreign Language Film (Dino De Laurentiis & Carlo Ponti, Italy).
Rating: 4.5/5
September 6th
Boomerang*Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Richard Murphy (screenplay) & Fulton Oursler (article)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt,& Lee J. Cobb,
Rating: 3.5/5
September 5th
High & Low*Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Eijirô Hisaita(writer), Evan Hunter(novel) "King's Ransom" (as Ed McBain), Ryuzo Kikushima(writer), Akira Kurosawa(writer), Hideo Oguni(writer), & Hayakawa Shobo(translator of novel)
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, & Tsutomu Yamazaki
Rating: 4/5
August 8th
The Last Frontier*
Director: Anthony Mann
Writers: Richard Emery Roberts (novel "The Gilded Rooster"), Philip Yordan(screenplay), and Russell S. Hughes(screenplay)
Starring: Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore, & Anne Bancroft
Rating: 4/5
The Naked Street*Director: Maxwell Shane
Writers: Leo Katcher (story) & Maxwell Shane (writer)
Starring: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, & Anne Bancroft
Rating: 2.5/5
August 31st
Onibaba*Director: Kaneto Shindô
Writer: Kaneto Shindô
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato
Rating: 4/5
August 30th
High Noon*
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writers: Carl Foreman (screenplay) & John W. Cunningham (magazine story "The Tin Star")
Starring: Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly
Oscars: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing (Elmo Williams & Harry W. Gerstad), Best Music, Original Song Dimitri Tiomki (music) & Ned Washington (lyrics), & Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin)
Rating: 4/5
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson*
Director: Alex Gibney
Writers: Alex Gibney (screenplay) & Hunter S. Thompson (writings)
Starring: Hunter S. Thompson
Rating: 4/5
Man in the Attic*Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Marie Belloc Lowndes, (novel "The Lodger"), Barré Lyndon (writer), & Robert Presnell Jr. (writer)
Starring: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, & Rhys Williams
Rating: 3/5
August 29th
Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance*Director: Chan-wook Park
Writers: Jae-sun Lee, Mu-yeong Lee, Yong-jong Lee, & Chan-wook Park
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, & Du-na Bae
Rating: 3.5/5
August 24th
Metropolis*Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou
Starring: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, & Brigitte Helm
Starring: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, & Brigitte Helm
Rating: 4/5
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