I watched 110movies for 3 month(1～3月で映画110本見れました)

The total number of movies I watched for these 3 months in 2012 is 110movies.
They include rewatched ones,firsttime watched ones,DVD,theaters,on lines etc.
 The below ★★★★★　marked movies for this January（out of 37 films watched)
 ■8 1/2
 ■My Darling Clementine（荒野の決闘）
 ■The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
（ベンジャミン・バトン数奇な人生）
 ■New Cinema Paradiso（ニューシネマパラダイス）
 ■Sunflower(ひまわり）
 ■Sullivans travels(サリバンの旅）
 ■Freaks(フリークス）
■A night at the opera(マルクス兄弟オペラは踊る） 
■Frankenstein(フランケンシュタイン）
■The house is black(あの家は黒い）

musical comedy(Love me tonight今夜は愛して頂戴な)は楽しい映画

This film is a 1932 musical comedy.It features the classic Rodgers and Hart songs,I especially like "Isnt it romantic?"
Listening to these songs,stresses will be wiped out.
In 1990, Love Me Tonight was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Its memorable scene is where the princess is chasing the train riding on her horse to meet his love.What a beautiful actress Jeanette MacDonald is ,standing on the rail!

Love me tonight is rated ★★★★★

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パルムドール受賞作品Open city(無防備都市）

The story takes place in Nazi occupied Rome.It was made only months after the Allied Forces had pushed the Nazis out of Italy, so the atmosphere of the time is well conveyed to us.I am absorbed in the charaters.They remain in my mind forever.The message from the film is, even when innocent people suffer at the hands of inhuman captors(捕らえる人), they ultimately triumph over the evil.


Open city is rated ★★★★★

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サイコより怖い！？マイケル・パウエル1960作品「Peeping Tom（血を吸うカメラ）」

It is an astonishing film from director Michael Powell.when it was released, many ferocious critics hated it resulting in destroying Michael Powell career.I cannot believe the movie was a total fiasco at its first release.

This film is rated ★★★★

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I know where I am going(渦巻）マイケル・パウエル、エメリック・プレスバーガー作品

「I know where I am going(渦巻）」follows a woman on the way to her wedding to a rich man on an island in Scotland. I do not think this is the Powell - Pressburger duo at their finest.Compared to their Red Shoes,all the others are behind it.「I know where I am going 」is just not as well known as their "Red Shoes," or "Stairway to Paradise."I hear the fans of this film make a pilgrimage to the Isle of Mull.It is no wonder people watch this film feel like going there.Locations are stunningly beautiful.

I know where I am going is rated ★★★★

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Black Narcissus（黒水仙）1947マイケル・パウエル、エメリック・プレスバーガー作品

Black Narcissus is a 1947 film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden. It is a psychological drama about the emotional tensions within a convent of nuns in an isolated Himalayan valley,Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger　were the team behind Archer Productions.This film is an engrossing and moody masterpiece.From the same team that gave us THE RED SHOES this film is a must see for those who appreciate a great story fleshed out by terrific performances in lush settings with phenomenal art direction.This is a movie about the conflicts between spirit and flesh.

Black Narcissus is rated ★★★★

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A Matter of Life and Death（天国への階段） (1946)もスタイリッシュな作品

A truly remarkable movie!
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is a romantic fantasy film set in World War II by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
This film is quite timeless. The "fantasy" element was deftly played. it is not over-weighted with philosophy and yet thought-provoking.

this is rated ★★★★★

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映画「ブラックスワン」をはるかに凌ぐ映画「赤い靴」The Red shoes(1949film赤い靴）outstrip Black swan(ブラックスワン）

Powell (right) and Cardiff (second from left in front) on the set of The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes set for the Covent Garden sequence.

To summarize its main theme,A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
I have watched 2 movies,Black swan and this Red shoes.To be frank,
Red shoes outstip Black swan in terms of actors/actresses performances,music,dancing scenes,dresses,arts,and so on.
I was taken in by the style and grace of the film, both in the musical and the dramatic moments. The actual "Red Shoes Ballet" itself is an astounding work of art.The long dance sequence remains a cinematic landmark

this is rated ★★★★★+

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Japanese classic人情紙風船（Humanity And Paper Balloons）

This Japanese movie director Sadao Yamanaka was drafted into the Japanese army and entered the service on the day this film was released theatrically.And sadly, was died during the war when he was very young aged 28!.With the exception of this film, and only 2 others were survived that we could watch them now.His other films(about 30)were lost ,I think the it is a big loss to the world of the movie globally.
The power of Humanity and Paper Balloons exists not only in the social message that shows the hardships endured by the poor but in its delineation of character,
The film starts with an unseen suicide by a disgraced samurai who hangs himself out of desperation. As the death is being investigated, local tenants hold a wake that turns into a evening of merriment, ostensibly to cleanse the evil that lingers there...
the floating paper ballon in the barrage seems to indicate the human destiny...

this film is rated ★★★★★

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BSでハーヴェイ（Harvey、1950年度作品）を見ました。実に面白い。

Harvey　trailer(about 1 minute)


Jimmy Stewart gives one of his best performances as Elwood in this film.He himself said this role was his favorite one.And in this film,
he has a companion, who do you think he/she is? well,it is an invisible one!! but as the story goes on, that invisible one can be seen by the other person.Elwood is very sociable person,always gives his calling card to people whoever he meets,to invite them to his house to have fun or so,,,This film provides much food for thought on the matter of insanity.
Josephine Hull（Elwood sister) was a wonderfull actress being terrific in this film! She won the Academy Award for this!

Harvey is rated ★★★★★（I really want to rewatch it)もう一度見たくなる

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I was moved to tears again.禁じられた遊び(Jeux interdits,forbidden games)

Overall the below scenes edited（5minutes long) shows the beginning to the ending,so
if you have not seen it yet, not to see it is recommended.
下のシーンは映画の最初のシーンから最後のシーンに至るまで収められています。未見の方でこれから見たいと思われる方は見ないでください。(約5分あります）



The elements in this film that blows me away whenever watching it:
The opening sequence of the bombardment scenes
Camera moving to show the people fleeing the bombing
The unaffected and natural acting of the two children
René Clément superb instruction in those chidren acting

This film was not success in France at its first run.
It was acclaimed well in the other countries.
Whenever I hear the sound of guitar...I am moved to tears.

the forbidden games is rated ★★★★★

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Awesome 1930th movies,素晴らしい！30年代映画はあなどれない

Again,I cannot believe this awesome film was produced in the 1930th!
Pace is so fast I canot even blink my eyes(chucles).
Ann Dvorak especially impressed me with her style and elegance,

Scarface is　rated ★★★★★

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号泣必至、東京物語のヒントになった！？といわれる、Make way for tomorrow(明日は来たらず）

While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he remarked that the Academy gave him the award for the wrong movie. Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) are a couple in their late 60s who have fallen on hard times and have been given the bad news that the bank is foreclosing on their house. Barkley and Lucy turn to their five children for help, but none are willing or able to do much for them; their son George (Thomas Mitchell) says that Lucy can stay with him and his wife Anita (Fay Bainter), while Nellie (Minna Gombell) and her husband Harvey (Porter Hall) can take in Barkley, but neither couple have the space or the means to house them both. Living with their children and their new families proves stressful for everyone involved, and Lucy decides to take up residence in a home for older women. She and Barkley realize that this will probably mean a permanent separation for the two of them, and they try to enjoy one last outing together before they part. Remarkably, Beulah Bondi was only 46 years old when this film was made, making her less then ten years older than several of her on-screen children; make-up wizard Wally Westmore used his bag of tricks to age her the appropriate two decades for the role. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

It is unbelievable that this film was made in 1937!
They say that this movie inspired a Japanese director Yasujirō ozu to craft "tokyo monogatari" .The cruelty, saddness,difficulty in the parents - their children relationships are well-expressed,indeed.
I feel glad this one is listed in the 1001 movies you must see.

Make way for tomorrow is rated ★★★★★

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I want this film to be awarded the best picuture!アカデミー作品賞を取ってほしいのはこれだ！！

勝手気ままに評価しました。
しかし、下馬評通り　The Artist　が作品賞を取るでしょう。

I rated the below films freely.
but, The Artist　will be a winner as expected.

★the lowest ～ the　highest ★★★★★

The Artist ★★★
The Descendants　★★★★
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close　★★★
The Help　★★★★★
Hugo　★★★
Midnight in paris　★★★
Moneyball　★★★
The tree of life　★★★★
War horse　★★★

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賛否両論がはっきり分かれるTree of life(ツリーオブライ）

The film opens with a quote from the Book of Job.
Afterwards, a mysterious, wavering light that resembles a flame flickers in the darkness. Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) recalls a lesson taught to her that people must choose to either follow the path of grace or the path of nature. In the mid 1960s, she receives a telegram informing her of the death of her son, R.L., at age nineteen. Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt) is notified by telephone. The family is thrown into turmoil.
In the 2000s, eldest son Jack O'Brien (Sean Penn) is adrift in his modern life as an architect. One day he has an argument with his father regarding R.L.'s death. Later, after Jack sees a tree being planted in front of a building, he begins to reminisce about his life as a young teenager during the 1950s.

To understand this film, we should absolutely understand the story of job from the bible.I think the main theme of this film is conveyed to us through the story of job...God gives us everything, however, takes everything from us.we are under the control of God...

Tree of life is rated ★★★★
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アカデミー作品賞候補だが「extremely loud and incredibly close(ものすごくうるさくて、ありえないほど近い)」

Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" tells the story of one young boy's journey from heartbreaking loss to the healing power of self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the tragicevents of September 11. Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey--an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity, who are all survivors in their own ways.

words:
Francophileフランスびいきの　
pacifist　平和主義者
borough　ニューヨーク市の右の五つの区。Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island。他の区は、countyを使用する。
motley　雑多の

It would be easier for viewers to understand his behavior , with the knowleage about Asperger syndrome（アスペルガー症候群）, I think.

Extremely loud and incredibly close is rated ★★★

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アカデミー作品賞候補、money ball、ブラッドピットが魅せます。

Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy has to find a competitive advantage. Billy is going to turn baseball on its ear when he takes advantage of statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he chooses for the team.In 2001, Oakland A's lose to the Yankees in the playoffs then lose three stars to free agency. How can Beane field a competitive team when the A's player salaries total less than a third of the rich teams'? To the consternation of his scouts, Beane hires and listens to Peter Brand, a recent Yale graduate who evaluates players using Bill James' statistical approach. Beane assembles a team of no names who, on paper, can get on base and score runs. Then, Beane's manager, Art Howe, won't use the players as Beane wants. Can Beane circumvent Howe, win games, make it to the 2002 Series, and stand baseball's hidebound conventions on their heads?

words
turn on ear 一新する
hidebound　　時代遅れの
circumvent 回避する
I hear the ending scene is good enough for film viewers to be moved to tears, but I was not.

Moneyball is rated ★★★

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アカデミー作品賞候補、Martin Scorsese監督、ヒューゴの不思議な発明（Hugo）

In 1931, Hugo Cabret, a 12-year-old boy, lives with his widowed father, a kind and devoted master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father takes him to see films and loves the films of Georges Méliès best of all. Hugo's father is burned alive in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle, an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station Gare du Nord. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks, then disappears.
Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton – a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. Convinced that the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes to desperate lengths to fix it. Hugo steals mechanical parts in the station to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a toy store owner named Georges Melies who takes Hugo's notebook from him, with notes and drawings for fixing the automaton.

What I feel good about　this film is that the scenes from A trip to the moon,The great train robbery(月世界旅行、大列車強盗）appear on the screen.

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アカデミー賞作品賞候補、Academy award nominated movie「the artist」,its actress is not so attractive.

Time flies indeed! The academy award ceremonoy is approaching...
This year totally 9 movies are chosen for this award.
I am wondering which one will be a best picture.
Today,I first chose the Artist to be posted in my blog.
I am one of the classics fan.Some of them made me cry,laugh, think of my past etc. the silent movie entertains me in a different way that an usual movie does.

Here is the trailer:



The Artist is a 2011 French romantic drama film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress, as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies. Most of the film itself is silent; it was produced in black-and-white, and has received wide praise from critics and many accolades. Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered.

As far as its trailer is concerned, it does not seem to impress me like the other classics does.

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The ending scene is awesome!The Killing（現金に体を張れ）

The Killing is a 1956 film noir produced by James B. Harris and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Johnny Clay is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay . He plans to rob two million dollars from the money counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop , a betting window teller to give access to the backroom, a sharpshooter to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar and a track bartender.

The Killing was Kubrick's first full-length feature film shot with a professional cast and crew. The story is told using a non-linear narrative, an unusual device for 1950s American cinema, and was imitated nearly 40 years later in the film Reservoir Dogs. Director Quentin Tarantino acknowledged Kubrick's film as a major influence, even referring to Reservoir Dogs as "my Killing". The Killing followed many of the conventions of film noir, in both its plotting and cinematography style. The genre peaked in the 1940s, but many critics regard this film as one of its best. While it was not a financial success, it received good reviews.

I think the ending scene is one of my best!!

The Killing is rated ★★★★★

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