Dracula(1931)のLugosi（ルゴシ）は正にハマリ役！

Dracula(1931)trailer:



To be honest,this film is not scary, spooky（不気味）, eerie（薄気味悪い）, has no suspense. Dracula is not so scary.What dissapointed me most was its ending. I rather love other classic monster films such as Frankenstein and The Wolf Man.If you want to feel scary,see Nosferatu (1922). That film has style, substance. But Lugosi was simply born for the role.I recommend you to see his career in the film 「Ed Wood」.

Dracula(1931) is rated ★★★

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意外に良かった１９３１movie,Frankenstein（フランケンシュタイン)

Frankenstein trailer
予告編！！、女性の悲鳴が入ってます、音量を低くしてご覧ください（笑）。
Please turn down the volume as the lady screaming is involved(chuckles)



No horror films would be perfect without this movie. It was one of the first and is still one of the best ever made. The film that made Boris Karloff. Jack Pierce provides the best make-up since Chaney's Phantom of the Opera.This is, without question, the definitive gothic horror classic that defined the standard
Although many people may argue that The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) was a better one, I think Frankenstein is the best monster movie ever made.This movie has lightning, atmosphere, plot, and character. James Whale directed this film and did a awesome job with it. It is pretty scary too. The scene where Frankenstein throws Little Maria into the water and drowns her is a touching scene, because you really don't know who you want to feel sorry for more... Sure Maria is a little girl and drowned, but Frankenstein didn't mean to kill her and now he lives with what he had done.

Frankenstein(１９３１) is rated ★★★★★

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Freaks（怪物園）を見て衝撃を受けました！

It was very sad that it took the world so long to finally release this film from its banned state.It is no wonder why this extraordinary film was selected to the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.
This film was a huge success at it's initial screening in San Diego, but the movie was so unusual for its time (instead of fictional monsters the film was filled with real-life human oddities) that many found it squeamish and frightening and the studio pulled the film and had it re-edited. The movie found some critical success and was very popular in some cities, but overall the film was critically panned(批評家にこき下ろされる）. Critics and many viewers found the sideshow setting of the film, with Siamese twins, armless women, pinheads（頭が異常に小さい人）, bearded ladies, dwarves, and a limbless man to be just too unnatural. It was banned in many cities across the U.S. as well as in Britain and Australia and MGM pulled the film from circulation. Fueled by a spirit of rebellion, the movie had a renaissance in the 1960s which continued for over thirty years until the film being added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board in 1994. At the time of its initial release, many people found FREAKS horrifying because of the human oddities. Some would argue that we are now too desensitized（鈍感） by all the graphic and horrifying things we've been exposed to over the past two generations to find the film as frightening as it once must have seen. I would like to think it's more because we've become more sensitive and compassionate about all people (of course, a movie like FREAKS would never get made today). Whatever the case, the unusual people in FREAKS aren't disturbing and shocking. With our modern lens, audiences can see beyond the "freaks" and see them as the people they really were (as they movie says, "They are all God's children) and see the movie for the excellent film it is.

「魔人ドラキュラ」でベラルゴシと組んだトッドブラウニング監督による、サーカスを舞台にした1932年のホラー？映画です。あまりに衝撃的なのでイギリスでは30年間公開されませんでした。下手なホラーよりはるかに怖いです。

Freaks is rated ★★★★★

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試写会で麒麟の翼を見ました、以前見た「赤い指」よりは．．．

A middle aged man walked to the nihonbashi, with the knife stubbed in his chest.
What has ever happened to this man? Why did he go to such a place? This film protagonist Kaga tried to seek the truth behind this murder..

I recieved the free ticket of this movie preview a few days ago.
They say this novel is the best of all ever made regarding Kaga.
But, I do not think so. Akai yubi(赤い指）I watched on TV last year was more impressive .
I put too much of myself into that Akai yubi.
Why? There was no truth defying the viewers prediction, no astounding ending in kirinnotubasa...
Anyway, Abe Hirosi radiated an aura during the movie.

麒麟の翼 is rated ★★★

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Death in venice (ベニスに死す）is so slow, can be shortend to 90 minutes.

This is a beautifully shot yet slowing-moving movie based on the novel. The best part of this movie is the cinematography and settings in Venice. The plot concerns a composer who falls in love with the adolescent Tadzio, who looks like greek sculputure. The film's major fault is its extreme slow pace. The camera moves about lazily and long stretches pass when no one speaks. From time to time, we are given flashbacks of Aushenbach's life in Germany, but they are mere flickers of memory and not fleshed out at all. What we see mostly are shots of Aushenbach walking around Venice in a feverish daze.I have been looking forward to seeing this movie, but the pace dissapointed me a lot.

Sad to say,
The death in venice is rated ★★
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この映画音楽を聴くと涙が...ひまわり（Sunflower, I Girasoli)

未見の方は下記を見ないほうが．．．完全なネタバレありです。
Spoiler alert below!!

Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was the first occidental（西洋） film to be filmed in the USSR.
Neapolitan lovers', Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), honeymoon is cut short by Antonio's deployment to the Russian Front during World War II. Antonio does not return when the war is over, and is listed as missing in action. Despite the odds(困難にめげず), Giovanna is convinced her true love has survived the war and is still in Russia. Determined, she journeys to Russia to find him. In Russia, Giovanna visits the sunflower fields, where there is supposedly one flower for each fallen Italian soldier, and where the Germans forced the Italians to dig their own mass graves. Eventually, Giovanna finds Antonio, but by now he has started a second family with a woman who saved his life, and they have one daughter. Herself childless, having been faithful to her newly-wed husband, Giovanna returns to Italy, heartbroken, but unwilling to disrupt her love's new life. Some more years later, Antonio returns to Giovanna, asking her to come back with him to Russia. Meanwhile, Giovanna has tried to move on with her own life, moving out of their first home together and into her own apartment. She has started dating again, has given birth to a baby boy, and is living as a single parent. He explains his new life, how war changes a man, how safe he felt with his new woman after years of death. Unwilling to ruin Antonio's daughter's or her own new son's life, Giovanna refuses to leave Italy, expressing an intense emotional maturity in her choice. As they part, Antonio gives her a fur scarf, something he promised to bring her back years ago. The lovers lock eyes as Antonio's train takes him away from Giovanna, and from Italy, forever.

Sunflower is rated ★★★★★

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What a nostalgic movie!Cinema Paradiso（ニュー・シネマ・パラダイス）

Awesome music!! (5分ほどあります。よろしければお聴きください）

Sometimes, a film comes along and dazzles audiences with its smooth viewability, if that is a word, brilliant acting, and well crafted plotline. In the case of Cinema Paradiso, we see these elements combined with a stunningly soothing musical score, excellent cinematography, and a combination of comedic, romantic, and dramatic moments.
This film starts in the present, presenting us with the main character, Toto, as a　middle aged man, well into his fifties, returning to his hometown to hear his lifetime friend . What follows for the duration of the film allows us to see his childhood, his adolescence, and the way he fights through tumultuous times of love, disaster, and peril.

Cinema Paradiso is rated ★★★★★+

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ベンジャミン数奇な人生（The Curious Case of Benjamin Button）

The film may get you out of your chair to hug someone that you love.When faced with adversity BB decided to survive and enjoy life. He experiences everything he possibly can, a lesson all of us could internalize and apply to our lives. There is a lot of death but the movie clearly demonstrates reality, we all are touched by death in our lives and this movie is not afraid to show it.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is rated ★★★★★

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フェデリコ・フェリーニ（Federico Fellini）Otto e mezzo（8 1/2）

Fellini himself said that ,if he had to chose, this would be his best work. Why would he make such a statement?
This is, of course, a film that Fellini made about himself, is his auto-biography at that point of his life. And is a film that everything seems to work correctly: the music, photography, acting and direction of course. In a nutshell, a film that some may not like but can't say anything consistently negative against.The acting is terrific; especially Marcello Mastroianni whose air of detachment(超然、孤立） fit the movie so well. The photography was excellent, as well. The story is one of a director who has lost his own direction. As he stumbles aimlessly along supposedly putting together a film, his inteactions with others and his reminiscences （回想）give us an insight to his confusion. His world is overwhelming him and he can't figure out where to turn.

8 1/2 is rated ★★★★★

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The great escape(大脱走）McQueen's motorcycle scene is great!

McQueen's motorcycle scene is great!

The file didn't get its due(当然得られるもの）when it was released.It is director John Sturges' brilliant film presentation of the absorbing (夢中にさせる）Paul Brickhill Book.It has an amazing cast of Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner, Charles Bronson, and Richard Attenborough. The Germans put together a group of Allied prisoners in one prison camp. They've put "all their rotten eggs in one basket", or so the German commandant says.The Great Escape combines humor, adventure, action and suspense, and yet shows war's tragedy. There are many memorable scenes and magical moments (McQueen's motorcycle jump probably being the most famous and best remembered - although it was actually performed by a double) in this three hour long story of indomitable spirit（不屈の精神）, courage and heroism. This is a movie that has stood the test of time, and won't lose its magic or its message with repeated viewing. The Germans may have thought that their POWs were rotten eggs, but you'll sure enjoy watching them try to get out of their basket.

The great escape is rated ★★★★★

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癒されます、名曲Over the rainbowが聴ける（歌詞字幕付き）、The Wizard of Oz（オズの魔法使い）

Judy Garland really projects Dorothy's innocenece and vulneribility
(脆弱さ）, and Margaret Hamilton truly scares you as the Wicked Witch. The special effects are still amazing, even after all that's come along since.Unlike many of today's films that age fast, this will continue to last.Young Dorthy is tired of her ordinary life in her ordinary town and is suddenly whisked away(連れ去られる） to Oz, a dream land full of color and beauty. Masterfully done job on everyone's part as the wonderful movie unfolds. It is so much fun, it's no wonder it is still around. It has survived many movies of the same time, as well as countlessly bad sequels and spin-offs, which is no surprise at all. Great cast in a great movie proves that being over the raindow is timeless.

The Wizard of Oz is rated ★★★★★

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ファン作成高画質の予告編がありました！Hitchcock best film Rebecca(レベッカ）

The film begins with a voiceover of a woman speaking the first lines from the novel: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again", to the images of a ruined country manor. She continues that she can never return to Manderley — as it no longer exists, except as a ruin.
Joan Fontaine plays a young woman (who is never named), an orphan, who works as a paid companion to the wealthy Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates). In Monte Carlo, she meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter (Laurence Olivier) and they fall in love. Within weeks, they decide to get married.
There's wonderful acting by Joan Fontaine as a naive and very green bride who marries a rich man and moves into his mansion. Little does she know that her husband's first wife had a very shady past, and a doting maid who still resides at the home. This movie is just wonderful, I encourage any romantic suspense lover to watch it! One of Hitchcock's best.

Rebecca is rated ★★★★★

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Limelight (ライムライト、1952 film)も★★★★★rate評価！！

Spoiler alert!You might as well not watch the below video as it reveals the ending(まだ見ておられない方は、以下のビデオを見ない方が良いと思います。結末が分りますので）。



The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I. 1914 was the year Chaplin made his first movie. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza Ambrose, alias Terry (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback are less successful...
it's the story of a once-great stage comedian (Calvero, a formerly great tramp clown, played by Charlie Chaplin), who's been failing in his career, and has become an alcholic, who saves the life of a despondent ballerina (played by Claire Bloom) from a suicide attempt. The film is a juxtaposition(組み合わせ、並列） of these two personalities, one who rallies & goes onward, the other who falls further. It contains some of Chaplin's funniest & finest moments, include a nice pantomime of a flea circus, and a duet towards the end of the film with Buster Keaton. I wasn't really into charlie until I saw this and "the great Dictator". I know they are classic classic's when I watch them again.When he made this film he was about 64 years old....yet bouncy and buoyant(元気溌剌）...very charismatic, sweet and charming.

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(a blog with speech subtitle)why is The Great Dictator（チャップリンの独裁者)not listed in the 1001movies you must see before you die?

The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true talking picture as well as his most commercially successful film.More importantly, it was the first major feature film of its period to bitterly satirize Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism(反ユダヤ主義), and the Nazis, whom he excoriates(激しく非難) in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
Not only is it funny, but its message, especially the end speech, is deeply moving

Speech script:
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity;
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. . .
Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written:
"The kingdom of God is within man"
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!
. . .

The Great Dictator is rated ★★★★★＋

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the best ending scene 「City Lights(街の灯）」

The last five minutes are simply exquisite,the scene takes on such emotional gravity as to defy explanation. Though shot in the early days of talking pictures, "City Lights" was silent. Chaplin still held onto his immortal character, the Little Tramp. Outwardly appearing as a bum(ホームレス), the Tramp has a heart of gold and is rather self-sacrificing. He encounters a blind flower girl. Determined to pay for a surgery to restore her sight, Chaplin performs several jobs to secure funds for the operation.
The end of the picture is a true gem(珠玉), among the most memorable and touching climaxes in screen history.Although this film is rather quite funny (the boxing match had me in stitches(笑い転げる）), Chaplin's brilliantly ends this film with one of the most touching scenes in cinema. Imagine spending 90 minutes laughing uncontrollably, only to be brought to your knees in tears as the tramp and the blind girl reunite. Surely this emotional transition is one of the greatest feats in the history of film.

City Lights is rated ★★★★★

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猫顔？のシモーヌ・シモンが見事に演じたCat People(1942 movie)

This film let the imagination of the viewer make up the horror, as everything is in the unseen.Irena(Simone Simon) is cursed with the supernatural ability to turn into a cat when angered. Irena is a tragic figure, doomed by her own inner terrors and torments. This deadly ability causes the detoriation of her happy marriage, the death of a man, as well as hers A sense of suspense and wonder permeates（浸透、充満する） the film, thanks to producer Val Lewton's celebrated use of light and shadow and the brisk direction of Robert Wise. Because of their small budgets, these films depended more on good writing and haunting atmospherics, rather then the usual corny（陳腐な、物まねの）, special effects to scare audiences. Lewton's movies might have at the time been considered "B-films", but they were extremely well made and most effective.

Cat People is rated ★★★★
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one of the best classics! Metropolice(メトロポリス）

Power, greed, corruption and slavery are the main focus here and are enhanced by the constant use of religious imagery throughout the film. Despite the films age, the complicated sets and backdrops are spectacular and beautiful to behold. From the sweeping views of the ultra-modern Metropolis with its imposing skyscrapers, endless stream of cars and airplanes which fly within city limits to the workers' smog-infested dwellings and the majestic work machines that run their lives to the thousands of extras who were carefully set and choreographed all contribute in giving "Metropolis" its trancelike quality. The visual features used in the film are highly impressive especially when the technological conditions of the German film industry in the 1920s are considered. The symbolical usage of lights and shadows as well as the music contribute to the plot, and these features artistically enrich the film. The mechanical and cold atmosphere of the city is successfully represented through architecture. The gestures and mimics of the actors in Metropolis is one of the things that you cannot find in Hollywood films. This is absolutely a masterpiece of silent films.
Lang's film has many levels; one can approach it politically, in terms of class dynamics or in terms of gender and the representation of woman or its association with the evil, etc. The characters are brilliantly used for conveying the sub-themes in the film. You have to see this multidimensional master piece of science fiction; it is a feast for the eye, for the ear and the mind.

Metropolice is rated ★★★★★

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Film noir The big heat(復讐は俺に任せろ）

The movie opens with a policeman committing suicide in his home. His wife immediately finds him dead and reads a suicide note. Instead of calling the police, she first calls a major crime syndicate boss named Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby). The police eventually arrive at the dead policeman's house and detective sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) leads the investigation. One of the attractions of this story is the pace: it is fast-moving, and it's not too dated either, despite being over 50 years old.

From now on, I rate the movie by the number of star mark as follows:
★★★★★(best)
★(worst)

The big heat is ★★★★★

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George Orson Welles（オーソンウェルズ）Touch of Evil（黒い罠）

The famous opening scene, an uninterrupted two minute tracking shot that bridges the US and Mexican borders, is almost enough to recommend this movie on it own. But then consider the cast of characters Welles assembled: Heston, Leigh, Dietrich, all giving masterful performances. As usual, it is Welles himself who steals the show.Welles himself is made to look huge. He was already a bit overweight anyway, but the camera angles used and make-up only serve to emphasis his bulk. He plays Hank Quinlan a crooked plice chief. The other main characters are Charlton Heston as Vargas a Mexican Policeman and Janet Leigh is his wife Susan Vargas. Both are excellent. From the famous oprning tracking shot, which lasts over 3 minutes, through to the ending this is a dark tale of corruption and drugs. The story is set right on the border between the U.S and Mexico so you are continually unsure about jurisdiction. You will have to concentrate when watching this.

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見ごたえ有り！Mildred Pierce（深夜の銃声）

Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American drama film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter.
This melodramatic film noir is one of the most decorated films of the genre, nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winner of the Best Actress Oscar for Joan Crawford's portrayal of the title character. Like several of film noir's most famous examples, "Double Indemnity" among them, "Mildred Pierce" is based on a novel by James M. Cain. In this case, the novel was adapted by Ranald MacDougall, with some uncredited assistance from William Faulkner. As the film opens, Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford), a sophisticated woman, obviously distraught, makes an apparent attempt to frame a business associate for her husband's murder. She is taken to the police station, where she recounts the events of the past few years to an investigating officer. We see, in flashback, her split from her first husband, her preoccupation with providing an aristocratic lifestyle for her eldest daughter, her business success, and eventual marriage to her now-deceased second husband.

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