Didn't get much reading done this time around. Now I have several books I need to finish up. I hope your New Year is going well. Books read 35. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, by Harry Kemelman 36. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home, by Harry Kemelman 37. Kaufman Field Guide to Advance Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear, by Kenn Kaufman 38. Conversation Today, by Albery B. Dahlquist 39. Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud Movies Watched 60. Kohayagawake no aki (The End of Summer) - Matchmaking and double lives are the focus of the Ozu film. 61. Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) - Ozu's masterpiece. 62. Sasame-yuki (The Makioka Sisters) - Kon Ichikawa was commisioned by Toho Studios to film this adaptation of the Junichiro Tanizaki novel. 63. Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen's classic WWII submarine story. Intense and claustrophobic. 64. The Children's Hour - Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclaine strive to follow their dream - to run a boarding school for girls - only to have their lives torn apart by a lie. 65. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Spielberg's conclusion to the saga. Some exciting scenes, but ultimately disappointing. 66. Macbeth (dir. Polanski) - Developed by Polanski in wake of the death of his wife, Sharon Tate. No major studio was interested in the production, resulting in it's being financed by Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises. 67. Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) - Akira Kurosawa adapts an Ed McBain novel (King's Ransom) and transports it to 1960's Japan. 68. A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann directs and Paul Scofield stars as Thomas Moore in an adaptation of the Robert Bolt play. 69. Courageous - Another production by Sherwood Baptist Church (Facing the Giants, Fireproof). Cliched but fairly competent. 70. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - The doctor's influence looms large in this sequel to Mabuse, the Gambler. Fritz Lang directs. 71. Kes - Ken Loach's coming of age story about a boy and his bird. 72. Francesco, giullare di di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis) - Roberto Rossellini's account of the famous saint. 73. Black Narcissus - Faith, obsession, madness, and desire converge in this Powell and Pressburger classic. Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Sabu, and David Farrar star. 74. Aruitemo aruitemo (Still Walking) - Hirokazu Koreeda's family drama follows in the tradition of Ozu but does not insist on the happy ending. 75. Hamlet (dir. Olivier) - A classic telling of the Shakespeare story. Both lauded and condemned by critics, the film has survived the tests of time. 76. Bande a part (Band of Outsiders) - Jean-Luc Godard's tale of youth and crime. 77. L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni's classic tale of a missing woman and the lives she leaves behind. 78. L'eclisse (The Eclipse) - Antonioni's follow-up to L'avventura is dominated by a doomed love affair and compelling imagery. 79. The Complete Jean Vigo (Criterion Collection) - Known primarily for L'Atlante, Vigo also filmed a documentary on Olympic swimming, a tale of childhood rebellion and passion, and a brief glimpse of life in Nice, France. 80. Die Dreigroschenoper (The 3 Penny Opera) - George Pabst, Bertolt Brecht, and Kurt Weill adapted the successful stage play to film. Several musical numbers were cut in the process. 81. La Regle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) - Jean Renoir's classic film was all but destroyed during WWII. Criterion offers a reassembled version. 82. The Great Dictator - Chaplin's most successful film, a satire of Hitler's Germany. Chaplin plays dual roles as Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who looks exactly like the not-so-great dictator. 83. The Red Shoes - Powell and Pressburger followed up Black Narcissus with another tale of obsession and madness. 84. Sansho dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) - Kenji Mizoguchi's film follows the lives of two children who are sold into slavery. 85. Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) - Kurosawa's masterpiece. Seven samurai gather to save a rural village from marauding bandits. 86. Du Rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) - Criminal masterminds gather for one last heist. 87. Biruma notategoto (The Burmese Harp) - A Japanese soldier in Burma is separated from his comrades and eventually disguises himself as a monk, having grown tired of war and its destruction. 88. Kumonosu-jo (Throne of Blood) - Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth is set in feudal Japan. 89. Lanee derniere a Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) - A man, a woman, and another man. Who are they? 90. El angel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) - Luis Bunuel presents a fable of the upper class. 91. Vivre sa vie - A young woman is led into a life of prostitution. 92. La Jetee / Sans Soleil - Two films by Chris Marker, a science fiction classic and a visual essay / travelogue featuring scenes from Japan, Iceland, Paris, and Guinea-Bissau. 93. Masculin feminin - Heavy on the feminin. 94. L'armee de ombres (Army of Shadows) - Pierre Melville presents a look at the French Resistance in Vichy France. 95. Days of Heaven - Terrance Malick directs Richard Gere and Brooke Adams in this retelling of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, and the pharaoh of Egypt. 96. Paris, Texas - Harry Dean Stanton plays an estranged man trying to reconcile himself to his family. | 