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\u4f8d<\/a> Samurai<\/i> aka Samurai Assassin<\/i> (dir. \u5ca1\u672c \u559c\u516b<\/a>). Talk, talk, talk, talk, bloodbath, End.<\/p>\n

How To Murder Your Wife<\/i> (dir. Richard Quine). Phooey. For comedy we make some allowance for a contrived story and an immoral resolution, but this one “takes a mile.”<\/p>\n

Repulsion<\/i> (dir. Roman Polanski). Slow and not my cup of tea, but technically somewhat interesting. — Near the end, Carol “writes” on a window: that is, she moves a stylus (or maybe it’s only her finger) in the manner of writing, but makes no mark. Someone must know what she writes, but I haven’t found the right keywords!<\/p>\n

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript)<\/i> (dir. Wojciech Has). Tales within tales: I’m not sure there is a point to it, but it was good fun along the way. Duels, hauntings, lovers climbing in at windows, the Spanish Inquisition (don’t tell me you didn’t see that<\/strong> coming) . . . . — At one point someone used a word that sounded like English nonsense<\/i>; does any of my readers speak enough Polish to confirm that it has been borrowed?<\/p>\n

Lord Jim<\/i> (dir. Richard Brooks). After Lawrence of Arabia<\/i>, Peter O’Toole went further back in time and up the river Kwai to destroy a warlord (Eli Wallach), with pretty much the results you’d expect, which is to say a quite competent adventure flick: not quite a classic but a good way to pass the time. James Mason plays a pirate.<\/p>\n

\u8d64\u3072\u3052<\/a> (Red Beard)<\/i> (dir. \u9ed2\u6fa4 \u660e<\/a>). A young physician is shocked to find himself assigned to a primitively-equipped charity hospital rather than to the Sh\u014dgun’s staff. You can guess the plot from that premise; but the patients’ stories told along the way are, though almost unrelievedly sorrowful, not without interest.<\/p>\n

\u5ea7\u982d\u5e02\u4e8c\u6bb5\u65ac\u308a (Zat\u014dichi’s Revenge)<\/i> (#10; dir. Inoue Akira). The corrupt village boss this time around is more evil than usual. — I begin to wonder whether I miss anything by forgetting the names mentioned in previous instalments, because this is the second or third in which (as a minor part of the story) someone is hired to kill Ichi on account of one or another of his past exploits.<\/p>\n

Alphaville<\/i> (dir. Jean-Luc Godard). An awesomely advanced computer rules the city, rationally of course, which means the arts are long forgotten along with the word love<\/i>. Once the foregoing was expounded (after about half an hour), I put it away.<\/p>\n

Shenandoah<\/i> (dir. Andrew V. McLaglen).<\/p>\n

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines<\/i> (dir. Ken Annakin). Like It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World<\/i>, it could be improved by cutting half an hour of slapstick.<\/p>\n

The Collector<\/i> (dir. William Wyler). I watched about twenty minutes; couldn’t get into it. Perhaps some other time.<\/p>\n

What’s New, Pussycat<\/i> (dir. Clive Donner). Thin.<\/p>\n

\u7363\u306e\u5263<\/a> Sword of the Beast<\/i> (dir. \u4e94\u793e \u82f1\u96c4<\/a>). Unusually complex samurai flick. — One of the players, Kato Go, looks strikingly like Gregory Peck.<\/p>\n

Cat Ballou<\/i> (dir. Elliot Silverstein). Light (though less comical than I expected), but warm.<\/p>\n

The Knack . . and how to get it<\/i> (dir. Richard Lester). Abandoned in twenty minutes or less. Lucky that I didn’t see this before A Hard Day’s Night<\/i> or A Funny Thing Happened<\/i> or The Three Musketeers<\/i> or The Ritz<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Great Race<\/i> (dir. Blake Edwards). I remember watching this with Dad, on television in 197x. “Push the button, Max! Not that button!” — We see Professor Fate and his assistant on a pedal-powered mini-blimp; I wonder, could such a thing be practical? — Miss Dubois’s feminism is established with some annoyingly nonsensical conversations. — The fencing bout of Tony Curtis and Ross Martin is more realistic, with less wild slashing, than usual.<\/p>\n

Lost In Space<\/i>. The opening shot announces the date as October 16, 1997. Funny, I don’t remember hearing it mentioned back when people were talking about prominent fictional dates that were then approaching, such as the pivotal disasters in Space: 1999<\/i> and Terminator 2<\/i>. — Anyway. It’s so<\/strong> well-meaning that I hate to criticize it for such details as bad science and trite slow-moving plots. (I suppose it wasn’t quite so trite then.)<\/p>\n

Hogan’s Heroes<\/i> (first seven episodes). Better than I expected.<\/p>\n

The Wild Wild West<\/i><\/del>; Get Smart<\/i><\/del>; I Dream of Jeannie<\/i><\/del>. Not available. Does that seem right to you?<\/p>\n

\u5ea7\u982d\u5e02\u9006\u624b\u65ac\u308a (Zat\u014dichi and the Doomed Man)<\/i> (#11, dir. Mori Kazuo). Ichi’s fame has now spread enough that a rogue briefly profits by impersonating him. — The climactic battle is more ‘stagey’ than usual.<\/p>\n

Bunny Lake Is Missing<\/i> (dir. Otto Preminger). For the first hour it’s an absorbing, if slow-moving, mystery. But when the criminal is revealed to us he takes on a new personality, a madness incompatible with his previous cunning, which wrecks the show for me. — In the first few minutes an American is made to say “marketing” where most of us, so far as I know, would say “shopping”. Is there such a dialect?<\/p>\n

Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky (Loves of a Blonde)<\/i> (dir. Milos Forman).<\/p>\n

La Decima Vittima (Tenth Victim)<\/i> (dir. Elio Petri). From a story by Robert Sheckley, who died 15 days before I saw it. — One brief scene reminds me of a throw-away line from Heinlein’s “All You Zombies”.<\/p>\n

Doctor Zhivago<\/i> (dir. David Lean). I spotted a small error: in the “peaceful demonstration” the first banner is missing a letter from svoboda i bratst<\/b>vo<\/i> (freedom and brotherhood).<\/p>\n

\u5ea7\u982d\u5e02\u5730\u7344\u65c5 (Zat\u014dichi and the Chess Expert)<\/i> (#12, dir. Misumi Kenji). As in #6, some of the violence in #12 is more graphic than usual. — Ichi plays a shamisen; I think that’s a first; previously he has often played a pennywhistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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