銀座・イエナ書店にて、"The Good Film and Video Guide"を購入した。
版元はロンドン・イギリス。
レイティング(評価)は以下のとおり。
★★★★ Essential viewing
★★★ Of exceptional quality
★★ Entertaining
★ Recommended with reservations
(no star) IF you have nothing else to do
もちろん、こういった評価も主観的であることを免れないのだが。
ちなみに、"The Hidden Fortress (1958) ★★★"は、黒澤明監督の「隠し砦の三悪人」。"Life of O-Haru (1952) ★★★★"は、溝口健二監督「西鶴一代女」。Onibaba (1964) ★★は、新藤兼人監督「鬼婆」。"Osaka Elegy (1936) ★★★"は、溝口健二監督「浪華悲歌」。"Rashomon (1950) ★★★★"は、黒澤明監督「羅生門」。Sanjuro (1962) ★★は、黒澤明監督「椿三十郎」。"Sansho Dayu (1954) ★★★★"は、溝口健二監督「山椒大夫」。"Tokyo Story (1953) ★★"は、小津安二郎「東京物語」。
これまでに個人的に観たものの評価をざっと見てみると…。
Absence of Malice (1981) ★★★
All about Eve (1950) ★★★★
All That Jazz (1979) ★
American Gigolo (1980) ★★
An American Werewolf in London ★★
The Apartment (1960) ★★★★
Apocalypse Now (1979)★
The Birds (1963) ★★★
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ★★★★
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) ★★
Bus Stop (1956) ★★★
Cabaret (1972) ★★
Cabin in the Sky (1943) ★★
Casablanca (1942) ★★★★
Chariots of Fire (1981) ★★★
The China Syndrome (1979) ★★★
Chinatown (1974) ★★
The Circus (1928) ★
Citizen Kane (1941) ★★★
Daddy Long Legs (1955) ★
Death of a Salesman (1951) ★★
Dial 'M' for Murder (1954) ★★
Dr Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) ★★★
A Dog’s Life (1918) ★★
Dracula (1979) ★
Dress to Kill (1980)
Easy Rider (1969) ★★★
The Elephant Man (1980) ★★
Escape from New York (1981) ★
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) ★
Frenzy (1972) ★
From Here to Eternity (1953) ★★★
From Russia with Love (1963) ★
Gallipoli (1981) ★★★
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) ★
The Gold Rush (1925) ★★★
Goldfinger (1964) ★★
Gone with the Wind (1939) ★★★★
Goodbye Again (1961) ★
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ★★★★
The Great Dictator (1940) ★★
The Great Escape (1963) ★★★
Hair (1979) ★★
Hamlet (1948) ★★★★
A Hard Day's Night (1964) ★
Harold and Maude (1971) ★★★
Harrie Craig (1950) ★★
The Hidden Fortress (1958) ★★★
It Happened One Night (1934) ★★★
The Kid (1921) ★★★
Kramer versus Kramer (1979) ★★★
The Last Wave (1977) ★★
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ★★
Lenny (1974) ★★★
Life of O-Haru (1952) ★★★★
Limelight (1952) ★
Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) ★★
Love Story (1970) ★
Melvin and Howard (1980) ★★★
Midnight Cowboy (1969) ★★★
Missing (1982) ★★★
Modern Times (1936) ★★
Mommie Dearest (1981) ★
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) ★★★
My Fair Lady (1964) ★★
Niagara (1953) ★★★
The Odd Couple (1968) ★★★
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) ★★
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) ★★★
Onibaba (1964) ★★
Osaka Elegy (1936) ★★★
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) ★★
Psycho (1960) ★★★
Raging Bull (1980) ★
Rashomon (1950) ★★★★
Rear Window (1954) ★★
Rebecca (1940) ★★★★
Rebel without a Cause (1955) ★
Reds (1981) ★★★★
Rich and Famous (1981) ★
Roman Holiday (1953) ★★★
The Rose (1979) ★★★
Sanjuro (1962) ★★
Sansho Dayu (1954) ★★★★
Saturday Night Fever (1977) ★
Seven Samurai (1954) ★★★★
Shoulder Arms (1918) ★★
Showboat (1936) ★★★
Singin' in the Rain (1952) ★★★★
Some Like it Hot (1959) ★★★★
The Sound of Music (1965) ★★★
Splendor in the Grass (1961) ★
A Star is Born (1937) ★★
Strangers on a Train (1951) ★★★
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ★★★★
Sunset Boulevard (1950) ★★★★
Sweet Charity (1969) ★★
Taxi Driver (1975) ★
Tess (1979) ★★
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) ★★
Tokyo Story (1953) ★★
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) ★★★
True Confessions (1981) ★★
Twelve Angry Men (1957) ★★
Union City (1980) ★★
The Verdict (1982) ★★
West Side Story (1961) ★★
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) ★
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) ★
Wolfen (1981) ★
Wuthering Heights (1939) ★★★