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1980 Spetters, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands I've also seen: Challenge of the Tiger, Bruce Le & Luigi Batzella & Richard Harrison, Hong Kong/Italy Human Beasts, Paul Naschy, Spain/Japan White Cannibal Queen, Jess Franco & Francesco Prosperi, Italy/Spain 1981 Circle of Deceit, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany I've also seen: Night of the Werewolf, Paul Naschy, Spain Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France These last three fall into a nebulous classification, as they are cheap and poorly made, yet extremely entertaining and bizarre, so I would still recommend them to fans of outrageous cinema. For Your Height Only, Eddie Nicart, Philippines Mystics in Bali, H. Tjut Djalil, Indonesia The Warrior, Sisworo Gautama Putra, Indonesia 1982 Shaolin Temple, Hsin-Yen Chang, China/Hong Kong 1983 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, Japan/UK/New Zealand - Over half of this was in Japanese, the remainder in English. 1984 The Devil's Sword, Ratno Timoer, Indonesia

1976 Master of the Flying Guillotine, Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan/Hong Kong Yakuza Graveyard, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan The Big Racket, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy Keoma, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy 1977 Soldier of Orange, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands - 8/10 Stroszek, Werner Herzog, West Germany Ceddo, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal The Heroin Busters, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy 1978 The Bloodstained Shadow, Antonio Bido, Italy The Pyjama Girl Case, Flavio Mogherini, Italy Brawl Busters, Jeong-yong Kim, South Korea 1979 Vengeance Is Mine, Shohei Imamura, Japan Fascination, Jean Rollin, France

The Story of Louis Pasteur is on DVD from Warner Archive. Angels with Dirty Faces was also available as a solo release. I bought it new at a discount store a few years ago for $3.

1975 Manila in the Claws of Light, Lino Brocka, Philippines - 8/10 The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR Cops vs Thugs, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan Deewaar, Yash Chopra, India The Four of the Apocalypse..., Lucio Fulci, Italy I've also seen: Satanico Pandemonium, Gilberto Martinez Solares, Mexico Fox and His Friends, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany The Werewolf and the Yeti, Miguel Iglesias, Spain A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, Leon Klimovsky, Spain Exorcismo, Juan Bosch, Spain The Sword & the Claw, Natuk Baytan, Turkey

1974 Going Places, Bertrand Blier, France - 8/10 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany I've also seen: Evil of Dracula, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Street Law, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Carlos Aured, Spain Tendre Dracula, Pierre Grunstein, France The Night of the Sorcerers, Amando de Ossorio, Spain

1973 Turkish Delight, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico Zatoichi's Conspiracy, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Count Dracula's Great Love, Javier Aguirre, Spain Hunchback of the Morgue, Javier Aguirre, Spain I've also seen: The Loreley's Grasp, Amando de Ossorio, Spain Beach of the War Gods, Jimmy Wang Yu, Hong Kong/Taiwan Tattooed Dragon, Wei Lo, Hong Kong A Man Called Tiger, Wei Lo, Hong Kong A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Jess Franco & Pierre Queret & Jean Rollin, Belgium

1972 Don't Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, Italy The Blood Spattered Bride, Vicente Aranda, Spain One-Armed Boxer, Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan/Hong Kong I've also seen: Zatoichi at Large, Kazuo Mori, Japan Zatoichi in Desperation, Shintaro Katsu, Japan The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany Who Saw Her Die?, Aldo Lado, Italy The Cannibal Man, Eloy de la Iglesia, Spain Red Psalm, Miklos Jancso, Hungary

1971 Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Lake of Dracula, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Mon Oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra, Canada I've also seen: The Fifth Cord, Luigi Bazzoni, Italy Short Night of Glass Dolls, Aldo Lado, Italy WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia Trafic, Jacques Tati, France Bad Man's River, Eugenio Martin, Spain Isle of the Snake People, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico Alien Terror, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill & Jose Luis Gonzalez de Leon, Mexico

1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, Italy - 8/10 Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Vittorio De Sica, Italy Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto, Japan Bed and Board, Francois Truffaut, France Ucho/The Ear, Karel Kachyna, Czechoslovakia The Vampire Doll, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Companeros, Sergio Corbucci, Italy I've also seen: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Luciano Ercoli, Italy Donkey Skin, Jacques Demy, France Claire's Knee, Eric Rohmer, France Assignment Terror, Tulio Demicheli & Hugo Fregonese & Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi & Eberhard Meichsner, Spain Baal, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany

1969 Goyokin, Hideo Gosha, Japan The Milky Way, Luis Bunuel, France/Italy The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Parajanov, USSR Double Suicide, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan Cemetery Without Crosses, Robert Hossein, France/Italy Love Is Colder Than Death, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany I've also seen: My Night at Maud's, Eric Rohmer, France Cremator, Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia Dillinger Is Dead, Marco Ferreri, Italy Katzelmacher, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany

1968 The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, Italy - 9/10 Kuroneko, Kaneto Shindo, Japan - 8/10 Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba Samaritan Zatoichi, Kenji Misumi, Japan Stolen Kisses, Francois Truffaut, France Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy Snake Woman's Curse, Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan Run, Man, Run, Sergio Sollima, Italy I've also seen: Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, Enrique Lopez Eguiluz, Spain Death By Hanging, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Gatling Gun, Paolo Bianchini, Italy L'enfance Nue, Maurice Pialat, France House of Evil, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico The Snake People, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico

1967 Dragon Inn, King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong - 8/10 Zatoichi Challenged, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10 The Living Corpse, Khwaja Sarfraz, Pakistan Zatoichi's Cane Sword, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Requiescant aka Kill and Pray, Carlo Lizzani, Italy Zaotichi the Outlaw, Satsuo Yamamoto, Japan Mouchette, Robert Bresson, France A Colt Is My Passport, Takashi Nomura, Japan Gods Forgives...I Don't!, Giuseppe Colizzi, Italy The Two of Us, Claude Berri, France Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot!, Giulio Questi, Italy I've also seen: Marketa Lazarova, Frantisek Vlacil, Czechoslovakia The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy, France La Collectionneuse, Eric Rohmer, France 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard, France

1966 Nayak: The Hero, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10 Here Is Your Life, Jan Troell, Sweden - 8/10 Le Deuxieme Souffle, Jean-Pierre Melville, France Wings, Larisa Shepitko, USSR Zatoichi's Pilgrimage, Kazuo Ikehiro, Japan The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, Andre Delvaux, Belgium The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, Italy Young Torless, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany Law of the Border, Lutfi Akad, Turkey Thirst for Love, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan An Angel for Satan, Camillo Mastrocinque, Italy Daimajin, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan A Report on the Party and Guests, Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, William Klein, France I've also seen: Violence at Noon, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Django Shoots First, Alberto De Martino, Italy For a Few Extra Dollars, Giorgio Ferroni, Italy Emotion, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan (short) The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Roberto Rossellini, France

The Devil in a Convent (1899)

1965 Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa, Japan - 9/10 Simon of the Desert, Luis Bunuel, Mexico - (short) 8/10 I Knew Her Well, Antonio Petrangeli, Italy - 8/10 Zatoichi's Revenge, Akira Inoue, Japan Subarnarekha, Ritwik Ghatak, India Zatoichi and the Doomed Men, Kazuo Mori, Japan Yoyo, Pierre Etaix, France Pleasures of the Flesh, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Man Is Not a Bird, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia Le Bonheur, Agnes Varda, France I've also seen: Ironfinger, Jun Fukuda, Japan Pearls of the Deep, Vera Chytilova & Jaromil Jires & Jiri Menzel & Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm, Czechoslovakia Marco the Magnificent, Denys de La Patelliere & Raoul Levy & Noel Howard, Italy/France The Moment of Truth, Francesco Rosi, Italy Hercules the Avenger, Maurizio Lucidi, Italy

1964 Hamlet, Grigoriy Kozintsev, USSR - 8/10 Charulata, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10 Three Outlaw Samurai, Hideo Gosha, Japan - 8/10 Diary of a Chambermaid, Luis Bunuel, France Adventures of Zatoichi, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Seduced and Abandoned, Pietro Germi, Italy Intentions of Murder, Shohei Imamura, Japan Attack and Retreat, Giuseppe De Santis, Italy Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei Parajanov, USSR Cruel Gun Story, Takumi Furukawa, Japan Assassination, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan The Soft Skin, Francois Truffaut, France Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy Hercules Against Rome, Piero Pierotti, Italy I've also seen: Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse, Hugo Fregonese & Victor De Santis, West Germany Gertrud, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark Black Sun, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan Hercules, Prisoner of Evil, Antonio Margheriti & Ruggero Deodato, Italy All These Women, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden Nadja in Paris, Eric Rohmer, France - (short) Diamonds of the Night, Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia War of the Zombies, Giuseppe Veri, Italy

1963 The Organizer, Mario Monicelli, Italy - 8/10 I Fidanzati, Ermmano Olmi, Italy Magnet of Doom, Jean-Pierre Melville, France The Empty Canvas, Damiano Damiani, Italy Suzanne's Career, Eric Rohmer, France I've also seen: Muriel, or the Time of Return, Alain Resnais, France Dry Summer, Metin Erksan, Turkey Katarsis, Giuseppe Vegezzi, Italy

1962 Il Sorpasso, Dino Risi, Italy - 8/10 The Outrageous Baron Munchausen, Karel Zeman, Czechoslovakia The Condemned of Altona, Vittorio De Sica, Italy Happy Anniversary, Pierre Etaix & Jean-Claude Carriere, France (short) Antoine & Colette, Francois Truffaut, France (short) I Hate But Love, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan

1961 Il Posto, Ermanno Olmi, Italy - 8/10 The End of Summer, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan Pigs and Battleships, Shohei Imamura, Japan Dead Eyes of London, Alfred Vohrer, West Germany Rupture, Pierre Etaix & Jean-Claude Carriere, France (short) I've also seen: Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais, France Paris Belongs to Us, Jacques Rivette, France Nerfertiti, Queen of the Nile, Fernando Cerchio, Italy The Giant of Metropolis, Umberto Scarpelli, Italy

I watched this one this evening, and it was vaguely familiar, beyond the fact that the story was a rehash of a lot of other things, as the OP pointed out. I think I may have seen this either theatrically or on video, and as it was supposedly the last of Naschy's films to receive a wide release here, I'm betting that it was the former. The werewolf makeup is better than ever, but the movie does feel more like 1971, or even 1961, than 1981. Since I watched the two Naschy sets in chronological order, this was the last film. I really enjoyed these sets, even if the movies varied in quality. Scream Factory did a fantastic job cleaning them all up, and I couldn't really ask for better transfers. Including both the original Spanish/Castilian audio tracks as well as the (often humorous) English dubs was a plus.

I was perusing the schedule for the next few days and noticed that they are apparently showing In the Heat of the Night late-night on the 17th/18th (at 12AM ET) and the 18th/19th (at 5AM ET). Is that an oddity, or does TCM show movies on consecutive days more often than I've noticed?

Dracula came out in 1931, but so did Frankenstein. 9 months made a big difference in that transitional period. It's also a good illustration of the directorial skills of James Whale vs Tod Browning. The latter made some terrific silents, but Whale showed much more finesse in the sound era.

I like both of those as well, but I left them out of my previous listing as I was speaking only of those that started a series for Universal. BoF is a sequel (and my favorite of that series), of course, while Werewolf of London is a standalone, like The Black Cat or The Invisible Ray.

If you're asking who is "the greatest director", try picking one instead of three. Why is your second sentence in parentheses? And what's with the asterisks everywhere?

The Miracle Worker came out in 1962.