[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1980

1. 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

1. 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

1. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, Japan/UK/New Zealand - Over half of this was in Japanese, the remainder in English.

 

1984

1. The Devil's Sword, Ratno Timoer, Indonesia

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1976

1. Master of the Flying Guillotine, Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan/Hong Kong
2. Yakuza Graveyard, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan
3. The Big Racket, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy
4. Keoma, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy

 

1977

1. Soldier of Orange, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands - 8/10
2. Stroszek, Werner Herzog, West Germany
3. Ceddo, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal
4. The Heroin Busters, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy

 

1978

1. The Bloodstained Shadow, Antonio Bido, Italy
2. The Pyjama Girl Case, Flavio Mogherini, Italy
3. Brawl Busters, Jeong-yong Kim, South Korea

 

1979

1. Vengeance Is Mine, Shohei Imamura, Japan
2. Fascination, Jean Rollin, France

 

[Lists of unavailable films]

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.

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1975

1. Manila in the Claws of Light, Lino Brocka, Philippines - 8/10
2. The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
3. Cops vs Thugs, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan
4. Deewaar, Yash Chopra, India
5. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1974

1. Going Places, Bertrand Blier, France - 8/10
2. 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

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1973

1. Turkish Delight, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands
2. The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico
3. Zatoichi's Conspiracy, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan
4. Count Dracula's Great Love, Javier Aguirre, Spain
5. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1972

1. Don't Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, Italy
2. The Blood Spattered Bride, Vicente Aranda, Spain
3. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1971

1. Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan
2. Lake of Dracula, Michio Yamamoto, Japan
3. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1970

1. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, Italy - 8/10
2. Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10
3. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Vittorio De Sica, Italy
4. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto, Japan
5. Bed and Board, Francois Truffaut, France
6. Ucho/The Ear, Karel Kachyna, Czechoslovakia
7. The Vampire Doll, Michio Yamamoto, Japan
8. 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

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1969

1. Goyokin, Hideo Gosha, Japan
2. The Milky Way, Luis Bunuel, France/Italy
3. The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Parajanov, USSR
4. Double Suicide, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan
5. Cemetery Without Crosses, Robert Hossein, France/Italy
6. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1968

1. The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, Italy - 9/10
2. Kuroneko, Kaneto Shindo, Japan - 8/10
3. Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba
4. Samaritan Zatoichi, Kenji Misumi, Japan
5. Stolen Kisses, Francois Truffaut, France
6. Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy
7. Snake Woman's Curse, Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan
8. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1967

1. Dragon Inn, King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong - 8/10
2. Zatoichi Challenged, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10
3. The Living Corpse, Khwaja Sarfraz, Pakistan
4. Zatoichi's Cane Sword, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan
5. Requiescant aka Kill and Pray, Carlo Lizzani, Italy
6. Zaotichi the Outlaw, Satsuo Yamamoto, Japan
7. Mouchette, Robert Bresson, France
8. A Colt Is My Passport, Takashi Nomura, Japan
9. Gods Forgives...I Don't!, Giuseppe Colizzi, Italy
10. The Two of Us, Claude Berri, France
11. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1966

1. Nayak: The Hero, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10
2. Here Is Your Life, Jan Troell, Sweden - 8/10
3. Le Deuxieme Souffle, Jean-Pierre Melville, France
4. Wings, Larisa Shepitko, USSR
5. Zatoichi's Pilgrimage, Kazuo Ikehiro, Japan
6. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, Andre Delvaux, Belgium
7. The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, Italy
8. Young Torless, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany
9. Law of the Border, Lutfi Akad, Turkey
10. Thirst for Love, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan
11. An Angel for Satan, Camillo Mastrocinque, Italy
12. Daimajin, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan
13. A Report on the Party and Guests, Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia
14. Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France
15. 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

 

[Recently Watched Horror]

The Devil in a Convent (1899)

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1965

1. Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa, Japan - 9/10
2. Simon of the Desert, Luis Bunuel, Mexico - (short) 8/10
3. I Knew Her Well, Antonio Petrangeli, Italy - 8/10
4. Zatoichi's Revenge, Akira Inoue, Japan
5. Subarnarekha, Ritwik Ghatak, India
6. Zatoichi and the Doomed Men, Kazuo Mori, Japan
7. Yoyo, Pierre Etaix, France
8. Pleasures of the Flesh, Nagisa Oshima, Japan
9. Man Is Not a Bird, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia
10. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1964

1. Hamlet, Grigoriy Kozintsev, USSR - 8/10
2. Charulata, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10
3. Three Outlaw Samurai, Hideo Gosha, Japan - 8/10
4. Diary of a Chambermaid, Luis Bunuel, France
5. Adventures of Zatoichi, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan
6. Seduced and Abandoned, Pietro Germi, Italy
7. Intentions of Murder, Shohei Imamura, Japan
8. Attack and Retreat, Giuseppe De Santis, Italy
9. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei Parajanov, USSR
10. Cruel Gun Story, Takumi Furukawa, Japan
11. Assassination, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan
12. The Soft Skin, Francois Truffaut, France
13. Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
14. 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

 

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1963

1. The Organizer, Mario Monicelli, Italy - 8/10
2. I Fidanzati, Ermmano Olmi, Italy
3. Magnet of Doom, Jean-Pierre Melville, France
4. The Empty Canvas, Damiano Damiani, Italy
5. 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

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1962

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

[Your Favourite Foreign Language Films]

1961

1. Il Posto, Ermanno Olmi, Italy - 8/10
2. The End of Summer, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
3. Pigs and Battleships, Shohei Imamura, Japan
4. Dead Eyes of London, Alfred Vohrer, West Germany
5. 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

["Night Of The Werewolf" (aka "El retorno del Hombre Lobo") (1981)]

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. 

[HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM]

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?

[I Just Watched...]

5 minutes ago, laffite said:

That's fair so don't get me wrong. I would just ask you to remember---it was made in 1931 !! . I wouldn't hold it to any higher standard than that. I sort of touched on that before. Movies were still putting their pants on for the first time in 1931. I would be more inclined to praise it for what was able to do rather than knock it for it was not possible for it to do. I was pleasantly surprised. I guess it's a relativity thing for me, at least with this movie.

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 Just Watched...]

1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

...and let us also do give some mention to WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935) which is second only to THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is my favorite UNIVERSAL HORROR FILM.

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. 

[Who is the Best Director of All-Time?]

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?

[on svengoolie tonite]

2 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:

4D Man came out in 1959 and The Miracle Worker in 1965.

The Miracle Worker came out in 1962.