Bet's 2007 Movie List
*****  Not A Thing Wrong With It
****   Not Perfect, But Still A Great Time
***     Not Bad
**       Not Much
*         Not Anything
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Month                  Title  Year    Rating   Director                                   Stars Before?
1   Jan How Green Was My Valley 1941   * * * ½ Ford Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara   no  
2   Jan The Great Dictator 1940   * * * * ½ Chaplin Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Daniell   no  
3   Jan Touchez Pas Au Grisbi 1954   * * * Becker Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll   no  
4   Jan The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T 1953   * * * * Rowland Tommy Rettig, Hans Conried, Peter LindHayes   yes  
5   Jan Shadow Of A Doubt 1943   * * * * Hitchcock Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey   no  
6   Jan Only Angels Have Wings 1939   * * ½ Hawks Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard "Woody" Barthlemess   no  
7   Jan The In-Laws 1979   * * * * * Hiller Alan F Arkin, Peter Falk, Richard Libertini, Señor Pepe   yes  
8   Jan 49 Up 2005   * * * * ½ Apted The Usual Gang, 7 Years Older   no  
9   Jan Genghis Blues 1999   * * * * ½ Belic Documentary, Paul Pena   no  
10   Feb Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy 2005   * * * Jennings Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def   no  
11   Feb The Devil Wears Prada 2006   * * ½ Frankel Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci   no  
12   Feb Jesus Camp 2006   * * * * Ewing/Grady Documentary, some of the saddest & scariest kids ever   no  
13   Feb Deadhead Miles 1972   * * * * Zimmerman Alan F Arkin, Paul Benedict   yes  
14   Feb The Notorious Bettie Page 2005   * * * ½ Harron Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor   no  
15   Feb Delicatessen 1991   * * * * Jeunet/Caro Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus   no  
16   Feb Talk Of The Town 1942   * * * ½ Stevens Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman   no  
17   Feb The Best Years Of Our Lives 1946   * * * * Wyler Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Fredric March   no  
18   Feb The More The Merrier 1943   * * * * Stevens Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn   yes  
19   Feb The In-Laws 1979   * * * * * Hiller Alan F Arkin, Peter Falk, Richard Libertini, Señor Pepe   yes  
20   Mar You Can't Take It With You 1938   * * * ½ Capra Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Ann Miller   no  
21   Mar Life With Father 1947   * * * ½ Curtiz William Powell, Irene Dunne, Liz Taylor, Zasu Pitts   no  
22   Mar Slums Of Beverly Hills 1998   * * * * Jenkins Alan F Arkin, Natasha Lyonne, Marissa Tomei   yes  
23   Mar Limelight 1953   * * Chaplin Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton   no  
24   Mar Borat (Make Benefit, etc etc etc etc zzzzz) 2006   * * * Charles Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian   no  
25   Mar Stranger Than Fiction 2006   * * * * Forster Will Farrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal   no  
26   Mar The Departed 2006   * * ½ Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson   no  
27   Mar Some Like It Hot 1959   * * * * * Wilder Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft   yes  
28   Mar Matewan 1987   * * * * * Sayles Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, David Straithairn, Sayles   yes  
29   Mar Duck Soup 1933   * * * * * McCarey The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont   yes  
30   Mar Man Bites Dog 1993   Belvaux/Bonzel Benôit Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel   no  
31   Mar Peter Pan 2003   * * * Hogan Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood   no  
32   Mar Animal Crackers 1930   * * * * * Heerman The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont   yes  
33   Apr Two Family House 2000   * * * ½ De Filitta Michael Raspoli, Kelly Macdonald, Kathrine Narducci   no  
34   Apr Rich Kids 1979   * ½ Young Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, John Lithgow   no  
35   Apr How To Succeed In Business…. 1967   * * * ½ Swift Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony Teague   yes  
36   Apr The Pursuit Of Happyness 2006   * * * * Muccino Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe, James Karen   no  
37   Apr Volver 2006   * * * ½ Almodóvar Penelope Cruz, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portilla   no  
38   Apr M 1931   * * * * Lang Peter Lorre, Various Germans   no  
39   Apr Design For Living 1933   * * * Lubitsch Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, EE Horton   no  
40   Apr The Last King Of Scotland 2006   * * * ½ Macdonald Forest Whittaker, James McAvoy   no  
41   Apr The Queen 2006   * * * * Frears Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell   no  
42   May Divided We Fall 2000   * * * Hrebejk Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai, Anna Sisková   no  
43   May Whiskey Galore! 1949   * * * ½ Mackendrick Basil Radford, Bruce Seaton, Joan Greenwood   no  
44   May That Thing You Do! 1996   * * * * * Hanks Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, Jonathan Schaech   yes  
45   May The Man Who Came To Dinner 1942   * * * * Keighley Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Penguins   no  
46   May For Your Consideration 2006   * * * * ½ Guest Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, et al   no  
47   May Seraphim Falls 2006   * ½ Von Ancken Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan   no  
48   May Strangers On A Train 1951   * * * * Hitchcock Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Leo G Carroll, Ruth Roman   no  
49   May The Third Man 1949   * * * Reed Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles   no  
50   May Downfall 2004   * * * * * Hirschbiegel Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch   yes  
51   May Pickpocket 1959   * Bresson Martin LaSalle, Marika Green   no  
52   Jun The Butcher Boy 1997   * * * Jordan Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw   no  
53   Jun Night Of The Hunter 1955   * * * Laughton Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce   no  
54   Jun Brick 2005   * * * * Johnson Joseph Gordon Levitt, Lukas Haas, Matt O'Leary   no  
55   Jun The Conversation 1974   * * * * ½ Coppola Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford   no  
56   Jun The In-Laws 1979   * * * * * Hiller Alan F Arkin, Peter Falk, Richard Libertini, Señor Pepe   yes  
57   Jun The Wages of Fear 1953   * * * * Clouzot Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck   no  
58   Jun Bacheha-Ye aseman (Children of Heaven) 1997   * * * * Majidi Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi   no  
59   Jul Baraka 1992   * * * * Fricke Documentary   no  
60   Jul The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 1968   * * * * Miller Alan F Arkin, Sondra Locke, Chuck McCann   yes  
61   Jul In The Mood For Love 2000   * * * ½ Wong Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai   no  
62   Jul I Like Killing Flies 2004   * * * Mahurin Kenny Shopsin (Documentary)   no  
63   Jul Seven Chances 1925   * * * * Keaton Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T Roy Barnes   no  
64   Jul Passport To Pimlico 1949   * * * * Cornelius Stanley Holloway, Paul Dupius, Betty Warren   no  
65   Jul The Man In The White Suit 1951   * * Mackendrick Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Michael Gough   no  
66   Jul Oliver Twist 1948   * * * Lean Alec Guinnes, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newly   no  
67  Aug The Ballad Of Jack And Rose 2005   * Miller Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener   no  
68  Aug One, Two, Three 1961   * * * * ½ Wilder James Cagney, Horst Bucholz, Pamela Tiffin   yes  
69  Aug Ryan's Daughter 1970   * * Lean Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Christopher "Wood" Jones   no  
70  Aug The Sweet Smell Of Success 1957   * * * * Mackendrick Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Susan Harrison   no  
71  Aug Stoned 2005   * * Woolley Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey   no  
72  Aug Elmer Gantry 1960   * * * Brooks Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones   no  
73  Sept The Ghost And Mrs Muir 1947   * * * * Mankiewicz Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders   no  
74  Sept The Browning Version 1951   * * * * Asquith Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Brian Smith   no  
75  Sept Baby Face 1933   * * ½ Green Barbara Stanwyck, a maid, and a succession of men   no  
76  Sept 3:10 To Yuma 1957   * * * ½ Daves Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Richard Jaeckel, Henry Jones   no  
77  Sept Nightmare Alley 1947   * * * ½ Goulding Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Colleen Gray, Helen Walker   no  
78  Sept Cul-de-sac 1966   * ½ Polanski Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Jack McGowan   no  
79  Sept Dinner At Eight 1933   * * * * Cukor John Barrymore, Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke   no  
80  Sept The Heiress 1949   * * * * ½ Wyler Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Miriam Hopkins   no  
81  Sept A Canterbury Tale 1944   * * * * Powell/Press. Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Sgt John Sweet, Dennis Price   no  
82  Oct The Red Shoes 1948   * * * ½ Powell/Press. Moira Shearer, Marius Goring   no  
83  Oct Gaslight 1944   * * * Cukor Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton   no  
84  Oct Born Rich 2003   * * * Johnson Lord Snot, Richie Rich, et al (documentary)   no