Not a lot to recommend on Turner this month, though I would like to stress that one should always investigate movies with which one is unfamiliar. One of the reasons we know as much about movies now as we do is because Henri Langlois, when he ran the French Cinematheque. was always non-judgemental: the scorned movies of yesterday are sometimes the masterpieces of today.
Ford. Hitchcock, Lang and Borzage are well-represented this month; I particularly recommend Borzage's wonderfully romantic History is Made at Night. I also like Robert Aldrich's Autumn Leaves (with its lovely theme song sung by Nat KingCole) and Otto Preminger's Skidoo (promised this time in wide-screen), bizarre and quirky, with delightful credits, sung at the end by Nilsson.
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