Turner's "31 Days of Oscar" gives one a chance to take a break. There are certainly some good movies included among the bloated epics, since Turner intelligently includes some nominees as well as some winners, but they are mostly well-known and often shown. I would recommend, especially to those who have never seen them:
Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Lifeboat and North by Northwest.
Ford's The Long Voyage Home, Mogambo, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and the moving and beautiful How Green Was My Valley.
Preston Sturges's The Great McGinty, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Lady Eve
Minnelli's melodrama Some Came Running and his comedy Father of the Bride
Sirk's Imitation of Life
Blake Edwards's Days of Wine and Roses
Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder
Lubitsch's The Love Parade (1929, an impressive early use of sound).
Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, two contrasting styles of the musical
McCarey's The Awful Truth and Going My Way, two insightful comedies.
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