My favorites of the many interesting films showing on TCM in June:
Lubitsch's The Merry Widow and To Be or Not to Be: a funny and erotic musical and a very dark comedy about Hitler and the Nazis.
Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. A beautiful minimalist work about a housewife going about her daily routine, with an occasional interruption by a customer for her sexual favors.
Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels. Widescreen black-and-white intense version of Faulkner's Pylon.
Anthony Mann's Winchester '73. The first of Anthony Mann's intelligently violent Westerns with James Stewart.
Rudolph Mate's D.O.A. A moving and fatalistic film noir.
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, one of his most emotionally complex works.
Chaplin's City Lights. Funny and sad, as only Chaplin can be.
Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window. Another example from Lang about how one's impulsive choices can ruin one's life.
Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Still the best film version of Holmes, capturing his melancholy as well as his brilliance (in spite of studio cuts; one hopes the complete version still exists somewhere).
Mark Robson's The Seventh Victim. My favorite of Val Lewton's low-budget horror films; it effectively captures the fear of death.
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