On October 3 Turner is showing the marvelous Orson Welles film Chimes at Midnight, which I wrote about in my blog June 22. On the first of October they are showing a number of films by Alice Blache, Lois Weber and Frances Marion, in a month that emphasizes films by women. Ida Lupino's films are being shown on Oct.6, all of them personal and intriguing.
Nicholas Ray's Wind Across the Everglades is showing October 3, a powerful film ahead of its time with its concern for ecology, and on October 4 are two excellent films noir: Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street and Robert Siodmak's The Killers, which I wrote about on June 29.
On the 7th is Howard Hawks's Air Force, one of the best WWII aviation films and on the 9th are Buster Keaton's The General, a masterpiece of deadpan comedy, and Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, a low-key and effective horror film.
On the 10th are three excellent examples of the best directors of the classical era: Hitchcock's atypical Under Capricorn, John Ford's My Darling Clementine (which I wrote about on Feb 4, 2014), and Lubitsch's comedy Ninotchka.
On October 11 is the best of the Hepburn-Tracy comedies, George Cukor's Adam's Rib, followed on the 13th by Samuel Fuller's corrosive The Naked Kiss and on the 14th D.W. Griffith's masterpiece Intolerance.
On the 19th is Fritz Lang's intense Western Rancho Notorious and two of Otto Preminger's best films, the production-code-breaker (it uses the word virgin) The Moon is Blue, and the melancholic Bonjour Tristesse, with its beautiful use of wide-screen cinematography. On the 20th is another expressive use of the wide screen: Fritz Lang's Moonfleet.
On the 21st is one of my favorite Chaplin films, City Lights, as moving as it is funny. On the 23rd is Albert Lewin's intelligent and literate The Picture of Dorian Grey and on the 24th one of Budd Boetticher's elegant and austere Westerns, Ride Lonesome, which I just wrote about on Sept. 24. On the 26th is Chaplin's first feature The Kid and Sam Peckinpah's farewell to the classic Western Ride the High Country.
On the 27 is Chantal Ackerman's film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, which I wrote about on July 7,2014.
Then at the end of the month come the horror films, for Halloween. I recommend Terence Fisher's reflective films for Hammer, particularly Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and The Mummy and also Val Lewton's films for RKO, especially The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
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