Lately I have been tending to avoid films that I have recommended previously. If you want detail about any films in August that I don't include here please leave a comment or send an e-mail
Two master stylists on Aug. 4: Erich Von Stroheim's silent film The Wedding March (1928) and Josef Von Sternberg's first talkie Thunderbolt (1929).
August 10 has two intelligent King Vidor films, H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) from a John Galsworthy novel and Comrade X, strongly influenced by Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939). On March 13 is Vidor's Citadel (1938).
On August 12 is Henry King's State Fair (1933) with a wry and folksy Will Rogers, at that time a big star.
Also on August 12 are two moving films by the romantic Frank Borzage, Lucky Star (1929) and Street Angel (1928)
Two extraordinary melodramas on August 14: Vincente Minnelli's dreamlike Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) and Nicholas Ray's period gangster film Party Girl (1958). Both films are beautiful examples of the use of the widescreen and color.
August 15 has John Ford's exquisite How Green Was My Valley (1941)
August16 includes one of the few films Jean Renoir made in America, Swamp Water (1941).
On August 17 there is Phil Karlson's corrosive film about political corruption The Phenix City Story (1955) and two excellent war films: Anthony Mann's Men in War (1952) and Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet (1951).
On the 22nd is John Ford's elegant war film about victory and defeat They Were Expendable (1945)
On the 23rd are two films by New Wave director Jean-luc Godard: Contempt (1963) and Masculin-Feminin (1966)
The 28th has Mitch Leisen's Easy Living (1937), with a screenplay by Preston Sturges.
On the 29th are two elegant love stories, Leo McCarey's Love Affair (1939) and Max Ophuls's Earrings of Madame De.. (1939), especially for those, such as myself, who love tracking shots and long takes.
The 31st has Minnelli's intense Some Came Running, with an impressive score by Elmer Bernstein.
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