First of all, a very happy new year to all my readers. If you particularly like any movies coming up in January that I have not mentioned please feel free to bring them to my attention.
Jan. 1. The year begins with 12 Hitchcock movies. I particularly like the extraordinary Vertigo (1958) but these are all great films (if you like Hitchcock at all, that is; not everyone does).
Jan 2 is John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). It's not one of my Ford favorites but it looks better each time I see it, with its Greg Toland cinematography.
Jan. 3 is Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11, an intense piece of filmmaking.
On the 7th is Anthony Mann's The Far Country (1955), one of a series of great Westerns that Mann made with James Stewart.
Jan 8 has Lubitsch's dark comedy about Germany, made in 1942, To Be or Not To Be.
Jan. 9 is Ford's Stagecoach (1939), the first of his great Westerns.
Jan 10 is Raoul Walsh's corrosive White Heat (1949), with a manic performance by James Cagney.
Jan. 11 Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) with its gorgeous cinematography by Nestor Alemendros and lovely score by Ennio Morricon.
Jan 14 has King Vidor's colonial Western Northwest Passage (1940), Ford's The Searchers (1956) and Douglas Sirk's widescreen black-and-white The Tarnished Angels (from Faulkner's Pylon), 1958
On the 15th is Alexander Mackendrick's powerful The Sweet Smell of Success (1957).
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On the 18th is Chaplin's incomparable City Lights (1931).
On the 21st is Anthony Mann's beautiful Bend of the River (1952) and Fritz Lang's intricate and fatalistic Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956).
On the 25th is D.W. Griffith's masterful Orphans of the Storm (1921), with Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and on the 26th is one of Sirk's lovely and moving soap operas: All That Heaven Allows (1955)
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