Sunday, July 30, 2017

Turner Classic Movies August 2017

Aug. 1 has John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950; Jean-Pierre Melville's favorite film) and Otto Preminger's beautiful widescreen Western, River of No Return (1954).

Aug. 2 has Billy Wilder's great film about dipsomania Lost Week-End (1945).

On Aug. 3 is Victor Seastrom's intense silent film He Who Gets Slapped (1924).

Aug. 4 is a great film noir by Anthony Mann, Raw Deal (1948), with cinematography by the great John Alton.

On Aug. 6 is John Brahm's exquisite The Locket (1946) and Preminger's corrosive Angel Face (1953).

On Aug. 9 is Peter Tewksbury's strangely funny Doctor You've Got to Be Kidding (1967).

Aug. 11 has Mark Sandrich's Follow the Fleet (1936), with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing to the music of Irving Berlin.

On Aug. 12 are films by John Ford:  Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).

Aug. 13 has Preston Sturges's elegantly funny The Lady Eve (1941) and Douglas Sirk's emotional and ironic All I Desire (1953), both with Barbara Stanwyck.

On Aug. 17 is Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday (1940), based on The Front Page.

Aug. 19 has Albert Lewin's literary The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) and Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember (1957).

Aug. 22 has Fritz Lang's Human Desire (1954), a fatalistic remake of a Jean Renoir film from a Zola novel.

On the 25th is Max Ophuls elegant La Ronde (1950).

The 26th has Raoul Walsh's funny and moving The Strawberry Blonde (1941) and Aug. 30 has Rossellini's stylish Viaggio in Italia.

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