There will be 40 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock on Turner this month. This is in conjunction with a course on Hitchcock from Ball State University. This course is free and can be accessed through TCM or the Canvas Network. I recently took the courses they offered on film noir and on slapstick comedy and they were both excellent.
The Hitchcock films I like the most are:
The Lodger (1927) from the silent period, July 5
The Lady Vanishes (1938) from the British sound period, July 7
Foreign Correspondent(1940), July 12 and Notorious (1946), July 14, from the 40's
Vertigo (1958) from the 50's
Frenzy (1972) from Hitchcock's last decade of filmmaking, July 28
It's a pretty good month for films, including:
Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve (1941) on July 1
Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night (1949) on July 2
Fritz Lang on July 5, including Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956).
Anthony Mann on July 7, including Raw Deal (1948)
Samuel Fuller's I Shot Jesse James (1949) on July 8
Leo McCarey's Love Affair (1939) on July 9
King Vidor's silent masterpiece The Big Parade (1925) on July 10
Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight (1965) on July 11
Vincente Minnelli's oneiric Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) on July 12
Val Lewton's disturbing Seventh Victim (1943) on July 13
Joseph H. Lewis's corrosive Gun Crazy (1949) on July 16th
Mark Sandrich's delightful Astaire/Rogers musical Follow the Fleet (1936), with wonderful dancing, and music by Irving Berlin, on July 28
Don Weis's quite funny The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) on July 29
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