Nothing particularly new or exciting this month, just a good collection of solid classics, most of which we have seem.
Sept. 2 has Howard Hawks's delightful Monkey Business (1952) and Chris Marker's short La Jeetee (1962), a beautiful and precise film that was the basis for the bloated Twelve Monkeys.
Sept. 4 has John M. Stahl's Imitation of Life (1934), later remade by Douglas Sirk.
Sept. 5 has Dean Martin (and Jerry Lewis) in Frank Tashlin's Hollywood or Bust (1956) and Martin with Judy Holiday in Vincente Minnelli's lovely musical Bells are Ringing (1960).
Sept. 7 has two excellent films noirs: Fritz Lang's corrosive The Big Heat (1953) and Byron Haskin's Too Late for Tears (1949)
Sept. 8 has a John Huston late masterpiece The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Sept. 9 has Josef von Sternberg's elegant The Devil is a Woman (1935) and Anthony Mann's film noir Desperate (1947)
Sept. 10 has Rudolph Mate's fatalistic D.O.A. (1950) and Nicholas Ray's first film They Live By Night (1949)
Sept. 11 has Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) and Sept. 12 has Howard Hawks's great Western Rio Bravo (1959), two terrific films that signal the end of the classical era.
Sept. 15 has Otto Preminger's intense Angel Face (1953).
Sept. 16 has two Jean Renoir masterpieces, Rules of the Game (1939) and The Golden Coach (1953)
Sept. 18 has Jacque Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947), Preminger's wonderful Carmen Jones (1954), King Vidor's early talkie musical Hallelujah (1929) and Vidor's film of Elmer Rice's Street Scene (1931).
Sept. 19 has one of my favorite Billy Wilder films Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), only superficially vulgar.
Sept. 24 has Joseph H. Lewis's intensely beautiful Gun Crazy (1950).
Sept. 28 has Edgar Ulmer's lovely noir Western The Naked Dawn (1955)
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