Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Turner Classic Movies March 2019

Not much that Turner hasn't shown previously; the highlights of the month for me are the two Jean-Pierre Melville films and the Samuel Fuller film at the end of the month.

1st:  the month starts off with Howard Hawks's impressive Only Angels Have Wings (1939), an extraordinary film about civil aviation.

5th:  Ernst Lubitsch's delightful comedy Design for Living (1933), Noel Coward by way of Ben Hecht.

9th:  Raoul Walsh's magnificent film about Custer: They Died with Their Boots On (1941) and Rudolph Mate's fatalistic D.O.A.

13th:  The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Frank Capra before populism.

14th:  Billy Wilder's corrosive Ace in the Hole (1951).

16th: John Ford's great cavalry film Fort Apache (1948).

20th:  Vincente Minnelli's widescreen melodrama Some Came Running (1958)

24th:   Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terrible (1950), from a Cocteau novel, and Melville's L'Aine Des Ferchaux (1963), from a Simenon novel.

28th: Samuel Fuller's film about the early days of newspapers in New York, Park Row (1952)

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