On May 3rd is Anthony Mann's unusual period noir The Black Book (1949), with superb cinematography by John Alton
On the 4th and 5th is Edmund Goulding's powerful Nightmare Alley (1947). Pierre Sauvage wrote that this film was "well-written (Jules Furthman), shot (Lee Garmes), and directed; the film presents a gruesomely sharp pageant of sleazy ambition, pathetic gullibility, and disastrous failure and degradation."
On the 5th is Lubitsch's elegant Ninotchka (1939).
The 6th has Hitchcock's near-neorealist The Wrong Man (1956).
On the 9th is Preston Sturges's moving and amusing The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944).
On the 11th is Vincente Minnelli's impressive take on gender roles Designing Women (1957) and Raoul Walsh's corrosive gangster film White Heat (1949), "top of the world, Ma!"
On the 14th is Orson Welles's marvelously Shakespearean Chimes at Midnight (1967).
On the 18th is Anthony Mann's intense Western The Man From Laramie (1955) and Nicholas Ray's contemporary rodeo story The Lusty Men (1952).
On the 19th is Leo McCarey's comedy of marriage and re-marriage The Awful Truth (1937).
On the 20th is Michael Curtiz's bizarre film about a deranged ballet teacher Mad Genius (1931)
On the 21st are a number of excellent films about man's darker side: James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion (1938), Felix Feist's The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945), Joseph Losey's The Prowler (1951).
On the 24th is John Ford's beautiful and intense The Searchers (1956).
On the 27th there are several excellent war films, including Anthony Mann's Men in War (1957) and Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet (1951).
On the 29th is John Huston's fascinating spy film The Mackintosh Man (1973).
The 30th has Howard Hawks's impressive Western Rio Bravo (1959) and Preston Sturges's delightful satire of heroism Hail the Conquering Hero (1944).
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