Sunday, May 31, 2020

Turner Classic Movies June 2020

A pretty good month of solid classics.

Jun 1:  two of Otto Preminger's best films, The Man with the Golden Arm (1956) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

June 3:  films by Sam Peckinpah, my favorite still being Ride the High Country (1962)

June 4:  Howard Hawks's unique version of The Front Page, His Girl Friday (1940)

June 5:  The Marx Brothers; their best film by far is Duck Soup, their only film with a good director (Leo McCarey)

June 7:  two by the surrealist Georges Franju:  Judex (1963) and Eyes Without a Face (1959)

June 10:  two by Vincente Minnelli:  The Clock (1945) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

June 12:  John Ford's last film, Seven Women (1966)

June 13:  Terence Fisher's Horror of Dracula (1958), Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950) and Andre de Toth's Springfield Rifle (1952)

June 14: Frank Borzage's The Mortal Storm (1940)

June 15:  Robert Wise's film noir Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

June 17: Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina (1934), one of Garbo's best films.

June 19:  four excellent examples of the film noir:  Anthony Mann's Side Street (1950),  Fritz Lang's Clash by Night (1952), Rudolph Mate's D.O.A. (1950), Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950).

June 20:  Samuel Fuller's Underworld USA (1961) and Charlie Chaplin's brilliant The Kid (1921).

June 22:  two by Billy Wilder, The Apartment (1960) and Double Indemnity (1944).

June 24:  Stephanie Rothman's It's a Bikini World (1967)

June 27:  Robert Mulligan's Western The Stalking Moon (1968)

June 28:  King Vidor's silent masterpiece The Crowd (1928) and Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1963)

June 30: Vincente Minnelli's melodrama Home from the Hill (1960) and Phil Karlson's corrosive film noir The Phenix City Story (1955)

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