Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Turner Classic Movies Dec. 2020

Plenty of Christmas films, Hitchcock and Laurel and Hardy this month.

Dec. 3 is Rudolph Mate's corrosive film noir D.O.A. (1950)

Dec. 4 is Fritz Lang's beautiful period piece Moonfleet (1955)

Dec. 5 is Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) with downbeat Christmas elements.

Dec. 6 is Howard Hawks's musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe

Dec. 8 is John Ford's Mogambo (1953)

Dec. 10 is Hawks's His Girl Friday (1940)

Dec. 12 is Ford's The Three Godfathers (1949).

Dec. 13 is Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Judy Garland sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and Leo McCarey's moving Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Dec. 16  is Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)

Dec. 17 Otto Preminger's film noir Angel Face (1953) and Leo McCarey's Going My Way (1944)

Dec. 18 Mitch Leisen's Remember the Night (1940, written by Preston Sturges)

Dec. 20 is Lubitsch's lovely The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Dec. 23 is Douglas Sirk's ironic Christmas card All That Heaven Allows (1955). 

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