Thursday, July 29, 2021

Turner Classic Movies August 2021

 A pretty good line-up of classical films.  As always, if you have a question about a film not included in this highly personal list just send me an e-mail and I'll tell you my thoughts on any particular film.

Aug. 1: a great film noir, Hollow Triumph, directed by Steve Sekely in 1948, as well as Mike Leigh's Secret and Lies (1996)

Aug. 3:  Billy Wilder's brilliant Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), Richard Quine's Pushover (1954), all starring Kim Novak.

Aug. 5:  Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight (1967)

Aug. 6:  Two superb examples of film noir, Otto Preminger's Angel Face (1953) and Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947)

Aug. 9:  Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Aug. 14: Jean-luc Godard's Tout va Bien (1972)

Aug. 16:  Fritz Lang's Western Union (1941)

Aug. 17:  Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950)

Aug 19: films by Yaujiro Ozu, including Tokyo Story (1953)

Aug. 22: John Ford's The Long Grey Line (1958)

Aug. 23: Otto Preinger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Aug. 24:  Ernst Lubitsch's early musical The Love Parade (1930)

Aug. 27: Frank Tashlin's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Aug. 28:  John Boorman's Point Blank (1967)

Aug. 29:  Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy (1954)

Aug 30: Raoul Walsh's corrosive White Heat (1949)

Aug. 31: Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933)


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