Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Turner Classic Movies Jan. 2022

 The first month of 2022 includes a number of excellent movies from the classical period.

Jan. 2   Alfred Werker's Repeat Performance, 1947, in which a woman gets to repeat the past year and make changes, and John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, 1941, a great film.

Jan. 3 Ernst Lubitsch's terrific comedy Trouble in Paradise, 1941

Jan. 5 James Whale's lovely period piece about theatre in the time of The Great Garrick, 1937

Jan. 6  Chaplin's The Great Dictator, 1940 and Hitchcock's innovative Rope. 1948

Jan. 7  Ida Lupino's gritty The Hitch-Hiker, 1953

Jan. 8 Raoul Walsh's rambunctious The Strawberry Blonde, 1941

Jan. 9 two oneiric masterpieces:  Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley, 1947 and Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, 1958

Jan. 14 Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers, 1958

Jan. 18 Hitchcock's North by Northwest, 1959

Jan. 19 Howard Hawks's great Western Rio Bravo 1958

Jan. 24 Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, 1976 and Andre de Toth's Western Bounty Hunter 1954

Jan. 26 Jean Renoir's The Southerner, 1945

Jan. 27 William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road 1933, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity 1944. and Phil Karlson's corrosive The Phenix City Story 1955







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