It is nice to finally get away from the white elephants of March's Oscar-winning films to some termite films (to use Manny Farber's terms) in April.
April 1 Stanley Donen's charming musical Give a Girl a Break (1953)
April 4 Andre De Toth's film noir Pitfall (1949), Yasujiro Ozu's An Inn in Tokyo (1935), Orson Welles's baroque The Trial (1963)
April 5 Raoul Walsh's Northern Pursuit (1947), Howard Hawks's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), John M. Stahl's superb weepie Imitation of Life (1934)
April 6 Jacques Demy's marvelous French musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
April 7 Raoul Walsh's sharply political A Lion is in the Streets (1953) and Nicholas Ray's Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
April 8 Edgar Ulmer's fascinating low-budget science-fiction Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
April 9 Ernst Lubitsch's wonderful Ninotchka (1939)
April 10 Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur (1955)
April 11 Chaplin's elegant A Woman of Paris (1923), Jean-luc Godard's Breathless (1960), Jacques Tourneur's film noir Out of the Past (1947) and Joseph H. Lewis's dark Gun Crazy (1950)
April 12 John Ford's great Western Stagecoach (1939)
April 14 Blake Edwards's downbeat Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Raoul Walsh's High Sierra (1941), John Huston's terrific caper film The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night (1948)
April 18 Roberto Rossellini's The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) and Robert Bresson's The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
April 19 Two great films directed by Raoul Walsh They Died with Their Boots On (1941) and Objective Burma (1945)
April 20 Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)
April 25 Allan Dwan's pre-code incisive view of small-town America Man to Man (1930) and Raoul Walsh's Gentleman Jim (1942)
April 26 Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938)
April 27 Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956)
April 29 John Ford's The Last Hurrah (1958)
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