There are a number of films this November by Chaplin, Keaton, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, and King Vidor; I recommend everything by these directors, especially Chaplin's Limelight, Keaton's Sherlock Jr., John Ford's The Searchers, Hitchcock's Psycho and King Vidor's The Big Parade. Among other films I like:
Nov. 1. Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, an elegant dark comedy about Nazi-occupied Poland.
Nov.3. D. W. Griffith's Way Down East. I recommend this to those who wonder what I mean when I say most current movies look at though D.W. Griffith never lived.
Nov. 4. Nicholas Ray's The Lusty Men, an intense melodrama about rodeo riders.
Nov. 7. Edgar Ulmer's Detour and Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy, two of the best films noir.
Nov. 9. Mark Sandrich's Shall We Dance, my own favorite Rogers/Astaire film. It is quite funny and has marvelous dancing and music (by George and Ira Gershwin).
Nov. 12. Raoul Walsh's White Heat, an impressive gangster film with James Cagney at his craziest.
Nov.13. Leo McCarey's Love Affair, funny, passionate, lovely (McCarey later remade it As an Affair to Remember).
Nov. 14. Josef Von Sternberg's The Last Command, one of his most beautiful and moving movies, and F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, one of the greatest silent films.
Nov. 28. Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, beautifully timed comedy and intelligent insight.
Nov. 30. Yasujiro Ozu's Ohayo (Good Morning). Ozu is still little known in this country; his films are exquisite portraits of Japanese family life. Ohayo (1959) came at the end of a career that began in 1927.
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