Joseph Losey's M (1951) shows up on Jan.1. This film has long been unavailable and it will be interesting to see how it compares with Fritz Lang's original.
Jan.3 John Stahl's Imitation of Life, 1934, as true to the 1930's as Sirk's version is to the 1950's
Jan 4 Hitchcock's Stage Fright, 1950, with its unusual unreliable flashback.
January 9 Raoul Walsh's Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951, and Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, 1955
Jan. 10 John Cromwell's Anna and the King of Siam, 1946, and three films by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu: The Story of Floating Weeds,1934, Equinox Flower,1958, The End of Summer, 1961.
Jan 11 Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, 1944, funny and didactic.
Jan. 12 Howard Hawks's marvelous Only Angels Have Wings, 1939
Jan 13 Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, 1944, and Douglas Sirk's ironic soap opera There's Always Tomorrow, 1956.
Jan 15 Jean de Limur's original version of The Letter, 1929, with Jeanne Eagels, and John Ford's Stagecoach, 1939
Jan 17. Lubitsch's pre-code Design for Living, with Noel Coward brilliantly re-written by Ben Hecht.
Jan. 18 King Vidor's innovative early sound film, Halleluah, 1929, with an all-black cast.
Jan. 20 Billy Wilder's The Apartment, 1960, funny and, of course, cynical.
Jan. 28 Lubitsch's The Love Parade, 1929, exquisite and funny.
and the month ends up with two excellent example of film noir, Anthony Mann's The Black Book,1949, on the 28th and Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady, 1944, based on a Cornell Woolrich story, on the 31st.
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