Nothing particularly rare or unusual this month, just some good movies uncut, uninterrupted and in the proper aspect ratio.
June 1: Sam Wood's Our Town, 1940. recommended for William Cameron Menzies's production design.
June 2: Cy Enfield's Hell Drivers, 1958, critique of capitalism, made in England after Enfield was chased out of American by HUAC
June 3: Billy Wilder's corrosive Double Indemnity,1944, and Blake Edwards' bleak view of dipsomania Days of Wine and Roses,1962
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June 4: Anthony Mann's complex Western The Man from Laramie, 1955
June 5; Orson Welles' funhouse mirror The Lady from Shanghai. 1948
Also on June 5 two rigorous and austere works from Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer: Ordet, 1955, and Gertrud, 1964
June 8: Clash by Night, 1952, America as viewed by fatalistic German Fritz Lang.
June 9: Joseph H. Lewis's rich gangster film The Big Combo, 1955
June 10: two more cynical films from Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, 1950, and Ace in the Hole, 1951.
June 11: Howard Hawks's powerful chamber Western, Rio Bravo, 1959, and Max Ophuls' elegant Earrings of Madame De... (especially for those of us who love tracking shots).
June 15: Buster Keaton's funny and somewhat sad The Cameraman, 1928
June 18: Robert Siodmak's exemplary film noir Criss-Cross,1949; I posted about it on Aug. 4, 2015.
June 19: two comedies of behavioral nuance from Vincente Minnelli: The Courtship of Eddie's Father,1963 and Father of the Bride,1950
June 20: Raoul Walsh's great Western about Custer, They Died with Their Boots On, 1941
June 21: Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944
June 23: an intelligent musical comedy from Minnelli, Bells Are Ringing, 1960
June 24: Billy Wilder's The Apartment, 1960
June 27: Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, 1951,adapted from Georges Bernanos's novel.
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