The month of May starts on the 1st with two elegant movies by Max Ophuls: The Earrings of Madame de .. from 1953 and La Ronde from 1950, full of stylish camera movement. Also on the 1st is Jacques Demy's Une Chambre en Ville, 1982.
On the 4th is Jack Arnold's poetic The Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.
On the 7th is Edmund O'Brien's intense film noir Shield for Murder, 1954, and the beautiful Night of the Hunter, 1955, directed by Charles Laughton with cinematography by Stanley Cortez
Two superb Westerns by Anthony Mann: The Far Country, 1955, on the 8th and The Naked Spur, .1953, on the 13th.
On the 14th is Joseph Losey's corrosive The Prowler, 1951, and on the 15th is Alfred E. Green's Union Depot, 1932, a complex and impressive programmer.
On the 16th is Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent, 1962, one of the best films about politics ever made in this country, in widescreen black-and-white.
On the 19th is John Boorman's Point Blank, 1967, from a Richard Stark novel, and on the 21st is Gerd Oswald's excellent crime story, Crime of Passion, 1957.
On the 23rd is Fritz Lang's first American film, Fury, 1936, and John Ford's gorgeous The Searchers, 1956.
Also on the 23rd are three moving films about the Korean War: Anthony Mann's Men in War, 1957. Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet, 1951, and Douglas Sirk's Battle Hymn,1957.
And the month of May ends on the 30th with four films by Howard Hawks, showing his versatility in different genres. My favorite of these is Rio Bravo, 1959, an explosive Western.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about any films showing in May, or any other month, on Turner Classic Movies.
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