Nothing new particularly but lots of solid war films (Veterans' Day) and Americana.
Nov 3: John Huston's late and overlooked The Mackintosh Man (1973)
Nov.4: Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1948), from the Raymond Chandler novel.
Nov. 7 Raoul Walsh's Objective Burma (1943), the best film about WW II in Asia; Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940); Frank Borzage's grim and beautiful The Mortal Storm (1940)
Nov. 9 King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925), about WW I; Orson Welles's great Shakespearean film, Chimes at Midnight (1965); Samuel Fuller's film about the Korean War, The Steel Helmet (1951); John Ford's exemplary film about WW II in the Pacific, They Were Expendable (1945)
Nov. 11 John Ford's Western about the African-American cavalry, Sergeant Rutledge (1960), starring Woody Strode.
Nov.13 Leo McCarey's widescreen romance, An Affair to Remember (1957) and Abraham Polonsky's film noir, Force of Evil (1948).
Nov. 14 Howard Hawks's Scarface (1932), one of the best gangster films.
Nov. 15 Masterpieces by Welles, Joseph H. Lewis, Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger: Citizen Kane (1941), Gun Crazy (1949), Vertigo (1950) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Nov. 20 Hawks's great screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Nov 21 Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1951) a personal view of the Civil War and Native Americans.
Nov 24 Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1942), a very serious comedy.
Nov. 29 Two ferocious Westerns, John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 (1950)
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