Lots of horror and science fiction this month; I recommend everything by Terence Fisher and Val Lewton. Lewton is the producer of low-budget horror films, mostly directed by Mark Robson and Jacques Tourneur, and Fisher is the imaginative director of many films from Hammer, an English studio.
Oct 1: The month starts off with Le Cercle Rouge, an intelligent and austere gangster/caper film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1970.
Oct. 4 has films by Buster Keaton; I particularly like The Cameraman and Steamboat Bill, Jr. for their intricate gags.
Oct. 5 has one of the best film noirs, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, 1947
Oct. 7 has Raoul Walsh's intense High Sierra (1941) and Andre DeToth's brilliant Western Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Oct. 8 is Edgar Ulmer's corrosive Detour (1945)
Oct. 10 and 11 has Val Lewton's films.
Oct. 14 is John Boorman's powerful Point Blank (1967)
Oct. 15 is Raoul Walsh's intelligently political A Lion is in the Steets (1953)
Oct. 17 is Edgar Ulmer's Carnegie Hall (1947), with some wonderful music.
Oct. 29 has Kenji Mizoguchi's mysteriously beautiful Ugetsu (1953)
Oct. 30 is Gordon Douglas's I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951); I wrote about it on Nov. 7, 2014.
Oct. 31 is an unusual vampire film that is both funny and scary: Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers (1968).
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