The usual good and bad holiday movies, as well as some other excellent films this month. My favorite holiday movies, for their beauty and humor, are Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940, showing on Dec. 3) and Minnelli's delightful period musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, on Dec. 10). And I highly recommend Remember the Night. directed by Mitch Leisen and written by Preston Sturges (1940, on Dec. 22). Other movies this month include:
Dec. 1. Leo McCarey's intriguing and complex Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Dec. 2. James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein (1933).
Dec. 3. Richard Quine's film noir Pushover (1954) and Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954).
Dec. 4. Bresson's A Condemned Man Escapes (1956), complex in its simplicity.
Dec. 5. Fritz Lang's corrosive Clash by Night (1952).
Dec. 6. James Whale's film about theatre and theatricality in the 18th C, The Great Garrick (1937)
Dec. 8. Deanna Durbin in the intelligent Lady on a Train (1945), directed by Charles David.
Dec. 9. John Ford's Three Godfathers (1949), a Western version of the three wise men.
Dec. 10. Michael Curtiz's Breaking Point (1950), a superb version of a Hemingway story.
Dec. 17. Murnau's Sunrise (1927), one of the great silent films, and Rossellini's The Flowers of St Francis (1950).
Dec. 25. Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
Dec. 28. Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent (1962), the best American film about politics.
Dec. 29. Raoul Walsh's rollicking and moving Strawberry Blonde (1941).
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