Nothing that new or unusual in Jan., but a number of good American and foreign films:
Jan. 3 has Howard Hawks's excellent science fiction/horror film The Thing From Another World (1951, technically directed by Christian Nyby), as well as La Jettee (1962), an intense short by Chris Marker (remade as the bloated Twelve Monkeys in 1995)
On the 4th is Leo McCarey's lovely Love Affair (1939).
The 7th has Nicholas Ray's film noir In a Lonely Place (1950, from a novel by Dorothy Hughes) and Antonioni's existential La Notte (1961)
The 8th has George Cukor's male/female rivalry comedy Adam's Rib (1949), Joseph Losey's M (1951, an American remake of Fritz Lang's 1931 original) and Phil Karlson's dark film about corruption The Phenix City Story (1955).
On the 11th is Howard Hawks's comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938).
On the 15th is King Vidor's early sound film Hallelujah (1929) and John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge, about an early African-American cavalry unit (1960)
On the 16th is Lubitsch's elegant Ninotchka (1939) and Orson Welles's botched The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), never properly completed.
On the 17th is Welles's intelligent and brilliant Chimes at Midnight (1965), Lubitsch's final comedy, Cluny Brown (1946) and Max Ophuls's stylish The Earrings of Madame De..(1953)
On the 20th is McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), a wonderful film about growing old, Vincente Minnelli's melancholic musical Band Wagon (1953) and Ermmano Olmi's soaring The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978)
On the 23rd are two beautiful films by Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, Equinox Flower(1958) and Early Summer (1951).
More Lubitsch on the 24th, including The Merry Widow (1934) and the dark and wonderful To Be or Not To Be (1942).
The 25th has Budd Boetticher's beautiful and austere Western, Comanche Station (1960).
The 27 has two great films noirs: Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949) and Rudolph Mate's D.O.A. (1950), with Edmond O'Brien walking into a police station to announce "I've been murdered."
The 28th has Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923)
On the 29th is Lloyd Bacon's Kill the Umpire (1950), written by Frank Tashlin and one of the best movies about baseball.
On the 30th is John Ford's war film, They Were Expendable (1945), about grace in defeat, and on the 31st is Otto Preminger's grimly beautiful film noir Angel Face (1952).
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