I have eased up a bit on recommending movies that I have already mentioned several times, but if you have a question about a particular film please let me know. Meanwhile, I recommend anything directed by Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, Vincente Minnelli, Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock.
On Feb. 1 is Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember (1957): elegant, emotional, terrific use of widescreen and color.
On Feb. 2 is Chaplin's Limelight (1952), a moving meditation on love and death.
Feb. 3 has Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) and John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Feb. 5 has Marcel Ophuls powerful documentary about France in WWII The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
On Feb. 10 is Michael Powell's The Red Shoes (1948)
Feb. 11 has John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Josef Von Sternberg's exquisite Shanghai Express (1932) and Leo McCarey's wonderful comedy about marriage and remarriage The Awful Truth (1937).
Feb. 13 has Jacques Demy's beautiful and sad musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), followed on the 14th by Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).
On Feb. 15 there is Anthony Mann's intense Western The Naked Spur (1953) and on the 18th is Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
F.W. Murnau's lovely Sunrise (1927) is on the 21st and Minnelli's melodrama Some Came Running, with its excellent Elmer Bernstein score, (1958) is on the 23rd.
Otto Preminger's superb courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is on the 27th.
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