Not that many new or rare films this month. There are plenty of Michael Curtiz films-- probably because of Alan Rode's new biography -- and I recommend them, especially for those who still may think Casablanca is an exception to the auteur theory; a particular favorite of mine is The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) on April 4. There are also a fair number of B Westerns, if one's taste runs to Westerns with motorcars in them.
On April 9 is John Ford's magnificent Fort Apache (1948)
On the 13th is Budd Boetticher's elegant and austere Western The Tall T (1957)
On the 15th is Andrey Tarkovsky's beautiful and enigmatic Solaris (1972)
On the 19th is Joseph Losey's darkly romantic The Go-Between (1971),from the novel by L.P. Hartley..
The 22nd has Erich von Stroheim's silent masterpiece The Merry Widow (1925)
On the 23rd is Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), about love and growing old before Social Security
On the 27th is Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent, a powerful film about people and politics, in beautiful wide-screen black-and-white.
On the 30th is Blake Edwards's corrosive comedy S.O.B.
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