Good month for showings of classic films.
June 3rd: one of the great silent films as the era was coming to an end Pandora's Box, 1929, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Louise Brooks.
June 7th has Robert Aldrich's corrosive war film Attack (1956) and Michael Curtiz's superb The Breaking Point (1950) with John Garfield.
June 10th: Edgar Ulmer's brilliant film noir Detour (1945) and Blake Edwards' 10, an amusing deconstruction of the zeitgeist.circa 1979.
June 11: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
June 13: one of the great war films, Raoul Walsh's Objective Burma (1945) and on the 14th John Ford's moving They Were Expendable (1945).
June 16: Samuel Fuller's tough and tender Pickup on South Street (1953).
June 17: Godard's Le Mepris (1963), with its beautiful use of the widescreen and primary colors.
June 24: William Wellman's great chronicle of the Depression, Wild Boys of the Road (1933) and Chaplin's lovely The Kid (1921),
June 26: two great melodramas (I consider that a positive noun), Vincente Minnelli's Home from the Hill (1960) and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1956), from the Nelson Algren novel.
June 27th has Nicholas Ray's intelligent Bitter Victory (1957) and the 29th has Raoul Walsh's boisterous period boxing film Gentleman Jim (1942).
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