On April 1 are a number of Kurosawa movies; I loved them when I was an adolescent but I now prefer the more subtle films of Ozu and Mizoguchi. It may be time to look at Kurosawa again.
On April 4 is Anthony Mann's Winchester '73, (1950) the first of a series of intense Westerns Mann made with James Stewart.
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On the 5th is Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960), funny, touching and, of course, cynical.
On the 11th is Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), impressively fatalistic and imaginative.
On the 15th is Mark Sandrich's Shall We Dance (1937), the best of the Astaire/Rogers films, with glorious dancing, Gershwin music.
On the 17th is John Ford's beautiful She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
On the 18th is Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1956), from a Nelson Algren novel, with Kim Novak and an impressive score by Elmer Bernstein and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), one of his best British films.
On the 20th is Jacque Tourneur's Out of the Past, a terrific film noir and Raoul Walsh's The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1946).
On the 24th is Douglas Sirk's melancholy and ironic soap opera, There's Always Tomorrow (1956), with Barbara Stanwyck.
On the 26 is Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo (1955) and Buster Keaton's brilliant Sherlock, Jr.(1924).
On the 27th is Nicholas Ray's impressive Hot Blood (1956)
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