February 5 *

DUCK SOUP

(1933; dir. Leo McCarey; with the Marx Brothers)
[68 min; 16 mm]

+

NINOTCHKA

(1939; dir. Ernst Lubitsch; with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas)
[110 min; DVD]

Hail Freedonia ... and the divine Garbo

February 26

NARROW MARGIN

(1952; with Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor)
[70 min; 16 mm]

+

THE TALL TARGET

(1951; dir. Anthony Mann; with Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Paula Raymond)
[78 min; DVD]

Beware of railway "accidents"

March 25

ACT OF VIOLENCE

(1948; dir. Fred Zinnemann; with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh)
[82 min; DVD]

+

THE KILLER IS LOOSE

(1956; dir. Budd Boetticher; with Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Flemming, Wendell Corey)
[73 min; DVD]

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green

April 29

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT

(1955; dir. Orson Welles; with Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Katina Paxinou)
[99 min; DVD]

+

MASK OF DIMITRIOS

(1944; with Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott)
[99 min; DVD]

Piecing together the past

May 27

THE DEVIL CAME AT NIGHT
[NACHTS, WENN DER TEUFEL KAM]

(1957; dir. Robert Siodmak; with Mario Adorf, Claus Holm, Hannes Messemer)
[97 min; 16 mm]

+

CROSSFIRE

(1947; dir. Edward Dmytryk; with Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame)
[85 min; DVD]

Murder! on both sides of the war

June 24

THE WAGES OF FEAR

(1953; dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot; with Yves Montand, Folco Lulli, Peter Van Eyck)
[140 min; DVD]

French Hell drivers