June 26th

The End of the Affair*
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writers: Lenore J. Coffee (writer) & Graham Greene(novel)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, & John Mills
Rating: 4/5











The Passenger*
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Mark Peploe (story & screenplay), Peter Wollen (screenplay) & Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
Starring: Jack Nicholson & Maria Scheider
Rating: 4/5

June 25th

Mystery Street*

Director: John Sturges

Writers: Leonard Spigelgass (story)Sydney Boehm(writer) and Richard Brooks(writer)

Starring: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennet, Elsa Lanchester, & Marshall Thompson

Rating: 3.5/5

June 24th

Rear Window*

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Cornell Woolrich (short story "It Had to be Murder") & John Michael Hayes (screenplay)

Starring: James Stewart, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, & Grace Kelly

Rating: 4.5/5

June 23rd

In Cold Blood*

Director: Richard Brooks

Writers: Truman Capote (novel)Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

Rating: 4/5

June 21st

Rope*

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents, & Ben Hecht

Starring: Farley Granger, James Stewart, & John Dall

Rating: 4/5

June 20th

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, & Kuo Jung Tsai

Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, & Ziyi Zhang

Oscars: Best Art Direction-Set DecorationTimmy Yip (art director), Best Cinematography (Peter Pau), Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan), & Best Music, Original Score (Tan Dun)

Rating: 4/5

June 19th

The Squid and the Whale*
Director: Noah Baumbach
Writer: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, & Jesse Eisenberg
Rating: 3.5/5










Shadow of a Doubt*
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, & Gordon McDonell
Starring: Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotten
Rating: 4.5/5

June 15th

Saboteur*

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock, & Dorothy Parker

Starring: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, & Otto Kruger

Rating: 4/5

June 14th

Moulin Rouge*
Director: John Huston
Writers: John Huston & Anthony Veiller
Starring: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, & Suzanne Flon
Oscars: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Paul Sheriff & Marcel Vertès) & Best Costume Design, Color (Marcel Vertès)
Rating: 4/5










Across the Pacific*
Director: John Huston
Writers: Robert Carson & Richard Macaulay
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, & Sydney Greenstreet
Rating: 3.5/5

June 11th

Tension*

Director: John Berry

Writers: Allen Rivkin, John D. Klorer, & John Berry

Starring: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, & Barry Sullivan

Rating: 4/5

June 10th

Love on the Run*
Director: François Truffaut
Writers: François Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel, & Suzanne Schiffman
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, & Claude Jade
Rating: 4/5









Act of Violence*
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writers: Collier Young & Robert L. Richards
Starring: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, & Phyllis Thaxter
Rating: 4/5

June 9th

Bed & Board*

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, & Bernard Revon

Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud & Claude Jade

Rating: 4/5

June 7th

Stolen Kisses*

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, & Bernard Revon

Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud & Claude Jade

Rating: 4/5

June 6th

The Big Steal*
Director: Don Siegel
Writers: Gerald Drayson Adams & Daniel Mainwaring
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, & William Bendix
Rating: 4/5








Illegal*
Director: Lewis Allen
Writers: James R. Webb & W.R. Burnett
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, & Hugh Marlowe
Rating: 4/5

June 5th

Nana*
Director: Jean Renoir
Writers: Pierre Lestringuez & Jean Renoir
Starring: Catherine Hessling, Jean Angelo, Werner Krauss, &
Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Rating: 3.5/5









Death Proof*
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell
Rating: 3/5

June 4th

Decoy*

Director: Jack Bernhard

Writers: Stanley Rubin & Nedrick Young

Starring: Jean Gillie & Edward Norris

Rating: 4/5

June 2nd

All Through The Night*

Director: Vincent Sherman

Writers: Leo Rosten, Leonard Spigelgass, & Edwin Gilbert

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, & Kaaren Verne

Rating: 4/5

June 1st

Julius Caesar*

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: William Shakespeare (play) & Joseph L. Mankiewicz uncredited

Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, & Louis Calhern

Oscar: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Cedric Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, & Hugh Hunt)

Rating: 3.5/5

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May 31st

Letters from Iwo Jima*

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, & Ryo Kase

Oscar: Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)

Rating: 4/5

May 30th

Crime Wave*

Director: André De Toth

Writers: Bernard Gordon, John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins,Crane Wilbur, & Richard Wormser

Starring: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, & Phyllis Kirk

Rating: 4.5/5