Indy Film Buffs Movie of the Month
2003-Present2003April:
Brazil (1985)
Director: Terry Gilliam
May:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
June:
Titus (1999)
Director: Julie Taymor
July:
Dolemite (1975)
Director: D'Urville Martin
August:
Donnie Darko (2001)
Director: Richard Kelly
September:
Violon rouge, Le (1998) aka "The Red Violin"
Director: Francois Girard
October:
Superman (1978) aka "Superman: The Movie"
Director: Richard Donner
November:
Animal House (1978) aka "National Lampoon's Animal House"
Director: John Landis
December:
Stalag 17 (1953)
Director: Billy Wilder
2004January:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Director: John Huston
February:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
March:
Network (1976)
Director: Sidney Lumet
April:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Director: Orson Welles
May:
Harold and Maude (1971)
Director: Hal Ashby
June:
A Price Above Rubies (1998)
Director: Boaz Yakin
July:
On the Waterfront (1954)
Director: Elia Kazan
August:
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Director: John Huston
September:
Videodrome (1983)
Director: David Cronenberg
October:
The Thing (1982) aka "John Carpenter's The Thing"
Director: John Carpenter
November:
Murder at 1600 (1997)
Director: Dwight H. Little
December:
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
Director: Ivan Dixon
2005January:
Lunes de fiel (1992) aka "Bitter Moon"
Director: Roman Polanski
February:
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Director: Spike Lee
March:
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Director: William Peter Blatty
April:
À la folie... pas du tout (2002) aka “He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not”
Director: Laetitia Colombani
May:
The Right Stuff (1983)
Director: Phillip Kauffman
June:
The Big Red One (1980)
Director: Samuel Fuller
July:
The Front (1976)
Director: Martin Ritt
August:
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Director: Peter Jackson
September:
Malèna (2000)
Director: Guiseppe Tornatore
October:
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Director: Adrian Lyne
November:
Lone Star (1996)
Director: John Sayles
December:
The King of Comedy (1983)
Director: Martin Scorsese
2006January:
Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) aka “Tokyo Drifter”
Director: Seijun Suzuki
February:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Director: Richard Lester
March:
Z (1969)
Director: Costa-Gavras
April:
Heat (1995)
Director: Michael Mann
May:
Yojimbo (1961)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
June:
Profondo rosso (1975) aka "Deep Red"
Director: Dario Argento
July:
The Changeling (1980)
Director: Peter Medak
August:
Lost In La Mancha (2002)
Directors: Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
September:
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Director: Sidney Lumet
October:
M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
November:
Swimming with Sharks (1994)
Director: George Huang
December:
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Director: Richard Donner
2007January:
Fearless (1993)
Director: Peter Weir
Feburary:
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Director: Larry Cohen
March:
Rollerball (1975)
Director: Norman Jewison
April:
Alien: The Director’s Cut (2003)
Director: Ridley Scott
May:
Tombstone (1993)
Director: George P. Cosmatos
June:
Once Upon a Time in China (1993)
Director: Tsui Hark
July:
Meet The Feebles (1989)
Director: Peter Jackson
August:
Hard Eight (1997)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
September:
Dragonslayer (1981)
Director: Peter Yates
October:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Director: James Whale
November:
North By Northwest (1959)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
December:
Chinatown (1974)
Director: Roman Polanski
2008January:
Volver (2006)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
February:
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Director: Sergio Leone
March:
The Verdict (1982)
Director: Sidney Lumet
April:
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (2006)
Director: Tom Twyker
May:
Bullitt (1968)
Director: Peter Yates
June:
Funny Games (1997)
Director: Michael Haneke
July:
The Harder They Come (1972)
Director: Perry Henzell
August:
Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
Director: Alex Proyas
September:
The Ruling Class (1972)
Director: Peter Medak
October:
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Director: Herbert Ross
November:
All the President's Men (1976)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
December:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Director: Mike Nichols
2009January:
The Machinist (2004)
Director: Brad Anderson
[Start of "Great Directors - Great Films" series.]February:
Rear Window (1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
March:
Goodfellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese
April:
Nashville (1976)
Director: Robert Altman
May:
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
June:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Director: Steven Spielberg
July:
Chungking Express (1994)
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
August:
Casablanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz
September:
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Director: John Carpenter
October:
The Shining (1980)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
November:
Honeydripper (2007)
Director: John Sayles
December:
on hiatus for the holidays
2010January:
canceled due to snow
February:
Stagecoach (1939)
Director: John Ford
March:
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Director: Mike Leigh
April:
Pandora's Box (1929)
Director: G.W. Pabst
May:
Run Lola Run (1998)
Director: Tom Tykwer
June/July:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Director: Sergio Leone
August:
Paprika (2006)
Director: Satoshi Kon
September:
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
October:
Frankenstein (1931)
Director: James Whale
November:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Director: Ridley Scott
December:
on hiatus for the holidays
2011[Start of "Connections" series.]January:
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
February:
Footlight Parade (1933)
Director: Lloyd Bacon; musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley
March:
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) (France)
Director: Jacques Audiard
April:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder
May:
The Killer (1989) (Hong Kong)
Director: John Woo
June:
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
July:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Director: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
August:
Far From Heaven (2002)
Director: Todd Haynes
September:
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Director: Douglas Sirk
October:
Eastern Promises (2007)
Director: David Cronenberg
November:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Director: Raoul Walsh
December:
on hiatus for the holidays
2012[Start of a year of Director Retrospectives.]Akira Kurosawa (January through April)
January:
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
February:
Ikiru (1952)
March:
High and Low (1963)
April:
Ran (1985)
Kathryn Bigelow (May through July)
May:
Near Dark (1987)
June:
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
July:
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Michael Mann (August through November)
August:
Thief (1981)
September:
Manhunter (1986)
October:
Collateral (2004)
November:
Miami Vice (2006)
December:
on hiatus for the holidays
2013First Annual Indy Film Buffs 11 Movies You Must See Before You Die SeriesJanuary:
The Cameraman (1928)
February:
Top Hat (1935)
March:
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939)
April:
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
May:
Red River (1948)