Goodbye Filmstruck!

Jami gave me a subscription to Filmstruck for my birthday.  It was a combination of the films of the Criterion Collection (or some of them) and classic old Hollywood films (as shown on TCM).  We watched quite a few, but not a film a night by any means until the beginning of November when they suddenly announced it would end November 29th.  From that point we watched a film a night until it finally ended last night.  I know I'll forget what films we (*re)watched, so I'm making a record of the ones I can remember here.

The Thin Man films (with William Powell and Myrna Loy)
The Thin Man (1934)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Another Thin Man (1939)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Song of the Thin Man (1947) (With Dean Stockwell as their son)

Cary Grant Films:
Sylvia Scarlett (with Katherine Hepburn, set in England (1935).  Both have been better)
Bringing Up Baby
My Favorite Wife
The Philadelphia Story
Mr. Lucky
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Monkey Business

Films of Billy Wilder:
Ninotchka
The Major and the Minor
Stalag 17

Films of Ernst Lubitsch (see also Ninotchka):
The Shop Around the Corner (a much superior Jimmy Stewart Xmas movie to you-know-what)
Heaven Can Wait

Humphrey Bogart Films:
Crime School
*The Maltese Falcon
All Through the Night (very entertaining oddity: set in New York in the 40s: Bogey is "Gloves," a boxing promoter who uncovers a plot involving German fifth columnists.  Great cast includes Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt and, in a small role, Phil Silvers)
*The Big Sleep
Dark Passage

Melvyn Douglas films (see also Ninotchka):
The Vampire Bat (where the phrase "Dog-faced Hermans" originates)
Fast Company
Tell No Tales
Third Finger, Left Hand
The Americanization of Emily (strangely underseen film starring James Garner and Julie Andrews (and Joyce Grenfell as her mother).  Set in London in WWII, Garner plays an unrepentant coward who gives several biting anti-war speeches.  Think a rom-com version of Catch-22. Also features a much older Melvyn Douglas.)

Miscellaneous:
The Late Show (odd, very 70s, semi-mystery with Art Carney as an aging PI and a young Lily Tomlin as a flakey hippy type)
Hopscotch (Walter Matthau!  Glenda Jackson!)
The Odd Couple (Walter Matthau!  Jack Lemmon!)
The Mackintosh Man (it's got Paul Newman and it's directed by John Huston, but neither is at his best)
Hobson's Choice - starring and written by Alec Guinness.  He plays an underappreciated (and sort of obnoxious) artist called Gulley Jimson.  Has some very good lines. Features a young Joan Hickson in a small role.
The Wicked Lady (1945) Margaret Rutherford (of The Lady Vanishes) and James Mason.  Scandalous!
The Spy in Black (excellent early Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt)
The Four Feathers (1939)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) - Trevor Howard!  Deborah Kerr!  A weirdly comedic IRA romantic drama
Kidnapped (1948) - Roddy McDowall!
The Drum (Sabu!)
Black Narcissus (Sabu again - Deborah Kerr as a nun.  Lush!)
The Return of Bulldog Drummond (starring Ralph Richardson)
Bachelor Mother (David Niven, 1939)
Out of the Past (great film noir - Robert Michum)
The Asphalt Jungle (another great noir, Sterling Hayden)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
*Local Hero
*Withnail and I
 Innerspace (the cheesiest film on this list)

Foreign Films:
Zazie Dans La Metro (Louis Malle, 1960 - very surreal.)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (great fun Italian comedy/heist film with an atypical Marcello Mastroianni and a very young Claudia Cardinale)
The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman)
Stolen Kisses (Truffaut)
A Man Escaped, Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang - voted the greatest film of the 21st century so far)
Man Bites Dog - a Belgian film that starts out funny (it's about a documentary crew following a serial murderer around) and gets really dark.  

And there are many I've forgotten.  We finished up with Walkabout.  I certainly got value out of my birthday present.