I’m Not Myself Today: Films that Inspired A Different Man

Jack Benny and Carole Lombard portray Polish actors pitted against wisecracking Nazis in wartime Warsaw in a bold, subversive Ernst Lubitsch satire decades ahead of its time.

The iconic French singer and actor Charles Aznavour triumphs as mild-mannered saloon pianist Charlie Koller in François Truffaut’s playful homage to American film noir.

In one of his most striking roles, James Mason plays a suburban father and teacher who becomes a psychotic terror after an experimental drug treatment for a life-threatening affliction.

Director Abel Ferrara portrays Reno, a starving artist in sleazy 1970s Manhattan, who snaps when a noisy band moves in next door, and vents his rage with a power drill.

After witnessing a fan’s accidental death while rehearsing her latest play, successful actress Myrtle Gordon confronts ghosts, personal demons, and her own mortality as she grapples with her role.

Living in a city beset by endless rain and a mysterious new disease, a lonely single man forms a curious bond with his neighbor through a hole in the floor of his crumbling apartment.

John Hurt earned an Oscar nomination for his extraordinary portrayal of a tortured soul with congenital deformities in David Lynch’s first studio film following Eraserhead.

Spanish auteur Luis Buñuel illuminates the essential mysteries of love and desire in the story of Mathieu Faber and his quixotic passion for the fiery young flamenco dancer Conchita.

Versatile screen icon Peter Lorre portrays Janos Szabo, a kindly Hungarian watchmaker who turns to crime after being horribly scarred in a hotel fire on the day of he arrived in America.

In the last film made by Danish director and screenwriter Carl Theodor Dreyer, a woman leaves an unfulfilling marriage in search of ideal love, refusing to compromise her ideals.

Debonair Hollywood leading man Fredric March won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the title roles in Rouben Mamoulian’s pre-code adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella.