The Cinema Cafe

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 4th):

One of cinema’s most quintessential performances can be seen in 1947’s Possessed by the film’s star Joan Crawford. Crawford’s thorough commitment is bolstered by the actress, along with the film’s director Curtis Bernhardt, having visited several psychiatric hospitals observing patients and interviewing doctors regarding the script’s authenticity.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Today on TCM:

Howard Hawks’ lightening fast comedy/romance His Girl Friday (1940), reviewed here, is blasting off Tuesday, September 2 at 5 pm PDT.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Monday, September 1, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

Both tension and fear are at their zenith in Cape Fear (1962) with Robert Mitchum once again playing southern bred evil incarnate as he did in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, August 29, 2025

This weekend on TCM are two films starring Kirk Douglas:

After directing the stylish and innovative 1956 heist film The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, with the assistance of Producer James B. Harris, turned his extraordinary talents to more relevant material with 1957’s Paths of Glory, previously reviewed here.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Thursday, August 28, 2023

Tomorrow on TCM:

When affairs of the heart are so well integrated with thoughts of murder, as they are in the Humphrey Bogart starrer Conflict (1945), we have the makings of an exceptional film noir.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Wednesday, August 27, 2023

Tomorrow on TCM:

MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production, though the film was later turned into one, being first presented on stage in 1983. Its abundant creativity, innovation and driving energy place this film at the top of all cinematic musicals ever produced.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 19th):

One of the CC’s Hidden Gems (# 76 to be precise) and briefly reviewed here, is this little pre-code crime / romance drama with James Cagney and Joan Blondell entitled He Was Her Man, from 1934.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Monday, August 25, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

One of David Lean's more ambitious projects may have turned out less artistically accomplished than its director intended. Still, it has many attributes making Doctor Zhivago (1965) well worth seeing.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, August 22, 2025

This weekend on TCM:

A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941) reviewed here.