Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

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

Friday, September 12, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM…

Here’s a nifty little noir from the ‘50s featuring a hard cop who, understandably, goes soft for a dame and thus turns to the dark side in Roadblock (1951), previously examined here. It’s showing Saturday, September 13 at 3:30 pm PDT.

Joan Dixon

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character. Watching his slow transformation from an honest and idealistic adventurer to a tormented, paranoid psychotic is one of the art's most stunning, dramatically forceful experiences, perfectly matched to a magnificent and fatalistically ironic conclusion. My further thoughts on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are here. This cinematic treasure can be discovered Saturday, September 13 at 5 pm PDT.

(From left) Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt

TCM's current schedule can be seen by clicking on either of the above images. To confirm the correct Pacific Daylight (West Coast) showtime information, subtract 3 hours from the Eastern Daylight (East Coast) showtime listed on TCM’s schedule.

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Hope to see you Monday, September 15th.

A.G.