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Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

August 01, 2025  /  Arthur Grant


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

Friday, August 1, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until August 10th):

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.

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"Now Listen to Me... "

July 07, 2025  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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tags / The Cinematheque Vancouver, The Roxie Theatre San Francisco, The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, Noir City Portland, The Ritz Theatre Sydney Australia, Institut Lumiere Lyon France, The Prince Charles Cinema London U.K., The Redford Theatre Detroit, Flashback Cinema, Film Forum New York City, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Beverly Cinema Los Angeles, TCM Recommendations, His Girl Friday (1940), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Intruder in the Dust (1949), Blue Velvet (1986), The Scarlet Empress (1934), Roman Holiday (1953), The Bedford Incident (1965), Clash by Night (1952), Strange Cargo (1940), Cleopatra (1963), Chinatown (1974), Network (1976), Cape Fear (1962), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Apocalypse Now (1979), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (Soundtrack)

Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

October 25, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

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

Friday, October 25, 2024

Today on TCM:

Next is a sterling example of how to present complex and enthralling characters, all of whom develop naturally while still holding our intense fascination: Citizen Kane (1941).

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tags / Film musings, TCM Recommendations, Citizen Kane (1941), Cape Fear (1962)

"Now Listen to Me..."

October 09, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

This month's column is apologetically late due to my extensive travelling.

Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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tags / The Prince Charles Cinema London U.K., Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, The Stanford Theatre Palo Alto, The Vista Theater Los Angeles, The American Cinematheque Los Angeles, Noir City D.C., The Astor Theatre Melbourne, The Cinematheque Vancouver, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Beverly Cinema Los Angeles, The Redford Theatre Detroit, The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, Film Forum New York City, Fathom Events, The Cinemateket i Bergen, Flashback Cinema, The Roxie Theatre San Francisco, The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, TCM Recommendations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Bullitt (1968), Point Blank (1967), Get Carter (1971), Crime Wave (1953), Village of the Damned (1960), Too Late for Tears (1949), Johnny Eager (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Brief Encounter (1945), Cleopatra (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Citizen Kane (1941), Cape Fear (1962), Nora Prentiss (1947), The Seventh Victim (1943), Psycho (1960), Blue Velvet (1986), Freaks (1932), The Other (1972), The Other (1972) (Soundtrack)

"Now Listen to Me..."

January 01, 2024  /  Arthur Grant

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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categories / Now Listen To Me
tags / The Prince Charles Cinema, Film Forum New York City, The Beverly Cinema, The Cinematheque Vancouver, The Library of Congress Culpeper Virginia, The American Cinematheque, The Redford Theatre Detroit, Flashback Cinema, Culturarts Generalitat IVAC – La Filmoteca, Academy Cinemas Auckland New Zealand, The Astor Theatre Melbourne, Noir City Oakland, Fathom Events, TCM Recommendations, Monkey Business (1931), Out of the Past (1947), The Locket (1946), City Lights (1931), Suspense (1946), The Hunted (1948), Wanda (1970), Now Voyager (1942), Ride Lonesome (1959), Citizen Kane (1941), Network (1976), Casablanca (1942), Bullitt (1968), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Set-Up (1949), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Taxi Driver (1976), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Paths of Glory (1957), The Gypsy Moths (1969), Nora Prentiss (1947), The Heiress (1949), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Psycho (1960), King Kong (1933), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Cape Fear (1962), James Earl Jones, Basic Instinct (1992) (Soundtrack)