Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, September 11, 2026
This weekend on TCM:
One of the Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures is The Battle of Algiers a.k.a. La battaglia di Algeri (1966). The intensity of resolve and emotional dedication is so resolute on both sides of the conflict portrayed, it'll take a miracle for the invested viewer to fully recover after witnessing this stunning cinematic spectacle. The battle will commence Saturday, September 12 at (early morning) 2:15 am PDT.
Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this film's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.
Previously reviewed here, The Big Sleep (1946) will awaken Saturday, September 12 at 10:45 am PDT.
(From left) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Louis Jean Heydt
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a devoted wife trying to save her husband (played by Barry Sullivan) but equally determined to match wits against killer Ralph Meeker in order to do so, in the previously recommended (here) noir, 1953's Jeopardy. This life or death struggle will commence in Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley Saturday, September 12 at 9 pm PDT and again on Sunday, September 13 at 7 am PDT.
Ralph Meeker, Barbara Stanwyck
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Today on TCM:
There have been quite a few movies centred around boxing over the years from 1937’s Kid Galahad to 2018’s Creed II with plenty of standouts in-between such as 1947’s Body and Soul, 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1962’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1972’s Fat City and 1980’s Raging Bull. None of these, however, get as straight to the punchline as 1949’s knockout noir The Set-Up, previously reviewed here and happening again Thursday, September 10 at 10 am PDT.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Today on TCM:
In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, reviewed here, remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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Next up is a “Street” fellow travellers on the road to exciting new film noir discoveries do no want to miss.
Film noir has few representatives as dourly defeatist or as forcefully communicative on the subject of human relations than 1945's Scarlet Street, previously reviewed here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Today on TCM:
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo(1958), is loaded with multi-faceted insights and hidden rumination on human relationships, providing viewers with much to ponder long after this tale of romantic obsession ends.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
Anyone who wishes to enjoy the Holiday spirit might want to pay a little visit to Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), previously reviewed here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, August 24, 2026
Today on TCM:
Director Otto Preminger’s classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, August 21, 2026
Today and this weekend on TCM:
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing previously recommended here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
Besieged with production problems, and sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, previously reviewed here, showing on TCM Thursday, August 20 at 10 am PDT.
